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Feb. 25th, 2011 05:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bobcatmoranI'm attempting to teach myself German again. Spanish would be far more useful, but the library has a complete German course. The Spanish course is missing about half the volumes, including the beginner ones. They also have the CDs for crash courses in a startling array of other languages, ranging from Norwegian to Egyptian Arabic to Ojibwe. Not quite sure why on earth they have Ojibwe, as I'm pretty sure that tribe isn't local (OTOH, there's also the fact that the number of Norwegian-Americans around here can be counted without having to take off your shoes), but I'm sorely tempted to pick that one up simply because I know exactly zero words of any Native American tongue, and it'd be from a language family I'm completely unfamiliar with. (why, yes, I do geek out over linguistics, why do you ask?)
I'm not quite sure of the quality of these CDs, though. I used the German crash course prior to travelling to Austria and Bavaria, and my brother, who had been studying abroad in Salzburg, told me that my German was weird. I'm not sure if that's because the CDs are likely Berlin dialect and he was probably learning Austrian dialect, because the CDs are undoubtedly teaching a very formal version of German that isn't used in casual speech, or because the CDs are in fact crap.
I'm not quite sure of the quality of these CDs, though. I used the German crash course prior to travelling to Austria and Bavaria, and my brother, who had been studying abroad in Salzburg, told me that my German was weird. I'm not sure if that's because the CDs are likely Berlin dialect and he was probably learning Austrian dialect, because the CDs are undoubtedly teaching a very formal version of German that isn't used in casual speech, or because the CDs are in fact crap.
