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| COF Senior Member United States Joined 5829 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 15 12 April 2012 at 4:44pm | IP Logged |
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I was wondering if there are any other language series that take a similar learning approach to Assimil, particularly in regards to all the audio being in the target language?
One of the main things I dislike about most other series is that the CDs are full of English. There really is no point, you need to hear the target language, not your own. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cabaire Senior Member Germany Joined 5597 days ago 725 posts - 1352 votes | Message 2 of 15 12 April 2012 at 5:00pm | IP Logged |
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The old Linuaphone courses have a similar design to Assimil.
PS. Yes, courses where a lot of English is babbled are a nuisance but I am used to cutting it out using Audacity. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5563 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 3 of 15 12 April 2012 at 5:03pm | IP Logged |
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Added to Linguaphone (remember that with the exception of All Talk and French and
Spanish, the current courses are the old courses, at least the 70s courses) there is Cortina - but you have to get the Masterlinguist package to get all the CDs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6149 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 4 of 15 12 April 2012 at 5:20pm | IP Logged |
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Apart from monolingual courses, the following are also entirely, or almost entirely, in the target language,
Linguaphone - As mentioned, just the older courses. Hodder Education - Living series (Living Spanish, Living Italian, Living French) - They do contain some small audio cues, but nothing like TY or Colloquial. Living Language - Ultimate series (Just the first 3/4 CD's - The On the Go CD's have a lot of English.) Living Language - Maximum series (These have 7 CD's entirely in the TL) Edited by DaraghM on 12 April 2012 at 5:20pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| COF Senior Member United States Joined 5829 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 15 12 April 2012 at 5:26pm | IP Logged |
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Why are so few Assimil courses translated into English when compared to the sheer number available for French?
Maybe rather than complaining I should be learning French so I can use those courses, but it strikes me as strange why they don't try to capitalise on the huge English language market they're missing out on. Anyone share similar sentiments? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| 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 6 of 15 12 April 2012 at 5:30pm | IP Logged |
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If possible, consider language courses that aren't installments in today's big-name series. In fact some of the kits meant for foreigners but created in places where the target language is used natively go further than some of these courses loaded with audio and explanations in the learner's native language. They're instead done entirely in the target language which implies that you can check in with a native speaker if you're unsure. If you're learning alone, you'd need a bare minimum of instructions/explanations in a language that you can understand. Yet I do agree that the audio in some of today's courses in heavily marketed branded series have airtime in English that can be unacceptably long (e.g. "Colloquial Finnish"))
If you're looking for kits for BCMS/Serbo-Croatian, Finnish, Hungarian, Polish, Slovak or Ukrainian that have minimal or no explanatory audio in anything other than the target language, I could pass on a few suggestions. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 7 of 15 12 April 2012 at 6:43pm | IP Logged |
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I'm interested in your suggestions for Polish :)
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| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4866 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 8 of 15 12 April 2012 at 7:34pm | IP Logged |
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busuu.com har all the audio in the target language.
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