What is your budget for language learning?

[Hedonologist]

How much are you willing to spend on each language that you learn?

I'm on quite a limited budget at the moment so I've only ever consider going up to around £60. With that I can usually get a good dictionary for £10, an Audio course for £15 and then spend the remainder on coursebooks, grammars and readers.

[linguaholic]

Hmm, that is not an easy question. I spent hundreds of dollars for Chinese, whereas I only spent a few bucks for French and English. However, I am actually willing to spend quite a lot of money for learning languages if necessary, as studying languages has always been a priority for me.

At this day and age, however, you can find a massive amount of information on the internet about almost any language and it is not really necessary anymore to spend a lot of money for language learning tools.

I really like to buy Flashcards for all the languages that I am learning. Digital Flashcards are nice as well, but I really prefer printed flash cards. It's nice to have something in your hands while doing flashcards  :grin:

[True2marie]

I never thought about how much I'd be willing to spend to learn a new language. Mostly, my training has always been free through school.  So, I guess my range would be withing $50 and $100, an amount that wouldn't break my budget.

[TheStoryteller1]

Honestly, I moved to another country months back, and there are still huge moving/visa/etc. expenses, so my budget for languages is about 0, however big priority they are.

Thankfully internet is filled with free resources, and I've borrowed some textbooks from friends as well. I also have from before Rosetta Stone, which is a really good thing to have when you can't afford even buying a dictionary (I could technically afford it, but any money I get need to go into a whole list of things the moment I receive them).

[kristinaw]

I really don't even have a budget for learning a new language. I learn everything from having real life conversations with the locals where I live now. I also use the internet if I have to.  :kiss:

[caparica007]

How much are you willing to spend on each language that you learn?

I'm on quite a limited budget at the moment so I've only ever consider going up to around £60. With that I can usually get a good dictionary for £10, an Audio course for £15 and then spend the remainder on coursebooks, grammars and readers.

This was exactly what I did when I was studying most of my languages, I visited amazon and I bough dictionaries, book, grammar and audio tapes, I was set to go. I can't recall how much all that cost me, but it didn't reach £60. 

[marmunmrhundun]

I don't really have a budget but if I did it would probably be around $100. I am not going over that, as the only thing I could see myself doing is purchasing a tutor. However I try to keep from spending money at all.

[Trellum]

I spent a lot cash in the past, mostly on language learning books and courses.  I lost the count of how much I spent on those books and courses to be honest. I might be spending a lot money in the future to learn dutch, my boyfriend told me we might buy a special dutch course or sign me up for a dutch language course.  So we might spend quite a bit in the future.

I don't plan to spend more cash in other languages tho, for now dutch is good.  Plus I'm on a budget, so spending more money on language materials isn't the best idea right now.

[Miya]

Well, this is an interesting question. I guess it depends on what language I'm studying. If I'm studying for fun, then I try to use free internet resources whenever possible. If I'm studying because I want to go to the country and find a job there in the future, then I don't mind taking courses and buying books/materials to study the language.

[jach]

Hey, mi objetivo era juntar dinero para un nuevo teléfono, pero cada intento fallaba y surgían gastos inesperados. Por curiosidad entré en chicken road y probé algunas partidas de blackjack. Al principio no gané nada, pero tras arriesgar un poco más, obtuve un premio que me sorprendió gratamente. La sensación de triunfo fue única. Los jugadores de la región Español pueden aprovechar promociones exclusivas que hacen todo más emocionante.