[Blindtlk] Wanting to find a good accessible way to learn Spanish

[Mike Freeman]

Wow! They've started languages up again? When I was in high school, they had
a german course. But when I checked a few years ago, wanting to study
Russian, they'd gone out of the language business.

Mike Freeman


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> Date: Mon, 2 Jan 2012 15:11:12 -0600
> From: julielj at neb.rr.com
> To: blindtlk at nfbnet.org
> Subject: Re: [Blindtlk] Wanting to find a good accessible way to learn
Spanish
> 
> I've been learning Italian with the audio lessons I purchased from 
> Audible.com  Pimsleur is the author/creator of the learning method.  I'm 
> only in the first set of lessons, but I'm satisfied so far.  You learn 
> to speak the language by listening and repeating what the narrator 
> says.  Then there are places where you are asked a question and you have 
> to respond in the new language.   Pimsleur claims that by learning a new 
> language in this way you minimize your accent. In the more advanced 
> lessons I noticed there are written materials to accompany the audio, 
> but I haven't gotten that far.
> There are other languages available, including Spanish from Pimsleur at 
> Audible.
> 
> I learned Spanish in high school using the typical textbook and nagging 
> teacher.  We learned long lists of vocabulary words, how to conjugate 
> verbs and very rarely actually practiced speaking.  I'm finding the 
> Pimsleur method much more practical.
> 
> Good luck!
> Julie
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/2/2012 2:46 PM, Jerry Matheny wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > I was wondering if someone on here could help me. I've been wanting to
> > learn Spanish for a long time now. I've taken a few Spanish classes in
> > high school, but I didn't get along with my teachers back then, and
> > I've been looking online lately for ways to learn Spanish, but not
> > sure if any of the ways are aprticularly good from a blindness
> > perspective. There is this web site studyspanish.com taht you have to
> > pay for to get all the learning Spanish materials, and it seems good,
> > but not sure if anyone has actually used it who would know if the
> > quizzes and such are accessible. If there is something better, I would
> > definately like to know about it. There is the Rosetta Stone software
> > for the computer, but, last I checked, that wasn't accessible at all.
> > Anyway, if someone could please help me out it would be very much
> > appreciated.
> >
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Jerry
> >
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