Puzackly.
Has anyone tried learning another launguage
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Puzackly.
Ok, so In 26 posts I see an Arabic lesson from a guy perving on his Spanish class classmates, 1 duolingo recommendation, and 4 real world experiences with Rosetta stone in the positive.
Thanks everyone.
Thanks everyone.
grimreaper
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Count me as another vote for Duolingo. It helps me to not forget every bit of German I learned and its free. Check it out before you spend money on Rosetta or Babbel.
So just like when any girl asks you: do you like the red dress or the black dress....... if you pick the red one, she will wear the black one or vice versa.
Same thing here lol
I got real world reviews of the Rosetta stone but I paid for a month of babbel.
I did it partly because no one here has tried it and i hear a lot of advertising for it on the radio.
In a month I will add a real world review for babbel and maybe it can help someone else out.
Let's see in this next month what $12.95 buys
Same thing here lol
I got real world reviews of the Rosetta stone but I paid for a month of babbel.
I did it partly because no one here has tried it and i hear a lot of advertising for it on the radio.
In a month I will add a real world review for babbel and maybe it can help someone else out.
Let's see in this next month what $12.95 buys
dibbons
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Do you also have someone to converse with in person, that would help?
French the language of love. Common Tali voo a hubba hubba. I learned that from Pepe Le Pew.
I speak fluent smartass.
pishta
I know I'm right....
I took French for a semester in 9th grade. Dropped that like 7th period French...ha, it WAS 7th Period French! Sitting in an 80 year old school room from 2:20 to 3:10 PM in September when the beach was a mile away? I took Spanish in community college for a year, bombed that too, pulled a C- and I think I still got 'credit' for it but barely. I hear linguistics is an aquired talent and some people got it , others dont. I can remember off beat things from a technical manual or procedures but for the life of me I could not put a sentence together let alone write one in Spanish or French. Im older now and can understand a little more spanish as I work with many spanish customers. Immersion is the key, use it or lose it. My Kids now taking French in high school and hes asking me how to pronounce things and SOB, a bunch of things just came back to me from some door in my brain that hasn't been opened in 38 years. I could listen to French radio for hours, Spanish radio, hell no. Vietnamese or Farsi? F no, I'd be running out with my hands over my ears! Best friend in 3-5 grade was a Vietnamese refugee spoke no English. His mom would talk to me for hours in Vietnamese like she thought I understood her.
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Mopar-Mitch
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When I worked in the auto industry I wish I could've learned Japanese, they would talk amongst themselves and i wouldn't know what they were saying, same as when i was in Canada, some spoke French amongst themselves and i wish i could've knew what they were saying. Some couldn't understand me because my Hillbilly language was so different than other Americans, I was asked alot what part of the US I was from, I told them Appalachian part of Kentucky, our language is a little different. 
I will say that when learning a new language, the single most important thing is to learn how to pronounce the alphabet in the new language. And in many cases it also mean learning how to read and write new letters if the new language have letters not used in the English language.
Without being at least fairly fluent in the alphabet, everything will be a struggle. Once that is solved, things will come a lot easier. This is just my experience, being bi-tri-lingual.
Without being at least fairly fluent in the alphabet, everything will be a struggle. Once that is solved, things will come a lot easier. This is just my experience, being bi-tri-lingual.
The military could use that for code talk.
ir3333
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I've been learning Scottish by watching Cars that Rock with Brian Johnson.
"Smoother than a gravy samweege" is Scottish for a car that rides nice.
I have spent most of my life trying to learn "female" but very little of it makes sense to me?
"Smoother than a gravy samweege" is Scottish for a car that rides nice.
I have spent most of my life trying to learn "female" but very little of it makes sense to me?
When I saw the title to this thread, my first though was you are trying to speak Craigslist to look for mopars.
diymirage
HP@idle > hondaHP@redline
i've been told one of the reasons the Germans never cracked our code is because we used several native indians speaking in their native language
Code talker - Wikipedia
Yup We used the primitive Navajo language.
QuickDart360
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Clown is payaso.My ex's parents were both Mexican nationals. My limited knowledge of Spanish was quite helpful. Mother in law spoke both, father in law not so much, but I knew enough to understand what he said, but I seldom respond in Spanish and he was likewise. He was pretty cool, didn't want to be a associated with the age of being a father in law, so we were Primos, cousins. Whenever I heard "ballaso", I knew my mother in law was talking about me, ballaso=clown
Eye am still treying to nail dowen English....almost there.
A friend of mine speaks German, used Rosetta Stone to learn it.
A friend of mine speaks German, used Rosetta Stone to learn it.
Over the years I have worked with lots of Mexicans. The real ones. First off they taught me all the bad words, I speak them fluently.
Absolutely. English is the hardest language in the world to learn, because so many of the words have so many different meanings. Just take the word "****" as an example.
Rani, I have used Rosetta to learn French, when I was making some trips to Africa. I was happy with the results. Like you say though, it was a little pricey. Then I used it again to learn Vietnamese, after I met a nice woman from there. Only used it initially though, because I have immersed myself in the Viet language, being there for extended stays on 5 occasions, in three years. I would't say Im fluent just yet, but I can get by. I rarely use Google translate anymore. Also. I might add, that after a person learns one non native language, learning additional languages come easier. This is true for me. My father was a Military Man and we lived in Vienna Austria when I was between the ages of 5 and 10. No military bases in Austria , so we lived in the burbs. Learned very quickly, and I'll add that languages learned at an earlier age tend to have more staying power. I went back to Vienna 40 years later and could still read write and speak, just fine. I also speak some Spanish, enough to get by. So I guess I am Quad Lingual?? But I still say it began with learning foreign language early in life . This should work for you as well, since English is not your first language....
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