Resources

Sup /lang/,

Is there like a general consensus for resources that are good for learning a language? I've been interested in foreign language for a few years and have come across a huge amount of textbooks, programs, websites, etc.

For example, I have heard that stuff like Rosetta Stone is bad, and stuff like Pimsleur's is pretty good.

Any help would be much appreciated.

I'm also a fan of AJATT - not for learning Japanese, though, but surprisingly German. What I did is I completed the first two Pimsleur courses, listening to the tracks using Audacity. Every time I found a difficult phrase, I ripped it immediately to a folder as an mp3. At the end of each track I used these new files to create Anki flashcards. The Front contained the sentence transcribed in German (with the help of www.dict.cc) and the Back contained a vague English meaning (along with translations of difficult words) and the sound file.

I did this for the whole course, reviewing Anki in the morning and listening to a Pimsleur track and inputting the sentences in the night. After I finished Pimsleur I and II, I pretty much did what Khatzumoto on AJATT prescribed: get as much German media (particularly video and audio, but later on written materials are good too) as possible and input any sentences that I found interesting/particularly difficult into Anki. Was able to learn German to a higher level than a guy who did three years of German at a university in less than a year (I had about 8000 sentences at the end of the year).

Just sharing this for the guy who wanted to learn Euro languages ;)

>>7
God damn thats nice. I'm gonna try that with Michel Thomas soon