DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6149 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian
| Message 1 of 13 04 July 2012 at 4:05pm | IP Logged |
What's your most recent completed course and what course(s) are you currently using ?
My most recent completed courses are,
Grammaire en Dialogues - Niveau Debutant
Vocabulaire en Dialogues - Niveau Debutant
This week, I'm in the middle of,
FSI Basic French - Unit 7 (this is painfully slow and maybe dropped)
Assimil New French with Ease - Lesson 40
Grammaire Progressive du Francais - Niveau Intermediaire - Unit 27
Edited by DaraghM on 04 July 2012 at 4:06pm
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newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6377 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 2 of 13 04 July 2012 at 4:15pm | IP Logged |
Most recently completed: Chinese with Ease.
Now working on: the old Colloquial Chinese.
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Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5563 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 3 of 13 04 July 2012 at 4:22pm | IP Logged |
In German I have recently finished Assimil L'Allemand and am going through the Michel
Thomas Language Builder at the moment.
In French, after failing an online test for B1 (although it seemed to be pretty much
entirely grammar based), I am having a revision session - I have just finished the
Michel Thomas Advanced Review Course for about the 4th time (still had to go to the
main course to get some things up I had missed or forgotten), am currently doing the
Living Language Basic to Intermediate course and Assimil French Without Toil (second
time - but so worth it). I am also going through the the Barrons French Vocab book
listening to one track of the CD per day whilst reading the book - hopefully some of it
will stick....
It surprises me how much I have forgotten or hasn't stuck - in fact it feels like 2
steps backward for 1 step forward at the moment.
Edited by Elexi on 04 July 2012 at 9:45pm
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tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5451 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 4 of 13 04 July 2012 at 5:38pm | IP Logged |
Most recently completed: Linguaphone French Conversational Course
Currently using: Assimil French without Toil; Hugo Advanced French
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7154 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 5 of 13 04 July 2012 at 6:18pm | IP Logged |
Most recently completed course:
- Davvin 2 (Northern Saami)
Courses in use:
- Kato hei! (Finnish)
- Kuulostaa hyvältä - Sounds Good (Finnish)
- Sounds Good - Kuulostaa hyvältä (Finnish)
- Оҥай марий йылме: A Comprehensive Introduction to the Mari Language
- Beginning Polish: Volume Two
- Kiedyś wrócisz tu ... I. Gdzie nadwiślański brzeg (Polish)
- Beginner's Ukrainian
- Teach Yourself Ukrainian
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palfrey Senior Member Canada Joined 5271 days ago 81 posts - 180 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French
| Message 6 of 13 05 July 2012 at 1:23am | IP Logged |
I'm not sure if I have really completed a course in German yet. I have pretty well finished working through an old grammar book, "Essentials of German", by B.J. Vos (6th ed., 1936). But the paradigms, lists of strong verbs, and so on, are not sticking very well. I'm hoping that working with some connected texts might help.
To that end, while reviewing Vos's grammar, I am now looking at:
- Assimil, "German without toil"
(If you're wondering, I am not leeching off Assimil. I have bought "German with Ease" and a few other titles, both for myself and as gifts for others. But I felt I would only have time for one, and the older "without toil" appealed to me a bit more, for some reason.)
- B.J. Vos, "Materials for German Conversation" (2nd ed., revised, 1907)
(The orthography in this book is rather antiquated - e.g., "tun" (= to do) is spelt "thun". But so far, this doesn't seem to be any great hindrance to understanding the texts.)
- Leonard Bloomfield, "First German Book" (2nd ed., 1928)
Perhaps I need to modernize.
Edited by palfrey on 05 July 2012 at 3:24am
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Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5343 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish*
| Message 7 of 13 05 July 2012 at 2:20am | IP Logged |
Language books lying on the desk next to me, in varying degrees of completion:
* Assimil: French without Toil
* Assimil: New French with Ease
* em neu 2008 Brückenkurs
* Latin Made Simple (latest edition)
* Alexander Lipson, Steven J. Molinsky: A Russian Course
* Jane Wightwick, Mahmoud Gaafar: Mastering Arabic
* Living Language Spoken World: Hindi
* Teach Yourself Sanskrit
* Bharat S. Shah: Sanskrit, An Appreciation without Apprehension
* Japanese from Zero! 3
* Let's Learn Kanji
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Cortical Tetraglot Newbie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4631 days ago 30 posts - 52 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, SpanishB1 Studies: Russian, Mandarin
| Message 8 of 13 05 July 2012 at 2:42am | IP Logged |
haven't finished anything so far, but currently going through:
Langenscheidt: Russisch ohne Mühe (lesson 8)
New Penguin russian course (lesson 7)
Assimil: Russian without toil (lesson 11)
I ordered Assimil's Russian with ease more than a month ago, and I'm still waiting, and to compensate for the lost time I acquired without toil about a week ago...
And I am, of course, listening to music, gradually learning the lyrics (and their meanings) by heart.
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