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| Paco Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 4278 days ago 145 posts - 251 votes  Speaks: Cantonese* | Message 1 of 3 13 April 2014 at 12:33am | IP Logged |
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Though the following questions are irrelevant to each other, I do not want to open too
many threads at a time, which would look like spamming. 1) How do the 1950s-1960s compare to the 1970s-1990s' beginner courses and expert courses in terms of content taught (or in concrete terms: vocabulary and grammar)? Elexi mentioned in the past that the expert courses (English, German, French and Spanish) are actually continuation of the 70s' beginner courses, so I wonder if the 50s are richer, or there is any gap left between them and the 70s' expert courses. 2) What intermediate/advanced/expert courses has Linguaphone published for the English language? And how do they compare to each other in terms of quality? Today Linguaphone only divide their English courses in 2 levels, a "Beginner" course and an "Expert" course. But I have seen much more: numerous "Intermediate" and "Advanced" courses for both [British] English and American English. Thank you. Edited by Paco on 13 April 2014 at 12:33am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jpazzz Groupie United States Joined 5046 days ago 54 posts - 76 votes Studies: Russian | Message 2 of 3 14 April 2014 at 4:12am | IP Logged |
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Hello, I think you'll find that the earlier courses, the Conversation courses up through the late 60s, are rather more basic than the courses written in the late 60s and early 70s. The one's labelled Beginer to Intermediate (or sometimes Beginner to Advance or sometimes Comprehensive), are rather more extensive that the earlier Conversation courses. The Advanced or second stage courses really seem to go to fairly advanced levels (C1+ perhaps) and are entirely in the target language, i.e., all texts and explanations are in German or French or Spanish, which ever is appropriate. I used both levels of German as well as the earlier German Conversation course. Hope this helps out.
Cheers, John Edited by jpazzz on 14 April 2014 at 4:13am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5566 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 3 of 3 14 April 2014 at 10:06am | IP Logged |
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I agree, in my view the ones to go for are the courses that originated in the 1970s -
the 50s-60s courses are a developments of the original 1920s courses - they contain a picture (say of a family in a house) and introduce vocabulary related to that picture as well as a grammar point. They then have a conversation based on the picture. Based on my Quizlet entries the 1970s beginner course has about 100-150 new words per lesson - so with 30 lessons there are about 3000-3500 words. On a rough estimation, the 1950s courses contain about 2500 words. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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