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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4942 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 25 of 29 06 November 2011 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||
Assuming Michel Thomas is available for the language needed, sure. But they don't offer courses for many languages beyond a few of the largest languages. You're out of luck with them if you want something less mainstream. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6041 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 26 of 29 06 November 2011 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Kanewai!
We found you! We've missed you on the French/Arabic study group thread! (هاهاهاهاهاهاهاهاههههههه) For learning languages quick, I agree, you can't beat Michel Thomas. You get enough of the building blocks so you can continue to learn on your own. The problem is, he's only available in , what , 7 languages? So chances are you are on your own. I'm surprised nobody has brought up Moses McCormick yet. He learns tons of languages and he learns them FAST! I know there is some debate as to his proficiency in all those languages but I would call him at least at an intermediate level (or better) in most of them. This is a link to his FLR method: FLR method What it boils down to is learning "key" words and phrases that can help you ask questions in your target language. Then you can use these to speak and gather further information and vocabulary on your own. I have never tried the method myself but it seems to work well for some people. The problem (for me anyway) with putting 3000 random words in your SRS program is it is incredibly difficult to learn 3000 random words out of context. I could never do it.
That's funny... I have always found alcohol just melts my language, period! Edited by liddytime on 06 November 2011 at 11:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4701 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 27 of 29 07 November 2011 at 2:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Hashimi, I actually saw the post in a Japanese forum. Sorry for jumping the gun there.
I'm not skeptical about the program from a commercial aspect, so much as from a programmatic aspect. For me the hardest part of language learning has been training my ear & tongue! Linked Words doesn't seem to focus much on this. I'd be willing to give it a shot, but it looks like a lot of effort & I want to hear some first hand experiences first. Same with Moses' technique. Has anyone done it? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6041 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 28 of 29 07 November 2011 at 8:45am | IP Logged | ||
No, I haven't needed to learn a language "quick" yet. But his method does make sense to me though. Learn a handful of very important key words and phrases & then go to town with native speakers! Benny the "fluent in 3 months" guy seems to have some good pointers as well. & while I wouldn't say he has been "fluent" in 3 months in most of his languages, he has made remarkable progress in a very short amount of time! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6362 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 29 of 29 07 November 2011 at 3:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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FYI - linkword and the keyword thing mentioned are just mnemonic devices, not entire learning methods. Learning
thousands of words out of context is rarely if ever a good idea, and definitely not a good idea in this case. Since you like grammar first, I agree with MT. Pimsleur is great for really making stuff stick, as you know. But if you want lots of useful phrases fast, an audio phrase book may be the best. Personally, I can't make that stick very well, so I'd probably go with other Pimsleur or MT if available. Assimil is probably too time consuming. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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