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| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7148 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 17 of 36 09 May 2012 at 2:11am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I found this on another thread and bought a refurbished Linguaphone Swedish course. It was reduced from $399 to $159 but it looks to be brand new. It is the full language program and the CDs were all sealed with cellophane and the books looked pristine.
You can find them at http://www.linguaphonelanguages.com/used_courses. They have a number of languages and formats. I am inclined now to buy another language - possibly Russian. I already have a host of Russian courses and books but I can't resist buying new ones I think will help. All of my Linguaphone courses have been second hand until I bought the Swedish. 8 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4641 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 18 of 36 09 May 2012 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
The Linguaphone course I referred to in my first post has one major inconvenience in my view: In the Russian textbook, the stress is not indicated, so either you depend on listening to the tapes while reading in order to mark out the stress yourself, or use a dictionnary. Is it still so in the new English version? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5567 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 19 of 36 09 May 2012 at 6:41pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I haven't used them yet but I have gone through a few lessons. The format is an A4 comb bound book and it proceeds in this manner 1. As per Assimil the dialogue is French/German one side and English on the other with the new vocabulary in the footer. On the recording the dialogue first said line by line with a gap so it can be repeated. There is a grammatical explanation. Then a series of FSI like grammar substitution drills follow on paper and in audio (these are similar to the spoken exercise book in the 30 lesson courses). The dialogue is then repeated on the audio at conversational speed. Finally, there are written exercises. As to level - I think they complement and go just beyond the 30 lessons Linguaphone series - in terms of grammar and vocabulary, . The dialogues are all related to business but are not entirely business orientated (in the way the Assimil for business courses are). So the first dialogue deals with morning pleasantries and then progresses to having lunch. All in all I think these courses straddle between Assimil, Linguaphone and FSI in level and content with an obvious business bias. I will be using the German 30 Lesson Linguaphone series soon - and I intend to do the New Format for business alongside it. As to the second stage series I have done the French version (I also have picked up the German and Spanish on ebay) and found it a nice course. It is entirely in French, so you do need some grounding for it. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| yuriFromRoma Groupie Italy Joined 4715 days ago 48 posts - 69 votes Speaks: Italian* Studies: English, Russian | Message 20 of 36 16 May 2012 at 10:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I've just bought a refurbished course few days ago and as far as I can see there is no such thing. I don't consider it a major inconvenience, especially considering the fact the course comes along with an audio, but I do understand that for some people might be annoying. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Kronos Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5263 days ago 186 posts - 452 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 21 of 36 16 May 2012 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Linguaphone Arabic (1989/90)
I purchased this about two years ago in used condition via Ebay.co.uk. It came as a grey suitcase containing the following materials: 1 Arabic-only Textbook 1 Arabic-only Written Exercises book 1 Handbook (30 lessons) 1 Translation book 1 Alphabet booklet 1 "Study, Help and Understanding" leaflet plus an envelope with several unrelated Linguaphone brochures and forms 6 Audiocassettes (5 containing the audio for the course + 1 "Getting Started" tape) I compared this course with the one shown in ProfASAr's Linguaphone series video review which is probably the 1977/78 original edition, and my course has identical book covers, all in grey/silver, but the illustrations inside are different, and as far as I can see my course has still the same texts but also additional text material that I don't see on the pages in the video. Which means the course may have been slightly expanded. I believe the original course had also less tapes (4 maybe). As far as I know the presently available Linguaphone Arabic Complete Course (dating from 2003 I think) is still based on the older ones (the page numbers of some of the new manuals haven't changed either), but has again more material: an Oral Exercise book, and there are altogether 10 Audio CDs now (some of them probably giving you the audio for the oral exercises). So it appears to be always the same course, with each new edition having some new material added to it. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5567 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 22 of 36 22 May 2012 at 2:46pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Linguaphone Kursus in Afrikaans (1983, 1995)
Author Professor H Kroes, Sonia Gouws, Betsy Stotlz and Theunie van der Merwe at Rand Afrikaans University. 1 Afrikaans-only Textbook with exercises (40 lessons) 1 English language Handbook containing grammar and word lists 4 Audiocassettes The Afrikaans course of 1983 onwards is in the same style as the Dutch and Latin American Spanish courses of the 1980s - it consists of smaller dialogues than the 30 lesson 1970s courses and the exercises are mixed in with each lesson rather than separate. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| hobbitofny Senior Member United States Joined 6235 days ago 280 posts - 408 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 23 of 36 22 May 2012 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
The 2004 printing with cds has no stress marks. If you are using the audio to learn sounds of the words, you do not need the stess marks. Remember in the real world, you will not have stress marked text. It is a learning tool, but not used in the course. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5455 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 24 of 36 08 August 2012 at 4:09pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I've made wiki articles from the posts I've made in this thread:
http://learnanylanguage.wikia.com/wiki/Linguaphone 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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