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Assimil is the Best Way to Learn Languages

Posted in Learning Languages, Random Ramblings on December 21, 2009 | 3 Comments »

I’ve used Pimsleur, Rosetta Stone, and LingQ in the past, but Assimil is the best for learning a language from scratch. I’ve been learning French (French with Ease) for the past week, and though I have fifteen weeks to go still, I am so far amazed by the results. I just went into Starbucks for a [...]

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This is How I’m Learning Italian

Posted in Italian, Learning Languages on June 17, 2008 | 8 Comments »

I want to see if this really works. I think it does. You can learn a language this way, too. Anybody can. I’m learning Italian through this free website called LingQ. Try it yourself, if you want. You’ll either love it or not get it. The whole idea behind it is that there’s a natural way to learn [...]

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I’m Not Really Snooty

Posted in Addiction, Cycling, Learning Languages, Scare Tactics on February 21, 2008 | 2 Comments »

The book title on the right that’s in funky letters is really called “A Dog’s Heart” by Mikhail Bulgakov, a 1925 satire on the “new Soviet man,” or that’s what Wikipedia says. With a dictionary, I could probably get through it in a year probably, but no, I’m going to try something different now, something that’s all [...]

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