Learning a New Language Using Open Source?

cmstar asks: "It's been several years since my High School Spanish courses and I'm finding myself quite a bit rusty. Add to that a new found desire to learn Japanese, and I find myself on a quest to find a good cheap set of language learning/teaching software. There are plenty of commercial packages available, but I'm poor. A quick check of Google and Sourceforge didn't produce any immediate results. I know speaking with a native is usually the best way to go about this, but with little time or money, and something portable that I could use at home and work, in my spare time, would be handy to freshen up on my skills and learn something new. Any suggestions?"

Comments

Re:Library?

[Anonymous Coward]

Only pirates steal from authors by using libraries.

Here's an idea:

[TheOnlyCoolTim]

Instead of learning Japanese, repeat to yourself several hundred times: "Things are not cool solely because they are Japanese. Associating myself with Japan does not make me cool."

Tim