Luk Triglot Groupie Argentina Joined 5334 days ago 91 posts - 127 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian, German, Mandarin, Greek
| Message 1 of 4 05 June 2020 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
Hello,
I just found out that a new edition of the greek language learning book was released: Le grec, by Jean-Pierre Guglielmi (Link).
I have already worked with "Le nouvel grec sans peine" that I liked very much.
Does anybody read it? Can you share your views about it?
Thanks
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Doitsujin Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5319 days ago 1256 posts - 2363 votes Speaks: German*, English
| Message 2 of 4 06 June 2020 at 7:42pm | IP Logged |
!Hola, Luk!
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daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7143 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek
| Message 3 of 4 07 June 2020 at 10:19pm | IP Logged |
I haven't used it, nor have I seen the entire book, but looking at the excerpts available at the site indicated, it seems that at least the first portion of the book has been very much watered down in comparison with previous versions:
The dialogue in lesson one consists of ONLY the following two lines:
Kalimera!
Kalimera, Stavro!
The dialogue in lesson two:
Ya su, Kosta! Ti kanis?
Kala, ke esi?
Kala!
And that's evidently all.
The sample pages for later lessons are more extensive, but I suspect that anyone who's already worked through a previous version might find this one to be not very challenging...
The pdf of the sample pages, from the Assimil site:
https://monachat.assimil.online/extraits/produits/9782700506 204_extrait.pdf
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Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 4051 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes Studies: German
| Message 4 of 4 19 June 2020 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
The customer reviews on Amazon.FR of the latest generation of Assimil Le grec are very
positive: mostly 5 stars. A couple of the reviewers, who were familiar with the previous
generation of this course, felt that the progression in the previous version was too fast and
that the current version rectified this problem. Over the past couple of years, this type of
observation has been frequently expressed concerning the Assimil courses. Many students
welcome the slower pace of the newer versions; nevertheless, as to be expected, some students
decry a "dumbing down" of the product line.
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