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Where to start?

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-26 22:47

Just some advice...Where should I start? I have Pimsleur and several other audio lessons, several ebooks on grammar and shit, and Rosetta Stone I have downloaded from torrents, just havent installed (and not sure if I should).

Looking to learn Spanish BTW

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-27 1:16

save rosetta stone for last.

start off with the ebooks or the audio lessons.

start with the audio lessons if you have no idea how the language is supposed to sound, ect. and maybe even listen to them while you read the first chapter of the language books so you can hear what the book means by the weird pronounciation symbols by each letter of the alphabet.

but then after you have some idea either pick one. i'd suggest starting with the grammer/whatever books first for during the day kind of stuff. and then putting on the pimsleur/other audio stuff as your lying down to goto bed or putting it on an ipod and then listening to it in the car or where-ever.(that stuff always puts me right to sleep i love it.)

also don't believe the rosetta stone bullshit, if you start on that after you know sentence structure/ basic words/ verb conjugation/ect. then it is much more helpful and you should never use it as a starting point, basically do it like this.

books ++++ audio
seperately reinforcing one another and shit but kind of seperate.

rosetta stone>
audio with text combined, so its like sticking the two things you kept seperate before and combining them, and it is much more effective for improving reading skills, and when your exposed to something you dont know ( like you will be if you ever visit spain) you will learn with rosetta stone how to make educated guesses and infer things about the language, which as i kinda mentioned, helps greatly toward your on the fly comprehension that you will be subjected to if you visit the country and have to understand new things people there are saying you havent been exposed to.

Name: Anonymous 2009-12-28 2:21

yeah I really wasnt planning on using it anyway. I have a Livemocha account, so I use that not near as often as I should.
For some reason I'm good with Spanish pronunciation (not accent though) probably because I know a lot of beaners, I just need to get more words down and get some grammar.

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