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Has any body used these to learn a language? I am thinking about this and wondered if anyone has had any experience with them. If so how did you get on with it?

The Jackal

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This item was edited on Monday, 19th March 2007, 12:28

Haven`t used Linguaphone, but I`m currently learning French by other means.

What language you learning or thinking of learning?

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I`ve tried various courses over the years - the best for actually getting you speaking the language are the Michel Thomas disks - there`s no book to read so you miss out on the written side but they are incredibly effective otherwise. You can download the first hour of the French, German, Italian and Spanish courses for free here:

http://www.bookshoppartnership.net/download.html

(use the links at the bottom of the page)

Have a go and if you think it`s right for you the full courses can be had fairly cheaply on ebay or you can just get them out of the library...

Cheers. Thinking about Spanish. You can thank Dora for that. my 4 year old watches her all the time and can now count to 10 in Spanish and quite often comes out with the odd word I dont understand, but its OK because she explains it all to me. ;)

The Jackal

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Visit Chainsaw Films
Visit The Pacmen
Confucius say
"Man who go to bed with sex problem on mind,
Wake up with solution in hand"

I`ve done a Berlitz course (actual face-to-face classes), had private tutoring, evening classes, various books. The BBC do good courses (at least in French - probably just as good in Spanish). With follow up stuff on tv, in books and interactive cd roms. There`s also loads of good stuff online. I subscribe to podcasts (free). If you go to the iTunes site and search from there, there`s bound to be loads of Spanish courses. I`m guessing you`re a beginner so there`ll be a bewildering amount of choice, some good, some not so good.

Can`t speak for the Linguaphone courses - I`m guessing they`re not cheap. Personally I would start with good ol` BBC. Although they are about a 50/50 split between speaking and reading/writing. The Linguaphone may be more towards spoken language.

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