Best ways to learn a foreign language

Re:Best ways to learn a foreign language by maw on Sunday June 30, 2013 @09:03AM (#5965625)

I have downloaded and tried to play with Diogenes several times. I can never seem to get it to do anything. As best as I can tell, you need to provide it with data sets as well. Do you know where you can get these?

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Re:Best ways to learn a foreign language by laichzeit0 on Monday July 01, 2013 @07:14AM (#5969854)

You don't need the data sets unless you're interested in exploring the Greek or Latin texts. On it's own it's useful for entering dictionary words in their declined/conjugated forms and it finding the correct entry(ies) in the dictionary.

For the data sets: In all honesty, just torrent it. What you're looking for is TLG /PHI/ Cd-rom_E, which is the Thesaurus Linguae Gracae and the Latin texts.

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Re:Best ways to learn a foreign language by maw on Tuesday July 02, 2013 @10:11AM (#5977879)

Wow, you're right. It does come with some data out of the box after all. Its UI isn't all that it could be, though.

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