OT: feedback needed

You can't find someone bilingual where you are, and ask for coaching?

I'm guessing that the course will give you some basic Spanish, but that the people near you will be speaking a variation, and your Spanish course won't be all that useful.

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Pimsleur has a starter CD set for 9.95$US, with somewhat expensive follow up lesson CDs on an opt out basis. "One month after you receive your Quick & Simple you'll begin receiving 30 day trial copies of advanced Pimsleur courses in the language you selected. Each course is yours to try for 30 days. You'll receive a new course once every

Has anyone in the group used this and if so would you care to share your results. This sounds too good to be true.

The Pimsleur salespitch website is

"F. George McDuffee" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I couldn't learn correct Russian pronunciation from a computer course, or even a native speaker at work who wasn't trained to teach.

For French and German they didn't send us to listen to tapes in the language lab until we had a semester or two of live instruction.

Maybe you could listen to Univision for pronunciation. Having learned Latin and French I can read simple Spanish and partly understand it when spoken carefully by announcers and actors, but not the street dialects.

jsw

Check out the FSI Language Courses

If you are larcenous, you can find the Pimsleur courses. Check out alt.binaries.world-languages.

$1k course:

-- The ultimate result of shielding men from folly is to fill the world with fools. -- Herbert Spencer

"F. George McDuffee" wrote in message news: snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com...

I couldn't learn correct Russian pronunciation from a computer course, or even a native speaker at work who wasn't trained to teach.

For French and German they didn't send us to listen to tapes in the language lab until we had a semester or two of live instruction.

Maybe you could listen to Univision for pronunciation. Having learned Latin and French I can read simple Spanish and partly understand it when spoken carefully by announcers and actors, but not the street dialects.

jsw ______________________

Latin? Raised by Jesuits?

is that they make it practically impossible to opt out, so it will end up costing you $266, and you may have to get your state's attorney general involved to get out of paying.

Jon

No, I attended the public high school John Irving dissed in "Garp", as did his sister Nancy.

We didn't have to learn to speak it. They told us, quite correctly, that Latin grammar and vocabulary unlock the difficulties of most other European Romance languages which are modern dialects of Latin, and others such as German and Russian with similar grammar and many loan words. For example both Kaiser and Czar mean Caesar.

English is a mongrel which retains so little of the original grammar that it's an annoying added complexity when learning French and others where words have gender.

We still have the changes in pronouns, as I-my-me, thou-thy-thee, he-his-him, we-our-us, but in Latin -all- nouns change depending on whether they are the subject, owner, object, recipient or donor in a sentence.

Modern grammars are various simplified subsets of Latin's and a large part of the vocabulary is still in use, like "video" and "audio", "I see" and "I hear".

jsw

Personally, I've found the Rosetta Stone method works better than anything else I've tried, for my learning style. Hurts a bit cost-wise, but only once. You might want to find a trial and buy if it works for you.

Best regards, Spehro Pefhany

No, I attended the public high school John Irving dissed in "Garp", as did his sister Nancy.

We didn't have to learn to speak it. They told us, quite correctly, that Latin grammar and vocabulary unlock the difficulties of most other European Romance languages which are modern dialects of Latin, and others such as German and Russian with similar grammar and many loan words. For example both Kaiser and Czar mean Caesar.

English is a mongrel which retains so little of the original grammar that it's an annoying added complexity when learning French and others where words have gender.

We still have the changes in pronouns, as I-my-me, thou-thy-thee, he-his-him, we-our-us, but in Latin -all- nouns change depending on whether they are the subject, owner, object, recipient or donor in a sentence.

Modern grammars are various simplified subsets of Latin's and a large part of the vocabulary is still in use, like "video" and "audio", "I see" and "I hear".

jsw ____________________________________________________________

You're a brave man Jim!

Interesting... curious, what Wikipedia entry did you find the 80's info in?

Erik

I learned my Latin at the same HS as Lyndon Larouche .

We also had 2 years in junior high, taught by a faded Georgia belle. The HS Latin teacher got a kick out of the fact that the students from my junior high recited our declensions with a southern accent.

My Latin teacher had no sense of humor. :(

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I would probably have wisecracked that it was Sicilian, Italy's deep south.

jsw

"Jim Wilkins" on Wed, 22 Feb 2012 08:39:44

-0500 typed in rec.crafts.metalworking the following:

I had a friend who had a Deep South drawl - even in German.

"Guten tag, du all."

George, to get you warmed up, have you tried the BBC's free online language lessons? They might not be for you, but maybe...

I was sitting in a tree overlooking the front course and back loop at the Hockenheim racetrack, watching practice, when a group walked up nearby and one of them gave driving strategy instructions to the others in German, in a thick-as-gumbo NASCAR accent like that. He sounded so funny that I almost fell out of the tree.

jsw

I never thought of that. Seriously funny.

Christopher A. Young Learn more about Jesus

I had a friend who had a Deep South drawl - even in German.

"Guten tag, du all."

-- pyotr Go not to the Net for answers, for it will tell you Yes and no. And you are a bloody fool, only an ignorant cretin would even ask the question, forty two, 47, the second door, and how many blonde lawyers does it take to change a lightbulb.

I was always sure to ask for the "all-mammal" meat pies.

They did not appreciate my humor.