Young Writers Society

Being the cheep-o I am, I found a few books on www.bookmooch.com that satisfied (somewhat) my language craving. The German one was a dud, sadly. But my Russian book is great (although I am without pronunciation CDs) Russian in Three Months: a Hugo simplified Language Course.

I suppose it could actually happen in three months if you were studying it every single day... I wish I was, but I haven't the time. As for German, I ended up getting more of a phrase book... But I've decided to take German over the summer, and teach myself while doing so.

Still nothing on Latin, though I found something on Polish, then figured not to get it, I have enough language to worry about

The book I'm using is called "Live from Moscow" series. It's college level, but it's great and you learn the language and different useful situtations, especially for college, through a DVD that goes with each unit. I have a feeling you'd really like it! Just google it and I'm sure you can find something...

Alright, this is probably not quite what you're looking for, but I'll share anyway:

if you go to http://www.bbc.co.uk/wales/catchphrase/thelloyds/lessons1.shtml off of BBC.co.uk 's Wales page, there are audio and transcribed lessons for learning Welsh. I jumped there by accident one day, started listening, and have been hooked on it since. It's awesome because it, like Claudette's book, is not about repeating phrases a million times, but by listening to the running story of "the Lloyds" you listen for key phrases, then build on the vocabulary over time.

Sorry again, Claudette, that I couldn't help in any of the languages you were looking for, but I thought that this was an amazing way to learn a language, and was very easy to pick up on.

Oy... !_! Unbroken now, at least. ^_^

I hope it's helpful.

Thanks Imp your link is broke though hee. no quote marks. I'll check it out.

An American publisher, I suppose...


Power Glide thought up by Dr. Blair - I believe he designed immersion courses for US military and CIA. And I think you can get the books apart from CD's and such, depending on what you're looking for Clau. ^_^



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