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| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5357 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 4 13 January 2012 at 7:43pm | IP Logged |
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The Pocket Linguist: A Practical and Highly Effective Guide to Learning any Language
Linguist Has anyone read this? Currently free on Kindle Jim 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| mikonai Diglot Senior Member United States weirdnamewriting.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4739 days ago 178 posts - 281 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Swahili, German | Message 2 of 4 13 January 2012 at 8:08pm | IP Logged |
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I haven't read this one, but hey, if it's free on Kindle, I'll download it and give it a
read when I have time. Nice find! Edited by mikonai on 13 January 2012 at 8:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Hampie Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 6469 days ago 625 posts - 1009 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Latin, German, Mandarin | Message 3 of 4 13 January 2012 at 8:45pm | IP Logged |
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Please do tell then, if the book contains any new information, or if it is just the same facts almost every writer tells
one about language learning. I have yet to see anything revolutionary that I haven’t learned here after half an hour reading threads. Sadly, a lot of «How to learn a language» type books can be summarised into «Have fun or you’ll be bored», to me, that does not sound very … well a three-year-old would probably figure that out. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| mikonai Diglot Senior Member United States weirdnamewriting.bloRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4739 days ago 178 posts - 281 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Swahili, German | Message 4 of 4 13 January 2012 at 10:20pm | IP Logged |
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After a quick read of the first few pages (outlining the "core concepts"), it advocates
immersion learning, even if you can't travel to the country where your language is spoken. Also speaking with someone who already knows the language, the sort of "talking to yourself" method that I've seen on this forum, as well as using a course or something similar to gauge your progress, even though you may not use it exactly as the course describes. After that it has various strategies for reaching whatever your linguistic goal is. At this point I'm not sure I'd pay the $10 paperback price, but it doesn't seem to be a bad collection of ideas to have as a free eBook. It came out in November of 2010, so it's got a relatively recent view on the current technology and so on, in this age of language learning via Skype and everything else. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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