napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5018 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written)
| Message 9 of 13 01 June 2011 at 4:50pm | IP Logged |
The older 'Italian Without Toil' is available online for free if you know where to look. Its not that I'm encouraging piracy though, but the older version is out of print and its difficult to get hold of a hard-copy of it.
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stmc2 Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6253 days ago 45 posts - 58 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German
| Message 10 of 13 02 June 2011 at 3:05pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the info. I don't want commit time and energy and sound like I just came from a time machine. Has anybody had any problems with using the language taught in the old 'without toil' books?
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FireViN Diglot Senior Member Brazil missaoitaliano.wordpRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5231 days ago 196 posts - 292 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 Studies: Italian
| Message 11 of 13 02 June 2011 at 9:00pm | IP Logged |
I'm currently using Italian Without Toil (in English). I'm not having trouble understanding the explanations, but I'm afraid it's too old and the vocabulary is outdated. Should I change to "O Novo Italiano sem Esforço"? It's a bit overpriced here.
I could import or search for Italian With Ease (90's), but it would be a little expensive too.
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newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6381 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map
| Message 12 of 13 03 June 2011 at 4:24am | IP Logged |
Just use the Without Toil. It's fine. Any language that is a little bit old sounding will fall out of your head once you move onto native materials.
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Lien Newbie Vietnam Joined 4857 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Studies: French, Italian
| Message 13 of 13 01 December 2011 at 11:52am | IP Logged |
I also have this version copied from a friend of mine and I have been desperately searching for an English version of it but it have tried in vain. However, I am using Google translate and it is not bad at all though it requires a lot of patience.
A part from it . I also have 94 MP3 lessons without transcript. I am wondering if it is also from Assimil or other language program. Here are some lessons.
1 : Viaggio in seconda classe
2:Una scampagnata
2:In commune
3: La partita di calcio
89: Una partenza
90: Un avvertimento
Would much appreciate it if anyone have the transcript and willing to share.
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