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| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5276 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes  Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 1 of 8 26 April 2013 at 5:25am | IP Logged | ||
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So Assimil recently came out with a Russian book with an English base, I believe in December 2012.
Has anyone tried it and what do you think? The price is very steep on Amazon (i.e. $185) and I'd like to know if it's worth it or there are effective alternatives before making such an outlay. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5535 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 8 26 April 2013 at 6:08am | IP Logged | ||
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I can't help you with the Russian course.
But $185 is too high. Here are some better prices (this is for the book + CD + MP3 pack): 70€ at Assimil.com. $42 at Schoenhof's (owned by the US Assimil distributor, I think) Be sure to triple-check ISBN numbers if you order from Schoenhof's. They have absolutely amazing in-store service in Boston, but their online ordering operation in Skokie can be pretty frustrating. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4892 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 3 of 8 26 April 2013 at 6:25am | IP Logged | ||
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And make sure you get the book plus recordings! They are sold separately now, which I
learned the hard way with Assimil Spanish. The Assimil website is clear; with others it's harder to tell. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Merv Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5276 days ago 414 posts - 749 votes Speaks: English*, Serbo-Croatian* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 4 of 8 26 April 2013 at 8:00am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks, this is really great! What a price difference! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4710 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 8 26 April 2013 at 9:40am | IP Logged | ||
Came out earlier even, in the spring. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4642 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 6 of 8 26 April 2013 at 9:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Why is it so expensive on Amazon.com? I checked Amazon.fr, and they sell it for 66.40 euros, which with today's exchange rate works out as 86USD.
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| Bobb328 Groupie Canada Joined 4588 days ago 52 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 7 of 8 27 April 2013 at 12:46am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm also curious as to what people have to say about this course. I'm deciding if I should do it with Russian w/o Toil
from the 50s so I get a more modern approach. How do they compare? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| leroc Senior Member United States Joined 4314 days ago 114 posts - 167 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 8 of 8 27 April 2013 at 2:31am | IP Logged | ||
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The older one, while dated and with bad audio, w/o Toil was longer with more chapters and content. Perhaps download the old one, buy the new With Ease, and use them in conjunction.
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