I've had some success in language learning through Pimsleur software. Having gone the conventional academic learning for language, and Pimsleur, if I had it to do over again I would master Pimsleur French in 90-days and THEN go on to an academic course to work on the written communication. Supposedly, Pimsleur is what the FBI and the US embassies use to teach their staff languages as quickly as possible, but that might just be marketing.
Eghhhh just back from another judo pub crawl, the room is spinning..... in the last stop did bump into some publicans who I knew which led to a conversation or two, not that I spend 'all' my free time in pubs, just been in Cambridge a while
Companies who only allow you to enter their competitions via a Facebook page. I don't have Facebook, I don't want Facebook and I shouldn't be forced to have it if I want to enter competitions.