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| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6867 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 17 of 58 16 November 2006 at 1:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I bought an older TY German and it had some excellent exercises, very thorough and pretty detailed, but definitely based on the rote method. One other draw back was the use of some old fashioned voacab like "milkmaid" (it was a re-print from about 1960 something of a 1930's course...still has the old gothic alphabet in parts of it lol)
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| onebir Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7165 days ago 487 posts - 503 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 18 of 58 16 November 2006 at 2:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used an old (1940s) TY french - also thorough, but with dated vocab. (eg tired was translated as 'las')
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| 6illian Diglot Newbie Australia Joined 6631 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Speaks: English, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, Korean, Russian | Message 19 of 58 09 December 2006 at 5:59am | IP Logged | ||
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I am currently working through TY Korean and found that there are good and bad things:
The good - it covers a range of topics that are usable in everyday conversations, uses Korean as it would be spoken (not too formal) and explains some grammar and provides some extra interesting information on Korean culture. The bad - I find that it does not use enough hangul and the romanization is not very consistent, not to mention I found a few typos which is very confusing to a beginner like myself. Overall I think using TY would be more beneficial if used in conjunction with another textbook, at least for the Korean version. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| randy Newbie United Kingdom Joined 6563 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 20 of 58 12 December 2006 at 11:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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where it is available.you know any link for 'teach yourself' book.
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| Clintaroo Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6873 days ago 189 posts - 201 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Tagalog, Indonesian | Message 21 of 58 13 December 2006 at 1:54am | IP Logged | ||
There are typos as well in 'Teach Yourself Tagalog'. It's very disappointing, and almost unforgivable for a language program. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 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 22 of 58 14 December 2006 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I finished Teach Yourself Finnish yesterday and it seems to be a good one. I did only the tape though.
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| rhm Diglot Newbie United States Joined 6608 days ago 35 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Cantonese, Hindi | Message 23 of 58 14 December 2006 at 4:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have used these courses with Hindi and did learn to read, write and speak Hindi okay. I could communicate at a beginning level with friends. And, this was when I was 14 years old. I'm in my 20's now. I have been dedicated to learning as many languages and cultures as I can since very early. I hope this helps.
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| jmlgws Senior Member Canada Joined 7104 days ago 102 posts - 104 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Mandarin | Message 24 of 58 16 December 2006 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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What is the TY methodology? Is it conversations with transcripts, or drills, or English phrase -> foreign phrase, or some other method? I don't quite understand the method from this thread.
I shall probably try to order the "Teach Yourself Spanish" to find out for myself, since it seems pretty cheap, some people in this thread like it, and surely almost any language program has some usefulness. I just wondered though if anybody can explain the method. I have been curious since I believe TY exists for a lot of different languages. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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