i’m thinking about practicing my spanish through online virtual worlds, but does that also work if you want to learn a language that’s totally new to you?
It can work. Tons of people have done it.
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any examples? any websites that would do that?
You could also try YouTube; where there are lots of amateur language teachers, as well as one or two good ones.
The BBC has a vast collection of language programmes. Look at http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/ to see when they are aired on TV and radio. If you miss them you can watch them on iPlayer, or the radio ones on Real Player.
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I’m sure you know there’s no good answer to that question ;P lol
1.) Which language?
> A good way to tell how hard a language is going to be from an English speaking perspective is to see how far the country the of desired language is away from England.
2.) How committed are you?
>> If you are committed and genuinely interested in the culture you’ll never be fluent.
3.) Are you good at math and English? (grammar stuff)
>> Language and math are both functions of the brain’s left hemisphere yo.
4.) How old are you and are you monolingual so far?
>> Younger people and people who are fluent languages are more apt to pick up languages than adult monolingual people.
As a good general statement, I guess around 18 months for semi-fluency (But this varies A LOT)
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Rosetta Stone doesn’t really work y’know… it only works *okay-ish* for Western European languages.
So, I heard about something online that is similar to Facebook. You can go on there and have a friend that speaks the language you would like to learn, and you can practice speaking to them. I cannot remember what it is called. Has anyone else heard of something similar to this?
No, it’s like a real website.. Like online penpals. If I wanted to learn Italian and there was an Italian person that wanted to learn English, we would be friends and learn from each other. Something like that..
I think that is it, Carter. Thank you.
I think you’re thinking of livemocha.com.
Is there anyone who’s interested in learning conversational Indonesian language online?
The best way to learn a language is to frequently practice it. Find people who speak the language (of course who also speak english), through online chat forums and the like. I dont think it is very easy learning the language online because most language courses nowadays are done through selling of multimedia.
sentence structure and grammar will thus be learnt easier through practice. Bahasa Indonesia has a slightly different sentence structure than English, definitely. It is however also not to be confused with Bahasa Melayu.
However if you do learn Bahasa Melayu your transition to Indonesian should not be too difficult, apart from pronounciation and vocabulary adjustments. Furthermore there are more ‘borrowed’ words from english in the language itself.
For vocabulary I find the website below very useful. Kamus meaning dictionary in Indonesian.
Here is one option http://www.onlineturkish.com/. However I do not believe learning Turkish online is a reasonable undertaking if you are starting from zero. If I were you I would do one of the following:
a) Explore classroom learning options at either a community collage or your local university
b) Arrange a trip to Turkey (preferably Istanbul) for 2-3 months and take a class there for a solid founation and continue with self learn options after that.
i want to learn a language but i want it to be free and online.
please any one?
asap
I don’t know if there’s some language course on the internet. I’m Italian and I know quite well English. Now I’m trainin myself here on Answer. : ) have a nice day!
I’m interested in learning sign language. Where online, could I find some common words to learn…for free 
Try this:
http://www.lifeprint.com/asl101/
Sign language is great to know! My friend and I used to talk about guys when we did not want to know what we were saying (We used "I want to go NOW!" a lot)
im just wondering because i want to learn french.
It’s possible to maybe get through a beginners level at best, but try to avoid learning a language online. Be careful of which language learning method you use. Linguists, and people with vast experience in learning languages will almost always agree on the fact that most language learning methods out there are 50-70 percent fluff! It’s pretty easy to get away with telling you that you’ll be able to speak a language when for example, someone says "hello", they’re speaking English, and it doesn’t mean they can actually communicate. Being semi-fluent means you have a functional comprehension of at least 65% in the conventional range of that language, while fluent would be anything greater than 80%. If you don’t have the time to learn a language properly, and you’re after something quick and easy, then you’re probably headed towards disappointment. The best method to getting as far as you can get in the shortest period of time is called the “3 step”. The first step is to complete a FULL Pimsleur (MUST BE PIMSLEUR) course. Listen to each lesson at least 2 times, taking notes the first time with new vocabulary and studying before listening the second time. The 2nd step is to form a list of the 3,000 most commonly used words/vocabulary in English, to also include the eight parts of speech (verbs, nouns, pronouns, adverbs, adjectives, prepositions, conjunctions, and interjections), which you can search the web for. Once you’ve formed the list, you need to find accurate generic-translations, which you can apply to most common case scenarios of that language(definatley the most challenging part of all this).Once that’s done, make flash cards or whichever method works best for you in memorizing vocabulary, but try to include each word in a sentence, in addition to just the new word and it’s meaning. After you’ve memorized all that, the 3rd step is to locate 4 movies that are preferably some kind of Disney movie, or anything of a slower pace. Childrens movies seem to work best for this. Watch the movie in the language you’re trying to learn with good, quality English subtitles. Watch ONLY these same 4 movies continuously as much as possible, to the point where you know what’s going to be said next. Try to plan completing each step in this order, exactly as described within a time-frame of about 8-10 months. When you’re done, you should be somewhere in the range of “semi-fluency”, at the point where learning after the “3 step” is quick and easy, and being close to fluent after 2 years of using it everyday, and learning at least an additional 100 new vocabulary words a month during that time. You’ll thank me when you’re done!