Posted on 01/01/2023 9:29:20 AM PST by EEGator
Has anyone learned a foreign language as an adult using an online website? I’m looking to learn a foreign language via online “schooling” and was hoping to get some FReepers feedback. Thank you in advance.
It’s like those French have a different word for everything.
i still have the CDs, somewhere!
Old school :-)
“Memrise is good for vocabulary”
Thanks ... will check it out.
Great advice...
And having a computer background…potential spook.
I need to brush up on the umlaut.
Just spend a few minutes in a La Madeleine restroom....you’ll walk out speaking French :-)
Oh and I listened to shortwave radio and got a QSL card from Radio Moscow. I always wondered why there was a mysterious black van outside my house.
I am unlikely to engage in video conferencing due to time differences and lack of resources in the area.
I’ve lost much of my Latin vocabulary to speak it, but almost every word in the world (except Asian languages in characters) has some basis in Latin, so I can still discern a lot in languages I’m not familiar with.
Well worth doing, I’m guessing.
How’d you do?
And plus just to make it interesting, the French like to say words in reverse, like “merci” becomes ´cimer’
Duolingo is good, but how effective it is depends on the language.
From what I understand you can’t really learn a new language by passively listening to it. You must have interactive conversation with other speakers of the language to become anywhere near fluent.
Some of these apps allow you to do that to a point. I guess watching Telemundo or other Spanish language programs is helpful if you are learning Spanish, but you won’t learn the language by just listening to it.
For me to practice those umlauts ... all it takes is ... die schöne deutsche Frau.
I studied Spanish all through school and continued at the college level, but I can say I didn’t really learn the language until I had the chance to live in Latin America, avoiding English-speakers as much as possible. And reading, and consuming telenovelas daily for years.
Since then in the last couple of years I tackled Portuguese via Duolingo. It’s a good tool, it gives it to you in baby steps, I did it in small bites to not burn out. Having finished the course, again I started reading, the New Testament, then novels, re-reading the first several. I’ve read now a dozen or so. It’s a slog but easier on re-reading. And listening to Portuguese speakers on YouTube at least a few minutes each day. My ear is still not tuned, so listening is a struggle. But some YouTubers are easier to understand than others, and I keep at it.
I know I will not master the language without actually visiting a Portuguese-speaking country and going through the same process I went through learning Spanish. But it’s doable.
The Spanish and French and German Duolingo courses are the “official” courses and are way more comprehensive than the other languages they offer.
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