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Originally Posted by Hank Chinaski
I'm thinking about getting conversational in a language- not so worried about reading/writing- has anyone here tried Rosetta Stone? Any other ideas?
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Ta Nehisi Coates has been learning French for the last two years. He summed up his progression
in a recent post.
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I started studying French through the old FSI tapes and workbook. I then moved on to classes at Alliance Française. Next I hired a personal tutor. We would meet at a café in my neighborhood.
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Now he's done a house swap. His apartment in NYC for a flat in Paris.
He's in classes there now.
His blog has touched on his French lessons the whole time he's been doing this, but I don't think he uses tags to pull those posts out, so you might have to search a little.
I have a bunch of friends who have found much success through a program here called
Spanish Over Coffee, where the emphasize speaking as much as possible. Fortunately, here it's not too hard to find people to speak Spanish with students in Houston.
