waki Posted May 7, 2016 Report Share Posted May 7, 2016 Decided to name this topic in my native language, Romanian. So I am an ESL teacher with a degree in French and I am currently picking up Spanish in order to take my Master's degree in Spain and also Chinese and Sanskrit for myself. I am self-taught in these three languages and I am using the Chineasy system as well as the Memrise app and a Coursera course for Chinese. I have classic textbooks for Spanish and Sanskrit and I love Duolingo. As for my "system", I absolutely hate grammar therefore I am trying to assimilate the languages naturally through conversation, media and literature intake as well as idioms. Nice to meet you all! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
linguaholic Posted May 7, 2016 Report Share Posted May 7, 2016 4 hours ago, waki said: Decided to name this topic in my native language, Romanian. So I am an ESL teacher with a degree in French and I am currently picking up Spanish in order to take my Master's degree in Spain and also Chinese and Sanskrit for myself. I am self-taught in these three languages and I am using the Chineasy system as well as the Memrise app and a Coursera course for Chinese. I have classic textbooks for Spanish and Sanskrit and I love Duolingo. As for my "system", I absolutely hate grammar therefore I am trying to assimilate the languages naturally through conversation, media and literature intake as well as idioms. Nice to meet you all! Welcome Waki. Interesting approach you got there! I kinda like Memrise as well, but I am usually studying Chinese with boring resources like old dictionaries and stuff Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waki Posted May 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2016 2 hours ago, linguaholic said: boring resources like old dictionaries and stuff Danke! Well they're note boring, I dare say you're using the proper classic scholar approach which is healthy, not like mine. Mine is the equivalent of learning to play an instrument by ear and not with a music sheet. However, although I did study English for most of my life (including all the grammar countless times), I somehow started speaking it better after watching endless movies without subtitles and guessing song lyrics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
waki Posted May 7, 2016 Author Report Share Posted May 7, 2016 2 hours ago, linguaholic said: boring resources like old dictionaries and stuff Danke! Well they're note boring, I dare say you're using the proper classic scholar approach which is healthy, not like mine. Mine is the equivalent of learning to play an instrument by ear and not with a music sheet. However, although I did study English for most of my life (including all the grammar countless times), I somehow started speaking it better after watching endless movies without subtitles and guessing song lyrics! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darkchild Posted May 19, 2016 Report Share Posted May 19, 2016 Welcome to the forum @waki. You must be super gifted to have learnt three languages all by yourself. That is one task I find difficult to achieve. Nice to meet you and hope you stick around a lot more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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