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Old February 21st, 2008, 08:20 PM posted to rec.outdoors.fishing.fly
Larry L
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Default Not really that OT Spanish Language teaching DVD's etc


"Ken Fortenberry" wrote


It's expensive but the gold standard is Rosetta Stone.

http://www.rosettastone.com/



Thanks Ken ... it is a bit pricey but one thing I notice is "New speech
recognition technology" mentioned

I've tried several speech recognition software dealies and found they just
couldn't understand my 'accent' ... even after serious efforts to train them
I don't have a clue what my accent is... but it must be unique, I'm
constantly calling places ( say fly shops ) where I haven't been in months
.... and having them say "hi Larry" after my first words ... happens to me
all the time, I must have a weird voice.

Anyway I worry that the software wouldn't recognise my best effort to speak
Spanish ... period