Learning a language and RosettaStone

retired_ks reddy · 10-11-2007, 02:47 AM

Yeah, reading is the difficult bit. I picked up some spoken stuff alright, but trying to read it is a proper head****. Even the Arabs struggle. Accounts for a lot, really.

retired_mjfrush · 10-11-2007, 02:50 AM

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Originally posted by Sir Bert Preast:
Yeah, reading is the difficult bit. I picked up some spoken stuff alright, but trying to read it is a proper head****. Even the Arabs struggle. Accounts for a lot, really.

So it is ok to try and speak it but reading hard. Hmmm...

I might still give it a go then. Conversing with ir listening to suspects talking in their native tongue, seems quite cool to me.

retired_autumn · 10-11-2007, 02:51 AM

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Because of all the aforementioned features, Arabic is categorized as a State Department "level 3" language -- the highest on the difficulty rating scale (1-3), along with Japanese, Chinese and Korean. It is the only Semitic language rated at this level of difficulty. Hebrew and Amharic, for instance are rated at difficulty level 2. For level 3 languages it takes longer (sometimes twice as long) for adult learners to reach their proficiency goals. It also requires a substantial study abroad and/or immersion experience for development of full communicative competence.

retired_ks reddy · 10-11-2007, 02:52 AM

If you mean doing it officially, you're a fool and it'll get you sacked. Unless you're totally fluent, any lawyer will take you apart in court.

retired_ks reddy · 10-11-2007, 02:56 AM

Good blog on a bloke trying to learn Arabic in Syria.

Read the first four parts before that one.

Better spending your time learning to shoot straight tbh.

retired_mjfrush · 10-11-2007, 03:07 AM

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Originally posted by Sir Bert Preast:
If you mean doing it officially, you're a fool and it'll get you sacked. Unless you're totally fluent, any lawyer will take you apart in court.

how do you mean offical. I can't be a transaltor (because I can't spell it!) as I work so for the police. For intelligence purposes etc, it will be awesome. Turning round to a suspect who has been spouting off and replying to him would be brilliant!

retired_ks reddy · 10-11-2007, 03:11 AM

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Originally posted by Walrus:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Sir Bert Preast:
If you mean doing it officially, you're a fool and it'll get you sacked. Unless you're totally fluent, any lawyer will take you apart in court.

how do you mean offical. I can't be a transaltor (because I can't spell it!) as I work so for the police. For intelligence purposes etc, it will be awesome. Turning round to a suspect who has been spouting off and replying to him would be brilliant! </BLOCKQUOTE>

That's what I mean. If you haul him up in court any lawyer is going to demonstrate your pitiful knowledge of the language and your evidence is out the window. And if you don't haul him up in court, what's the point?

retired_embartl · 10-11-2007, 03:18 AM

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Originally posted by lovenkrands01:
Ah... Russian. I nice easy language to start learning :o

far easier than you think, plus it is indeed fb

retired_mjfrush · 10-11-2007, 03:21 AM

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Originally posted by Sir Bert Preast:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Walrus:
<BLOCKQUOTE>Originally posted by Sir Bert Preast:
If you mean doing it officially, you're a fool and it'll get you sacked. Unless you're totally fluent, any lawyer will take you apart in court.

how do you mean offical. I can't be a transaltor (because I can't spell it!) as I work so for the police. For intelligence purposes etc, it will be awesome. Turning round to a suspect who has been spouting off and replying to him would be brilliant! </BLOCKQUOTE>

That's what I mean. If you haul him up in court any lawyer is going to demonstrate your pitiful knowledge of the language and your evidence is out the window. And if you don't haul him up in court, what's the point? </BLOCKQUOTE>

TBH the level I'm at at the moment will be him coughing to a burglary or an assault, rather than a terrorist thing. Can see your point though. More of a wind up/intel gathering tool than anything.

Other than Arabic or Polish can't see the point in learning a language. But I really wnt to learn one!!!

retired_krishinf · 10-11-2007, 03:26 AM

Mandarin probably the best choice of language to learn due to the booming chinese economy, and their continued expected growth and influence.

Learning a language and RosettaStone

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Learning a language and RosettaStone