2011年10月19日星期三

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There is a quiet revolution going on in the way people learn languages. Formal education in colleges and universities is being by-passed by lower cost interactive audio learning courses, most of which are available for download from the Internet.

Speaking a language requires more than just academic knowledge. Fluency is more than Rosetta Stone Used  just vocabulary and grammar; it is an acquired skill. It's a skill like driving a car, flying a plane or playing a musical instrument is a skill. There are elements of factual instruction, but it is more than just mental data acquisition.

The essence of learning a skill is in the doing, getting the 'feel' for it and becoming able to produce the desired results. You are going to learn to drive or fly, not in the classroom but in the driver's seat or cockpit. When they hire musicians they do not ask for copies of their college diplomas, rosetta stone outlet houston they ask to hear them play!

And when you apply for a job that requires a bi-lingual person, they won't be much interested in your academic credits. Parts of the job interview will be carried out in both languages you claim to speak. In each part you will find yourself conversing with a native speaker of that language.

Modern interactive-audio language-learning courses start with basic conversation. rosetta stone store buy You learn a few basic words and how to use them, then gradually expand your knowledge, always speaking, listening and interacting. You learn to speak, to understand and to make yourself understood.

The best learning courses for conversational Latin American Spanish are offered by Rocket Spanish, Learning Spanish Like Crazy and Fsi Spanish (in descending order of quality). Pimsleur Spanish and Rosetta Stone Spanish are also good, but are more formal learning and less conversational.

A Latino friend once complained to me that when he learned English where he went to school, they taught him to say, buy rosetta stone "Hello. How are you?". But when he got to the U.S. for the first time, no one said that! They said, "Hi, h're ya?" ('how are you' changed to 'how're ya?', further shortened to 'h're ya?')

It is the same with Spanish, except more so. There is a world of difference between formal university rosetta stone chinese outlet Spanish and the more informal Spanish that is commonly spoken and used in conversational Spanish 'on the street'. The good learning courses teach the popular, more useable form of Spanish.

The format of the best interactive audio courses, like Mauricio Evlampieff's rosetta stone arabic outlet Rocket Spanish download, is that of adult education. It differs from academic courses in that it is not focussed on a distant degree program. It focuses instead on giving the student specifically what he or she wants and needs, right now.

Courses must produce visible results and be interesting and fun to keep students' attention.

All courses present more or less the same material to teach the same language. It is the presentation and delivery that distinguishes the leaders from the "also-rans". When it is interesting, fun and entertaining, you learn faster and remember more. When it is tedious and boring, students lose interest and head for the exits.

The digitally downloadable aspect of these courses means that you can take the text and the mp3 digital audio portions of the materials anywhere. You can study at your own pace, repeat as often as you like and have the exact materials including pronunciation and accent http://cfgnfd593.blogspot.com available for instant review.

The net result of this revolution in learning is that instead of having to spend $500 to $3,000 or more in language training tuition, you can get better training, such as a Rocket Spanish download, for $100 or so. Also you can buy a learning program, download it and start lessons in 10 minutes time, from anywhere and at any hour.

This means that many more people are learning Spanish (the second language of preference for North Americans). Furthermore, they are learning it fast and enjoying the process.