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| Itikar Groupie Italy Joined 4660 days ago 94 posts - 158 votes  Speaks: Italian* | Message 9 of 22 09 March 2012 at 12:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Personally I prefer to use study material in Italian, my native language, despite the average quality is not exceptional, although there are also several good exceptions.
I saw briefly some courses for foreign languages in English, but personally I didn't like the average quality. Maybe I could think about a course for Welsh or some non-indoeuropean languages in English, but for the rest I'd greatly prefer courses in French. Even if I don't know French very well I prefer the fact that being French grammatically close to Italian they cover grammatical aspects of interest. Of course the Romance languages are another story, for them I prefer strictly courses based on Italian, even if their quality is poor, in order to avoid confusion. @Solfrid_Christin: For Russian courses in Italian I suggest you to try the manuals by the publisher "Hoepli". you can find them on hoepli.it, ibs.it or amazon.it . -"Kak dela" is a nice course that takes you smoothly from the very basics to text-comprehension without long grammatical explanations. It has even a good vocabulary, that, incidentally, is the one needed for the TORFL exam. -Julija Dobrovolskaja is a famous Italianist that taught Russian in Italy for many years. Her book are a bit outdated but their design is very good. Many exercises and very progressive and complete explanations. I have her grammar, I know she did also a language course, but I have never seen it. Yet I think I will eventually buy it sooner or later. -Also the publisher "A.Vallardi" has a nice series of phrasebooks, compact grammars and verb guides for Russian and several other languages. There may be others I don't know, and of course also translations of foreign courses like Assimil, that are indeed good, but I suppose you might already own them. :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 10 of 22 09 March 2012 at 4:47am | IP Logged | ||
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| jdmoncada Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5025 days ago 470 posts - 741 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Finnish Studies: Russian, Japanese | Message 11 of 22 09 March 2012 at 5:28am | IP Logged | ||
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No, it's the one published by Pons.
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| Elizabeth_rb Diglot Groupie United Kingdom polyglotintraining.b Joined 4627 days ago 54 posts - 84 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: GermanB1 | Message 13 of 22 20 March 2012 at 9:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't have to do it this way, but I have materials for learning Japanese and Korean
from Chinese, which I bought in Taiwan. There are things available in English, of course, but there are more from Chinese and they do better script support materials not being likely to shy away from more complex scripts!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| piranha Newbie Italy Joined 5311 days ago 18 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 14 of 22 21 March 2012 at 11:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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| piranha Newbie Italy Joined 5311 days ago 18 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 15 of 22 21 March 2012 at 11:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Itikar,in the past in Italy have been published excellent language courses;
I remember the following: 1)De Agostini published several language courses for learning German,French,Spanish,Russian and French 2)In the 1960-1970 years,Zanasi publisher published 5 language courses(english,french,german,spanish and russian)called ''20 ORE''.Each of these courses is very complete and extensive with 1600 pages and about 16 or 18 hours of audio in 52 vinyl records and,very important,all explanations were with interlinear language(foreign language and Italian)!! These are some files that I have found on the Internet: Russian : http://www.20ore.com/russo/04-provalo.htm English : http://www.20ore.com/inglese/04-provalo.htm IMHO the ''20 ORE'' courses are the best languages course published in Italy. @Solfrid_Christin: for Russian courses in Italian I suggest you: -''Impariamo il Russo'' De Agostini publisher(about 18 tapes and 48 booklet;you can search on ebay but is not easy found it) -''20 ORE Russo'' Zanasi publisher(about 52 vinyl discs and 53 booklet;you can search on ebay but is not easy found it) -''Kak Dela?'' by Hoeply Also,there are Linguaphone and Assimil but they are translations of foreign courses Edited by piranha on 23 March 2012 at 12:43am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Itikar Groupie Italy Joined 4660 days ago 94 posts - 158 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 16 of 22 22 March 2012 at 12:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Piranha, I thank thee for these useful information.
It is always nice to know there are good courses in our language. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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