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Re: "Trying Rocket Languages, FluentU and LingoPie"
Pimsleur might be worth a listen, they are always excellent for pronunciation / natural speech, as that's the focus.
For example in French there is natural variation around whether you bother to say ending consonants when the next word starts with a vowel, "liasons". My French is not nearly good enough to have noticed this, but apparently if you check the audio closely you find there is a mix of present and missing liasons across uses of the same word combinations so you get used to the allowed variation.
May 10 · 3 months ago
Trying Rocket Languages, FluentU and LingoPie — Maybe I am wrong, but my approach to leaning Spanish is to avoid translation when possible, but instead try to internalize the language -- I want to feel rather than know. I think it's the key to fluency. And so, in addition to banging out DuoLingo exercises (which are surprisingly good at making their way deep into my brain), I decided to try out a few more apps, in order to get good enough to watch TV. Rocket Spanish They offer a free trial...