Learning a foreign language.

Hi All,

I would like to learn German, reason being I have a new job and I have to speak to a lot of colleagues in Germany. I am getting quite embarrassed that there English is fantastic, and I cannot even give them more than a hello how are you in there own language. I have looked into lessons, but they are too expensive. I was going to buy some CDs to try and learn. Has anyone learned a language this way? If so which CDs did you use? I do not expect to be fluent, but would like to communicate to some extent with them in there own language.

Rusty

 

We use Rosetta Stone for Spanish. It's good but expensive. I also use YouTube for my Norwegian which I'm ok reading but not too good listening to.

 

Hi rustyroots
I lived and worked in Germany for a while in the mid 70's and spoke passable German.
A few years ago we were going to Germany on holiday and I went onto a BBC programme called "German Steps" to brush up because I had forgotten a lot of what I knew.
For a free programme it is very good, The link should take you there but if not go to the BBC website.

www.bbc.co.uk/languages/german

 

Just checked, German Steps is now called "Talk German" but it looks like the same course.

 

Perhaps this crowd offer German courses as well: