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Foreign Language Courses

 

Foreign Language Courses - When you are ready to leran a foreign language, it's always a bit of a dilemma to decide which foreign language course is best for you and your needs.

Not that I speak about you and your needs! There is no single BEST language course. For some people individual classes are best, others learn well with books, audios, CD's or TV classes and don't need a teacher.

Foreign Language Courses on Audio 

Foreign Language Courses on Audio are one way for many to learn a language at their own pace and in their own time.

What is great is that nowadays you can decide to start learning a language, search on the internet for possiblities and then get started within a few minutes. Excellent language courses can be downloaded online, I've listed some major languages and the pagew where you can download language audios.

Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) I Part 1 Language Course Audio Book 

Five hours of Mandarin Chinese Language Course. This introductory audio book allows you to immediately start to learn Mandarin Chinese.

Pimsleur Chinese (Mandarin) I Part 1
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Pimsleur English for Cantonese Speakers 

Pimsleur offers great languaga audio books also for speakers of a foreign language who want to learn English. I.e. the english course

Pimsleur English for Cantonese Speakers Language Course Audio Book
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Pimsleur French I Complete Language Course Audio Book 

Travelling to France, or doing business with France or Quebec, Canada? Then you know how difficult it can be negociating with French speakers who don't particularly care to speak English. By knowing even a few words of French and showing them that you made an effort, you can break through this invisible barrier.

Even if you speak only rudimentary French, once they see that you made the effort, their English all of a sudden improves and communication flows really well.

Here you can pick up your French language courses:

Pimsleur French I Complete Language Course Audio Book
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Learn Italian with Pimsleur Italian Audio Books 

Italy, the country that was home to the ancestors of many Americans, a beautiful country with great people, excellent wines, phantastic food and crazy politics :-).

If you ever want to visit, you'll need Italian! So why not pick up a few words of Italian to maket the trip so much more enjoyable. (There are great cruises to Italy on the Medditerranean Sea too!)

Pimsleur Italian I Part 1 Language Course Audio Book
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Foreign Language 

A foreign language is a language not spoken by the people of a certain place: for example, English is a foreign language in Japan. It is also a language not spoken in the native country of the person referred to, i.e. an English speaker living in Japan can say that Japanese is a foreign language to him or her. These two characterizations do not exhaust the possible definitions, however, and the label is occasionally applied in ways that are variously misleading or factually inaccurate.

Category: Image - :Ldl-wortschatz.jpg|thumb|250px|A student learning French

Some children learn more than one language from birth or from a very young age: they are bilingual or multilingual. These children can be said to have two mother tongues: neither language is foreign to that child, even if one language is a foreign language for the vast majority of people in the child's birth country. For example, a child learning English from her English mother and Japanese at school in Japan can speak both English and Japanese, but neither is a foreign language to her.

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About sudever

Hi, I'm Susan and I love languages!

Since I discovered the Pimsleur audios,  I've been brushing up and learning new languages with these audio books. It's so easy and a lot of fun, that I decided to make lenses on these language courses. Give them a try, you'll love the easy experience and the fun of learning!


Currently I'm learning french with audio books, it's going well - Mais oui!

 

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