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i wouldnt even learn english from scottish people!
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you may be the odd man out, but you're on the right course
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I agree that the best way to learn a language is by immersing yourself in it. After all, that's how we learned our native language as children. However, listening to a podcast like Coffee Break Spanish (in addition to listening to native speakers), allows you to make sense of what you're hearing faster - it accelerates the learning process. An English explanation of "hablo, habla, hablas, hablamos, hablais, hablan" helps you to make sense of what you are hearing.
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llevo mas de 8 anos estudiando el espanol, ultimamente he utilizado los podcasts de radio caracol colombia por medio de itunes...y esta es una manera buenisima y barata como para escuchar una conversacion signicativa. Despues de seguir mucho tiempo con esta practica los resultados que tuve valian la pena. Ademas, mucha gente hispana me ha dicho que hablo con acento colombiano!
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I am very happy to listen you.
I love to study languages but I've got no time to travel, podcasts and use of mp3 or mp4with little video tools are very useful to progress.
I studied english, russian and romanian at the university a long time ago, and I 've never learned anything in russian it was like studying greek or latin, impossible to communicate with a russian, that's horrible (easier in romanian,thanks the latin origin for a frenchman).I hope the Internet and mp3 will be helpful.
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when listening how much of the language you are listening to should be comprehensable. In a %, roughly. I listen to radio and TV and get around 10-20% over the past 6 months. 3-4 hours a day.
anticks 2 years ago
I prefer to listen to content where 75% is comprehensible. That is why I focus on podcasts where transcripts are available. I find that listening to content that we do not understand does not help much.
lingosteve 2 years ago
thats quite hard to find as a beginner when i dont want to listen to kids tv shows and such. I find watching Chinese TV fun despite understanding little. What would you reccommend when you onl know around 1000 words? I'd use LingQ but im studying traditional characters.
anticks 2 years ago
I do not know. You can ask on the LingQ forum. You can also import traditional character text. I would learn both if I were you. I did. It opens up much more content.
lingosteve 2 years ago
Try every day on your MP3 player!
lingosteve 3 years ago
Hey, sometimes I hear you talking about reading books in foreign languages. I was wondering if you know of any websites that sell books in foreign languages in America. I was looking at ebay but they didn't seem to have many.
mitchhsansom 3 years ago
Which languages? I think you have to search for books in the language that you are interested in. There is no shortage of sites selling Russian which I am studying right now.
lingosteve 3 years ago