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| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4834 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 1 of 7 14 July 2013 at 11:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Amazon decided to send me a link to this book, since I had previously looked at Danish language books:
book2 Danish There appear to be equivalents for quite a few other languages. Says it corresponds to A1 / A2. I don't think the book actually comes with audio, but it seems one can download some from their website. From the online sample, it seems fairly simple, but may be a good starting point for some people. Does anyone have any experience with this series (or the Danish one in particular?). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4616 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 2 of 7 14 July 2013 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yes. I use the English-Greek audio, as well as the app. They are fine for supplementing
other materials or for listening on the go. However, I would not recommend buying the books if the English-Greek book is any indication of the general quality. I didn't buy it but looked through some pages on the Amazon site and the spelling was atrocious. It looked like they even used Latin letters in place of some Greek ones. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6915 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 7 14 July 2013 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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There are few threads about the series:
site:http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/ goethe verlag Someone recommended it to me in the Scandinavian TAC 2013 team, but I haven't had a closer look at it yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4565 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish | Message 4 of 7 15 July 2013 at 2:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I might have been the one who posted the link in the Vikings team thread--I forget,
it's been a while. Whatever the case, I've gone through about 25 of the 30 freely available Danish "lessons". The course seems to be targeted to complete beginners and is best described as a cross between a phrasebook and a vocabulary builder. I agree with embici that it's probably best used as a supplement, and as such it's not half bad. Still, I probably wouldn't buy the book unless other resources were really scarce: truly good courses are more comprehensive, include grammar explanations, and have better voice acting. The Danish audio is OK though it has that dry, hypercorrect textbook sound to it. I downloaded the "speed version" recordings that contain no source language, just the target language phrases read out twice with shorter pauses. I don't see any reason to get the "normal" recordings unless you want listen to them on the go. Personally, I like to listen to the audio and alternate between looking at the translation and the Danish text. Edited by sans-serif on 15 July 2013 at 2:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5172 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 5 of 7 16 July 2013 at 5:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used the Georgian one and I'd recommend anyone to save it for the less commonly learned languages they'd decide to study later, because the courses seem to be the same. The Georgian one had several mistakes tho, things that sounded as having been translated from German directly, both in the English and in the Georgian sections.
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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5136 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 6 of 7 16 July 2013 at 5:45pm | IP Logged | ||
I noticed this with the Turkish version, too. I think the book2 series is OK for review, but, at least for Turkish, I wouldn't rely on it for any solid grammar study. You get a decent amount of vocabulary out of it, though. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6603 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 7 of 7 16 July 2013 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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is it different from what's available for free? :)
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