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| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7146 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 17 of 64 17 April 2011 at 4:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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I mainly have the old Without Toil courses.
At the top come French and German and Spanish. Then follow Polish, Italian, Dutch (both Without Toil and With Ease). Last would come Chinese, Arabic and Russian. I have Hebrew but haven't done enough to give an opinion. I also possess Portuguese (European and Brazilian) Swedish, Norwegian, Danish, Hungarian and Czech) but they are all on standby. I can't give an opinion. I feel my opinion and ranking are very subjective. I found Dutch to be very helpful - I was mixing it with German until I got used to using and listening to Assimil. So, I would possibly put Polish, Italian and Dutch up with my favourites and just say I found them all interesting, entertaining and useful but I had more trouble with Chinese, Russian and Arabic. 4 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6229 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 18 of 64 18 April 2011 at 8:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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There!
I did it! I centralized the survey at this link. http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6638WW9 Check it out and see what you think. I am new to surveymonkey so this will be a work in progress. Feedback and suggestions are welcomed! Take the Assimil Survey Here! Edited by liddytime on 20 April 2011 at 7:28pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Wilco Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 6330 days ago 160 posts - 247 votes Speaks: French*, English, Russian | Message 19 of 64 19 April 2011 at 8:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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Great liddytime! I hope all those who posted here will take the survey.
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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5535 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 20 of 64 20 April 2011 at 4:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I found the dialogs in the Spanish With Ease course a bit on the boring side, but the course was still very useful and I would definitely recommend it to others learning Spanish.
I've seen several people note that the Korean course (only available with French as the base language, last I checked) is one of the worse ones, though I can't really recall seeing anyone give much detail as to why they felt this was the case. Edited by Warp3 on 20 April 2011 at 4:41pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| tennisfan Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5360 days ago 130 posts - 247 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: German | Message 21 of 64 21 April 2011 at 3:10am | IP Logged | |||||
That's interesting, I could have sworn I read in one of Prof. Arguelles's posts that Serbo-Croate sans peine was second only to Catalan sans peine, according to him. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6229 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 22 of 64 22 April 2011 at 2:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
Uggghhh. Yeah, for me, it just wasn't as engaging or entertaining as the other Assimil courses I have done. The speakers were really dry ( maybe it's just how the language itself sounds ) and it just wasn't "fun" to get through - it was much more of a chore than the other Assimil courses. That's just my opinion though! As a side note: The Arabic I did was the "new" one which is only in French. The "Arabic with Ease" version is just bloody awful!! Don't forget to take the survey!!!! http://www.surveymonkey.com/s/6638WW9 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6949 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 23 of 64 22 April 2011 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
I was able to take the survey at this page before, but after I voted I was redirected (without being shown the results) to a page inviting me to create an account, and now I'm sent to that page whenever I visit this link. Do you know where those of us who have voted can see the results? Edited by Lucky Charms on 22 April 2011 at 3:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6229 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 24 of 64 22 April 2011 at 4:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
Sure - use these login : howtolearn password : htlal then go to analyze results and you will get a breakdown of the responses Edited by liddytime on 22 April 2011 at 4:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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