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post #16 of 24
11/16/09 at 11:17pm
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Originally Posted by Unbreakable View Post
sadly I cant find them online anywhere

You're not looking very hard.
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post #17 of 24
11/17/09 at 9:21am
Depending on how much money you want to spend you could get Rosetta Totale (Pronounced Total A) Its about a grand but is totally online (no disk) and very intense. I think you hit a certain level then its a weekly online class with 20 or so students from around the world who do nothing but speak the studied language.
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post #18 of 24
11/17/09 at 10:05am
There's no cutting corners in learning a foreign language.
Save the money and instead get 1. A basic native speaker led course on CD's 2. A very good intermedite level dictionary 3. A complete grammar textbook
When done with your basic+intermediate course, take a trip to the country....repeat....
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post #19 of 24
11/17/09 at 2:23pm
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Originally Posted by StephenHero View Post
You're not looking very hard.

hmmm. my usual spots dont have them, will look harder.
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post #20 of 24
11/17/09 at 3:13pm
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Originally Posted by uhurit View Post
There's no cutting corners in learning a foreign language.
Save the money and instead get 1. A basic native speaker led course on CD's 2. A very good intermedite level dictionary 3. A complete grammar textbook
When done with your basic+intermediate course, take a trip to the country....repeat....

I never had much luck with those course on CD things.

Similarly, university level language courses didn't do much for me.

I prefer Rosetta Stone to both, by far.
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post #21 of 24
11/17/09 at 3:16pm
I actually love it, for someone with self-claimed bad memory, those pictures with no explanation actually helps me memorize a lot better than taking foreign language lessons in college, to me the latter was truely a waste of money.
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post #22 of 24
11/17/09 at 6:30pm
The truth of the matter is that anything less than immersion won't work.

Listen to Japanese radio
Use Rosetta
Go through the Japanese for Busy People books
Listen to the Pimsler recordings http://www.pimsler.org/
Eat at Japanese run restaurants
Go to Japan
Practice Aikido, Karate or Judo
Read some manga or buy some j-pop
Do a language exchange at your local library

And always remember that if your not immersed or studying hard you'll forget faster than you learned.
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post #23 of 24
11/17/09 at 7:31pm
Total immersion in a foreign country is the key. Prior to that, from my experience, any way one could get the basics (grammar+vocabulary+pronunciation) would do. If getting the basics+the intermediary level sets one back to the tune of a grand....then it's a
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post #24 of 24
11/20/09 at 3:01pm
livemocha.com it is pretty much an exact copy of rosetta stone but it is all free (and online).
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