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The free version is...usable, but it doesn't teach you a lot of things, truth be told. I don't use it anymore, mainly because I don't seem to get accustomed with their mobile UI.

Of course it's important the name of the author. I don't have time to waste with low quality stuff, therefore I must be sure that the book I am reading was written by a well known author. But on the other hand, I really don't care about his personal life. Its his mind of which I am interested of, not his life.

This is exactly what I was talking about. They don't even bring any value and even if we are told with that we should play with the language that we are learning, I still don't see any reason behind phrases like this.

There is one benefit, though: I will never forget about how to say that I am a banana in German;.

So, this is my life now. I am a banana.

First post, first link! If this isn't spam, especially as you bumped this thread with your offer, although this thread was already about a service, then I don't know what spam is.

I don't agree with you. For instance, take the English words "knife" or "know". Most of the English speakers will spell them correctly, even though they aren't pronounced "k-nife" or "k-now".

I've been learning English since I was 5 years old, therefore English comes as a second language to me. It's pretty easy to learn it, at least until you get to a decent level, as there are a lot of common words with other European languages, especially with German and Dutch. Moreover, most of the famous movies are in English, not to say that most of the popular music is in English too. You, basically, learn it either you want it or not.

My mother's language is Romanian. The special thing about is the fact that you write the words as you hear them. For instance, "tu" (which means "you") is pronounced too. I don't know if I've explained it right.

I may be wrong, but English and German share more than 3000 common words. If this is true, then German, even if it sounds complicated in the beginning, should be the easiest language to learn for the native English people with a fairly decent vocabulary.

I'm just wondering, because they sound pretty much the same to me.

I went to an English kindergarten. It was really expensive for my parents, but it was worth it, as I've always been the best in my class at English.

I've started lots of times to study in the same time French, Spanish, German and an Arabic language, but I've failed most of the times. This is why, at least this time, at 27 years of age, I stick to improving my English and learning German.

Thanks. But where can I find dubbed TV shows? Because I can't find them anyware, not even on Torrent sites.

I've just checked some Galileo previews. They look really good. Thank you for your recommendations.

Am I the only one that loves the Game of Thrones series?

This is definitely my favorite quite:

There is only one god, and his name is Death. And there is only one thing we say to Death: 'Not today'."

―Syrio Forel

LE: sorry for the old bump. Just noticed it was an old thread. 

Definitely, Google Translator is way better than it used to be. However, I don't advise anyone to rely on it when doing translations from one language to another. Although it's good, it's nowhere near perfect and there are times when it either provides bad results or it creates a faulty/awkward translation. It's good for finding the meaning of the words you don't understand or even for how certain words are pronounced, but I wouldn't use it for anything else.

But wait a minute! It's said that you can only dream in your mother's tongue. Although I am fluent in English and there are days when I speak and write only in English, I've never had a dream in English.

Most of my Filipino friends know English pretty well and I don't plan to travel to Phillipines by myself. I am more focused on German, Hungarian and to improve my English skills rather than on learning a language that would bring me no use on the short term.

Google shows me a lot of options and I really don't know what to pick. I just want to watch a couple of shows, just to see how much am I able to understand when native speakers talk between each other. All my teacher and even the people from Duolingo use a slow tempo, but when it comes to speaking in Deutsch with German natives, oh my god, they speak so fast.

It's spelled something like "doom-neah-voa-strah".

Koszonom szepen for writing all of this

PS: the Hungarian course is about to be finished on Duolingo.

I'm Romanian. Our language depends a lot of the gender. For instance "el" = him, while "ea" =her. Our neighbors, the Hungarians, don't have this kind of difference therefore whenever they try to speak in our language, they make a lot of innocent mistakes What I am trying to say is that, as long as there are still gender based languages that have active speakers, we have to learn them as they are, whether we like it or not.

Well, learning a foreign language from cartoons can really be helpful. For instance, most of the English I know I learned it on Cartoon Network. On the other hand, when it comes to Japanese, I think that it's pretty impossible to learn even the most basic words. It can be confusing, especially with the anime series, where most of the characters are speaking either loudly or using high pitched tones.

There are better resources even on Youtube, where you actually can learn how to recognize certain words or how to speak correctly.

That's exactly my experience. I visited Groningen in 2009 although Dutch was (and still is) completely unknown. Yet, everybody speaks English there. On the other hand, if you want a job, especially a front office job, you need to learn it.

My father's girlfriend works in Itervoort as a truck driver  and knows only basic English and has a rard time reading instructions and information. It's possible to get a job without knowing Dutch, but in most of the cases it is either a low income job it it involves a lot of physical work.

I am from Cluj Napoca as well. Let me guess.. you study Medicine/Dentistry, right? If yes, we can meet at UMF, because I too am planning to become a doctor.

Feel free to contact me anytime you want. I'm available.

Where did you move?

I am happy to help if you need some guidance or are not sure on how certain phrases are built.

Feel free to ask whatever you want. Romanian native here I know a bit a Hungarian, but mainly some basic words.

How much do you charge per hour? Do you teach via Skype? What are the days and the hours when you are available?

Hope you see this. Thanks.