{"id":168,"date":"2006-09-22T20:51:01","date_gmt":"2006-09-22T19:51:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/22\/comparing-language-courses\/"},"modified":"2006-09-22T20:51:01","modified_gmt":"2006-09-22T19:51:01","slug":"comparing-language-courses","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/?p=168","title":{"rendered":"Comparing language courses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>One reason why I chose to learn Czech with the Pimsleur course was because I hadn&#8217;t done a Pimsleur course before and I want to test as many different types of language course as I can find. To date I&#8217;ve tried quite a few Colloquial and Teach Yourself courses, one Rosetta Stone course (Russian), which I&#8217;ve yet to finish, and a few lesser-known courses.<\/p>\n<p>When comparing language courses for the same language you can&#8217;t start each one from the same level because you can&#8217;t erase from your memory what you&#8217;ve learnt in each one before trying the next one. If you try comparing a course from the same series for several different languages, you often find that the courses are not identical &#8211; the basic format is probably the same, but each one has a different author and the quantity and quality of material varies. Each language also presents you with a different set of challenges, and you may find that some types of course work better for some languages than others.<\/p>\n<p>Generally I find that no single course is sufficient to learn a language, so I often use several different courses during my studies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One reason why I chose to learn Czech with the Pimsleur course was because I hadn&#8217;t done a Pimsleur course before and I want to test as many different types of language course as I can find. To date I&#8217;ve tried quite a few Colloquial and Teach Yourself courses, one Rosetta Stone course (Russian), which [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-168","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-language","category-language-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=168"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=168"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=168"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.omniglot.com\/bloggle\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=168"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}