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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4051 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 1 of 6 15 August 2014 at 12:38pm | IP Logged |
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Hi, I have a doubt about the Assimil Dutch:
on their site, they sell "Le Néerlandais sans peine". They say in the presentation that it contains 100 lessons. In the darkest corners of the net, you can find "Dutch with Ease", with 84 lessons (and very bad quality scans). Leaving the teaching language apart, are those totally different courses? Is the quality consistent in the two methods if different? The dialogues are different? Thank you very much in advance. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 4056 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes Studies: German | Message 2 of 6 15 August 2014 at 4:04pm | IP Logged |
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Hi tristano,
I have Assimil "Dutch with Ease" published in 1987 and reprinted in 2007. It has 84 lessons and contains 413 pages. The English-language editions of the Assimil courses seem to lag behind the French-language editions. I have experienced this with the Assimil Spanish and German courses. So, I am not surprised that the latest French-language edition, "Le Néerlandais sans peine" contains 100 lessons and 672 pages. I fully expect that the course has been completely revised, with new dialogues and new audio recordings. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4051 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 3 of 6 15 August 2014 at 5:42pm | IP Logged |
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thanks once again @Speakeasy,
can be interesting using both, then. I wonder whether the quality remains the same and if there are any hope to find also the old book somehow(I went to the conclusion that I prefer paper books). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 4056 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes Studies: German | Message 4 of 6 15 August 2014 at 6:00pm | IP Logged |
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Hi tristano,
You can locate many of the different editions of Assimil "Dutch" and "Néerlandais" on Amazon.UK (Assimil). While it seems that the author has changed with the latest French-language edition, my experience with Assimil is that the quality of their courses is always very high, indeed! Although I appreciate that we all must live within the constraints of a limited budget, I would not hesitate buying two separate editions of Assimil. Yes, the two editions would cover more-or-less the same "territory" in terms of vocabulary and grammar. However, personally, I would not want to miss the opportunity to practice with the completely different example sentences that the separate courses offer. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5569 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 5 of 6 16 August 2014 at 3:44pm | IP Logged |
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I have both - if anything the newer third generation one looks to be better.
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4051 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 6 of 6 19 August 2014 at 10:51pm | IP Logged |
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thanks @speakeasy, @Elexi.
@Elexi, do you confirm that the two courses are different with different dialogues? Or they overlap? @Speakeasy, it would be indeed very nice to have both. The money problem is overrated: My French class course, at trimester, costs like 5 assimil books + cds (but it basically starts where Assimil ends, although this is a totally different story). Edited by tristano on 19 August 2014 at 10:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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