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.

Look into Rosetta Stone

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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.

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

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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.

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

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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).

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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...