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| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5565 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 41 of 64 26 January 2012 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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We are all talking about La Pratique de Allemand, which you don't have :)
(that's a joke btw) Edited by Elexi on 26 January 2012 at 8:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Abdalan Triglot Senior Member Brazil abdalan.wordpress.co Joined 5046 days ago 120 posts - 194 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English Studies: German | Message 42 of 64 26 January 2012 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
Nice, Elexi. And I don't have "Le -=Nouvel=- Allemand Sans Peine" either. Actually, I have La Pratique de Allemand, but no audio. I bought it at estantevirtual(dot)com(dot)br (about US$ 15). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5565 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 43 of 64 27 January 2012 at 1:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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Isn't the English base German with Ease (your third photo'd book) the English version of Le Nouvel
Allemand sans peine? So in that case you have it. I have been looking for the records to La Pratique for years on eBay, withou luck - given the whole of my edition is printed in gothic type it would probably take a long time to get through... Edited by Elexi on 27 January 2012 at 1:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kerateo Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5646 days ago 112 posts - 180 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian | Message 44 of 64 27 January 2012 at 2:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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I´ve seen records of La Pratique in Priceminister.com..
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| Opensecret Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4692 days ago 20 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Russian, Mandarin | Message 45 of 64 27 January 2012 at 5:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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FWIW, I've been very happy with the only two Assimil books I've used: Le Chinois sans peine, and Le nouveau russe sans peine. In both cases, I'd already been through all three levels of the Pimsleur course, and had used some other books before I hit Assimil (I only discovered Assimil recently), and I haven't made much use of the audio in either course. But I'd labored with Chinese books where it was sometimes laborious to track down a character for which I knew neither meaning nor pronunciation, and with Russian books where either the content was based on the USSR of the 1950s, or the English translation of the dialogues was loose and half the new vocabulary wasn't in the glossary. With Assimil, the translation is always right there with the dialogue, and, in the case of Chinese, so is the pinyin. Some of the content is corny, but mostly it's entertaining enough, and the cartoons adds a little spice.
Plus, I enjoyed working with the French versions, and may take up some Assimil courses in other languages -- maybe El Japones sin Esfuerzo. Assimil Japanese gets relatively low ratings on this thread, and I'm curious how much of that is the quality of the material, and how much the difficulty of the language (for me, at least, it's significantly less friendly than Mandarin). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4715 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 46 of 64 27 January 2012 at 1:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm currently using "Assimil Dutch With Ease" and I'm loving it! The best material for Dutch I've found so far, together with Michel Thomas Dutch.
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| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5565 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 47 of 64 03 February 2012 at 8:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hey, thanks for that. I bought them and they are now being transferred to my computer - very good they are too - and they contain old German songs, bonus! Edited by Elexi on 03 February 2012 at 8:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Abdalan Triglot Senior Member Brazil abdalan.wordpress.co Joined 5046 days ago 120 posts - 194 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English Studies: German | Message 48 of 64 03 February 2012 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hey, nice. I want to buy it also. If you find another, please, tell me. abdalandagama (at) gmail (dot) com 1 person has voted this message useful |
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