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| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7144 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes  Studies: Uzbek | Message 1 of 26 24 July 2015 at 4:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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It appears that Routledge has made the audio to its "Colloquial" series of language textbooks available online for free download:
http://www.routledgetextbooks.com/textbooks/colloquial/defau lt.php#languages I didn't see audio for all of their books (such as for the Egyptian and Gulf Arabic books), but it does seem to be available for most of them. Comments I've seen on Amazon have suggested that people have been confused in some cases as to whether the audio came with the books or had to be ordered separately, so this strikes me as a very helpful move to make things easier for users. It would be nice if other companies (Assimil, are you listening?) would do the same thing... 20 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gunjumero Newbie Canada Joined 3668 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Speaks: French* | Message 2 of 26 24 July 2015 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow, downloading everything before they change their minds.
Thank you for bringing that find to us ! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5565 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 3 of 26 24 July 2015 at 5:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Excellent. In my view, the Colloquial series has the best introduction to the sounds of
a language. Even if one doesn't buy the book, spending a few hours with the sounds of the language section in a Colloquial course pays off more than most. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| liammcg Senior Member Ireland Joined 4604 days ago 269 posts - 397 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 26 24 July 2015 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | ||
Unbelievable! Thank you Routledge!
If you click on "Africa" you'll find them there! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 7144 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 5 of 26 24 July 2015 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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You're right, liammcg; my mistake. It thus seems that the entire series is available.
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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5262 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 6 of 26 24 July 2015 at 6:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, daristani!!! This is huge! Quoted your post and posted a link back to here on the temporary forum.
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| liammcg Senior Member Ireland Joined 4604 days ago 269 posts - 397 votes Speaks: English* | Message 7 of 26 24 July 2015 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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As someone who has never used a Colloquial course before (I have the Welsh course sitting on my shelf,
but it's not a priority at the moment), I wonder could people who HAVE used them comment briefly on how they found them? Which colloquial courses did you enjoy? Would you recommend them to people here? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7156 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 8 of 26 24 July 2015 at 6:57pm | IP Logged | ||
The available audio is for the newest editions in the series. With experience I'd go with Colloquial Czech and Colloquial Slovak, whose audio is downloadable on the site. The new edition of Colloquial Slovene by Pirnat-Greenberg is on my shelf and a big improvement over the old edition by Albretti although I haven't used the new edition yet. I've used the old edition of Colloquial Hungarian by Payne which was sold with cassettes and prefer it to the new edition by Solyom and Rounds. See here for related discussion. 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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