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Comment on Merry Christmas in Polish by whoami

whoami — Sat, 04 Feb 2012 03:26:10 +0000

Merry if it does mean peace, looking for humanity and prefers it to prevail over the belief, the only way to coexist in this small planet.

Comment on Wedding vows in French by harmony

harmony — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 21:09:26 +0000

Are the above vows the same for the woman and the man? Or is the top portion just for the woman, and the bottom portion for the man? My fiancee thinks its the latter because on the bottom half it says wife.

Comment on Rosetta stone reviews – Notes from a linguist by nate

nate — Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:54:18 +0000

I think R stone would be the best starter program if they told you what you were saying too instead of just showing you. I think its stupid thay never explaine anything to you and if they did there would be no competition. I still use R stone in conjunction with other things because its fun and easy.

Comment on Hypnosis to learn a language by Mark Biernat

Mark Biernat — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 12:29:20 +0000

Not like magic, it is better to just practice. Hypnosis is very good for sefl confidence and motivation but to reconnect neurons you need practice, it is all in your brain, just needs to rebuild the highways or at least clear them of snow.

Comment on Hypnosis to learn a language by Barbara

Barbara — Sun, 22 Jan 2012 23:12:54 +0000

I spoke Turkish from 9 months to 11 years as it was my first language. Coming to the states w/ English speaking only due to divorce I forgot most of it. I am going back I’n June and wondered if going to our neighborhood hypnotist could bring it back.

Comment on I love you in Ukrainian by Not a full Ukrainian :)

Not a full Ukrainian :) — Fri, 13 Jan 2012 02:59:25 +0000

to Diana:

in Ukrainian both phrases are correct: “Я тебе люблю” and “Я тебе кохаю”
in Russian: “Я тебЯ люблю”. You need to pronounce it differently and shift the stresses.

Comment on Rosetta stone reviews – Notes from a linguist by Kangaroo

Kangaroo — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:12:18 +0000

I hope you got your money back on that Rosetta Stone course. I am not surprised you didn’t learn anything, I had a similar experience with Russian RS. Perhaps I can recommend a course for you: Visual Link Spanish at www.spanishprograms.com. I haven’t bought this course, only tried it out online but I did seem to be getting something from it. If I were to buy a Spanish language CD course I think this is the one I would get.

Comment on Rosetta stone reviews – Notes from a linguist by Kangaroo

Kangaroo — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 18:00:21 +0000

The FSI courses are not bad at all. At one stage I was interested in learning Greek and I found that to my surprise I was making good progress. Unfortunately I was unable to continue as I need to learn Russian but I did take notice of what technique seemed to be the reason for my success, namely, building up phrases word by word.

Comment on Rosetta stone reviews – Notes from a linguist by Kangaroo

Kangaroo — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 17:30:07 +0000

Sorry, I can’t agree. We don’t learn to read by recognizing the shape of words; we read by the letters in them. That’s how I learnt to read English, same with Russian. From what I understand the learn-by-shape approach to reading has resulted in widespread illiteracy. Time to go back to what we know works.

Comment on Rosetta stone reviews – Notes from a linguist by MilitaryForce

MilitaryForce — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 22:06:28 +0000

Just a response to David about Rosetta Stone and Special Forces…hah.

You have got to be out of your mind. Special forces do not rely on Rosetta stone. The Rosetta Stone is used only as personal system a credits system (for promotions) for regular service members in the military.

Actual Special Forces and Linguists for the military go to Monterrey, California where they learn the language for possibly up to 2 years, where in reality they are studying the language using Instructors and DLI course material for 8-12hrs a day (the same amount of hours you spend doing a job). During that time they actually have immersion (I mean real immersion as in they are embedded in the languages country and environment not the bull that Rosetta Stone claims is “immersion sitting in front of your PC while English CNN is on in the background” ). The closest thing to this for civilians is are no-english instense language school like Middlebury or courses found overseas (for much cheaper).

No real language careerist I’ve ever met has actually use Rosetta Stone to achieve any level of fluency. The system and design of Rosetta Stone is the limiting factor. Fact of the matter is that RS doesnt work. Real language acquisition is lots of hard work and effort. Not an hour a day playing match games.

Semper Fi!