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| gingermidget Newbie United Kingdom profile.to/estellewe Joined 6447 days ago 29 posts - 28 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 9 of 10 07 February 2008 at 11:10am | IP Logged |
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Colloquial Italian is the set course book and cd's for the L195 Andante Beginner's Italian course, which I am currently studying with the Open University. I have found the book to be helpful so far, although the English guy on the cd's has a very irritating voice at times! I also have the Assimil Italian With Ease book and cd set, although I haven't really been using it properly yet, with doing the L195 course.
I am also finding the Michel Thomas Foundation Italian course to be extremely helpful as well, so I have been listening to that in between the course study - I am currently on cd 7, and hoping to be finished in a week or so. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| shapd Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6150 days ago 126 posts - 208 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Spanish, Latin, Modern Hebrew, French, Russian | Message 10 of 10 08 February 2008 at 6:59am | IP Logged |
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Colloquial had more of the less usual languages at one time, though Teach Yourself is catching up now. When I had to learn some Estonian, it was the only option. It does teach the basics but there were many irritating features. Grammatical forms were introduced with no explanation anywhere in the book (luckily the meaning could be deduced from context), and exercises required vocabulary which had not been given. The English - Estonian dictionary at the back was incomplete, and in spite of the fact that Estonian nouns are very irregular and often unpredictable, not all the principal parts were given in the vocabularies. This is serious when the book and tapes are the only practical exposure you are going to get before going there.
In general, the amount of audio in both series is very limited, nowhere near enough to allow comfortable comprehension, and most phrases will only appear once. Assimil scores much better on this since the audio is all in the target language. If you do edit out all the English in the others, there is hardly anything left! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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