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| melkior79 Newbie Japan Joined 4629 days ago 16 posts - 31 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Latin, French | Message 49 of 99 20 October 2012 at 10:12am | IP Logged |
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I just put my order in for New French with Ease!! I am getting excited now.
It will come in a couple of days, as it seems that French with Ease is in warehouse here.I ordered it from the Japanese Amazon site. I found that there were 4 highly positive reviews from Japanese, who used Assmil French from an English base I was surprised because I didn't think Assimil would be popular here at all. I work at a foreign language university and there are no Assimil texts in the library, although a few teach yourself and colloquial, as well as a massive amount of material in Japanese. I also had a chat with a Japanese French teacher (we talked in Japanese ) and I told him of my plan to study Assimil.He hadn't heard of Assimil. I said that after I finish the challenge I hope we can have some conversation in French! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kronos Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5259 days ago 186 posts - 452 votes  Speaks: German*, English | Message 50 of 99 21 October 2012 at 4:42am | IP Logged |
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This Assimil Experiment is going to be the most interesting ever... here is my contribution:
Course: Russisch ohne Mühe (German edition of 'Le Russe sans peine', 1971 version) Estimated Start Date: November 12 Prior experience with this language: Practically none. Studied the introductory chapter and the first couple of lessons of this course earlier though. Any outside resources you might use: (a) additional Internet resources for learning Cyrillic script; (b) an old pronunciation/phonetics 45 record that illustrates the individual sounds of the language; (c) reference materials (bird's eye grammar, dictionary) Why you chose this language: Got away with doing a lot of stuff on Polish, Russian, Siberian etc. history in college without knowing any Eastern European language, because formally I studied in a different department, hence it was not required. Want to make up for this now since Russian is an intriguing language and almost as weird as the country. Personal Predictions: This is a dense course. If I manage to stay consistent, adding one new lesson per day and later on include the active wave, I hope to finish the course by the end of April. After this I may turn to other materials in order to solidify what I have learnt with Assimil. Other languages: If time permits I may work on one or two (Spanish, French) alongside Russian, but not with Assimil. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chang He Newbie United States Joined 4442 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French | Message 51 of 99 21 October 2012 at 8:36pm | IP Logged |
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Excellent! I just found out about Assimil through this forum a few weeks ago. Anxious to give it a try, and hopefully
the group motivation will help. So here's my plan. Course: New French with Ease Estimated Start Date: November 1. Let's do this. Prior experience with this language: Limited. I almost finished Pimsleur 1 a few years ago. No study in it since. Any outside resources you might use: I have the old 1940 French without Toil, and may try them concurrently. I've read the debates about which is better, and the posts here from people who seem to share my learning style seem to favor the older version. But the audio sounds much more stilted. We'll see. Why you chose this language: French is widely used across Europe and Africa, and my work may bring me to both places in the near future. Additionally, I have a few French-speaking family members and want to perpetuate the tradition. Personal Predictions: This will be tough. I'm finishing some post-graduate training as a physician, so this will function as a study break from the hard science I work with most evenings. I hope the claims are right and with 30-45 minutes per day I can get a solid base to work from going forward. Other languages: None. I won't have time. I'm putting my Japanese and Russian studies on hold for a while. Japanese was always a long-term project, and Russian was mostly because I felt guilty about dropping it after college. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5691 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 52 of 99 22 October 2012 at 3:13am | IP Logged |
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I may regret this, seeing as I'm already crazily busy, but I can't resist signing up for this. Here we go!
Course: Norwegisch ohne Mühe Estimated Start Date: November 1 Prior experience with this language: I know "Jeg" means "I" and "ikke" means "no"... Any outside resources you might use: only native audio (podcasts, radio, music) to help pin down the pronunciation Why you chose this language: I've never yet tried one from the Scandinavian family, and I think Norwegian sounds adorable. Personal Predictions: I hope to be a solid B1 by the end of the course. (Would aim higher, due to my knowledge of German, but studying four/five other languages and working full-time will make it a miracle if I even manage to stick with NO at all.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4522 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German | Message 53 of 99 22 October 2012 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
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Current tendency towards target languages : Languages in alphabetic order.
Up-to-date : 28th October Ancient Greek : Kanewai Breton: tarvos Catalan : Flarioca Chinese : sabotai, jingwumaster (maybe), oruixo13 Dutch : Marishka Egyptian : BartoG French: July , pfn123, melkior79, slidemasterx, aspiringplygot, fabriciocarraro, FireViN, Vārds , jeronz , Tuco , Chang He, German : fireballtrouble Hungarian : nuriayasmin70 Italian : Mani , Kugel, songlines, Laurae, JohannaNYC Japanese : ayrrom Latin : Boomerang3378 Norwegian : Serpent , agantik, Jinx, Yuhakko Persian : Tadeo, markustein69 Polish : Tcham , overscore Russian: Goindol , Slothrop, sillygoose1 , Kronos, Expugnator Spanish : cheerbelle7, jingwumaster (probably), puffin1981 Swedish : Cavesa Tamil : seldnar Turkish : rahdonit Vietnamese : Bao, shiningstars Edited by fireballtrouble on 28 October 2012 at 10:44am 7 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 54 of 99 22 October 2012 at 7:12pm | IP Logged |
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I'm not doing Italian this time, I'm doing Russian =D I'll just alternate between source in French and a source in Italian
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| fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4522 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German | Message 55 of 99 22 October 2012 at 7:14pm | IP Logged |
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@Expugnator
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 56 of 99 22 October 2012 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
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And I'm not in at all (as I stated last week), since the Cantonese course won't be around until the end of 2013.
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