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| mentalist Newbie Turkey Joined 4270 days ago 16 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 1 of 37 19 March 2013 at 6:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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a couple months ago I started learning German with books,I worked for a couple months
and then I faced failure,I couldn't learn a language with books.But I never forget what I heard.So here is the thing,I need a learning program that covers a lot of vocabulary.I can listen for hundreds of hours,I can repeat everything. And I can be a Pavlovian dog. But Pimsleur doesn't cover enough,or Michel Thomas.I also tried Paul Noble,it was a really big failure.Because they wrote I would learn 6000 words-and I was an idiot to believe that- on Amazon page. Anyway I need to know 5000 words,because if I learn less I would be so distracted with the words I don't know and I couldn't read books. I learned English by watching Lost,trying to identify every word,and writing summaries. But I can't do it in German because I don't have enough background. So please help me if you know an audio program that fits me:) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mentalist Newbie Turkey Joined 4270 days ago 16 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 2 of 37 19 March 2013 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I also think about the FSI series,because I have hundreds of hours,but I heard that it
works with a small vocabularand uses the same words again and again,if I'm wrong please let me know. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Majka Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic kofoholici.wordpress Joined 4656 days ago 307 posts - 755 votes  Speaks: Czech*, German, English Studies: French Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 37 19 March 2013 at 8:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would get the German Fast and German Headstart for the beginning. It is hard to beat for the price and convenience.
At the same time, get the lessons from Deutsche Welle. In these you have hours of free audio. This should get you where you can continue with native materials. Good luck! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4667 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 4 of 37 20 March 2013 at 12:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Assimil has good audio, but their language selection is not that expansive.
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| 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 5 of 37 20 March 2013 at 1:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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It is in terms of buying the audio because in that case the base language of the book is irrelevant (usually you can buy the audio separately).
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| Gala Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4549 days ago 229 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 6 of 37 20 March 2013 at 2:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd recommend Learn in Your Car and Vocabulearn, made by Penton Overseas. Both are
available in 3 levels which can be bought individually or as a package. It's nothing but a listen-and-repeat format with English translations, but no "instructional" explanations on the audio. They come with little booklets that mainly just serve to show spelling. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4609 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 7 of 37 20 March 2013 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Book2 is free and provides about 5 hours of audio. It might be a good supplement for the other materials already recommended.
It supposedly corresponds to the Common European Framework levels A1 and A2. I'm not sure what that means in terms of total number of words but it might help you reach your goal. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4908 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 8 of 37 20 March 2013 at 6:12pm | IP Logged | ||
From what I've read elsewhere on these forum, the German Vocabulearn has an Austrian accent, which sounds bad to speakers from Germany. Which is too bad because it does have an awful lot of vocabulary, although nobody knows exactly they mean by "7500 Words & Expressions". 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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