Originally Posted by sniderj

I've been working on learning German on my own. I got the Rosetta Stone German pack, and it's really good. The package is very expensive... but, as with everything else, there is a way to get it for... less than full price...

LOL lets just say I've also gotten it at ... "less than full price..." haha
...though I haven't really used it much only a few things with the male/female, boy, girl, man, woman, plane (in, on, under), cat, horse, above/bellow bench

...but that was a while ago and I stopped because I didn't think I would take German...depends on my plans for the summer

lalala and time goes by lol

Originally Posted by Ownaginatios

Ohh, I see what you mean. I didn't know anything going into it; last language course I'd taken before that was French in grade 9. I don't think there are many people that actually already know German in there either, due to there being very few Germans immigrating here in recent times.

I think the issue you're describing though is a big problem with the newer Chinese classes though :p.

Ya I've heard...well what do you expect we have a lot of...multi culture, much of which is of east Asian descent and its an easy way to get a good mark if you are basically learning your own language haha

Originally Posted by mike_302

Someone told me that with linguistics, you can learn pronunciation of any language. Something I hated when I was learning french, is reading words and saying them one way, then learning they're completely different. And apparently it also helps understand different language/grammar and sentence structures for different languages.

Linguistics students try applying their knowledge to Indigenous languages and fail miserably. They think they have similar rules and patterns to European languages, which they don't, at all. And it's funny watching them struggle.