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Rosetta Stone

XHonusWagnerX - 9-3-2010 at 07:58 AM

Anyone ever used Rosetta Stone to learn a language? I'm trying to find ways to kill time at work that are at least semi-productive and I thought learning a language might be fun.

mattybar - 9-3-2010 at 08:11 AM

i've not heard of it before but a friend of mine sent me this link a while ago when i was learning Cantonese.

http://www.lingua.org.uk/voc.html#v1

generally useful tips for learning a new language

XnMeX - 9-3-2010 at 08:44 AM

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Originally posted by XHonusWagnerX
Anyone ever used Rosetta Stone to learn a language? I'm trying to find ways to kill time at work that are at least semi-productive and I thought learning a language might be fun.



If you are looking for a certain language let me know, I know a site...

Never used the program though, I don't want to learn any other language. Never interested me.

XHonusWagnerX - 9-3-2010 at 08:51 AM

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Originally posted by XnMeX
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Originally posted by XHonusWagnerX
Anyone ever used Rosetta Stone to learn a language? I'm trying to find ways to kill time at work that are at least semi-productive and I thought learning a language might be fun.



If you are looking for a certain language let me know, I know a site...

Never used the program though, I don't want to learn any other language. Never interested me.



yeah there are a couple I was interested in...

GERMAN
RUSSIAN
HEBREW
YIDDISH

Can you hook it up??

BDx13 - 9-3-2010 at 09:04 AM

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Originally posted by mattybar
i've not heard of it before but a friend of mine sent me this link a while ago when i was learning Cantonese.

http://www.lingua.org.uk/voc.html#v1

generally useful tips for learning a new language


what made you decide on Cantonese over Mandarin?

XnMeX - 9-3-2010 at 09:34 AM

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Originally posted by XHonusWagnerX
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Originally posted by XnMeX
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Originally posted by XHonusWagnerX
Anyone ever used Rosetta Stone to learn a language? I'm trying to find ways to kill time at work that are at least semi-productive and I thought learning a language might be fun.



If you are looking for a certain language let me know, I know a site...

Never used the program though, I don't want to learn any other language. Never interested me.



yeah there are a couple I was interested in...

GERMAN
RUSSIAN
HEBREW
YIDDISH

Can you hook it up??


Register at this site and then click here: http://tehparadox.com/forum/search.php?searchid=57996231

They are all hosted at sites like Rapidshare, Megaupload, etc.

barc0debaby - 9-3-2010 at 10:54 AM

I've used it before, its a quality program. The sticker price is absurd though, torrents are the way to go.

mattybar - 9-3-2010 at 11:10 AM

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Originally posted by BD
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Originally posted by mattybar
i've not heard of it before but a friend of mine sent me this link a while ago when i was learning Cantonese.

http://www.lingua.org.uk/voc.html#v1

generally useful tips for learning a new language


what made you decide on Cantonese over Mandarin?


At the time I was dead set on moving to Hong Kong.
Up until recently I was training in Wing Chun and attended a few classes when I was in HK and I remember thinking if i could speak the same language as these kids i would learn a lot more.

BDx13 - 9-3-2010 at 11:29 AM

^ HA! Yeah, funny how that whole speaking the same language thing works. So did they take it easy on you in class because you were a foreigner?


i've heard good things about rosetta stone, but yeah, it's mad expensive.

mattybar - 9-3-2010 at 11:41 AM

yeah it was all good.
i was very nervous at first as soon as i walked in all i could here was people mumbling the word 'gweilo' (the term for white people over there, it means 'white ghost' but it's not a derogatory term or anything) and pointing at me. Once I started I going through the forms though and 'rolling' with a few people they were cool and started trying to have very broken english conversations.
it's interesting actually as if you imagine the stereotypical way you might imagine someone from Hong Kong speaking very broken English, that's actually how the language works. eg there's no differentiation between 'me' or 'i' which is kinda why it sounds their English sounds that way as there are literally much less words in the langauge than in English.

SHAKO KEN - 9-4-2010 at 12:53 PM

haven't tried rosetta stone but i have good experiences with pimsleur. the goal is to get you talking as fast as possible. they're 30 minute audio lessons where you pronounce words and sentences. it's a good introduction to a language. these days whenever i go on vacation to another country (russia, japan, thailand) i'll do a pimsleur course beforehand. it takes some discipline though.

lifeisabitch - 9-4-2010 at 05:36 PM

Italian
Japanese
relearn German

torrents will be the way to go