Hi, #BlindMastodon & #BlindTwitter. I'm curious about the #accessibility of #Babbel, #Pimsleur, and #RosettaStone. I use #Android and PC with #JAWS and #NVDASR. Any input is greatly appreciated. #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #A11Y #Language #LanguageLearning

Hi again, #BlindMastodon & #BlindTwitter. I'm also curious about the #accessibility of #Babbel, #Pimsleur, and #RosettaStone. I use #Android and PC with #JAWS and #NVDASR. Any input is greatly appreciated. #Blind #VisuallyImpaired #A11Y #Language #LanguageLearning

I have a question: do people who are using #Duolingo think they’re learning a language? and not just playing a matching game?

sorry for the spicy take but if you’re serious about learning a language you just need to borrow the #Pimsleur method for your chosen language from the local library.

thank you for coming to my TED talk,

your obedient servant who speaks 5 languages and learned Hebrew as an adult.

#pimsleur 牢固程度似乎和重复遍数很有关系，因为日语有点基础，我都是一遍过的，德语0基础，每节课都要听好多遍，就放弃德语只学日语了。

但现在用英语提问"at what time" 我应该用日语回答，但大脑的第一反应永远是「嗡veifei喔er」，尽管已经两个月没沾德语了。

#dyddgwener
dwi'n mynd i siopa. Ymweld â fy mam. #Aprender mas de español, ac hefyd trio gwneud gwersi #pimsleur Urdu a Hindi.

Beth amdanoch chithau?
cofia ddefnyddio #dyddgwener, mae gormod o hashnodau Saesneg yn "#trendio" 🤓

My first suggestion for learning another language for USians would be Spanish, for a bajillion reasons:
- It's the second-most common language in the US
- You can use your skills to support immigrant communities from the Americas, if that's your jam. Or you could expand your dating pool, or just make friends; it's a choose-your-own-adventure!
- It's relatively easy compared to, say, Arabic or Mandarin, or even German. You can torrent all 5 Pimsleur levels and be relatively fluent after 150 days if you do all the half-hour lessons 1-per-day. There are lifetimes of teaching resources online, including on Youtube. And if you're in a big enough place, it's likely there's a Spanish practice group near you, or you could always find one online.
- It opens up an easy travel and emigration experience to pretty much the entire Americas except for Brazil, but even that's kind of not true since once you're good enough at Spanish, Portuguese is somewhat intelligible
- Language learning helps keep your mind sharp/prevents aging
- You can read news in other languages and escape the US media/culture bubble (though steer clear of El Pais and DW and other PMC-friendly, corporate-owned publications, since they often carry the same foreign news perspectives as US news outlets)
- The felt experience of speaking another language is like living in a magic/sci-fi movie; sometimes you feel like an intergalactic spy, or like you've entered another dimension that's visible from this one. Once you get that feeling, you always want more, which makes practice feel worth it even when it's hard.

I could probably go on but I think you get the point. Also, if you take away nothing else, whatever language you learn, you should torrent Pimsleur and/or use some other spaced-repetition whole-sentence learning system; learning grammar is actually not the best way to learn at first (maybe at all, unless you're a linguist), despite it being SO prevalent in how new languages are taught.

#Pimsleur #Spanish #language #LanguageLearning #SpacedRepetition

@mynasaurus
I've just discovered the #Pimsleur app and took out the "black Friday" subscription and I'm still in my free week.
I'm very impressed with it. It probably is the best system other than a good face to face teacher.
If the resources from your library are half as good as the app they're worth trying.
#languagelearning #LanguageLearning

The conversation at the end of Lesson 9 in the #Pimsleur guide to #Norwegian is basically just a very persistent guy harassing a woman and he won’t take no for an answer. #awkward