Argentine Tango Lexicons
These Argentine Tango lexicons will help you to understand the special vocabulary of the dance.| Short Definitions | Bridge to the Tango |
| Long Simplified List | Buffalo Tango |
| Small Icon Pictures | Carlos Escolar - Argentine Tango Terms |
| English - German | Cyber-Tango |
| Inscenes Magazine | Inscenes |
| Another Long List | Latin Dance Is A Passion |
| The Granddaddy | Loomis's Luscious Lexicon of Tango Linguistics |
| Short List | NeoTango |
| Short List | Tango Beckita |
| Plays Music | Tango Caminito |
| Long Folksy Definitions | Tango Canberra |
| Spanish Word of the Day | Tango Cincinnati |
| Red and Black Lexicon | Tango Silhouette |
| Retro Tango Lexicon | Tango Swindon |
| Medium Length List | TangoConcepts |
| Elegant Glossary | Tangopedia |
| Lunfardo? | ToTango |
Learning a Foreign Language with Rosetta Stone
by Martin Adams
OK, if you passed the qualifying question above, what method helps you learn quickly? Some people like to be in a classroom setting, or having a qualified personal tutor, or simply open a foreign language books and try to learn it by you.
A significant part of the learning a foreign language is to be able to hear a native speaker of the language you want to speak. This way you will be aware of your pronunciation, correct any mistakes, and learn how native speakers structure their sentences. You also want to know if you made any progress by receiving critiques on your speech and grammar. So, by enrolling in a class, it will give you the awareness and feedback you need but it will be limited to allow other classmates to participate as well. The choice of a personal tutor will surely give you more in depth feedback and quick corrections, but it will be more costly. The task of learning a language from a book and doing it by yourself is an extremely tough challenge. You will not hear a native speaker, not receive any progress on your pronunciation, or constructing coherent sentences aloud.
A very popular choice is available and combines all of these choices together. It is widely used by educational institutions, the US State Department, FBI, and others. The very successful program offered is the Rosetta Stone Language Course. The courses are on a CD which allows you to listen to a native speaker and complete the lessons at your own pace. This language program, which offers 30 different languages, provides you with lots of feedback so you will feel progress, be confident when you speak, listen, read and write in your new language. The Rosetta Stone Language Program is going to be less expensive than a personal tutor, but probably more than a classroom of students at your local schools or college.
The language lessons on CD are taught by not using any English while learning French, Spanish, German or any other language. Instead you will learn with verbal cues, pictures, and words to teach you a new language in the same way you acquired basic English as a youngster. You'll feel as if you are in a study abroad language program. Your acquisition of the new language should grow rapidly as your vocabulary grows and you understand the relationship between pictures, words, and sounds. The goal of the Rosetta Stone Language program is to understand how to construct words and sentences, as well as, to understanding the spoken language.
About the Author
Martin Adams is a frequent traveler and learned a few foreign languages