{"id":95,"date":"2012-03-23T12:39:19","date_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/\/\/uncategorized\/95\/"},"modified":"2012-03-23T12:39:19","modified_gmt":"2012-03-23T12:39:19","slug":"95","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/95\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning French"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I am attempting to learn French once again.&nbsp; It was many years ago that I took a first term college class.&nbsp; it is amazing how many more resources we have today thanks to the internet.&nbsp; I am using the following tools:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosettastone.com\">Rosettastone<\/a> software &#8211; While the product comes with CD&#8217;s, once you are registered you can access the on-line courses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babbel.com\">Babbel.com<\/a> &#8211; Wow.&nbsp; For the money this is hard to beat.&nbsp; Six months for $40.&nbsp; Similar methodology to Rosettastone.&nbsp; I especially like the vocabuary review.<\/p>\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/languages\/french\/\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/languages\/french\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This site is not as good as babbel.com but it is free.&nbsp; It has learning games and some good lessons including &ldquo;Basic French in 12 Weeks&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\">Google Translate<\/a>.&nbsp; French to English and English to French<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbs-online.com\/french-verbs\/french-verbs.htm\">French verb conjugater test<\/a> &#8211; very good. Both regular and irregular verbs.<\/p>\n<p>French radio streamed from the internet. &nbsp;I listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.radiofrance.fr\/chaines\/france-bleu\/?tag=azur\"><b>France Bleu Azur <br \/>\n<\/b><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I am attempting to learn French once again.&nbsp; It was many years ago that I took a first term college class.&nbsp; it is amazing how many more resources we have today thanks to the internet.&nbsp; I am using the following tools:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rosettastone.com\">Rosettastone<\/a> software &#8211; While the product comes with CD&#8217;s, once you are registered you can access the on-line courses.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.babbel.com\">Babbel.com<\/a> &#8211; Wow.&nbsp; For the money this is hard to beat.&nbsp; Six months for $40.&nbsp; Similar methodology to Rosettastone.&nbsp; I especially like the vocabuary review.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/languages\/french\/\">http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/languages\/french\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This site is not as good as babbel.com but it is free.&nbsp; It has learning games and some good lessons including &ldquo;Basic French in 12 Weeks&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/translate.google.com\">Google Translate<\/a>.&nbsp; French to English and English to French<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.verbs-online.com\/french-verbs\/french-verbs.htm\">French verb conjugater test<\/a> &#8211; very good. Both regular and irregular verbs.<\/p>\n<p>French radio streamed from the internet. &nbsp;I listen to <a href=\"http:\/\/sites.radiofrance.fr\/chaines\/france-bleu\/?tag=azur\"><b>France Bleu Azur <br \/>\n<\/b><\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-95","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-miscellaneous"],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"Bob","author_link":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/author\/admin\/"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=95"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/95\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=95"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=95"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/robertjwallace.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=95"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}