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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 17 of 29 16 March 2012 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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In terms of grammar, it's pretty heavy, yes. But then, I like that...
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| brian00321 Senior Member United States Joined 6596 days ago 143 posts - 148 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 18 of 29 22 March 2012 at 4:51am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm waiting for this one to hit Amazon. Shipping to the States borders on the line of
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| en.fr.es Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4603 days ago 15 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 19 of 29 25 April 2012 at 1:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi all :)
Does anyone have any more views/reviews/problems with the new Russian Assimil? For a poor student 60 odd quid is a fair bit but I am willing to part with my money if it will be worth it in the long run. My experience with Russian is 1 year of studying in my first year of university but I absolutely hated the classes and did not get on with the teacher. I probably have a vocabulary of about 100 words and can string a few BASIC sentences together. I really want to give Russian a second go and am thinking of buying this course from Amazon.fr seeing as I am currently doing a work placement for my university course here in France. Some of you mentioned that this version may not be as good as some other courses? I will potentially have 4 months over the summer to devote to my languages before I return to uni so I really want to take advantage of this time and am confident that I can get to a solid A2/B1 in Russian. I would be really grateful if someone could reply to this thread to help me out! Thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tennisfan Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5358 days ago 130 posts - 247 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: German | Message 20 of 29 26 April 2012 at 6:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'll also be patiently waiting to get a thorough review of this course. Even if it isn't perfect or "as good" as other Assimil Russian courses, the fact that it is with an English base is on its own a huge plus.
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| en.fr.es Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4603 days ago 15 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 21 of 29 26 April 2012 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah I really want to buy it but it is alot of money so I want to be sure it will get me
to a good level (with me putting in lots of hard work too) I still don't 100% understand the whole assimil thing and there isn't much/any details of the course on their website but other users here have recommended other assimil courses so I will wait and see for this one. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7130 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 22 of 29 02 May 2012 at 4:17am | IP Logged | ||
I agree, but I just learned that deastore.com (an Italian site) now offers free worldwide shipping and carries (or can get) lots of French books. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4709 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 23 of 29 04 May 2012 at 4:52am | IP Logged | ||
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I've decided to place my order just now for this course. I hope the shipping to the US
is not too slow as I am moving at the end of May... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4709 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 24 of 29 08 May 2012 at 5:31am | IP Logged | ||
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It arrived today. Their shipping is very pricey, but I can't complain about the speed,
haha. Ordered direct from Assimil Friday. It processed Saturday and arrived here today (Monday). Though I did notice it shipped from an address in Miami, and not Paris, so....feels like a bit of a rip-off shipping price wise. Anyway, I'm excited to have it, but I wish it had not arrived before I finished all my finals, haha. It looks very good from the bit of flipping around I did. Very thorough index, lots of grammar instruction, etc... I'm still going to try to fight temptation and finish at least level 1 of Pimsleur and MT first :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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