I want to learn chinese, Thai, Vietnamese, Tagalag and Portugese.
I these coursed you buy at Borders, Barnes & Nobles, or online courses worth it....
Can you really learn this why if your really dilligent?
2006-12-14 13:51:57 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous in Society & Culture ➔ Languages
Depends on the person. I know of girls I went to high school with who seemed to have learned Spanish from class. I never did but I picked up a lot more from the two weeks some of our class spent in Spain. I'm one of those people who needs to use it all the time to be able to learn it. I can't learn a language from a book or even a class, but some can.
2006-12-14 13:55:18 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
It really depends if you're what I call a "language" person. I'm a language person myself. I'm fluent in Japanese, Latin, French, Italian, Tagalog, and English. I learned all of this - with the exception of French and English - from books. I've been able to successfully speak with others who speak those languages (except for Latin, you can't really find many people who speak Latin or do anything other than read it).
It also depends on how well you can learn from a book. Some people just need a formal teacher. I would recommend podcasts - if I were you. There are podcasts in other languages, you should use those to improve on pronunciation. There are also language-teaching podcasts, which I found helpful not because they taught me a lot about grammar or vocab, because they tended to pronounce things more slowly than the other podcasts.
2006-12-14 14:03:46 · answer #2 · answered by LexiSan 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
You can also use a Spanish text-to-speech program, like YAKiToMe! to read electronic text into an mp3 audio file you can listen to. This is useful for getting pronunciation right and for improving your language listening skills, but using self-teaching materials, which are usually the most motivating kind. Buena suerte!
2016-05-24 07:13:21 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can only speak for Mandarin so Chinese. For me tapes aren't the good solution because they won't correct you when you use the wrong tone. So for that language a teacher is still the same way.
2006-12-14 13:57:17 · answer #4 · answered by kl55000 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
you cant really learn much from language courses you get from a book or cd if it involves you teaching yourself. for this you need a good self determination. also try listening to language courses while you sleep, something shall end up sticking without effort.
2006-12-14 13:55:31 · answer #5 · answered by Im nice...not 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No i tried and either i am a slow learner or i got ripped off.
2006-12-14 13:55:23 · answer #6 · answered by GellyBelly 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋