What languages do you speak?

[Mervi]

Maulkin, I seriously recommend the SSIW site I linked to in my post. I've only read the forums and downloaded the (free!) listening materials and followed their twitter, but they offer lots of other ways for learning Welsh as well - I believe there's some "real life" activity in the UK for the members as well, meetings and Skype learning partners and everything. And the listening material is nothing like I've ever encountered before: you're actually constructing your first very practical sentences at the end of the first lesson! No grammar, no spelling rules, no word lists to memorize - you just start using the language straight away. It's amazing, and I wish I had been taught these techniques before. I mean, I did well at languages in school, or at least better than average (except for the last 3 years of German which were a nightmare for me) but most of the stuff we were taught has no use in real life situations.