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Posted on 9/17/14 at 9:33 pm to rintintin
Can you share your strategy
Posted on 9/17/14 at 9:46 pm to ctiger69
I need to brush up on my French but may just start German instead.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 9:56 pm to ctiger69
Duolingo is free.
Pretty much just like Rosetta Stone, and there's an iPhone app.
Yo hablo espanol
Pretty much just like Rosetta Stone, and there's an iPhone app.
Yo hablo espanol
Posted on 9/17/14 at 10:09 pm to ctiger69
Im in for Latin America Spanish. I've made to lesson 3 on the first unit.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 10:57 pm to ctiger69
I'm about to start Level 5 in german. I've been doing it since Jan this year. I just bought Spanish (latin america). I'll take the challenge! I like learning.
ETA
For those doing german, I use this app and put it through the apple tv. It has live tv from Germany I watch. I'm really trying to learn. Luckily while I'm stuck here I have a 75 year old lady from Germany to my left and 73 old lady from Honduras to my right that correct my accent but love to help me. Anyways, it has helped me I think.
LINK
ETA
For those doing german, I use this app and put it through the apple tv. It has live tv from Germany I watch. I'm really trying to learn. Luckily while I'm stuck here I have a 75 year old lady from Germany to my left and 73 old lady from Honduras to my right that correct my accent but love to help me. Anyways, it has helped me I think.
LINK
This post was edited on 9/17/14 at 11:10 pm
Posted on 9/17/14 at 11:20 pm to ctiger69
I'd like to join. I'll be doing italian.
Posted on 9/17/14 at 11:40 pm to Seven Costanza
Bruh, I did Italian! 
Posted on 9/18/14 at 8:10 am to rintintin
quote:
ETA: I think we should all be required to write at least one post a day in this thread in the language we are trying to learn.
Sounds like a good idea. It will help keep this thread moving. I added it to the opening post.
This post was edited on 9/18/14 at 8:12 am
Posted on 9/18/14 at 8:22 am to ctiger69
Put me down for Korean, learned Hangul which was half the battle, starting on phrases and sentence structure now.
Posted on 9/18/14 at 8:24 am to ctiger69
Italian
Using Asimil instead of Rosetta Stone.
Using Asimil instead of Rosetta Stone.
Posted on 9/18/14 at 8:28 am to SabiDojo
I was near fluent in Italian 3-4 years ago. Now, nowhere near that. I want to get back where I was, but I really don't have any time for it, plus there isn't a necessity for me to learn it. If I'm going to make a trip back there, then hell yeah, I'll try to pick it up again. One of these days, I'll be back to where I was.
Posted on 9/18/14 at 8:29 am to Emiliooo
I used to speak Swedish fairly well, would like to really be fluent. I don't think I'm going to be paying for Rosetta Stone though.
Posted on 9/18/14 at 8:38 am to ctiger69
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3. Also, try to write some posts in this thread in the language you are trying to learn. Be sure to translate it for the rest of us.
Deutsch = German
Jeder haben einen guten Morgen.
Everyone have a good morning.
I'd also like to ask can it please just be a given to leave the grammar you know what's out of this. We all know everyone is learning.
Posted on 9/18/14 at 8:49 am to chris44gwlsu
Also if anyone has any other resources to help please share. Here's some things I use in addition to Rosetta for German.
Dictionary
It's obviously good for words. I like it also for finding out the gender (masculine, feminine, & neuter) and if a verb is separable.
Conjugate Verbs
Does obviously what the link says. It's good because it will give you all the tenses.
PDF Book
I wouldn't necessarily say it's exactly like a school book but it teaches you lessons and grammar. There's questions at the end of every chapter and an answer key at the end. I found it good for beginners (like me) .
Free news radio stream from Berlin
I listen to it at work. It's good in that it's more of a pure spoken accent (like how our news people in the US speak without much of an accent). It'll be cool when you listen and you start to understand more and more what they're saying without translating in your head. Once while listening I understood they were saying Ukraine and not some form of Al Queda. I realized I'd been listening to stuff going on there for weeks before it was in the US news.
Dictionary
It's obviously good for words. I like it also for finding out the gender (masculine, feminine, & neuter) and if a verb is separable.
Conjugate Verbs
Does obviously what the link says. It's good because it will give you all the tenses.
PDF Book
I wouldn't necessarily say it's exactly like a school book but it teaches you lessons and grammar. There's questions at the end of every chapter and an answer key at the end. I found it good for beginners (like me) .
Free news radio stream from Berlin
I listen to it at work. It's good in that it's more of a pure spoken accent (like how our news people in the US speak without much of an accent). It'll be cool when you listen and you start to understand more and more what they're saying without translating in your head. Once while listening I understood they were saying Ukraine and not some form of Al Queda. I realized I'd been listening to stuff going on there for weeks before it was in the US news.
This post was edited on 9/18/14 at 9:18 am
Posted on 9/18/14 at 9:04 am to ctiger69
How much time a week is necessary to do one of these programs. I am in law school so My time Is limited, but being bilingual when I graduate in a few years would be a game changer.
Posted on 9/18/14 at 9:19 am to HailToTheChiz
quote:
Can you share your strategy
I was directed to it from the 4 hour work week blog. If unfamiliar with that, it's the guy who wrote the 4 hour work week (Tim Ferris), who is a pretty interesting fellow.
Anyway he's learned several languages and really condones this certain method, I'll have to wait till I get to my computer to provide a link. It was developed by some guy who used it to learn languages pretty quickly and is now making it into lessons available online. But you don't really have to buy anything because he lays it out for you on his website.
It's not much different from Rosetta stone from what I understand. Basically it's broken down into steps with each step having a certain time frame (3 weeks, 1 month, etc). Step 1 being learn 650 key words. These are the most commonly used words and will get you to speaking as quickly as possible without worrying about obscure words that are rarely used. Those come later. You make flash cards with these words with pictures taken from Google images.
I'll post a link later with all the steps.
Posted on 9/18/14 at 10:17 am to TNVolinSpain
quote:Thanks, downloaded this onto my iPhone and am brushing up on el Espanol.
Duo Lingo is another free website that is good and I'm doing it for German right now.
Posted on 9/18/14 at 12:34 pm to chris44gwlsu
quote:
For those doing german, I use this app and put it through the apple tv. It has live tv from Germany I watch. I'm really trying to learn.
This is pretty damn brilliant, IMO.
Posted on 9/18/14 at 12:36 pm to Emiliooo
quote:
I was near fluent in Italian 3-4 years ago. Now, nowhere near that. I want to get back where I was, but I really don't have any time for it, plus there isn't a necessity for me to learn it. If I'm going to make a trip back there, then hell yeah, I'll try to pick it up again. One of these days, I'll be back to where I was.
I can read and write it, but who around here speaks Italian, you know? I can't say that I'm "fluent" because it's something you have to be exposed to constantly.
I do enjoy reading online newspapers, though.
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