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Posted by Saint John on Jan-27-2010 19:44:

Learning A New Language

I've always wanted to learn German, so I was thinking about trying to learn it as a hobby. I was just wondering if anyone had tried to learn a language out of the class room and how it worked out for them, and if they knew of any good programs to use or what not.

Posted by leph555 on Jan-27-2010 19:46:

Look into Rosetta Stone

Posted by D-res on Jan-27-2010 20:15:

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Originally posted by leph555
Look into Rosetta Stone

This.

You can obviously be a good consumer and buy it or if you know torrents I've found the full rosetta stone package, somewhere around 20gigs with all languages available, part 1 and 2 at least (if not 3) if I remember right.

Posted by Ania_xox on Jan-28-2010 00:23:

Besides my two mother tongues, I have learned two languages from scratch. I would strongly recommend not doing it alone, i.e. with a CD-ROM and book program.

You best bet is to take classes at a local college or university.
It's way more fun, way more is covered, you're in a learning environment and absorbing more than you would by yourself in front of a computer. It is the second best atmosphere in which to learn a language.

The best would be to travel to a German speaking country and immerse yourself

Posted by Saint John on Jan-28-2010 19:10:

I wish I took German instead of spanish during high school. The thing is though, at the college I'm going to, I don't think I'm going to have the option to take a foreign language unless it's on my own time.
I went to the store yesterday, and fuck rosetta stone is expensive (600USD for levels 1-5, 539USD for 1-3) and other books, like German for Dummies are a joke, because you need to hear the language to learn it.

Posted by Meat187 on Jan-29-2010 21:52:

Learning a foreign language is difficult. Beware, you might sound like this:

Posted by Moongoose on Jan-29-2010 22:00:

Watching foreign tv is also a good way to pick up a few things after youve got the basics down. In school you could really see which kids watched cartoons on english and which on german channels. A realy difference in the grades (then there were those that watched gthe italian channels but everyone thought they were weird).

Posted by LAdazeNYnights on Jan-29-2010 23:11:

I'm working towards the same thing, honestly. I went to a foreign language school when I was younger for German but it was a bit of a scam and I didn't learn a whole lot. I've also taken 2 semesters of German in college but I didn't have much drive to learn it then. Suddenly I've found myself very motivated to learn again. My family is Austrian and I know I want to spend a few years living there when I'm a bit older so yeah...

I've looked into rosetta stone too- I downloaded a torrent of the German rosetta stone but i'm too stupid to open it. Something about tricking your computer into thinking there's a writable dvd in there.

Right now my German isn't awful and my pronunciation is spot on so I think if I start putting some time into it I could make it happen.

I stumbled upon this yesterday:
http://www.ilovelanguages.com/index...egory=Languages|By+Language|German

I've started reading Der Speigel (my dad reads it everyday)
and even Der Standard. Just finding an article a day and trying to translate.

Let me know how your work on it goes...