Hello,
I was looking for online resources because I'd wanted to train my listening skills, and I found this website. It is available in several languages, my case is http://persianpod101.com/
Here a short list of pros/cons
PROs
- good podcast resources, the persian podcasts are fine and as far as I understood, free. Good point
- premium lessons with video/audio/transcript
- mobile app
CONs
- they try to see to you the premium packages very hardly. It's a bit annoying
- altough the podcasts are fine, the video lessons are not (my opinion)
- if you want the complete premium package, it is not cheap at all
- the mobile app is not working properly
What do you think about that?
Hello everybody,
I was reading an "inspiring" blog named "fluent in 3 months" owned by Benny, a polyglot irish guy. I think a lot of people here know him.
I was reading this blog post: http://www.fluentin3months.com/one-year/ "how I learned 5 languages in 1 year".
When I started to read this I tought "that is amazing! Five languages in just 1 year!". Then I red this part:
I can now speak all five of these languages with varying degrees of fluency:
German (B2)
Spanish (A1)
French (A2)
Chinese (B2)
Czech (A2)
and I started to think about what the people mean with "learn a language" or even "speak a language". Does the level A2 or A1 really gives you the title of "language speaker"? That sounds quite strange to me.
By my side, in order to know a foreign language you have to have prooven skills in Listening, Speaking and Reading. The levels A1 and A2 and even B2 don't give you such knowledge. With the level A2 you don't even completely know the whole grammar.
So, for that reasong when I talk about my language skills I say:
- Italian: mothertongue
- spanish: level C2, I say I SPEAK spanish, as I have a complete knowledge of the language. I lived in Spain, I have no trouble in any situation.
- English: level B2, I say I KNOW english, but I can't say I am an english speaker, because my knowledge lacks in some point, I have problem with the american accent, I make mistakes and so on.
- French: level B1, I say I BARELY KNOW french, because I certainly am able to speak about any topic (french is close enough to italian to be a comfortable language even if your dictionary is not complete) but I make a lot of errors.
- Persian: level B1, I say that is the language I am learning, nothing more.
So, altough in Chinese and German the author did it brilliant, on the other 3 languages it's a waste of time.
What do you think?
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