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    Posted: 22 May 2019 at 12:06am
Rosetta Stone is good but nothing beats real-life practice also. Look up conversational Spanish classes near you, these can be formal and informal. Or a spanish person near you who wants to improve their English might be very happy to recoiprocate with Spanish conversation
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Norwegian is supposed to be the easiest language to learn. You'd never use it.
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Originally posted by Joe Stalin Joe Stalin wrote:

Rosetta Stone is good but nothing beats real-life practice also. Look up conversational Spanish classes near you, these can be formal and informal. Or a spanish person near you who wants to improve their English might be very happy to recoiprocate with Spanish conversation
I am about a year and a half into Italian using Rosetta Stone , now I get frustrated with it to be honest .
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Have found the DuoLingo app useful for improving my level of Irish, was decent at it in school but that's nearly 15 years ago. Also using it to learn Spanish. It can be repetitive at times but I suppose that's the best way to make it stick.

It's not going to make you fluent but it's a very useful resource to have.
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Originally posted by Claret Murph Claret Murph wrote:

Originally posted by Joe Stalin Joe Stalin wrote:

Rosetta Stone is good but nothing beats real-life practice also. Look up conversational Spanish classes near you, these can be formal and informal. Or a spanish person near you who wants to improve their English might be very happy to recoiprocate with Spanish conversation
I am about a year and a half into Italian using Rosetta Stone , now I get frustrated with it to be honest .

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Originally posted by Guppy Guppy wrote:

Anyone any tips? 

Dropped Spanish and French in school when I was 14, claiming I’d never need them. Ironically at 20 ended up in Spain for a few years. Ever since then vowed to learn the language. 

Downloaded a few apps on my phone to play around with at work, is it worth investing in Rosetta Stone? Etc

Have you just tried shouting slowly in English ?
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i massively recommend the michel thomas CDs , 
you can buy them second hand online , 
the german one really helped me , i reckon his others are just as good. 

it wont help you with the written , there is no substitute for classes and doing homework to help your writing , but its really good for speaking and comprehension to get you started 


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