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Personnally, if you can take part time college classes I'd do that, that's the best place I learned my second language. Once you get a hang of it from the college class, you can teach yourself with one of the language book sets.
Maybe it depends on your learning style. I know for me, the hardest part of learning new languages is speaking - so for that reason, I would recommend taking a class in person, rather than doing it online.
I took an online spanish class (through something called ed2go) that I feel like I learned a lot in, but was actually pretty useless when I visited Guatemala. It wasn't until I took a class with an actual teacher that I was able to learn enough to be able to use the language. And thank god I did - now I'm marrying a native Spanish speaker, and I definitely need the language to communicate with his family. So I second peaches, to look for a class nearby.
Or sometimes you can find language exchanges with people wanting to practice English, if you live in a big enough and multicultural enough community. If you've already studied Italian I bet the nuts and bolts would come back quickly!
Maybe it depends on your learning style. I know for me, the hardest part of learning new languages is speaking - so for that reason, I would recommend taking a class in person, rather than doing it online.
I took an online spanish class (through something called ed2go) that I feel like I learned a lot in, but was actually pretty useless when I visited Guatemala. It wasn't until I took a class with an actual teacher that I was able to learn enough to be able to use the language. And thank god I did - now I'm marrying a native Spanish speaker, and I definitely need the language to communicate with his family. So I second peaches, to look for a class nearby.
Or sometimes you can find language exchanges with people wanting to practice English, if you live in a big enough and multicultural enough community. If you've already studied Italian I bet the nuts and bolts would come back quickly!
My FI goes to a class offered near us. It's a German club so it's free. You just have to want to speak German! It's pretty cool!
Take a class probably would be best, but I'm already doing school part-time and working ful time so I am looking for another resource besides a class! But thanks for the suggestions
I love Pimsleur's language programs. I listen to them in the car during commute when I need to learn a language. But, they are really geared toward the beginner and I don't know how advanced you are, so it may be too basic for you. I recommend going to your library and seeing if they have any good audio programs you can check out.
Aerika, when I was talking Japanese in college, I learned the most by hanging out with the Japanese students. Maybe you can find a group event to join and hang out with either natives or other people trying to learn the language? There's a ton of those groups on www.meetup.com.
I'm trying to learn French. I have Rosetta Stone as well as learn Frence on a CD (I listen to this when I had a long commute) but neither has worked very well with me. I think you have to have some sort of a basic understanding of the language to use those. I'll probably take a class as I learn the best in a classroom environment.
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We are starting to plan our honeymoon (yeaaaay!) and are of course considering all places far and wide. One of our top picks is Italy, which is great because I've been there a few times and I had studied the language in College, but as I sit here and try to remember tenses and phrases I am realizing just how rusty I am!
I've tried listening to some potcasts, but having to listen to the intro music every 120 seconds makes me nuts, and I also tried the Rosetta Stone a while back when I signed up to do an internship in France, but hated it when it wouldn't let me click on individual words for pronunciation or definition! You can't just give me a whole sentence spoken quickly, teach me the words! Luckily their return policy rocks.
Anyway, what about you guys? Anyone used a language tool they actually liked.. dare I say loved??
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