OT .. Thanks Forty & Frank ...

On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:49:07 GMT, "Larry L"
wrote:

I'm several lessons into the program ... and there is no certainty of my
success,
BUT,
this is the most powerful approach to learning language I've ever seen. I'm
progressing and having fun doing so.

I'd appreciate it if you kept me posted on your progress. I deal with
Spanish speaking folks two days a week, and although most of them
speak English, it would be nice to communicate in their language.

Dave

On Apr 17, 12:18*pm, Dave LaCourse wrote:
On Thu, 17 Apr 2008 17:49:07 GMT, "Larry L"

wrote:
I'm several lessons into the program ... and there is no certainty of my
success,
BUT,
this is the most powerful approach to learning language I've ever seen. *I'm
progressing and having fun doing so.

I'd appreciate it if you kept me posted on your progress. *I deal with
Spanish speaking folks two days a week, and although most of them
speak English, it would be nice to communicate in their language.

Dave

I think some of the best learning language stuff was developed in the
1950's and '60s, but lost out to some of the bizarre notions of the
American Language Association, which lives for perpetuating the self-
defeating folk belief that a nation of immigrants is inherently bad at
languages. Anyway that's my 15 second summary of a favorite rant of
mine.

Without a doubt, the single best book for learning Spanish I have
found in 45 years of "learning" Spanish, is still in print after being
written 56 years ago . . .

Margarita Madrigal's, "Madrigal's Magic Key to Spanish," Broadway
Books/New York, 26th paperback printing in 2001, with (Get This)
"original illustrations by Andy Warhol."

You will learn more in the first hundred pages that most learn in
years. Madrigal gives you an instant vocabulary by showing how more
than half of English is readily usable as Spanish via slight
modification of cogantes and near-cognates, thanks to the Norman
Conquest. So that gives you a heap of adjectives, adverbs, and nouns.

Then she gives you a mnemonic key to verb conjugation. That deal with
verb endings denoting person(s), and tense is hard for folk starting
with English. Anyway Madrigal is amazingly effective, And cheap ($13).

Dave