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| COF Senior Member United States Joined 5833 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 9 15 April 2012 at 6:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've heard that Assimil Dutch is one of the best courses that Assimil have ever published.
Upon completing Assimil "Dutch with Ease", what level of Dutch could I expect? Could one visit a Dutch speaking region and be immediately functional with the knowledge attained from the course, or do you think it would take more than that? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4717 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 2 of 9 15 April 2012 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm currently on lesson 38. The course is very good, funny and easy to follow, but I would never reccomend it as an unique source. Meet some natives on Livemocha, talk to them on Skype or SharedTalk, watch Dutch movies, TV series, read Dutch newspapers, magazines, it all will help and improve your level.
They say you can reach level B1-B2, and probably you will, but I think the course alone, although being great, is not a good idea. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4713 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 3 of 9 23 June 2012 at 8:18am | IP Logged | ||
Have you stuck with it? Have your impressions changed at all, for better or worse? 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| csjc Tetraglot Newbie IcelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5602 days ago 20 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English*, Icelandic, Modern Hebrew, Dutch Studies: Norwegian, French, Japanese | Message 4 of 9 23 June 2012 at 5:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've finished the course. It's very entertaining and well put together but it's not quite as comprehensive as other
Assimil courses. Keep in mind that the audio primarily uses Flemish pronunciation. Highly recommended as long as you supplement it well with additional input. There's a follow-up course in French, "La pratique du Néerlandais", which is surprisingly comprehensive, especially for more formal/technical Dutch. I just placed an order for the new(er) French-base course, "Le Néerlandais". Looking forward to taking a look at it. Edited by csjc on 23 June 2012 at 5:54pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Antanas Tetraglot Groupie Lithuania Joined 4814 days ago 91 posts - 172 votes Speaks: Lithuanian*, English, Russian, German Studies: FrenchB1, Spanish | Message 5 of 9 29 June 2012 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have also finished this course. Although I have not done "the second wave" (since I hate it and my primary aim was understanding and not speaking) I can understand perfectly what they say on audio recordings because I listened to them many times. But only after finishing lesson 50 of the second volume ("La pratique du Neerlandais") could I understand about 90% of news on Flemish or Dutch radio.
So I agree with fabriciocarraro that this course alone is not enough. One has to supplement it with "La pratique..." or some other more advanced course. (I believe that this also holds for the majority of other Assimil courses.) Good knowledge of German or some other Germanic language is also very helpful. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4709 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 6 of 9 29 June 2012 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Even knowledge of English will help.
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| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5567 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 7 of 9 29 June 2012 at 10:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Has anyone done the old Dutch Without Toil? or the new Le Néerlandais: Collection Sans
Peine? - If so what comments are there on those? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6867 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 8 of 9 30 June 2012 at 7:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd guess a B1, that was my experience
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