I’m quite advanced in French already and intend on studying it at university. Spanish is coming along and I recently started learning Italian. Spanish is by far the easiest of the three so far. I truly believe that you should start with French. It’s meant to be the hardest of the “big four” (French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese) and gives you such a good grounding in the Latin-based vocabulary.
My only problem is that finding the time to devote to this is getting more and more difficult!
Dec 15, 2007, 08:28AM PST | 0 comments
I love learning Irish terminology, especially scientific words. A lot of them were invented in the past fifty years and they’re usually very logical and thought out. “www.focal.ie” is fast becoming my most used website for homework.
Aug 11, 2007, 10:42AM PDT | 0 comments
A few weeks ago, I was in West Cork in the South of Ireland on holiday. One afternoon I stumbled upon the local bookshop. Even though it was very small, I decided to go in and have a look. The majority of the shelves were dedicated to books about Sailing and fishing, but I managed to find a very small reference section. I found a Polish phrasebook and started looking through it. I loved it immediately, so I bought it and a small Polish dictionary. As soon as I got back to our house I started studying them. When I got back back home I bought an audio course and a larger dictionary, and now, thanks to a random encounter with a bookshop, I’m studying Polish. I’m going to Germany for the in two weeks for the first time, so I bought a Berlitz Phrasebook and have started studying some phrases. I feel like I’ve made so much progress on this goal in so little time
Aug 11, 2007, 10:31AM PDT | 1 cheer | 1 comment
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