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| s_allard Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5429 days ago 2704 posts - 5425 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Polish | Message 137 of 139 09 September 2013 at 6:02am | IP Logged | |||||
In other words, what would we like to see in self-teaching books? Are we talking about features not present now or all features. Frankly I can't think of anything that doesn,t already exist. It's just that I think books are very limited tools for language learning. Edited by s_allard on 09 September 2013 at 5:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 138 of 139 09 September 2013 at 8:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't think you can do much to improve the better courses just in print without turning them into encyclopedias of the language. As I mentioned before, dialogues and readings based on more interesting topics would be a good way.
For me, the question I often ask of a course is, "What next?" In other words, what do I need in addition to this course. Of course a good grammar, and probably a good dictionary. Then you need something to help bridge the gap into reality. There are some good materials for use after a beginner course: * Dunwoody press publishes "Newspaper Readers" for several obscure languages (such as Bhutanese/Dzongkha). http://www.dunwoodypress.com/search.php?tpl=17&catid=5&subca t=Reader These are what you would expect, collections of articles with some grammatical notes. Many of them include 3 CDs. I like the idea of something which will help you get into reading newspapers, and would hope you could continue to read newspapers more easily after finishing one of these books. * JACT's Reading Greek series has a few topical readers. They assume you've completed the Reading Greek course, but you can read them in any order. EDIT: Also, a good graded reader would be brilliant. Especially if it was on an interesting topic. There are loads of little, sigle story readers. But you have to read a lot of them to make much progress. But a sci-fi reader, or a sports reader, with audio, would be brilliant. Edited by Jeffers on 09 September 2013 at 8:14am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5380 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 139 of 139 09 September 2013 at 5:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
Either features not present now or rarely present. I suspect there are new features people would want to see or existing features they'd like to see more often or better implemented. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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