I wanna: Learn Italian

Seren_2

http://wordreference.com is a very good and helpfull forum. Rosetta Stones books are very popular.

Thenotsowyzewun

Thanks for the new replies, this page on wordreference's forum is particularly good: http://forum.wordreference.com/showthread.php?t=117887 and I just realized libraries stock things like this, so I'm going to order in Michel Thomas's 8 CD Set (our local library has a network called ELAN that can be accessed online, the copy at my local library is reserved til mid next month, but there's 2 copies at other libraries in Essex so I'll be able to order them in and they'll send them to my local library (well, the library bus will deliver them on it's rounds!).

Also, I did think about Evening Courses but I don't have any money; I'm saving it all, and I'm not sure how much they'd help me anyway - I've always learnt better from the Internet, Books and stuff.

This thread's been so helpful, I'm going to start a new one: I wanna: Move to Italy !

achtunglady

Hi at the moment Lidl are doing language courses for £4.99, 4 cds and book, they do french german spanish and if i remember rightly italian.

Thenotsowyzewun

I vollyo to write a writty reply to this in italiano from memory, ma i'm only on lesson 5, disc 1 of the language course (Michel Thomas) so sonno can nonne do that quite yet. e molte molte buorno though! (i have nonne supere to spell italiano yet, e i'm sure i'm constructing my sentences molto bad too, but oh well!).

mhutchuk

I used the Michel Thomas 8 disc set - got it off ebay....

When the discs went in Pc Media Player offered to rip them to Mp3 - How nice....

Then they got resold on ebay !!!

Mark

Jnelhams

Pity there is no Michael Thomas Russian course.

Thenotsowyzewun

Jnelhams wrote:

Pity there is no Michael Thomas Russian course.

This might help

http://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2004/11/9/195744/646

crawley_girl

Sorry to gate crash...

Was kinda hoping someone might point me in the direction of a starting point in my attempt to learn some very very basic Herero.

Long shot I know seeing as how it is a local african language... any ideas?

Thenotsowyzewun

crawley_girl wrote:

Sorry to gate crash...

Was kinda hoping someone might point me in the direction of a starting point in my attempt to learn some very very basic Herero.

Long shot I know seeing as how it is a local african language... any ideas?

Supposedly most Namibians speak Africaans or German, if only a little, even if their main language is Herero, and it'd be my guess both of those would be far easier to learn (because they're so much more popular).
If you just want to learn some really really basic Herero, I'm not sure whether you mean speak or say words; do you want to be able to form sentences? If not, you could look words up in a english/herero dictionary (if you can find one) as pronounciation will very likely be indicated.

Hope that helps