Learning another language

[sean miguel]

something I can learn online or on my phone in my spare time. I want to be fluent in spanish by this time next year. It would be a plus on my resume but this is mainly for my edification.

I've seen those rosetta stone commercials but there was something that came out recently that promised to be more effective and cheaper.

I just want to be de habla espanol.

suggestions?

 

[knowone]

Is there a "Speaking Spanish For Dummies" book?

 

[sean miguel]

You tell me. You're the idiot.

 

[raychik]

Rosetta Stone is pricey - It's great for learning vocabulary words but they skimp on the the grammar; However, English and Spanish are both, mostly, SVO (Subject Verb Object) with the exception that in Spanish, we drop the Subject if it's "understood". (Sort of like how Japanese don't constantly say Watashi, meaning me or I, before every sentence if its already understood that the person is speaking about something related to him/herself.) So for learning Spanish, it would do the job. "Spanish for Dummies" isn't that bad either. Kind of a crash course but you'll get the basics right away. Either way, good luck and in 6 months - 1 year (just in time for Obama to open the borders) you can say "bienvenidos" to our Mexican overlords. (hehe I ***. good luck)

 

[sean miguel]

Like english, a lot if not all is based on latin so it's easy to pick up and not completely foreign, like say, Cantonese.



knowone, if you weren't being cheeky, I apologize. I may have read that wrong.

 

[Little Red Wagon Repairman]

I gotta learn me some Tag-A-Long someday.

 

[knowone]

Like english, a lot if not all is based on latin so it's easy to pick up and not completely foreign, like say, Cantonese.
knowone, if you weren't being cheeky, I apologize. I may have read that wrong.

There really is a best selling series (hundreds of titles) of self help books called "xxx for dummies". Well thought of by people who aren't dummies.
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[L3ggy]

You could try Old Norse.

 

[sean miguel]

You could try Old Norse.

that was my 2nd choice.


I can curse in icelandic. I dated a girl who is.

hefte kefte or yetta skeet (at least that's how I heard it)

I just wanna learn another language and spanish would be the most practical and useful.

 

[Luxman]

Babbel mobile app, it has good reviews.
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I can speak 4 languages, but I learned all 4 as a *****.
My parents are from different countries, so I learned those 2 at home, then when I started school, I learned English and another language.
It's great to speak multiple languages, but the grammar is reversed in some languages, it gets confusing and that's why the way I write some of my English isn't correct.

 

[sean miguel]

Babbel mobile app, it has good reviews.
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nice. I think that's the one I was talking about. thanks! and everyone else as well for their recommendations.

 

[L3ggy]

that was my 2nd choice.


I can curse in icelandic. I dated a girl who is.

hefte kefte or yetta skeet (at least that's how I heard it)

I just wanna learn another language and spanish would be the most practical and useful.

Them Icelanders.

 

[freeones_regina]

something I can learn online or on my phone in my spare time.

For your phone I recommend DuoLingo, you can learn many languages with that app for free.
Here's the Premium Link Upgrade version or the Premium Link Upgrade version.

I think you can also use their site to learn a language: Premium Link Upgrade

 

[FreeOnes_Adam]

How funny this should come up. I'm learning to become fluent in Mandarin Chinese at the moment.

Its a bit of a challenge because you have to first learn pinyin, then learn the characters after that. Not to mention listening and speaking the language!

 

[288gto]

just try to learn Dutch.
it's good for your throat.

 

[sean miguel]

For your phone I recommend DuoLingo, you can learn many languages with that app for free.
Here's the Premium Link Upgrade version or the Premium Link Upgrade version.

I think you can also use their site to learn a language: Premium Link Upgrade

Sweet. Thanks, I'll definitely check that out.

 

[sean miguel]

How funny this should come up. I'm learning to become fluent in Mandarin Chinese at the moment.

Its a bit of a challenge because you have to first learn pinyin, then learn the characters after that. Not to mention listening and speaking the language!

yeah the characters. holy sh*t. there's like tens of thousands of them right? where each character represents a word in the language? I took a semester of japanese in junior high. The characters are all syllable based and I found even that too complicated. I can't speak japanese, but I definitely know it when I hear it (or see it).

 

[sean miguel]

just try to learn Dutch.
it's good for your throat.

how is it good for your throat? is it the range or is it guttural?

edit: nvm. I just looked it up on youtube. guttural is right. lots of 'hacckkhh'

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[BCT]

I wish I had learned Spanish when I had the chance.

 

[L3ggy]

What's stopping you?