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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6240 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 1 of 4 23 December 2012 at 1:45am | IP Logged | ||
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Today, I stumbled across Creative Relaxation Exercise for Learning Languages - fortunately, not via its offputting homepage. It offers several free and paid for taster mini-courses, most of which seem to last 30 minutes, including a relaxation exercise at the beginning and end.
For those who like speaking right away, or want a number of conversationally useful parallel sentences with grammatical variations, CRE's material is quite useful. If you like the language approach of Benny, Tim Ferris, or Moses, or commercial courses like Pimsleur or Michael Thomas, and you can deal with less than slick presentation and packaging, check this out. Warning: while it's not quite as pickup-oriented as Pimsleur, at least the Swahili text contains a few phrases which might raise eyebrows. The other nice feature is the range of languages - aside from the usual German/French/Spanish/Japanese/Thai, there's Twi, Yoruba, Wolof, Basque, Tswana, Tsonga, Finnish, Swiss-German, Dari, Pashto, Tamil, Uzbek, Khmer, Haitian Creole, etc. Edit: just to be clear, most of these languages have audio. I've only used the Swahili one: it had roughly parallel English/Swahili, sometimes using - to separate morphemes in the Swahili, and audio. Edited by Volte on 23 December 2012 at 3:36pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6240 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 4 12 February 2013 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Has anyone else tried any of these courses?
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4931 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 3 of 4 12 February 2013 at 7:02pm | IP Logged | ||
I took a look at the Turkish course after it was mentioned here on HTLAL. I never made it past the 10 minute mark. First, the material was too elementary for me at the time - I'd already been studying Turkish for over a year when I took a look at the course. Second, the audio has this creepy whisper in the background that mimics what's being said. Very distracting, in my opinion. I'm all for audio-only courses in the beginning, but this particular one was just too... out there. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4490 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 4 of 4 12 February 2013 at 8:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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I took a look at it. I agree about the creepy whisper guy being super distracting but it looks like a fairly useful resource for starting out new in a language.
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