Any input you get in a language is better than no input. But you're right when you say you really have to find what works for you. What I meant when I mentioned Pimsleur was that without first learning the phonetic system separately I could never understand how some words were actually pronounced. I...

If for whatever reason Duolingo doesn't work out I recommend Memrise. Their recent updates on Japanese 0,1, and 2 have been great. When I tried Pinsleur it didn't matter how many times I heard the word, if I couldn't see them written down with their individual characters I could never get them. Rese...

A couple threads still live worth remembering.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121011064 ... o-a-square
https://web.archive.org/web/20140724162 ... -of-purity

Any suggestions for learning languages and learning two at once?

I know this is over a year late but my advice for learning two at once is learn one first then learn the other.

rischka wrote: ↑Thu Sep 10, 2020 12:13 am

What about Cedric? The Brazilian one.

but he is instead german?

Gondo has been around since the auteurs days. Still active on letterboxd and twitter. Seems to be a good guy also.

But the one I'm talking about is this one http://mubi.com/users/1586189

oh yeah, justin vicari... now there's a blast from the past. like2sleep was great. just a straight up genuine, nice person, basically the exact opposite of 90% of 'personalities' on forums. i really miss karthik. rischka introduced us, and that dude was super smart and well-read and could spellbind...

That's a shame, really. But I guess letterboxd just didn't make sense to him, given that discussion is impossible. Hope he's okay.

As the quarantine continues, I found myself on the Internet Archive, reminiscing the mubi days. Doesn't go back to when it was The Auteurs, but surprisingly still a lot worth remembering, somewhat intact. Ruby, Cedric, Flip, Jerry, Cani, Sally, Falderal, etc, the profiles the way they were are all t...