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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 73 of 129 15 August 2012 at 12:56pm | IP Logged |
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Mmmm. I sense a Norwegian support group, I sense Skype sessions, which are going to be a lot of fun -
particularly for me :-). Reading the Assimil text to a native and get corrections would be within the rules, right? Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 15 August 2012 at 12:56pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 74 of 129 15 August 2012 at 1:02pm | IP Logged |
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"So, you didn't pronounce snakker correctly. How do you feel about that?"
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 75 of 129 15 August 2012 at 1:46pm | IP Logged |
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I was thinking more of study support :-)
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 76 of 129 15 August 2012 at 7:14pm | IP Logged |
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I would think that shadowing, scriptorium, and skype for reading the lessons out loud
would all fit into the parameters. How do people suggest handling non-Latin scripts? I'm sure that Arabic would require some outside work with the script - we don't want to set people up to fail. How about Hebrew, Korean, Thai, etc? Greek and Russian, though? I think Assimil should be enough, since they're in a Western- style alphabet. I hope so - I'm leaning towards ancient Greek (this week, at least). Edited by kanewai on 15 August 2012 at 10:05pm 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 77 of 129 15 August 2012 at 9:19pm | IP Logged |
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I'm in! This sounds like fun. I think I'll be doing Norwegian too – I have the book for "Le norvégien sans peine", but I only have the audio up to lesson 49. Hopefully that won't be too much of a problem.
Vaguely related question: does anyone know if the German-based Norwegian Assimil is only available as a CD-ROM? I did some Googling and that's all I see – no normal book-and-audio set. This is irritating, because I wanted to get that course and study from a German base, but I have a Mac and am not set up to use Windows-based software. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5880 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 78 of 129 15 August 2012 at 9:54pm | IP Logged |
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I'm in. I just bought Assimil Chinese Vol 1 and 2. I've studied kanji as part of learning Japanese, so some of the characters won't be totally foreign to me. The only other exposure I've had to Chinese was listening to a handful of ChinesePod.com Newbie lessons.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 79 of 129 16 August 2012 at 12:06am | IP Logged |
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Hmm. I don't have Assimil Norwegian, so it will be probably Swedish. Or Finnish.
Something northern, without doubt. :-) Seems like there is a little northern epidemy going on. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ZombieKing Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4525 days ago 247 posts - 324 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* | Message 80 of 129 16 August 2012 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
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Why not just allow everyone who's learning a separate alphabet (or syllabary) to learn the script a week in advance before beginning the assimil course?
The strength of assimil is not about whether it can teach you to read the Greek or Korean alphabet, it's about the content of the course and the way it's structured. Right? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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