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Mr. Gayle

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my spanish is up there, not 100% fluent

my french is good too, not as good as spanish

i reckon with 6 months in each country i will be 100%

gayle u should join a language exchange group if u wanna learn, speakin is the best way to solidify ur knowledge

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Been learning Portuguese almost a year now. Get to practice quite a bit at work since so many Brazilian customers come in. The one moment where I had a real sense of achievement was when I helped my friend out with some customers and realised I didn't need to think about what I had to say as much. Right now I pretty much have a decent enough handling over the grammar and need to just expand my vocabulary. Ideally I want to find a job in Brazil for like 5 months to get fluent or so and then come back and begin with Spanish even though I can understand some stuff. I'm going to carnival in Brazil for 2014 anyways but if I can hit there at that time fluent it would be even better.

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Is rosetta stone any good?

Depends on the language and what proficiency you require.

Day to day stuff - it will suit you fine.

Speak the language fluently - unlikely through rosetta stone content alone

I'm in the process of picking-up German for work. Did it at various different stages of education and didn't particularly want to do it again but spanish is looking unlikely now..

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Your reaction is the initial reason why I stopped learning the language.

Figured I didn't want to live in Germany and thats the only country where the language will REALLY be relevant...

Till I visited Munich, Stuttgart, Dusseldorf & Berlin.

I could f*ck with them places at least for a little bit, not to mention Benelux, Switzerland and Austria.

The company we merged with have offices all over the gaffe, seems silly to pick up a brand new language when I could work on one I already have experience in (but spanish/portuguese is a must for 2014)

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Rosetta Stone is pretty good but you need to speak to actual speakers of the language to learn norms, slang, a better understanding of grammar and all that jazz. However, outside of that, it works very well IMO. Gives you a decent grounding.

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