<p>I’ve been self-studying Spanish online for like 1 week, no book or cds. Do you guys recommend any softwares? What dictionary software do you use? Did anyone try Tell me more Spanish?</p>
<p>Everyone should use [Learn</a> Spanish, French, German, Italian and over 70 languages with Byki software.](<a href=“http://www.byki.com%5DLearn”>http://www.byki.com). Before You Know It. It’s free and awesome. Has tons of languages on it. No viruses or anything either (even on my completely shiitty desktop, too!) - it’s what I used for Arabic for a pretty long time.</p>
<p>@INVENIAMVIAM</p>
<p>useful = practical. Lol.</p>
<p>No.
Practical = concerned with actual use or practice
Useful = being of service
It’s not practical - you don’t SPEAK Latin.
It is useful - I use Latin to understand English grammar, as a base for all Romance languages, etc etc.</p>
<p>I’ve been self-studying Latin for almost a year using various books etc.
And I really want to pick up Greek, but I just don’t have the time. And it’s probably neither practical nor useful. haha</p>
<p>You are ACTUALLY USING it and as a base for Italian, English, etc, right? It’s practical.</p>
<p>^ whatever. I disagree.</p>
<p>@INVENIAMVIAM-</p>
<p>thanks for that link im downloading Spanish to help me in school and Latin for fun!</p>
<p>^awesome! If you have questions about Latin PM me anytime. I’ve graduated now but did 2 years of AP latin classes… woah. lol. I love latin though.</p>
<p>actually mandarin would help you with Japanese due to they use the same kanji but not for the reason that they are in the same area.</p>
<p>I don’t really see Latin as as useful as French/Spanish. In Latin, yes you get a core vocabulary for other Romance Languages and it also helps with English vocab, but…
- Since all the other Romance languages evolved from Latin, the vocabulary should be similar… For example, if you know the word “man” in French, homme, you should be able to connect it easily if you start learning Spanish or Italian, (hombre and uomo). So learning Latin while it might be able to help with some vocabulary, other languages can do that at a similar level too.
- It’s not useful unless you’re a biologist or somebody working in the medical field (along with Greek I believe). There’s no place you can go to just practice your Latin.
- The grammar is totally different right? Isn’t it like, SOV?</p>
<p>Oh and I consider myself basic fluent with French and next year I’m taking Spanish 3 (skipping Spanish 1 and 2 because Spanish is so easy :D). I’ve dabbled in Italian too haha</p>
<p>well when I took latin for a year it helped me get familiar with the conjugations of spanish due to how similar its own conjugation chart was similar to it. I know it wasn’t exactly the same but still similar. I forgot what it was in Latin I think it was the present or something (haven’t done it since 6th grade) But it defiantly helps especially if you are totally new to a spoken language such as Spanish. I guess its different for everybody. And yes I agree Spanish is easy at 1 and 2 that you could skip to three. Just make sure you know preterite and imperfect and a little irregular verbs. </p>
<p>I went to Spanish 4, not doing AP due to teacher. Anyone have any ideas on how to study for the AP Spanish exam?</p>
<p>I don’t find Latin practical or useful really. The only word I think it ever helped me a lot to understand was paucity, and I was 12 then, so I probably would have eventually learned the word anyway. I still love Latin though. I don’t get why things need to be practical or useful.</p>
<p>Also, to the OP and whoever else is learning Vietnamese, I wish I had too! My parents were considering moving to Vietnam when I was little (the company wanted my father to work there). They left me and my sister with my grandparents while they went to go look at the neighborhood, what could have been out house, what could have been my school. But my mother said no. So now I really want to go to Vietnam and I always complain to my parents that we should have moved.</p>
<p>I used to teach myself the Cyrillic alphabet, but I’ve forgotten basically everything. I think I’ll teach myself Russian because there’s this book, Woe from Wit, that I desperately want to read and the only copy I can find is in Russian, the original language. Ha, I’ll feel like Thomas Jefferson.</p>
<p>@Millancad Vietnam is really chaotic! I’ve lived in Singapore which is like half-Western, and Ho Chi Minh city is totally different. You should visit! :)</p>
<p>I have Rosetta Stone, and I actually like it a lot… even though I’ve only done one unit… I’m studying French =)</p>
<p>I speak Spanish already, and that’s actually a huge advantage. To me, French is like English + Spanish + 10% new stuff… </p>
<p>I was thinking of self-studying this summer with a book and RS… Do you think I could pass the SAT Subject Test in French with that? lol</p>
<p>btw, in the college apps, since they ask you what languages you can speak, if you put down French, how do you prove it? lol</p>
<p>Thanks all!</p>
<p>I’ve been self-studying FRENCH since December and I tested into 2nd year French at the local college for my senior year. I use a few books, text in french to some of my other friends who are learning french, and I use “Immersion French”, a computer program.</p>
<p>I’m also ALMOST fluent in Spanish. I’ve taken it in school, but I’ve learned the majority of my spanish from self-teaching and while being an exchange student for 2 months in Barcelona.</p>
<p>I love languages! French and Spanish all the way!</p>
<p>I’ve been self-studying Russian for about 2 years and Spanish for about the same amount of time… I’m contemplating studying Swedish, but that’s definitely not really practical…</p>
<p>I’m kindof amazed about how many people are self studying more than one language at a time especially ones that would not be found at a school like Russian or Swedish, and I thought I was language savey. I mean don’t get me wrong some schools do have these languages but many have Spanish, French and Latin as their main languages.</p>
<p>My school only offers Spanish, and the classes are pathetic… at the end of my Spanish 2 class during my sophomore year, we were still in the “review” section in April. We hadn’t even gotten into the Spanish 2 curriculum… so I don’t even count my time in Spanish class as time spent learning the language…</p>
<p>What do you do in class, if you don’t learn the language? o_o;</p>