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| 9xKx9-9xKx9 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5954 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Spanish | Message 161 of 278 11 August 2008 at 6:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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Ok, thanks.
So which one is right? Do you both use it differently? ThankYou 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Fazla Hexaglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6263 days ago 166 posts - 255 votes  Speaks: Italian, Serbo-Croatian*, English, Russian, Portuguese, French Studies: Arabic (classical), German, Turkish, Mandarin | Message 162 of 278 12 August 2008 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi everyone! I've read only the first post, I'd just like to share my experience on the Assimil method. All I have to say is that, so far, it's the very best method I've encountered. As I'm just a university student so I couldn't afford myself any expensive course, I went to the local book store and bought their "Il Portoghese senza sforzo". Now I didn't even read 100 pages of it, after 4 months I could already have nice conversations in that language. It may be because I already knew Italian, so it was really easy for me, all I know is that 3 months were all I needed. I also bought their "Il Russo senza sforzo", and I'm loving it, even though I've read about a half of it I can already have some simple conversations in Russian (it may be because I already know Bosnian, who knows hehe). All in all, I've been having a great time with those books, when I'll start French, I'll add "Il Francese senza sforzo" on my list for sure.
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| Krisp Newbie Dominican Republic Joined 5950 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 163 of 278 13 August 2008 at 5:36am | IP Logged | |||||
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I also believe Assimil is a great course. I add all the sentences to an SRS as well, just to drill home the language. So far I have used "Italian with ease" and "Il Russo senza sforzo". Very useful courses indeed.
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| Kleberson Diglot Senior Member Great Britain Joined 6419 days ago 166 posts - 168 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese Studies: Italian, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 164 of 278 13 August 2008 at 5:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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So do you think assimil can teach you a language to a "basic-fluency" level?
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| Krisp Newbie Dominican Republic Joined 5950 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 165 of 278 13 August 2008 at 5:50am | IP Logged | |||||
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With additions to about 3000-5000 sentences using the sentence method I'd say so. But that's just my opinion. It worked well enough for me to learn Russian using the Assimil Russian course using Italian as the base language.
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| scootermclean Diglot Groupie United States scottmclean.net Joined 6479 days ago 69 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), Basque | Message 166 of 278 18 August 2008 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
I will confirm this, I after picking up the Using Spanish course I was astounded at how bad a lot of the translations were. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| phouk Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 6039 days ago 28 posts - 48 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Russian | Message 167 of 278 27 August 2008 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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On amazon.fr, I saw there's a new 100-lesson 665-page edition of "Assimil: Le Russe" out. It was apparently published in July 2008; the author's name is "Victoria Melnikova-Suchet".
Has anyone had a chance to look at the book/course yet and can compare it with the older editions (Dronov and Bratousse/Balakhonov)? Is it any good? If it is, I hope it gets translated to English or German soon, I don't know any French... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| phouk Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 6039 days ago 28 posts - 48 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Russian | Message 168 of 278 31 August 2008 at 6:20am | IP Logged | |||||
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No answers yet? Does no one want to comment, or is no one reading the thread anymore?
BTW, the new edition is also visible on www.assimil.fr when choosing French as the base language. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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