Learning german

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marcus
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Before the 30th Anniversary
What is the best method?
i was "quare gunked" at the price of the "Rosetta Stone" package
Is it any good?
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M
OOPs
I bin on the BBC site already like

dentsmithy
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Re: Learning german

might get you started and you can save your money for Austrian beer
http://www.bbc.co.uk/languages/

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When I get the time to do it I'm using the 8 hour course from this chap http://www.michelthomas.com/

Really easy to pick up and theres none of the usual boring stuff as with other courses,they can be picked up on ebay:

http://shop.ebay.co.uk/?_from=R40&_trksid=m38.l1313&_nkw=michel+thomas+g...

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I think the BBC one is called Deutschplus... the book is £15, but i am not sure about the CD. I am learning German and the Uni is using it... so it has to be not that bad!

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don't they all speak English anyway?

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prwales wrote:
don't they all speak English anyway?

No... definitely not! I went to Bavaria and Berlin earlier this year and many of them spoke little or no English, especially when you go to those area where only very few tourist from English speaking countries...

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I'm using the www.michelthomas.com system to learn French and it's definately the easiest I've come across so far.

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Thanks all