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Originally Posted by schreech26
yes, i love pimsleur. and i know other people who do to .
i'm positive you're very wrong assuming a tutor is more efficient. for starters, pimsleur is designed in a way build up sentence structure and memory of key words and phrases based on research of how humans learn a language. it's very systematic and efficient. i doubt any tutor is like that. and most tutors are in a group setting, which has positive benefits if you're with your friends all trying to learn the language and if you have scheduled classes, but that's only if the person doing pimsleur has no self-initiative and no desire to learn the language to begin with. Also a group setting will slow the learning process as some will lag behind. And as I alluded to earlier, thai tutors are going to be pretty hit or miss. You might luck out and get a good one, or you could run bad and get one that just sucks at teaching. Either way you're way wrong on this mr green man
sorry Alex, but I think you are way wrong on this one, a computer course will never ever teach you any decent language, it can teach you some basics yes, but not a whole language in a proper way for sure, I can speak fluently now almost 6 languages (taking thai now also), think that I sort of know what I'm talking about when it comes to learning languages
just take a thai course, small group if you think you need motivation to go
or personal tutor if you want to have an intensive course and you have a lot of free time to spare, currently my group is like 4 (sometimes 5 when Chris shows up) persons and I must say that my thai has improved 10x faster and is way better
so my advice, if you want to peddle a bit and learn some non serious stuff or a few basic key sentences go with some software, but if you really wanna learn thai, get a tutor