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| brendanj Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5399 days ago 14 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Arabic (Written), French, German, Arabic (classical) | Message 1 of 14 10 February 2010 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm currently learning French with Assimil's New French with Ease (and I plan to continue on with Using French when finished with this course). I was wondering if it would be a bad idea to begin another Assimil course now for either German or Dutch. Should I wait a few months until I finish the French course or do you think I could begin another course now? If I were to do this, I would do one lesson of each course at different times of each day.
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| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6519 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 2 of 14 10 February 2010 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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In which lesson of the French with Ease are you?
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| brendanj Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5399 days ago 14 posts - 25 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Arabic (Written), French, German, Arabic (classical) | Message 3 of 14 10 February 2010 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm only on lesson 5 of New French with Ease (as I just completed the Michel Thomas beginner and advanced courses). I just feel as if I can be more productive and begin another Assimil course. I'm wondering if doing so would cause confusion between the two languages.
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| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5668 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 4 of 14 10 February 2010 at 10:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Everybody will come at this with a different approach. I say give it a shot and if you
feel that there is interference between the two, lay off the second language for a while. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ManicGenius Senior Member United States Joined 5472 days ago 288 posts - 420 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, French, Japanese | Message 5 of 14 10 February 2010 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm doing this right now with Japanese and German. Be warned that you should provide equal time to each language or you won't make much progress. For me, I spend about 15-30 minutes on each in the assimil booklet.
Once you hit 50 in each booklet, that will immediately double provided you are doing the lessons correctly (and having hit phase 2). But think of it this way, you can stagger the studying with newer languages. Finish phase 1 of some course? Start phase 1 of course 3! Give more time between starting the next courses if you have a language that uses an unfamiliar script. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6359 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 14 10 February 2010 at 11:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd go for it. New French With Ease is reeeeally slow. Adding either Dutch With Ease or German With Ease shouldn't be too much at all.
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| vexx Groupie Australia Joined 5209 days ago 81 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 7 of 14 31 August 2010 at 3:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Do all the Assimil's (particularly Japanese, Italian and French), have the same scripts?
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| josht Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6437 days ago 635 posts - 857 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Spanish, Russian, Dutch | Message 8 of 14 31 August 2010 at 5:37pm | IP Logged | ||
No, they are all different. However, having done New French with Ease and what seems like half a dozen other Assimil courses, I also say that the original poster shouldn't have any problem in doing two at once, particularly if it's German or Dutch. (Starting the Assimil Spanish course alongside the French one, however, would be a nightmare, I think.) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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