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| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7106 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 1 of 7 21 September 2011 at 5:56pm | IP Logged |
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It appears that the old Champs-Elysées website has arisen like a phoenix from the ashes in the form of something called "Plango" made by some entity calling itself The Plan 9 Group LLC.
Champs-Elysées Homepage Seems to be an iTunes app that offers some sort of language courses and currently a very limited set of one issue each of the old Champs-Elysées, Puerta del Sol, Acquerello Italiano and Schau ins Land products. Plango iTunes Page Anyone taken the plunge? I'm more interested in the audio-magazines than anything and they seem like more of an iPad than iPhone/IPod Touch fit to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Eumaeus Groupie Australia Joined 5607 days ago 75 posts - 134 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 2 of 7 22 September 2011 at 8:42am | IP Logged |
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I just had a look. The app is free but the content isn't. Seems a bit expensive for what appears to be
phrasebook type material. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7106 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 3 of 7 22 September 2011 at 11:14am | IP Logged |
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Yes.... I'd agree if all they had were the "phrase books" but they appear to also be offering access to (at least some of) the old audio magazines that the original company produced - they weren't cheap then either but they were quality.
$6 a pop even for an electronic version doesn't seem too bad. Edit: Inability to type my native language Edited by Andy E on 22 September 2011 at 11:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Eumaeus Groupie Australia Joined 5607 days ago 75 posts - 134 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 7 22 September 2011 at 12:22pm | IP Logged |
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Ah yes, I see what you mean now. There are the basic greetings, ordering coffee type lessons and then
there are the magazines. On the surface they look ok. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6014 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 5 of 7 22 September 2011 at 2:43pm | IP Logged |
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Magazines generally fall into the category of "ephemera". They exist, by design, to be read and disposed of; to be of passing interest.
$6 is a lot to pay for an old magazine in electronic format, and the new owners seem to be a technology company, so it looks like they've just bought out the material from the receivers in order to show off their tech. I don't expect they'll be producing any material directly, so $6 seems a bit steep to me.... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7106 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 6 of 7 22 September 2011 at 9:56pm | IP Logged |
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Well I don't believe we're talking about this week's Hello magazine here - I've got magazine-based "ephemera" I've had for 30 years or more.
Everyone has a price point - $6 is at least comparable to the 4 Euros (IIRC) it will cost you to buy a single online copy of punto y coma. I spend that much daily on lunch and Starbucks. If all they do is publish the back catalogue of Champs-Elysées (and nothing original), I'd be more than happy. My concern is that the website content is all a bit thin on the ground and they're touting these prices with a "buy now before it goes up" slant. There are three reviews on the iTunes site, two of whom appear to have been shafted by the last incarnation of Champs-Elysées. Of those one's hugely in favour, the other has similar concerns to myself.... ...maybe wait and see then (Of course, I don't actually own an iPad at the moment either) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7124 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 7 of 7 25 September 2011 at 4:43am | IP Logged |
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I wonder if they are honouring any sort of refund to those who signed up to the original works and then lost out when the company went bang.
It's good that the material is available though. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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