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Old 11-04-2006, 11:40 PM   #7 (permalink)
Daniel Terhorst
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Oh, yes!

Japanese is my primary interest, but I gladly gobble up bits of other languages. I hang around blogs like Polyglottery and Omniglot.

Some kind souls out there make language-learning podcasts freely available. The best I've found is Japanesepod101.com. Chinesepod.com is also pretty good. Both try to push their (paid) website services on you (especially chinesepod.com), but the free podcasts alone are well worth looking at! Listening to podcasts lets me focus on many languages at once--effortlessly, in my free time.

I also highly suggest watching Jerry Dai's speech here.

The textbook approach really hasn't worked for me. I've made a lot more progress after deciding to focus on conversational skills. It's a lot more fun, too.

-- Daniel Terhorst
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