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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6395 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 17 of 20 17 September 2012 at 3:41pm | IP Logged |
Native speakers of Slavic languages probably find it easier to understand what cases are, but articles are a strange concept for us, and even when you're used to them because of English, the thought that the article is declined according to the case&gender is just crazy XD I found the cases in Latin and Finnish much easier.
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4687 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 18 of 20 17 September 2012 at 11:10pm | IP Logged |
Languageguy wrote:
Pimsleur is probably better, but as an only-audio system it also
has some flaws, like that most dialogues are made for 50's businessmen. |
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Whether you're a Pimsleur fan or not, this sentence is complete nonsense and makes me
doubt that you've even listened to the course.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6380 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German
| Message 19 of 20 18 September 2012 at 7:07am | IP Logged |
kanewai wrote:
Languageguy wrote:
Pimsleur is probably better, but as an only-audio system it also
has some flaws, like that most dialogues are made for 50's businessmen. |
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Whether you're a Pimsleur fan or not, this sentence is complete nonsense and makes me
doubt that you've even listened to the course. |
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Yeah, Pimsleur dialogues are actually made for 80's pickup artists.
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| Zarmutek Newbie United States twitter.com/manueljoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4523 days ago 28 posts - 74 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 20 of 20 18 September 2012 at 8:21am | IP Logged |
I use Pimsleur (get it from the library), and it has certainly helped me so far. It isn't my primary learning tool by any stretch of the imagination, though; I use Anki, Memrise, GLOSS, Barron's Language Books, and miscellaneous Spanish textbooks from the library, as well as regularly listen to the radio in my foreign language (you can listen to virtually any radio channel in the world in any country for free if you have a smartphone...the app is called TuneIn Radio), watch Spanish TV shows (mostly on YouTube), and converse (or attempt to) with Spanish speakers as often as possible whenever I go out.
There are literally TONS of ways to learn a foreign language these days, and no extra money is even required. Just a library card can get you access to tons of resources, as well as internet if you don't have a computer or internet access at home. But shoot, if you have a laptop, just take that badboy to your local coffee shop and learn away, free of charge.
I love living in this era.
Edited by Zarmutek on 18 September 2012 at 8:22am
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