Wrex Newbie Thailand lingualogue.com Joined 5598 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Thai
| Message 25 of 376 02 October 2009 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
I guess for keeping me interested for a long time I would have to go for
Fluenz
TellMeMore
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daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7129 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek
| Message 26 of 376 03 October 2009 at 11:40pm | IP Logged |
Leopejo:
I think this is probably what DaraghM was referring to:
http://www.amazon.com/Modern-Russian-I-Bk-1/dp/0878401695/re f=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1254605379&sr=8-2
Edited by daristani on 04 October 2009 at 2:21am
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joebelt Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6318 days ago 51 posts - 68 votes Speaks: English*, French
| Message 27 of 376 04 October 2009 at 2:03am | IP Logged |
1) Pimsleur
2) Assimil
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Ocius Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5575 days ago 48 posts - 77 votes Speaks: English*, German, Ancient Greek Studies: French, Latin, Sanskrit
| Message 28 of 376 05 October 2009 at 3:12am | IP Logged |
1) FSI
2) Living Language Ultimate
3) Assimil
4) L-R
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DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6136 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian
| Message 29 of 376 05 October 2009 at 10:55am | IP Logged |
This is exactly what I was referring to. It's an FSI style course for Russian which has tons of audio material. However, the language is slightly outdated.
E.g. в ГУМе - At the GUM
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BaldOldWhiteGuy Newbie United States Joined 5763 days ago 5 posts - 15 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, French
| Message 30 of 376 05 October 2009 at 1:06pm | IP Logged |
I also like Pimsleur and Assimil, but I am just a beginner and I do not have much experience with language learning yet. The Pimsleur is teaching me to pronounce words properly, and the Assimil is teaching me how to converse.
I am interested in Fluenz, but so much of their site seems like marketing fluff that is designed to impress kids... There is also a suspicious amount of positive reviews from people with no other review history, and it just appears to me as if they are company shills. I think I will make up my mind on that one once a few people who are long time members of this forum have reviewed it.
Edited by BaldOldWhiteGuy on 05 October 2009 at 1:11pm
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tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5851 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish
| Message 31 of 376 05 October 2009 at 2:45pm | IP Logged |
When people list their favorite language programs, it would be a lot more useful and meaningful if they also would list the language they studied with that program. It appears that some courses do very well in some languages but poorly in others. It would also be useful to mention which actual courses, such as Introductory, Advanced, etc. Thanks in advance.
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ennime Tetraglot Senior Member South Africa universityofbrokengl Joined 5889 days ago 397 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, Esperanto, Afrikaans Studies: Xhosa, French, Korean, Portuguese, Zulu
| Message 32 of 376 05 October 2009 at 6:14pm | IP Logged |
These is a list from good to bad of stuff I used in the last year
- Michel Thomas Russian
- Assimil French without Toil (1940)
- Assimil Russe sans peine
- Teach Yourself Korean (only drawback is that only dialogue is in hangul, the rest in
old Mc-R)
- Michel Thomas French
- Teach Yourself Xhosa... basically the only reasonable book for this language readily
available. Big drawback is the audio, which sucks... practice pronunciation on Youtube
instead be my advice...
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