# Great site for language learners

Category: Language and Culture

## Post 1 by Albanac (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Sunday, 28-Dec-2008 19:31:51

Hi all,
Just found a great site for us language learners, so thought I'd share it with you.
And I quote from the site:
Presented here are links for free language
lessons, foreign language schools, online dictionaries, foreign newspapers, foreign internet and online radio stations, associations and conferences for
foreign languages, ESL, and ASL, and ASL interpreter training programs.
I'm going to use them for newspapers, magazines, tv and radio for the languages I'm learning, (Arabic and French).
The site is:
http://www.multilingualbooks.com/mbcontent.html
Have fun,
Simon

## Post 2 by missdanceralicia (Zone BBS Addict) on Friday, 23-Jan-2009 0:50:21

how about rosita stone? thats the like most common one.

## Post 3 by Albanac (I'm going for the prolific poster awards!) on Friday, 23-Jan-2009 5:34:22

I've not tried it. It's supposed to be good but the last time I looked I seem to remember it being extremely expensive. There are far cheaper ways of learning a language. As I said, the site I posted in the first post I just used for practice purposes. For learning I like the Michel Thomas method and the vocabulearn series. As far as French goes though I'm learning with Audible who have lessons by a lady called Alexa Polidoro. These are very informal lessons, but she takes you right from the basics up to extremely complex grammar constructs, some slang and shortcuts that French speakers use when speaking fast. There's also a web site where you cna download pdf documents of the lessons for reading practice. French for beginners' and French for Intermediate learners respectively.
Cheers,
Simon

## Post 4 by oldskoolrapper (On da block) on Saturday, 28-Feb-2009 11:21:49

Yeah, I was going to do a topic about Rosetta Stone and its high, but remember theres a six month money back. You can buy Level 1, 2, or three. Rosetta you'll much vision because I talk to the customer care and how they teach it. They show pictures on the screen so you can figure words out. Like when you born, you can't talk and identify things until you see it or put your hands on it. Rosetta teach the same. It put pictures on the screen and you identify it and write down until you remember it. I tried the demo on the site before. There no english version. Only the menu sfotware in english, but words, captures all that in spainish. I'm going to try it in June so I'll be prepaired in Aug when I take spainish and if I don't learn well. I get my $250 back. Level 1 is $250 and all levels are $589

## Post 5 by irish girl 1215 (Zone BBS Addict) on Thursday, 23-Dec-2010 7:33:34

Thanks for this!
Just to throw this out there,
www.wordreference.com
is a really good, accessible bilingual and monolingual dictionary for French, Spanish, Italian, German and I think some other languages.
happy Christmas! Christina

## Post 6 by SatansProphet (Forever in the service of Satan, my King...) on Wednesday, 20-Jul-2011 11:07:20

Well, for someone who's totally blind, Rosetta sounds like a total waste of time. *sigh* Oh well.

## Post 7 by BryanP22 (Novice theriminist) on Sunday, 25-Dec-2011 20:02:47

Not only that but they probably wouldn't offer the language I'm most interested to learn, that being Gaelic, particularly Irish. Although I wouldn't pass up a chance to learn Scots Gaelic also especially for the music.

## Post 8 by SatansProphet (Forever in the service of Satan, my King...) on Wednesday, 22-Feb-2012 2:53:41

My friend is actually fluent in Irish Gaelic. I'm so jelaous!

## Post 9 by fiveberry (Generic Zoner) on Monday, 19-Mar-2012 9:48:20

That sounds interesting. Thanks for sharing it, Simon.

## Post 10 by Majestic Sapphire (Generic Zoner) on Tuesday, 26-Jun-2012 3:59:42

I am so checking some of these out.

## Post 11 by VioletBlue (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Wednesday, 04-Jul-2012 4:10:57

The Pimsleur CDs are useful for beginners, if you're looking for something purely audio.
Anyone studying German? I'd love to have someone to practice with, or just talk to about it.

## Post 12 by bermuda-triangulese (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Wednesday, 04-Jul-2012 14:56:23

hi all. I am a linguist myself, having studied French, Spanish, German and Catalan to degree level and having lived in several of the countries. Rosetta stone is not accessible, but I do recommend the Michel Thomas method, which is pure audio and I even have the included reading extracts in an accessible format. Pimsleur is good but limitted to very formal expressions...it will get you by, but is nothing special. If anyone wants to chat about, or in, any of the languages I speak, let me know, I'm always up for it.

## Post 13 by LeoGuardian (You mean there is something outside of this room with my computer in it?) on Wednesday, 04-Jul-2012 18:46:29

So how do you get access to learning the Braille for the various languages now? I know that used to be quite a task at times, back when I was in school.

## Post 14 by bermuda-triangulese (Help me, I'm stuck to my chair!) on Thursday, 05-Jul-2012 9:09:24

lol, no clue...no point in bothering.

## Post 15 by UniqueOne (I'll have the last word, thank you!) on Sunday, 09-Sep-2012 18:34:17

this stuff is so interesting! I've been thinking..maybe..of learning spanish..getting back in to it. I took 2 years in high school and really liked it..however I've lost a lot I think cause the expression is true when it says, "You don't use it, you lose it."