How To Learn Any Language: Quickly, Easily, Inexpensively, Enjoyably and on Your Own
by:
Barry Farber (author)
Barry Farber has been a true adventurer in languages for forty-six years and can speak in 25 tongues. The techniques he presents here will have readers speaking, reading, and writing and enjoying any foreign language in a surprisingly short time.
Barry Farber has been a true adventurer in languages for forty-six years and can speak in 25 tongues. The techniques he presents here will have readers speaking, reading, and writing and enjoying any foreign language in a surprisingly short time.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780806512716 (0806512717)
Publish date: April 1st 2001
Publisher: Citadel
Pages no: 192
Edition language: English
His attitude needs a little adjusting (but then, so does mine) and in the end all I really got from this book is to learn the language all you have to do is work hard and use multiple aids. Still. Not bad for a day read. It gives me the boost to stop trying to find MORE aids, and just use what I alr...
Update: I'm starting to wonder if the whole language thing is overrated. I'm in a French-speaking country without a word of French to my name and it doesn't seem to matter that much. I find the Swiss are pretty much like the French. They may hate Englishmen. They may hate that thing where Englishmen...
Trevor gives a good summary of what you'll find in the book, and I don't have much to add. Instead, I'll talk about how it relates to work that we're doing at Geneva University, developing speech-enabled software to help people learn a new language. If there's one thing that comes across in Farber's...
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