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| Cat Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6758 days ago 30 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Vietnamese, Korean | Message 17 of 22 29 July 2006 at 1:59am | IP Logged |
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I use Teach Yourself Vietnamese because it is written by my Vietnamese teacher Dana Healy (she teaches me at university). I think it's ok but I wouldn't like to rely on it for pronunciation. But it explains grammar relatively well and you get a decent amount of vocab.
In comparison, I bought Colloquial Korean and don't like it, but to be honest I have no real reason. I think I'm just used to the TY layout, so I then bought TY Korean and much prefer it (seems more "user-friendly"). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Katie Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6716 days ago 495 posts - 599 votes  Speaks: English*, Hungarian Studies: French, German | Message 18 of 22 30 July 2006 at 2:23am | IP Logged |
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In response to the talks about costs of courses in Australia - I recently purchased Teach Yourself Hungarian and checked out Colloquial Hungarian at the same time - it was $AU80.95 for TY and $AU84.95 for Colloquial.
I actually chose Teach Yourself as I have used TY German before and enjoyed the program. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7013 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 22 31 July 2006 at 3:23am | IP Logged |
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Purely out of curiosity, does anyone know how many words the TY and Colloquial programs aim to teach?
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| Katie Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6716 days ago 495 posts - 599 votes Speaks: English*, Hungarian Studies: French, German | Message 20 of 22 31 July 2006 at 7:11am | IP Logged |
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As a rough guess - going from the vocab at the back of the Teach Yourself book for Hungarian.... around 1400-1500 words...???
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7013 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 22 01 August 2006 at 5:35am | IP Logged |
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Thanks Katie. On another note, does anyone know how useful the Colloquial Series 2 are? They are only offered for a few languages, but is it necessary to have done the first book in the series, or is it OK to have done another course/book/etc. and use the second book as an extension?
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| jeno111 Newbie Canada Joined 6722 days ago 27 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hungarian | Message 22 of 22 03 August 2006 at 7:59pm | IP Logged |
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In my opinion, The Teach Yourself and Colloquial books do not go indepth enough and don't provide enough audio material. I think they are fine as beginner or starter material but you will not progress far enough with them to be useful beyond a few helpful phrases.
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