I saw my cousin over the Christmas break and all of a sudden the guy is fluent in Spanish!!! (Who's to say what "fluent" is, but my native Spanish speaking family memebers are very impressed!) He's in the military and they put him through six months of language school. Six hours a day! Then they sent him to live with a family for two months in some South American country. Very curious about language learning I had lots of questions. First of all, the U.S. military does use The Rosetta Stone, just like thier website claims! Of course they were in class, but the Stone was used a lot. The next thing he mentioned was that there was a "Soap Opera," or "Novella" that they watched. It was written for teaching language and started out with very basic vocabulary. As the months went by, the dialog became more challenging. Has anyone ever heard of such product for learning Polish? If not, anyone know of a good "Soap" to watch?
Six months of intensive language school seems like the norm. I have a friend who is going to Romania as a missonary and she speaks no Romanian. The organization she is working with (Greater European Missions) is putting her through six months of language school when she arrives in Romania. I'm getting the feeling that if I want to speak Polish during this lifetime that I might have to dedicate myself to study for six hours a day for six months. Too bad I have a day job :-(
Six months of intensive language school seems like the norm. I have a friend who is going to Romania as a missonary and she speaks no Romanian. The organization she is working with (Greater European Missions) is putting her through six months of language school when she arrives in Romania. I'm getting the feeling that if I want to speak Polish during this lifetime that I might have to dedicate myself to study for six hours a day for six months. Too bad I have a day job :-(