i poke through the german. it's not bad. but it's not very colloquial. and the diction is maybe three decades old; that is if you learn german from this website you'll sound a little stilted.
and wow! i remember tons of german!
i also poked through the korean. not so good. on the tapes the spoken korean is faster than most koreans speak. and the diction is what i call "stilted tv news/ministerial speak". if you learn korean from this site, you'll sound like you're talking like a snob. this might be corrected by speaking conversationally with koreans. i'd also say the korean here isn't colloquial. the lessons are typed which makes them hard to read, and you'd be sitting there with a dictionary/glossary most of the time to look words up. and again these lessons looks 30 years old.
They speak *faster* on the tape than Koreans do conversationally? That's incredible! I always get really frustrated when I study a language for a while, feel reasonably confident about expressing myself and then visit the country to be met with a wall of lightning-speed-syllable-swallowing talk. That being said, I'm the worst offender. Actually, studying other languages and all the related feelings of stupidity and embarrassment has made me a waaaay better teacher
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They speak *faster* on the tape than Koreans do conversationally? That's incredible! I always get really frustrated when I study a language for a while, feel reasonably confident about expressing myself and then visit the country to be met with a wall of lightning-speed-syllable-swallowing talk. yeah, that's my experience, too. german tapes tend to be this ponderously slow over enunciated production. germans speak 10000000x times fasters. and most of them don't speak "hoch deutsch" (the stuff they teach in foreign language courses).My brother reads philosophy in German... I hate him. this cracks me up!but I figure it'll be handy to narrow down what I want to study next good luck! (my list of languages to learn: italian, hindi, chinese, hawaiian, and spanish)
Yeah, in French if you wanna communicate with people under 50, or people other than diplomats, you have to unlearn lots and learn a huge new vocabulary. I was quite disappointed to realise the stock phrases I learned in school mean very little in conversation
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i poke through the german. it's not bad. but it's not very colloquial. and the diction is maybe three decades old; that is if you learn german from this website you'll sound a little stilted.
and wow! i remember tons of german!
i also poked through the korean. not so good. on the tapes the spoken korean is faster than most koreans speak. and the diction is what i call "stilted tv news/ministerial speak". if you learn korean from this site, you'll sound like you're talking like a snob. this might be corrected by speaking conversationally with koreans. i'd also say the korean here isn't colloquial. the lessons are typed which makes them hard to read, and you'd be sitting there with a dictionary/glossary most of the time to look words up. and again these lessons looks 30 years old.
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yeah, that's my experience, too. german tapes tend to be this ponderously slow over enunciated production. germans speak 10000000x times fasters. and most of them don't speak "hoch deutsch" (the stuff they teach in foreign language courses).My brother reads philosophy in German... I hate him.
this cracks me up!but I figure it'll be handy to narrow down what I want to study next
good luck! (my list of languages to learn: italian, hindi, chinese, hawaiian, and spanish)
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