NP Rosetta Stone? Learn a new language
Michael Bailey
michael.lee.bailey at gmail.com
Sun May 16 08:28:46 CDT 2010
alice wellintown wrote:
> Crisis? What Crisis?
>
hey if there's a crisis I hope it's the good kind where everybody pulls
together and not the bad kind where there's a boom of blame swinging free
and knocking people into the drink
because if you think about it, in general, people who may be said to have
precipitated the crisis and appear to profit from it are quite possibly
the most traumatized because the lack of ability to act in a manner
perceptible to others as moral is a type of crisis in itself...and thus
requires rather pity than censure (I never really held with those
who hold "pity to be poison" but more with Blake: Pity, Mercy, Peace
and Love, which although its acronym comes out to sound like "pimple",
still betokens an array of desirable responses to any crisis...
but yeah, what crisis? or, um, which crisis?
Rosetta Stone has an online option which also looks good,
and if you pick up languages quickly (not incompatible with
being a "Slow Learner") then you only have to pay by the month
for that puppy...haven't tried it, but might.
Cornell language lab is accessible on the net and I was able
to look at a bunch of stuff free...other universities have similar
resources too...
Costco and other places have a thing called "Total Immersion" languages
which say on the wrapper that they are like Rosetta without the expensive
advertising. Not sure how true that is, but I did pick up Russian alphabet and
a few phrases and stuff from one of those a few years ago, and it was
fun doing so.
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