Comments on: Foreign Languages: Tips & Tricks

By: chris73

chris73 — Sat, 04 Apr 2009 09:06:01 +0000

http://www.livemocha.com nice site for practising in languages

By: Redburn

Redburn — Fri, 11 Jul 2008 01:42:30 +0000

Learning languages is cool but if you don’t exercise them properly you risk losing all your hardwork

By: Andromeda

Andromeda — Wed, 02 Jul 2008 14:20:48 +0000

This article won a Triondy Award for week ending June 29th.

Hi Jotter! I missed this article for the w/e June 15th awards. This is a very informative and useful article. Thank you for a great read.

By: Jotter Scalems

Jotter Scalems — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 21:09:11 +0000

Thanks for the comments. Yeah if it wasn’t for the resource and me studying here I’d also be anywhere but here. My parents both left me and my sister and moved to Tasmania more than a year and a half ago, go figure. :p Anyway knowing extra languages will let you search a job abroad, then you need only a one way ticket.

By: Mark Givens

Mark Givens — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 19:50:21 +0000

Excellent insights, especially the vocabulary– in my experience, many people seem to get hung up on not liking to learn words before they master the grammatical concepts in which they would appear, but even if you can only speak broken sentences, you can get a lot more out with a string of nouns than a well-formed question in which you still can’t identify objects by name (e.g., a foreign [novice] English-speaker asking “Food, get, fast, where?” is at least a little better than asking “Where is the–?” and falling short of “restaurant”).

Also, I love your strategy of booking a trip to Japan to re-invigorate your interest– if I had the resources, I’d be in Spain today.

By: alyn king

alyn king — Mon, 09 Jun 2008 17:30:46 +0000

Some very good points there! I think being able to communicate in languages other than our own native tongue is important.

I am currently learning Chinese with the help of a few Chinese/Taiwanese friends and http://www.chinesepod.com. Chinesepod is a great language site that is free for the lessons with the option of affordable upgrades for study materials and the like. It is working well for me and I only use the free version. There is also a spanishpod and frenchpod for those who are more interested in either of those languages.

Thanks for an interesting article, hopefully it motivates more people to seek out a second (or third or forth) tongue!!