Voinjama Posted August 20, 2014 Author Share Posted August 20, 2014 How much is lessons at Brasshouse Language School? Also are the lessons of the required standard that you want? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Don't know the price but a mate of mine is fluent in Spanish and he learned there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skarroki Posted August 20, 2014 Share Posted August 20, 2014 Currently learning Spanish as I am going to Peru for a little while. Got an app called Duolingo which is free and addictive to use and I definitely think it helps with learning. Also recapping my french as I was almost fluent a few years back but an nowhere near good enough now Tried learning Chinese whilst I was living out there but could only get to grips with the very basics and it isn't something I've continued with since I left. I think languages are only as useful as you make them. If you learn Italian but never speak it or don't spend long amounts of time in a native speaking country then it's not helping you communicate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Bumping this thread as I want to do something productive with my spare time. I've decided to try to learn Spanish as this could eventually become beneficial at work. Xela, did you ever go for it? Stevo and skarroki - how are you progressing and more importantly which method have you found the best? I might be hard pushed to find a flexible tutor where I stay so online/app would be more practical. There's a Spanish guy I get on reasonably well with at work and I would like to be able to hold a full conversation with him in Spanish by Summer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarewsEyebrowDesigner Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Ancient Greek. Comes in handy more often than you think. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ghost Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 I've heard that Duolingo is a decent app. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
maqroll Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Spanish is pretty easy to learn, the key is finding someone to speak it with daily. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
troon_villan Posted January 26, 2015 Share Posted January 26, 2015 Spanish is pretty easy to learn, the key is finding someone to speak it with daily. Call me? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted January 26, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 26, 2015 Ancient Greek. Comes in handy more often than you think. As does Latin. A major key to REALLY understanding English. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stevo985 Posted January 27, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted January 27, 2015 Bumping this thread as I want to do something productive with my spare time. I've decided to try to learn Spanish as this could eventually become beneficial at work. Xela, did you ever go for it? Stevo and skarroki - how are you progressing and more importantly which method have you found the best? I might be hard pushed to find a flexible tutor where I stay so online/app would be more practical. There's a Spanish guy I get on reasonably well with at work and I would like to be able to hold a full conversation with him in Spanish by Summer. I love it. I'm progressing slowly, but that's to be expected when you're going with one lesson a week. As others have said Duolingo is a good app, but I wouldn't rely on it as a learning source. More a way to increase your vocabulary and revise what you've already learnt. You can't beat classroom learning, imo. Obviously the downside is that it's usually more expensive and you can only move at the pace of the class. But I was in Barcelona at Xmas and I got on fairly well after 18 months of lessons. I wasn't holding fluent conversations but I was able to do the basics. My biggest problem is speed of recall. I can figure out what to say in Spanish, but it takes me a while to form the sentence. Too long to really have a conversation. But I guess that comes with practise. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
useless Posted January 27, 2015 Share Posted January 27, 2015 Michael Thomas and Pimsleur are good. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrackpotForeigner Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 I've heard that Duolingo is a decent app. Thanks for the tip. Downloaded it a few days ago. It's excellent. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wainy316 Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 I have a decent base of German so I'm wondering whether to keep on with it or start from scratch with something more useful such as Spanish. I reckon I've probably said that in this thread already. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slovenian Posted February 5, 2015 Share Posted February 5, 2015 know your latin, know them all 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted February 5, 2015 VT Supporter Share Posted February 5, 2015 know your latin, know them all Definitely a grain of truth in that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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