<p>I'm self-studying Vietnamese using Foreign Service Institute tapes/Rosetta Stone programme. Meh, I don't like Rosetta Stone much, the speaking "accuracy meter" is screwed up ><</p>
<p>So share what you're learning and how! How many years have you been learning it?</p>
<p>Why would you ant to learn Vietnamese? Learn a more useful language like Mandarin, or Spanish, or French. No racial. </p>
<p>And I’m planning to self-study Spanish over the summer, probably going to use a book. Definitely not using Rosetta Stone.</p>
<p>I find the language interesting. My best friend is Vietnamese, and I live in the region.</p>
<p>I’m considering studying Spanish, but I thought that could wait till college. I love Latin American culture!</p>
<p>Is a book better than RS? I feel an advantage of RS is the dynamic drills. Dynamic, meaning, I have to think on the spot.</p>
<p>Yeah, I’m planning on starting French or German on my own soon, and I’ll be continuing my Japanese study by myself until college.</p>
<p>What programs do you guys recommend? My friend uses Rosetta Stone, but I’ve also heard negative things about it.</p>
<p>I wanna learn like 10 languages. : D I friggin’ love Spanish, which I take in school. I’m studying Latin on my own, and trying to pick another one.</p>
<p>yeah I heard from my teacher that Rosetta Stone is not as good as it advertises to be.</p>
<p>@RIXS
I studied Japanese for a year at a community college this year. Do you have any other resources or ideas of continuing learning the language.</p>
<p>I tired but gave up</p>
<p>@StevenSeagal
hey are you talking about Japanese (haha by the way I luv ur username)</p>
<p>Nope lol. I can see why you would think that though :p. I tried French and Chinese</p>
<p>I wish the best of luck! dont let these tools try to diverge you from learning what you want! I was learning Vietnames once upon a time, but my friend moved and i quit it. Its a really cool language and itll help you other languages such as chinese and other south east asian languages.</p>
<p>Oh, i self study ALL my foreign languages bc the teachers at my school blow major donkey balls. I wouldnt learn anything working with them!</p>
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A little dogmatic, don’t you think?</p>
<p>Some people look for more in life than just utility. Imagine that!</p>
<p>@ yawn No, just productive. The time taken learning an unimportant language is just impractical. </p>
<p>@vosamim How did you possibly reason that learning Vietnamese will help with Chinese and “other south east asian languages”? By your reasoning, knowing Mandarin will help me with Korean, Japanese, Russian, Mongolian, Vietnamese, and Burmese, because they are all located in the general proximity of China.</p>
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Do you shoot down every musician you ever meet?</p>
<p>You wouldn’t want to meet me in real life. I take pleasure in…<em>gasp</em>…composing music! :x</p>
<p>Nauseating, I know! -__-</p>
<p>Explain to me how that analogy works! O_O</p>
<p>fiona, when you get the Vietnamese down I want to take you to the nail salon with me so I can find out what those women are really saying when they’re doing my pedicure.</p>
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Some people study a language because they like the language. Did the threadstarter not make that clear?</p>
<p>It may not be the most “universally practical”, but it’s what the individual personally decides he or she wants.</p>
<p>Likewise, composing music is hardly practical, but it’s what I’ve chosen to do because it makes me feel satisfied with my life.</p>
<p>Dabbled in some Japanese a time ago, learned a little of that, not enough to do much conversation but a few words and phrases. Did some Latin before that but never really had the time to devote to it, I’d like to pick that up again sometime though. Recently I played with German a little, but that was mostly for the novelty of talking to my German friend in his language a bit.</p>
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Like in Seinfeld (although that was Korean)? lol</p>
<p>Latin is probably the least “universally practical” language out there. But I find that learning it enriches my life. (: You should try it (if not Latin, some other obscure or “unimportant” language, or activity).</p>