"You live a new life for every new language you speak. If you know only one language, you live only once." ~ Czech proverb
I only know one language - English - and after taking three years of French in high school and two years of German in College, that really bothers me. Have no idea how I nominally passed those courses, but ultimately they were pretty much a waste of time for me. Is it too late to get serious at age 61 on actually become fluent in a second language?
This time I have motivation. My grandson, Ilan, at one year old, is learning both English and Spanish at the same time. He is attending an all Spanish-speaking daycare, being immersed in it during the day, and then speaking English and Spanish with his parents when with them. If my grandson can learn 2 languages simultaneously, shouldn't I at least be able to learn one additional language . . . even if past my prime? ;)
And, by the way, whatever happened to
Esperanto? When I was a young man, along with
promoting birth control to keep the
world population down, it was all the rage. Guess it went the same place that
metric measurement in the U.S. went during the early eighties.
Anyhow . . . below find some online language tools I discovered on a recent search. In the end, I suspect I would be better off to use the
RosettaStone methodology.
What do you think?
Diane Whitmore's Language Website (Freeport H.S.)OmniglotNice Translator
BabelFishGoogle Language ToolsMeta Language TranslationOnline Language Dictionaries
Free Online Language CoursesCommercial Language Learning CoursesSecond Language Software Reviews
Spanish Language and Culture @ Diane Whitmore's site at Freeport High School
