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Old 02-06-2008, 11:21 AM
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Originally Posted by TX76513 View Post
Rosetta Stone is good - but pricey. Last year I had a need to get some conversational Russian fast and inexpensively. A peer steered me over to aubible.com for some great downloads at a very reasonable price. The teaching method is like stone only they throw some real good conversation challenges in. Just popping the CD in the car during drive time for a couple weeks and I was rolling. The alphabet? - still struggling with that.
Cool, I'll check that out, too. I could probably make the Spanish and Dutch a justifiable business purchase , but Italian and German I'd be on my own. They pop up used on occasion which makes the hit a little easier.

That's the thing, I have a fair amount of time in the morning or driving that I could make productive.

Some friends of ours relocated to France for a couple years and Pratt paid for a French tutor to come to the house for lessons. They said they thought they'd get a lot more out of a CD-type program since you could do it when you felt like it any time of day. And didn't have to deal with a person.
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