tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5406 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 249 of 376 01 January 2012 at 8:44pm | IP Logged |
joesoefkalla wrote:
tractor wrote:
I tried RS v2 for German. It was not very good. |
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You should try version 3. Or 4. The images are different and the program is more attractive. |
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The worst wasn't the images. It was the methodology. It was nothing more than an overpriced flash card
program.
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kazordoon Bilingual Triglot Newbie Spain Joined 4733 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan*, English Studies: French
| Message 250 of 376 13 January 2012 at 8:43pm | IP Logged |
Please don't laugh, but I started learning french with free podcasts that I found on the internet. Basically "Coffee break French" and "Learn French by Podcast".
"Coffee break French" is a nice introduction to the french language, where there is a mixture of basic french grammar and "holiday sentences" to remember. They come in 15 minutes podcasts, but only the first 80 episodes are good. All the rest is rubbish...just a short french monologue followed by an English translation.
"Learn french by podcast" is for more advanced learners. There is little grammar and these podcasts just consist in french dialogues followed by an English explanation of the expressions used in those dialogues.
Later on I discovered the Michel Thomas french course, which is much better than those podcasts. The man is a genious and he seems to know how to implant the french language in your head with little effort and very fast.
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joesoefkalla Newbie Indonesia Joined 4665 days ago 22 posts - 22 votes Studies: English
| Message 251 of 376 14 January 2012 at 3:13pm | IP Logged |
kazordoon wrote:
Later on I discovered the Michel Thomas french course, which is much better than those podcasts. The man is a genious and he seems to know how to implant the french language in your head with little effort and very fast. |
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MT French is good, but MT Dutch is even better. I love it!
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JasonUK Triglot Newbie United Kingdom learnalanguagein1yea Joined 5209 days ago 29 posts - 38 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, French Studies: Thai, Spanish
| Message 252 of 376 14 January 2012 at 3:56pm | IP Logged |
I used MT French, but i don't think it helped me to become fluent much. My favourite for french was French in
action, lingq and yabla. Also 1 hour per week tutor.
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fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4668 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese
| Message 253 of 376 14 January 2012 at 4:41pm | IP Logged |
I'm trying MT Dutch and it's reeally great! I'd already been studying Dutch for some time, so there was pretty much nothing new for me, but it was great to practice and "use" the grammar non-stop.
For beginners, it's a great method!
Edited by fabriciocarraro on 14 January 2012 at 4:41pm
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Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5736 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German
| Message 254 of 376 25 January 2012 at 3:18pm | IP Logged |
Nguyen wrote:
I used the DLI, FSI courses in reverse. Vietnamese to English with good
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That's amazing! How did you do that?
Edited by Random review on 25 January 2012 at 3:19pm
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Gallo1801 Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 4855 days ago 164 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Croatian, German, French
| Message 255 of 376 01 February 2012 at 4:42pm | IP Logged |
http://www.dliflc.edu/products.html
Many of you probably are aware of these resources, but if you aren't, enjoy my discovery
of the DLI... So much supplementary stuff! (Esp. for Arabic and Spanish listening)
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JayR9 Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4653 days ago 155 posts - 162 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 256 of 376 03 February 2012 at 2:17am | IP Logged |
Where is the best place to buy Assimil Chinese?
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