Any exposure you can get to your targeted language is useful.
Many people would like to come on one of our intensive courses. They are not for everybody.
Many of our clients are fortunate in that employers recognize the value of our training both to their employee
and also to the employing company.
Many people are not prepared to make the necessary investment but would still prefer to become proficient in a language.
This still takes time and effort. It also takes a little imagination and perserverence.
If you are serious about taking your ambition to master a language this may also take a little imagination.
You should try to embroider your learning of the language into your lifestyle. You should also seek out every opportunity
of using the language-best still by visiting the country.
CD BASED COURSES AND SOFTWARE
Most clients have bought one or more CD or tape based courses. indeed in most houses you will find one or more of these
courses abandoned.
Perhaps the best known are the Liguaphone brand and latterly the "Michel Thomas"-made famous by providing intensive one
to one courses with the great and the good.
Presumably the late Mr Thomas did not claim that his CD courses were an adequate substitute for the one-to-one language
training he provided.
Because the CD based language course is often discarded and hopefully is reasonably hardy-if your budget is tight it
might make sense to buy one of these courses second-hand through an on-line retailer such as amazon or ebay.