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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4710 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 9 of 15 30 July 2013 at 12:51am | IP Logged | ||
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daegga,
Do you know what the course title would be called to study German from English for Langenscheidt? They are a rather busy publishing company and Amazon is overwhelming in its results, haha. Josquin, That is high praise. Especially when one considers all the languages you list as having experience with! What did you like so much about it? :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4843 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 10 of 15 30 July 2013 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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The course was extremely systematical, well thought-out, and additionally quite fun. The grammar explanations were clear and helpful, the texts were entertaining and informative, and vocabulary was repeated throughout the course. I couldn't think of a better way to learn Russian.
The only problem: It ended at a very low intermediate level, so I had to supplement it with Colloquial Russian, which was okay but not as good as the Langenscheidt course. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| showtime17 Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Slovakia gainweightjournal.co Joined 6083 days ago 154 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Russian, English*, Czech*, Slovak*, French, Spanish Studies: Ukrainian, Polish, Dutch | Message 11 of 15 10 September 2013 at 4:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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In Czech, there is a series of books (+CDs) called "Nejen pro samouky" and it contains a big variety of languages.
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| Halfdan Newbie Canada Joined 4183 days ago 13 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Danish, Mandarin, French | Message 12 of 15 12 September 2013 at 7:21am | IP Logged | ||
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The Cortina series, though significantly smaller in its number of languages than Assimil, is built on a similar
structure: dialogues, facing translations, explanatory notes, etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5008 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 13 of 15 12 September 2013 at 10:41am | IP Logged | ||
It is a series by Leda publisher and most of the courses are of very good quality, I dare say some are even better than TY or Colloquial (and have similar learning style), for example Swedish and the advanced French. Some are good but there are better options.But there are a few black sheep, such as Polish which doesn't look good. It is a translation of an English based course and seems to totally miss the opportunity to fully use the advantage of Czech base. And Chinese is obviously bad as it promisses to teach Chinese to a reasonable level in 160 pages. Leda does have another great series for some of the romance languages. Portugalština, Italština, Španělština are very comprehensive and claim to get you to C1. The courses look really good (Italština is on my shelf, I already had a taste). Another great (even though smaller) Czech series is by Cpress. Učebnice Současné Španělštiny/Italštiny/Ruštiny are awesome. Both cpress and leda have some other series as well, most of which aren't that good. And Polyglot does have perfect exercise books with thousands of translation sentences. French,English, German and Russian. And there are a few very good Czech based courses for individual languages but these three are probably the only ones going for more languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 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 14 of 15 12 September 2013 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Dutch has PRISMA but they do not cover a lot of languages if I recall correctly.
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4520 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 15 of 15 12 September 2013 at 11:21pm | IP Logged | ||
Langenscheidt Deutsch in 30 Tagen/German in 30 Days Sorry I missed this question, I hope you found it anyway. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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