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    Language Courses/CDs

    Anyone recommend one that they have used.

    Looking to get my French back to fluency again not sure if Rosetta Stone or Linguaphone would be better. Something that can be listened to on the train is always good.
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    When I was looking, these came highly recommended
    French With Michel Thomas Complete Course CD: Amazon.co.uk: Michel Thomas: Books

    I bought a set for my daughter, who of course never used them :-(

    So unfortunately, I can't say how marvellous they are

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      #3
      If you have internet on the train or wireless dongle you could try Live Mocha to supplement it. You can do a huge range of languages and then get in touch with 'penpals' to help use the language and practice. I have only just started but seems like a very good set up. It's like a wiki site/social network/language course all rolled in to one.
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        #4
        Also recommend the Michael Thomas courses. I have the Spanish and Arabic courses.
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          #5
          Originally posted by norrahe View Post
          Anyone recommend one that they have used.

          Looking to get my French back to fluency again not sure if Rosetta Stone or Linguaphone would be better. Something that can be listened to on the train is always good.
          I'm using Rosetta Stone to learn Mandarin, the voice analyser is pretty good - my Chinese wife and friends tested it for accuracy.

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            #6
            Originally posted by Platypus View Post
            When I was looking, these came highly recommended
            French With Michel Thomas Complete Course CD: Amazon.co.uk: Michel Thomas: Books

            I bought a set for my daughter, who of course never used them :-(

            So unfortunately, I can't say how marvellous they are
            I've got that on my iPod, but it was a free download. It seems pretty good, although I didn't listen to much of it. The basic premise of it is that English is much like French.

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              #7
              Thanks Guys!

              Will look into some of them.

              My priority is getting back into fluency again, I can pretty much understand if someone speaks to me in French its remembering the sentence structuring and tenses.
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                #8
                I think you need to find someone you can converse with on a regular basis. It's OK learning and repeating phrases from a course but it doesn't help when the person you are talking to uses the vernacular. Just chatting gives you a lot of confidence.
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                  Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
                  I've got that on my iPod, but it was a free download.
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                    #10
                    Originally posted by Zippy View Post
                    I think you need to find someone you can converse with on a regular basis. It's OK learning and repeating phrases from a course but it doesn't help when the person you are talking to uses the vernacular. Just chatting gives you a lot of confidence.
                    I've got someone I can do that with and text them and e-mail in French, but just need to get up to speed whereby I can chat less haltingly, without constant "Qu'est ce que le mot pour....." or "J'ai oublie"
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