Mistermark21 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4610 days ago 23 posts - 26 votes Studies: Swedish* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Polish
| Message 1 of 5 14 April 2012 at 12:01am | IP Logged |
I have recently managed to get hold of an entire Linguaphone German course from 1965 in excellent condition. It includes 4 books and about 15 records.
Does anyone know if this course is as good as what Linguaphone is producing now? I mean, their courses today are rather expensive.
Im in the process of converting the records to mp3. I cant wait to start this course. My German is decent, but im not as good as i'd like to be.
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fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7144 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto
| Message 2 of 5 14 April 2012 at 12:59pm | IP Logged |
I have several Linguaphone courses from the sixties and I think they are excellent.
I learnt German with Assimil German Without Toil and a work colleague had learnt German with the Linguaphone course. His German was excellent.
I recently bought a new Swedish Linguaphone course with 9 CDs and it seems similar to the older courses. I bought it at a huge discount because it was supposed to be used but it came in brand new condition with every CD sealed. I don't know there is much difference between the old and the new except for the binding of the books and the medium of the audio.
I think you have made an excellent buy and investment.
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piranha Newbie Italy Joined 5318 days ago 18 posts - 23 votes Speaks: Italian*
| Message 3 of 5 14 April 2012 at 3:13pm | IP Logged |
Hi Mistermark21,
yours linguaphone German course contains 30 or 50 lessons?
in both cases I think that old linguaphone courses are a good choice.
from the reviews that I have read on the forum, the age 50's-60-70's is the golden era of
Linguaphone courses
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Mistermark21 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4610 days ago 23 posts - 26 votes Studies: Swedish* Studies: French, German, Spanish, Polish
| Message 4 of 5 15 April 2012 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the replies guys. Pirana, there's 50 lessons in my Linguaphone course. I started from the beginning today keeping as strict as possible to the Linguaphone method. (I already completed Pimsleur German Level 1 and got halfway through level 2). I must say, even from lesson 1 Ive picked up the occasional word or expression that i didn't know.
Cant wait to carry on with it;)
P.S. It only cost me £10 on eBay too!
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fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7144 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto
| Message 5 of 5 16 April 2012 at 7:16am | IP Logged |
Mistermark21 wrote:
Thanks for the replies guys. Pirana, there's 50 lessons in my Linguaphone course. I started from the beginning today keeping as strict as possible to the Linguaphone method. (I already completed Pimsleur German Level 1 and got halfway through level 2). I must say, even from lesson 1 Ive picked up the occasional word or expression that i didn't know.
Cant wait to carry on with it;)
P.S. It only cost me £10 on eBay too! |
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You did well. £10 was a good buy. You can find the occasional bargain and Linguaphone (standard) courses are always good value.
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