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| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4397 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 1 of 8 09 November 2012 at 8:27am | IP Logged | ||
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I will definitely buy the German with Ease.
But for Norwegian, I will have to buy the Norwegisch ohne Mühe (or whatever the title is) and study via German as a medium. Why are there so few Assimil courses in English? Anyone know? Even Dutch has a larger range of languages available... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6377 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 8 09 November 2012 at 8:38am | IP Logged | ||
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Americans don't like learning languages. Game over.
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| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4608 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 3 of 8 09 November 2012 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm sure Assimil has studied the potential of the English market. I would assume that
there are a number of reasons for not translating their "Norvegien" (and other languages into English). For example, maybe they are thinking that... 1) enough materials already exist in English for studying Norwegian so there wouldn't be enough demand for their product; 2) English-speakers are not interested in learning Norwegian; 3) the costs of translating and adapting the material to English would not be made up in sales. That's just my guess. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| limey75 Senior Member United Kingdom germanic.eu/ Joined 4397 days ago 119 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Norwegian, Old English | Message 4 of 8 09 November 2012 at 5:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks guys.
It seems weird to imagine the demand for Dutch > Norwegian is greater than the global demand for English > Norwegian (considering all the people who have English as a second language and, depending on their mother tongues, e.g. Hindi, may have to learn Norwegian via English). But I guess business is business :) 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 5 of 8 09 November 2012 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think they're working with authors who already are really advanced in French. As we
know, they prepare their books in French originally, they "adapt" for other languages. US market is fulfilled with Pimsleur, Rosetta stone, tell me more, Teach yourself... etc. Maybe their target is European market mostly ? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 6 of 8 09 November 2012 at 8:11pm | IP Logged | ||
Also just look at this forum. Practically everyone who's learning a Scandinavian language is also learning German. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5530 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 8 09 November 2012 at 9:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Assimil's main selling point is that their courses work fairly well. The US market for courses seems to be driven more by marketing and miracle cures.
And then Assimil needs to find distributors, write advertisements, translate courses, and build a well-known brand in the US (or England). None of this is easy. 2 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 8 of 8 09 November 2012 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | ||
Or speak it already. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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