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  1. 06-24-2007, 10:30 AM #1
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    Question Any home-based kits for "learning a new language?"

    Hey guys, just wondering if there are any kits a person can buy (that are good, and have been proven to work) in terms of learning a new language. I remember there was this kit you can buy, either online or at a given store, and it supposedly has the best results towards learning a new language. I'd rather avoid taking a course as the time commitment and group settings are a PITA, but does anybody know of these "packages" so to speak?

    Big thanks in advance (any tips or help would also be appreciated)
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    Give this a try.

    http://www.pimsleurapproach.com/
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    I hear you man. Trying to learn Lao and it's tough with just the books you can get at random travel stores etc.
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    Rosetta Stone series is good for learning languages
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    I have the Pimsleur Spanish 8 disc set that I listened to to brush up before I went to Spain and it was pretty good but by no means will you be able to become fluent from them especially because you only hear the words and phrases you don't see them spelled out or anything. You can take quick 2 week courses and such in various places around Calgary, I think someone else teaching and explaining it to you is the easiest way.
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    Originally posted by ashee
    I have the Pimsleur Spanish 8 disc set that I listened to to brush up before I went to Spain and it was pretty good but by no means will you be able to become fluent from them especially because you only hear the words and phrases you don't see them spelled out or anything. You can take quick 2 week courses and such in various places around Calgary, I think someone else teaching and explaining it to you is the easiest way.
    Thanks, thats great advice. I'll check in to course availability and so on.

    Thanks to everybody else, That "Rosetta stone" looks great.
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    Trying to learn a new language is a pain in the ass... Especially if you don't have anyone to practice with... I'm trying to learn Cantonese from my gf and her mom, and it's pretty much a bust... I learnt french while growing up (French immersion... ECS - Grade 10) and since I don't have anyone to talk to with I almost completely forgot it.
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    Yeah it's been 2 years since I last spoke French and I can't really make conversation any more. I can read and understand text pretty well though.

    The only good way is immersion or speaking as much as you can. I studied Russian for 4 months this year, and then went to Germany for 3 weeks without speaking a lick of German and now I pretty much speak equal amounts of each.
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    Originally posted by Alterac
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    "A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city, he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to fear. The traitor is the plague.”
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    Rosetta Stone doesn't have anything for Lao.

    Anyone have any suggestions for that?
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