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What has been your favorite book, app, or other tool for learning a new language (or practicing one you already know)? I do enjoy Duolingo and Memerise, I think Earworms has been my favorite though. It's an audio series of phrases in your target language repeated and set to music.

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I like Google Translate. Once I've worked through a language course (usually a book from the "Teach Yourself" stable or one of its rivals), I try to "speak" the language in my head, and when I find phrases which I don't know how to form I can now go to Google Translate to experiment with them. Many of the results will be wrong, but they're better than my attempts, and most of the time you can tell which translations sound right and learn the relevant constructions to use in your own speech. I like this approach because it isn't limited in any way (in vocabulary and subject range), and it doesn't take up anyone else's time.

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Taking classes..hands down..then living in the country of that language..

Charlene Level 9 July 13, 2018
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Of the programs I have tried, I like Rosetta Stone the best.

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My favorite for learning languages is the Berlitz method. Once you get through all the lessons, you just have to immerse yourself in the target language and it takes just a while to get some fluency.

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I should also give the Clozemaster app an honorable mention. It's great for practicing translating sentences into and from whichever language you're learning. The fun thing about Clozemaster is the number of languages and language parings available (for instance it lets me practice translating Spanish to Brazilian Portuguese, or vice versa).

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