Learning a foreign language as an adult

Same here, I had a high school friend whose grandpatents only spoke the cajun dialect so he had to learn it, and he did.

I'm actually very ashamed that I didn't learn more than I did. My sister still lives in New Iberia and her kids are in the french immersion program and I can only hope that it keeps the language alive. There aren't many people left alive that can teach it.

The military made Rosetta Stone free for us a few years ago, I started to work on Spanish and got distracted. Beer was probably involved.

 

Was it a decent program when you weren't imbibing?

 

Yes it is very effective. You get out what you put in. They use a lot of pictures and matching but it works. I gave up on it far too quickly.

 

Anybody speak Governmentese or Militaryese? ADCOMSUBORDCOMPHIBSPAC is an acronym used by the US Navy. It means Administrative Command, Amphibious Forces, Pacific Fleet, Subordinate Command

 

SNAFU

 

FUBAR

 

BOHICA

 

Golf Romeo

 

Charlie Foxtrot

 

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