Has anybody used this website for learning a new language?
I've decided to learn German and somebody linked me to it and said it was decent.
Any opinions on it?
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Anonymous2010-01-01 22:43
I used it for Russian, and it's pretty useful for basic things like vocabulary. It's good to get feedback on your pronunciation for the spoken tasks too (I just got post after post of 'crap', though). But after having proper language lessons, I wouldn't vouch for it to be the only method you use if you're serious about learning.
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Anonymous2010-01-02 3:03
LiveMocha is free, and it's worth every penny. If you're lucky then you get good, specific, articulate feedback from native speakers of your target language. Ideally, you get good feedback by providing same to people whose target language is yours.
If you're not lucky, you get shitty feedback from foreign trolls, or ignored completely. Or sometimes it's people who don't like to criticize and tell you that you did fine when in fact you didn't. I see people do that a lot on LiveMocha and I have no idea why.
Overall it makes decent supplemental/practice material, and occasionally a good place to get a second opinion on a phrase or translation. Obviously immersion is best, followed by private lessons.
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Anonymous2010-01-02 7:42
Are any of you familiar with Lingq? How does it compare to livemocha?
LiveMocha is free and offers a community. The lessons themselves are not that useful if you want to learn more than vocabulary. Livemocha doesn't teach you the grammar. Every language course is the same, just translated. From English, to Germna, to Hindi, to Esperanto. I give it a C+, but don't use Livemocha exclusively if you actually want to learn the language.
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Anonymous2010-01-26 1:25
I tried LiveMocha. One of the exercise have the english translation read out to you. I hate the speaker's smug accent. Every time I find that type of question, I cringe. FFFFUUUUUU! Why can't he just speak plainly.