Best way to learn a second language?
 

I know due to brain development after like 16 it becomes somewhat diffcult to learn a second language. I was wondering does anyone know any particular software or books that work well to help learn a second language?

What language did you want to learn?

hang out in Atlanta, you can learn spanish, and a few asian languages pretty quick

Something along the lines of German, Japanese or Chinese. Something less common then say Spanish or French.

I have no idea about books or tapes.. If I had the choice to learning a language id have to take a class because I wouldnt have the patients to learn from a book because you wouldnt know how to pronounce the stuff. A tape might be more helpful but still I wouldnt have any hands on experience and if you had a question you would have no one to ask. Also, a class would make you set a part of your day out for learning it unlike a nook or tape when you would easily loose intrest and say **** it im going to watch tv... But yeah it would be sweet to learn German and go flying around the Autobahn. I took spanish in highschool and I hated it. I wish I would have taken German.

What sucks is that McNeese State offers a very small language program.:mad:

Um try looking in the paper or something for people who offer small classes or something of that nature.

Try these links. I took german in high school and I loved it. I would have also taken italian, but my school didn't offer it. These sites were very helpful in learning and brushing up on languages.
free lessons
BBC-Learn German

German's not a bad language to learn, Russian is a little bit of a pain. Some places offer classes and things, plus some people say if you listen to the tapes while you are asleep it aids in the learning.

here in texas to.

German had it for 5 years 4thgrade - 9th and i know very little... i wanna learn italian

that bbc site that I posted teaches italian too. you should check it out. it really helps.

german isnt hard to learn, they teach it at my old high school, i took the class 1 semester and dropped it because i didnt need it