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[Anonymous No.1574701]

OK think i'm having a quater life crisis! (I am 21)

How quickly can you learn a language to a high standard on your own (through audio tapes)?

I have wasted my youth being a classs clown and learned fuck all, never tried etc..
>I want to learn Gaelic Irish, french and Japanese to a high level.
What do?

[almostphysicist No.1574709]

Start fast and stay motivated.

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[almostphysicist No.1574706]

>>1574701
Roseta Stone is a completely immersive environment.

As a child, you learned to speak instinctively by experiencing the world around you. Our solution recreates this experience through a fully immersive environment right on your computer.
No translation or memorization.

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[Anonymous No.1574714]

A year, I guess?
It depends on how much you study every day. Japanese isn't nearly as difficult as people make it seem, and French came pretty naturally to me (I speak Spanish). Not sure about Gaelic tho.

Also, try more things than audio tapes. Reading child stories is quite good imo

[Anonymous No.1574716]

>>1574706

Rofl, well played Anon.

I myself am unsure of the effectiveness of Rosetta Stone. Advertisement can be highly misleading. It is their nature to sell, not rightfully promote a working product!

[almostphysicist No.1574722]

>>1574701
You want to learn french?

1. Go to france
2. Hire private tutor
3. Have sex with private tutor
4. ????
5. French girls everywhere!

[Anonymous No.1574742]

>>1574722
>You want to learn french?
>1. Go to france
>2. Go to an engineering university
>3. Choke on dicks
>4. ????
>5. Faggots everywhere!

[Skunkworks !e1337Hykks No.1574750]

>implying you'll die at 84

[Anonymous No.1574755]

>>1574706

Rosetta Stone is fucking useless.

[Anonymous No.1574756]

>>1574701
Rosetta stone is not very good, honestly.
Try the Pimsleur series of tapes, and download some textbooks for vocab/exercises.
No matter what direction you take, you still need to put in a lot of work.
Good luck.

[Jennie No.1574757]

move to that country for a year or two.

[Anonymous No.1574763]

>>1574750
i'm being hopeful.

What languages have you /sci/borgs learned?

[Anonymous No.1574785]

>>1574763

German
Armenian
French

I'm studying Russian, Japanese, Norwegian (Bokmål), Dutch and several others.

[Anonymous No.1574788]

God-motherfucking-damn it OP, there is no such thing as 'gaelic Irish'. Why don't you take a quick peak at the official languages of Ireland, mmmkay?

[Anonymous No.1574798]

>>1574701
> Gaelic Irish
It's called gaeilge. Gaelic is Scottish

[Anonymous No.1574797]

if you want to quit being a loser, you should really try to learn some winner's languages instead

[Anonymous No.1574805]

>>1574785
What's it like taking on multiple languages at once?

>>1574788
it is a language, just because it's not primary anywhere doesn't stop it being a language, Latin is still a language. It doesn't STOP being a language when another one is spoken insted.

[Anonymous No.1574816]

>>1574805

Once you've learned one or two, learning more becomes sort of passive and second-nature.

[Anonymous No.1574827]

>>1574805
>it is a language, just because it's not primary anywhere doesn't stop it being a language,
He means that in Ireland, nobody speaks "Gaelic", it's called Gaeilge. Not many Americans know this. Gaelic is a Scottish language.

Also Gaeilge is the primary/official language of Ireland.

>It doesn't STOP being a language when another one is spoken insted.
He wasn't implying this at all

[Anonymous No.1574840]

>>1574827
Go raibh maith agat

[Anonymous No.1574842]

>>1574827
yeah my bad.

I now know.

[Anonymous No.1574856]

>>1574827

You're half right, but Gaeilge belongs to the Goidelic language family which is also called the Gaelic language family. Scottish Gaelic is a part of the Gaelic language family which includes Gaeilge so you could say that Irish people speak Gaelic, you'd only be half wrong.

[Anonymous No.1574866]

>>1574840
Tá fáilte romhat mo chara

[Anonymous No.1574874]

>>1574856
Say that in any Irish speaking part of Ireland and people wouldn't be happy. It's like saying Dutch people speak German because it belongs to the Germanic family of languages

[Anonymous No.1574890]

>>1574874

You're right, using your example of Dutch and German I feel that in truth it's more like you're 100% wrong, but it's an understandable wrong.

[Anonymous No.1574984]

>>1574763
Languages I speak:
1) English - mother tongue
2) German - been learning for 6 years now, hopefully got an A in my Leaving Cert
3) French - learnt it for 3 years (up to Junior Cert)
4) Irish - force-fed through the education system for 14 years; I'm not very good at it at all, I'll be happy with an Ordinary Level C
5) Finnish - tried teaching myself with a 'Teach Yourself', didn't get very far. Going to try again.

[Anonymous No.1575060]

its kinda sad how most americans arent introduced to any foreign languages at an early age when they have the best chance of learning them. in iceland, we start learning english and danish at 8 and then choose something like spanish, german, french, etc. a little later. just about everyone can understand the languages they learn and most will get to a level where they can speak fluently.

[Anonymous No.1575094]

>>1574984
>Leaving Cert
Boy that brings me back.. but only a year ago. Good luck and I hope you get your first choice. Results night was really fun

[Anonymous No.1575101]

>>1575060

And then you botch up the economy.