Talk. “How to Learn a Foreign Language on Your Own”
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- Friday September 19 at 1:00 PM
- Syntaxis, Inc., New York City
- Registration Required
Persian has multiple dialects. I have been focusing on the one from Iran, often referred to as Farsi here in the U.S., but there are only 30 Pimsleur lessons for it. For Dari, the Persian dialect spoken in Afghanistan…
This book by Yong Ho is for beginners, but I decided I needed to do a bunch of Pimsleur Chinese audio lessons first, before starting it, and I’m glad I did. Despite its inviting name, Beginner’s…
This Upper West Side clothing store, on Columbus Avenue near 70th Street, has baby clothes in 30 languages. The store’s name, Älskling, means “darling” in Swedish. When I was there, the Swedish owner, Vivianne, gave me a tour of rows…
There are Meetup groups on five continents dedicated to German language and culture. (If you are on Antarctica, you are out of luck!) People get together and speak German, or speak about German, or do whatever that particular group…
I found Read & Speak Japanese for Beginners by Helen Bagley just impossible given the challenges of the Japanese writing system. On principle, the books in this Read & Speak series—which are offered across multiple…
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