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| Kunji Newbie United States Joined 4073 days ago 19 posts - 24 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 13 22 November 2013 at 6:17am | IP Logged |
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Excellent post Speakeasy! I think reviewing the first 10 minutes of the prior 4
lessons is a great idea and I will definitely try that! Someone here mentioned doing Michel Thomas after Pimsleur 1 before starting Pimsleur 2. I am currently on disk 3 of 8 of the is basic course. I might do the his advanced course also before Pimeleur 2. I think this will solve most of the vague grammar issues from Pimsleur. I am also doing Assimil at the same time as Michel Thomas. I am on lesson 8 of Assimil. I like it okay , but I am not happy with the Spain accents and use of vosotros. I noticed I am not learning nearly as fast from Assimil as I do form a speaking based program like Michel Thomas or Pimsleur. I am hoping somewhere around lesson 50 of Assimil all of the knowledge from previous lessons is going to hit me all at once. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| YnEoS Senior Member United States Joined 4286 days ago 472 posts - 893 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 10 of 13 25 November 2013 at 5:16am | IP Logged |
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You might want to hold off on the Michel Thomas Advanced course til later. I did it quite early with French, and I don't think the grammar it covered was used in Pimsleur at all, and didn't show up in Assimil til around lesson 64 out of 140. I ended up forgetting most of it because I didn't use it after learning it, and had to re-do the Michel Thomas Advanced course later on.
But of course there's no harm in getting a preview of whats ahead. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Kunji Newbie United States Joined 4073 days ago 19 posts - 24 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 13 25 November 2013 at 6:33am | IP Logged |
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Which Assimil goes up to 140 lessons? Spanish with Ease only goes up to about 100.
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| YnEoS Senior Member United States Joined 4286 days ago 472 posts - 893 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 12 of 13 25 November 2013 at 6:42am | IP Logged |
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Their old French without Toil course goes up to 140, but I don't know of any others that go nearly that high. Most seem to stop around 100 or so, some even less.
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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5567 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 13 of 13 25 November 2013 at 12:52pm | IP Logged |
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Spanish with Ease (the edition I have anyway) is 109 lessons.
I've been following this thread quite a bit as I recently started Spanish again. I started with a review pass of Pimsleur (I did lessons 1-90 last time I restarted Spanish) but bought Michel Thomas Total Spanish (the old Foundation course + a 2-CD vocabulary builder) recently and had been trying to figure out where to work it in. My initial thought (which is what it seems I'll be going with) is to insert it between Pimsleur 1 (lessons 1- 30) and Pimsleur 2 (lessons 31-60). I just recently finished the Pimsleur 1 review pass (which re-taught me more than I expected it to) and thus am about to head into Michel Thomas this week (I did the lesson 1 demo previously, but this will be my first pass through the full foundation course). In addition, I'm planning to buy Pimsleur 4 once I near the end of Pimsleur 3 (since Pimsleur 4 wasn't available last time, only the 10- lesson "Plus" course was out at the time). The trickier part is that Michel Thomas doesn't have built-in pauses, though, so if I do it on my commute like I do with Pimsleur (which I plan to try, so I'll see how that goes), I'll have to keep a hand on the MP3 player the whole time to pause as needed (fortunately most of my commute is interstate since I have a manual transmission and would be shifting with that hand otherwise). 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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