Originally Posted by
paco
What Genghis said, but getting fluent in another language would be way more useful, for which the michelle thomas tapes are good if you can stand the deliberate mistakes by the students
The plethora of language learning phone apps now are brilliant for learning languages. They'll only get you so far, but it's quite a long way, especailly if you supplement it with movies and TV in the chosen language, which are very easily accessable nowadays.
The old fashioned books and tapes have the advantage of telling you more about place and culture than an app is likely to, but are slower clunkier ways of learning a language.
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