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re: What is the best way to learn a foreign language as an adult?
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:22 pm to Tornado Alley
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:22 pm to Tornado Alley
Mattress method: start dating a foreign
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Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:22 pm to Tornado Alley
I want to learn Spanish, so I tried DuoLingo for almost a year and I felt like it was like a basic vocabulary lesson.
I want to try Lingopie which uses Netflix.
I want to try Lingopie which uses Netflix.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:24 pm to Tornado Alley
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What is the best way to learn a foreign language as an adult?
Get a French mistress?
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:32 pm to Tornado Alley
I'd say do Duolingo for a couple months and then switch to something with more depth like Babbel when you know you're truly committed.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:51 pm to SidetrackSilvera
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as soon as I left Real World Seattle.
What’s that mean?
Posted on 6/13/24 at 4:56 pm to idlewatcher
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Find yourself a spicy Latina to show you the ropes.
I tried that. Wife got super pissed off.
Bad idea.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 6:22 pm to SabiDojo
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Learning conjugation rules is important but NOTHING is more important than vocabulary. The more words you know, the better you can understand when someone is speaking to you.
Interesting, I found it to be the exact opposite.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 6:35 pm to Naked Bootleg
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Yes it costs $, but it is the best option available to you.
Not if you sail the seven seas.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 6:42 pm to bbap
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Interesting, I found it to be the exact opposite.
Grammatical rules are easy. Once you understand the basic conjugation rules you need to expand your vocabulary.
This is especially true in languages like Italian, where the gender of the word determines more than it does in Spanish (Spanish has more elementary and consistent verb endings). You need a strong vocabulary to get it right.
If anyone is looking for a good app I suggest LingQ. It’s very challenging and gives you videos, audios, and articles to help give you a very practical experience.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:15 pm to Tornado Alley
Airpods plus youtube playlists in target language, aka the poor man’s immersion.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:17 pm to Cornbeef
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Airpods plus youtube playlists in target language, aka the poor man’s immersion.
My father would constantly fuss at me in his ridiculously heavy accent, “If I had YouTube when I was your age I could have taken over the world.”
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:36 pm to Tornado Alley
Language transfer is a good free tool.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 7:45 pm to Havoc
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What’s that mean?
He’s David from RW Seattle or it’s a joke referencing the late 90s.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 8:14 pm to bbap
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Duolingo is fine as a daily habit tool, but it's free for a reason. If you really want to learn you are going to need to go much further.
Case in point: A linguistics prof once used Duolingo and spent twice as much time as a 101 course, learning a language for which he had no previous exposure. Then he took his university's final exam and failed.
Posted on 6/13/24 at 9:36 pm to Bestbank Tiger
I’m sorry but he must have no put any effort into that at all.
Duolingo is fine if you actually put the effort. I still use Duolingo and I find it very helpful, especially when it comes to reading as you get to more difficult levels
Duolingo is fine if you actually put the effort. I still use Duolingo and I find it very helpful, especially when it comes to reading as you get to more difficult levels
Posted on 6/13/24 at 9:41 pm to Enoch
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Language transfer is a good free tool.
Language Transfer is really good for an adult in my opinion. Far better than Rosetta stone
Posted on 6/13/24 at 9:46 pm to Tornado Alley
... hire a helicopter and have the pilot dump your arse in the middle of a south American jungle to learn that Spanish or Portuguese. Go all survivor mode for a year and see what you get ...
Posted on 6/13/24 at 9:52 pm to Obtuse1
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Por favor mete toda tu mano en mi trasero doesn't have a lot of uses in casual conversation.
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Still no cryllic
This post was edited on 6/13/24 at 9:54 pm
Posted on 6/13/24 at 10:01 pm to low end
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I'd also check your local public library. A lot of them have subscriptions for language learning programs.
The site I'm going to link to below has links to no-cost language courses... including PDF's and audio tracks... from government languages courses like the Defense Language Institute, the State Department, and the Peace Corps. As it's US gov funded, it's all public domain.
Live Lingua DLI course links, + links to FSI, Peace Corps, etc
Posted on 6/13/24 at 10:21 pm to Tornado Alley
Spend a month in San Miguel De Allende. Take classes a couple times a week at the local school for gringos, practice in the local cantina
Immersion is the best way.
Immersion is the best way.
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