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I'm looking into learning Spanish, I've seen a few courses & was quoted £1k for 30hrs course (extra if they were to come round my home) but I think that's way OTT.
Budget isn't really an issue but I need flexibility due to my new job so is the typical linguaphone way of learning the best?
I'd like to get to at least an intermediate level, budget is upto £1500 depending on what kind of option I go for, for comparison linguaphone is only about £350.
Any ideas guys n gals?
Thanks
Rob
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Have you considered Rosetta Stone? I used to to gain a basic grounding in Swedish before I took a trip over. Frankly from experience the best way is something like an evening class, where you can converse with others using the language as you learn it but if flexibility is an absolute requirement it likely won't fit the bill for you.
I would buy a beginners book that comes with a CD to help you with pronunciation. I did it with Mandarin and am GCSE standard :)
I'm deciding between Rosetta & Linguaphone, think I might go with Rosetta as it's a little different to the usual 'listen-to-a-cd' thing.
Still open to suggestions though!
I would go with Rosetta every time - it does cost a fair whack but it's the single best way I have found to learn..helped me an awful lot with my Italian.
I combined it with a CD from Michael Thomas (he's on audiobooks or http://www.michelthomas.co.uk/courses.php) - they are about £80. Much cheaper but I found his teaching style really good, and when used in combination with rosetta stone I picked up a good grounding really quickly.
I found that rosetta was best for learning the vocab and general word order, but Michael Thomas really helped me pick up the detail of the grammar and some background of why the language is how it is, and how that can relate back to english..ymmv of course, but you can get free samples of both of them to get a good feel.
I have also heard good things about pimsleur, but I didn't like the sample CD that they sent me and i've never been through a full course with them.
If you live in a reasonable sized town you should have an adult college which will have like a years
course for 300 quid. Normally they are one night a week for a couple of hours and tend to start
in sept/oct like the normal uk school year. Also as its Spanish they will probably have about three
levels so you can keep it up for three years if you want.
At my local one they have this
Code:CODE Course START DAY TIME WEEKS COST
EWM3B46 Spanish advanced 1b 12/01/11 Wed 1245–1445 8 £96/£12
EWM3B48 Spanish advanced 1c 16/03/11 Wed 1245–1445 8 £96/£12
EWM2C46 Spanish advanced 2b 11/01/11 Tue 1900–2100 8 £96/£12
EWM2C54 Spanish advanced 2c 15/03/11 Tue 1900–2100 8 £96/£12
EGH1C42 Spanish beginners 2 28/02/11 Mon 1900–2100 12 £90/£12
EWM4A48 Spanish beginners 2 03/03/11 Thu 1000–1200 12 £90/£12
EWM5A43 Spanish circle 14/01/11 Fri 1000–1200 8 £128/£128
EWM5A44 Spanish circle 18/03/11 Fri 1000–1200 8 £128/£128
EWM2C49 Spanish fast track beg 25/01/11 Tue 1900–2100 16 £120/£35
EWM2B40 Spanish for holidays 01/03/11 Tue 1300–1500 5 £38/£12
EWM3C45 Spanish for holidays 02/03/11 Wed 1900–2100 5 £38/£12
EWM3A44 Spanish improvers 2 02/03/11 Wed 1000–1200 12 £90/£12
EWM4C50 Spanish improvers 2 03/03/11 Thu 1900–2100 12 £90/£12
EWM1C47 Spanish intermed 1/2 b 12/01/11 Wed 1900–2100 10 £120/£12
EWM2A44 Spanish intermed 1b 11/01/11 Tue 1000–1200 10 £120/£12
EWM1C53 Spanish intermed 1/2 c 30/03/11 Wed 1900–2100 8 £96/£12
EWM2A48 Spanish intermed 1c 29/03/11 Tue 1000–1200 8 £96/£12
EWM4C48 Spanish intermed 2b 13/01/11 Thu 1900–2100 10 £120/£12
EWM4C51 Spanish intermed 2c 31/03/11 Thu 1900–2100 8 £96/£12
EWM3C74 Spanish taster 11/05/11 Wed 1830–2130 1 £12/£5
EWM3B72 Spanish taster 18/05/11 Wed 1230–1530 1 £12/£5
Cheers guys, Edinburgh has many courses but the need for flexibility kinda screw those up for me. I've gone with Rosetta for now, £349 (and they have the cheek to charge £8 P&P!) so I'll see what happens!
Adios!