heartedly – I’ve been never bothered with yellow pencils, i.e.

Actually I learned Italian from a book “Italian in 30 days”

sounds very optimistic, admittably, but the concept of that

series (was in the 70s) appeared sound. Guiding through

common topics it snugged nicely to real experiences, like

‘coming to a new town’ – ‘orientation in airports etc” – “at

the grocery” and so on – slowly expanding the vocabulary.

It depends on your talent how you’d be able to cope with

similar systems, nowadays they come with video and audio

support, making it much easier to learn by doing & copying.

Also, the type of relationship between languages makes

a difference, for me as German, Scandinavian grammar

seems familiar instantly, while my Latinum didn’t help me

much with SPOKEN French, although it is Romanic lingo 🙂

p.s. I can read, write and speak 4 languages fluently, and a smattering of 3 others.