[nabs-l] Languages

[Carly Mihalakis]

Good morning, Lillie,

You might check out Pimsleur, see if they have an ap. I know they 
have audio stuff. If you read the thinking behind the Pimsleur 
courses it's very interesting, a whole different way of seeing 
language learning. Keep us posted, and good luck!
for today, Car
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t 07:28 PM 5/7/2014, Lillie Pennington wrote:
>I had been wanting to ask this question for a while, and hope that I 
>am not too off course of the thread. One of my life goals is to be 
>fluent in Spanish, French, German, and Russian, if not more 
>languages. I am dropping Spanish after taking it for 3 years but I 
>would like to retain. What I know now plus learn more. For these 
>languages that I do learn, I do not just want to learn phraises, I 
>want to learn and imerce myself in the language. Is there any 
>resources that could help me?ent from my iPhone
>
> > On May 7, 2014, at 9:35 PM, Hope Paulos <hope.paulos at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > It is much more complicated than Spanish, but if English is your 
> second language, it is not complicated  to learn. English  is much more so.
> >
> > Hope Paulos
> >
> >> On May 7, 2014, at 8:46 PM, <helga.schreiber26 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>
> >> Hi Hope Paulos, this is Helga! Yeah, thanks a lot for your help! 
> Thanks and God bless! ;)
> >> P.S. I just wanted to ask you, is German difficult to learn? 
> Just wondering! Thanks again! :)
> >>
> >> -----Original Message----- From: Hope Paulos
> >> Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 8:22 PM
> >> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> >> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Languages
> >>
> >> I'm a Spanish teacher but I also speak German. I read and write 
> in both languages. If you can give me a couple days, I will obtain 
> some resources for Spanish Braille.
> >> I will also obtain  some German resources.
> >> Hope Paulos
> >>
> >>> On May 7, 2014, at 7:50 PM, <helga.schreiber26 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Hi all, since you are talking about languages! I would like to 
> learn how to speak Hebrew, German, and I would like to know how to 
> read and write Hebrew, German, and Spanish in Braille! As you all 
> know, I'm from Peru and my name and last name are German! And the 
> reason I want to learn Hebrew is because I'm curious since 
> I'm  part of a Jewish descendant due to my dad's side, which his 
> grand father was from German! And I'm curious! to learn the 
> Language! Just to let you know, I'm not Jewish, I'm Christian! Do 
> you know where can I find Braille books or links that will help me 
> to learn the Braille codes, and who can teach me how to speak the 
> languages? I will really appreciate it, if you could help me and 
> give me some suggestions regarding this? Hope to hear from you 
> soon. Thanks so much and God bless!! :)
> >>>
> >>> -----Original Message----- From: sami osborne
> >>> Sent: Wednesday, May 7, 2014 5:32 PM
> >>> To: National Association of Blind Students mailing list
> >>> Subject: Re: [nabs-l] Languages
> >>>
> >>> Hi Lizzy,
> >>>
> >>> I think it's really cool that you want to learn those languages.
> >>> I personally don't know any of those languages fluently; I only
> >>> speak French and Spanish other than English, but I have taught
> >>> myself some Japanese and Italian.
> >>> I am intending to lstudy more of those languages and perhaps more
> >>> when I get to college, as I am considering being an interpreter
> >>> UN (the United Nations), and I heard that you need to "know at
> >>> least 4 to 5 languages.
> >>> Currently, I am planning to learn German, as that's very similar
> >>> to English, I would also to learn Italian and Portugese, as those
> >>> are similar to French and Spanish, and then, some languages like
>
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