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| BrianDeAlabama Groupie United States Joined 4524 days ago 89 posts - 113 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 6 04 January 2014 at 9:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I think I remember that Assimil had a larger book on Lao available rather than just a pocket guide. Does anyone
else know if they had a Lao program available in French? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4712 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2 of 6 08 January 2014 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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They discontinued a bunch of old books not too long ago (including Armenian and Tamil). I
am not sure they have Lao, maybe they did, but it likely got axed. Check on the Assimil website. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5171 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 3 of 6 08 January 2014 at 6:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've never had of an Assimil Lao myself, don't think it ever existed.
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| jondesousa Tetraglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/Zgg3nRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6269 days ago 227 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Mandarin, Spanish | Message 4 of 6 08 January 2014 at 8:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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From the Wikipedia page for Assimil: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assimil
You can find that there was no With Ease or similar course created for Lao in any base language. I hope this helps. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| viedums Hexaglot Senior Member Thailand Joined 4671 days ago 327 posts - 528 votes Speaks: Latvian, English*, German, Mandarin, Thai, French Studies: Vietnamese | Message 5 of 6 09 January 2014 at 3:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Do you have Hoshino and Marcus's 'Lao for Beginners', published by Tuttle Press? It's quite decent, especially if you know Lao people you can practice with (no audio). I got my copy on Amazon marketplace for 3.25$ plus shipping.
An alternative would be to learn Thai, the two languages are very similar. Edited by viedums on 09 January 2014 at 3:38pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| BrianDeAlabama Groupie United States Joined 4524 days ago 89 posts - 113 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 6 09 January 2014 at 9:51pm | IP Logged | ||
I do own the book. I am considering the Thai option. Out of all of the Lao material I have I doubt I could achieve the intermediate level with it. Whereas finding material for Thai is far easier to find and PLUS…Thai language is influencing the Lao language via television, radio & other forms of media. My mother & father-in-law came back from a trip to Laos a couple of years ago and talked about how much the language has changed after living in the US for over 30 years. Thai does look like a viable option. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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