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| geirtbr Groupie Norway Joined 6659 days ago 83 posts - 90 votes  Speaks: Norwegian* Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 13 06 June 2010 at 9:29pm | IP Logged |
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I noticed that linguaphone has made several courses for languages not mentioned on their site (icelandic, finnish).
Does anyone know if there is a list someplace of all their publications? secondary, does anyon have suggestoion for a good library in europe where on could go and have a look at their editions. Perhaps some british university library? EDIT: Merged posts. Please don't double post in future. Thanks. Edited by patuco on 07 June 2010 at 12:37am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5567 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 2 of 13 06 June 2010 at 10:05pm | IP Logged |
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How about the British Library? As the UK's main library, the Linguaphone list is pretty extensive. Type Linguaphone into search terms.
http://catalogue.bl.uk/F/?func=file&file_name=login-bl-list 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5455 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 3 of 13 07 June 2010 at 5:02am | IP Logged |
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I think such a list would be a very nice to have. It could help people looking for old courses on Ebay, Abebooks,
Amazon etc. The Linguaphone courses are often sold as a complete sets with the suitcase and all, but there are also many incomplete sets on sale. Such a list could help people trying to hunt down the missing parts of and old course they have. Maybe a good start for such a list would be a general description of the different generations of courses? I'll start right off with a description of the generation I'm most familiar with. The 1970s generation (30 lessons) Most of Linguaphone's current courses belong to this generations. The French and Spanish courses don't. Each course typically consists of: * Textbook (30 lessons. Each lesson consists of 3 "parts".) * Handbook (explanatory notes and vocabulary) * Oral exercises book * Written exercises book * Audio (records, cassettes or CDs) These courses first came out in the beginning of the 1970s. Some have been reissued several times with minor differences between editions (such as new drawings or different suitcase or box), but in general I believe the differences are so small that a handbook from the 1990s should match a textbook from the 1970s. I'm not sure if they've always included both exercise books. Everything is in the target language except for the handbook. Today English is the only base language, but they used to offer various base languages. The only difference between an English based course and a Norwegian based course was the handbook. If my description is wrong or not accurate, please tell me. Edited by tractor on 07 June 2010 at 5:04am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7123 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 4 of 13 07 June 2010 at 6:11am | IP Logged |
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You can view and borrow many of them from Manchester Central Library, 4th floor. They also have audio facilities on site. That's where I first came across them when I was at college.
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| Talairan Tetraglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6594 days ago 194 posts - 258 votes Speaks: Afrikaans, English*, Gypsy/Romani, Dutch Studies: Spanish, Flemish, Galician, Aramaic | Message 5 of 13 08 June 2010 at 10:46am | IP Logged |
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The British Library Sound Archive http://www.bl.uk/reshelp/bldept/soundarch/about/soundarchive .html has copies of every Linguaphone course (and all audio courses produced in the UK). Your best bet would probably be to start there. Edited by Talairan on 08 June 2010 at 10:46am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Troy Triglot Newbie United States Joined 4769 days ago 2 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English, Tagalog, French | Message 6 of 13 16 January 2012 at 6:32pm | IP Logged |
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For Linguaphone courses (not the PDQ or All Talk), I think that they are available in the following languages:
Spanish Greek Russian Dutch German Portuguese Thai Japanese Italian Swedish English Chinese Arabic Icelandic French Persian Irish Serbo-croate Korean Afrikaans and.. Finnish? (I implied this from the OP's post, but this is the first time I became aware that they offer a Finnish course.) That's just my result from snooping around the web. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| egill Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5698 days ago 418 posts - 791 votes Speaks: Mandarin, English* Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 7 of 13 16 January 2012 at 9:27pm | IP Logged |
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They definitely have Finnish, I'm staring at it right now :)
Appending Hindi, Norwegian, and Welsh to the list: Spanish Greek Russian Dutch German Portuguese Thai Japanese Italian Swedish English Chinese Arabic Icelandic French Persian Irish Serbo-croate Korean Afrikaans Finnish Hindi Norwegian Welsh 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6381 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 13 17 January 2012 at 1:34am | IP Logged |
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Adding Malay and Indonesian (separate courses):
Spanish Greek Russian Dutch German Portuguese Thai Japanese Italian Swedish English Chinese Arabic Icelandic French Persian Irish Serbo-croate Korean Afrikaans Finnish Hindi Norwegian Welsh Malay Indonesian 1 person has voted this message useful |
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