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Aug 26, 2012 - 04:27 AM
Excellent blog Phil. It looks like you guys really had a great time. Le pont de Millau is incredible as for the rest. Looks like you enjoyed some amazing French cuisine.
Good luck with your Spanish!
Thanks for posting.
Good luck with your Spanish!
Thanks for posting.
Aug 26, 2012 - 04:29 AM
Just a note to others if you check out Phils blog.....start from the bottom up so you can see beginning to end.
Aug 30, 2012 - 10:13 AM
I love the photos! The swimming pics are funny. And I love that I'm not the only one photographing food. Your photos just make me more anxious to do that Alps trip next summer and I plan to get the French DVDs this winter.
Aug 31, 2012 - 12:41 AM
Your blog was fantastic Phil! Especially the photos, loved them. I'm curious to know how long it took you to get through all five levels? It is quite an achievment :)
Sep 03, 2012 - 10:35 AM
Mon Dieu, Phil! Your blog is fantastic. And don't dis your demographic--- Fluenz fans run the spectrum----but with one characteristic in common: we know quality when we see and hear it
Sep 10, 2012 - 10:40 PM
Thanks Jamie for the kind words. I did the first 3 Fluenz levels failrly quickly about 3 or even 4 lessons a week. Levels 4 and 5 were much more intense. It got to the point where it took me about 4 days to do one lesson, alloting about 2 hrs for a session. Good luck!
Sep 11, 2012 - 01:02 PM
I, too, am older. I have completed Spanish Levels 1-5 and work on the Flash Cards every day. There is quite a learning curve with Levels 4 and 5. Study hard and don't get discouraged.
Oct 29, 2012 - 11:42 AM
Hi Phil. I've been curious to hear from someone who has done all 5 levels of a given language. How comfortable were you during your travels after completed levels 1-5? How much of the language (spoken) did you understand versus how often did you still find yourself at a loss? What big gaps did you come across/how far did your conversations go?
I am a big fan of Fluenz so far, but there is a lack of solid feedback from the users about how effective the full series ends up being when put into practice.
I am a big fan of Fluenz so far, but there is a lack of solid feedback from the users about how effective the full series ends up being when put into practice.
Oct 29, 2012 - 01:29 PM
Hi Phil, I am older as well, and am currently studying Italian and German. I like how the program really stresses the structure of the language, so I am thinking that once you get into the setting of using the language, you are less likely to make structural mistakes, such as sticking adverbs on the end of a sentence rather than after the verb. I would be curious to know, though, if you felt any lack of vocabulary, as we are learning some words really well, yet I feel that I don't have an extensive vocabulary in the language. I do have to say, that in the German 1, I feel that I have learned really a lot of useful vocabulary, and in the way that Germans really speak (many years back, I lived in Switzerland for a year).