Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5828 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French
| Message 17 of 24 14 March 2010 at 8:50pm | IP Logged |
"Japanese Sentence Patterns For Effective Communication" is also a really great resource for those of us who like
learning grammar via sentence patterning. It may not be for everyone, but for those who like it, it's awesome.
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!LH@N Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6821 days ago 487 posts - 531 votes Speaks: German, Turkish*, English Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Spanish
| Message 18 of 24 18 March 2010 at 6:02pm | IP Logged |
Spanish: Spanish for Reading, Michel Thomas Spanish
French: Michel Thomas French
Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian: "Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: A Textbook" and "Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: A Grammar" by Ronelle Alexander, these books are just AWESOME!
Japanese: "Learning the Kanji" and "Learning the Kana" by Thomas Heisig
Web resources:
Spanish: www.spanish-kit.net
Greek and Latin: www.textkit.com
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noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5340 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean
| Message 19 of 24 27 March 2011 at 9:32pm | IP Logged |
I came across this recommendation from Fasulye last week and I bought a set of Hueber Tuerkisch
Einstieg program, and I love it! The program is very enjoyable to listen to, as each lesson in the audio CD
begins with a list of vocabulary used in the short dialogue that follows, and with music!
I wonder when they'll come up with the korean course!
Fasulye wrote:
I am a big fan of using all kinds of textbooks for my language studies.
So my recommendation - based on German - ist the following series (Hueber Verlag) inclusive 2 audio-CDs
- Einstieg Türkisch
- Einstieg Dänisch
also available for other languages!!!
These textbooks contain 20 units and are designed for self-study. The whole vocabulary of every unit is
presented on the audio.
Every unit contains two dialogues with some different types of exercises.
In German every unit gives detailed background information on the culture and way of life of the country.
The stories and comments are often amusing, so you aquire a kind of insider knowledge with a fun-factor.
I enjoy very much working with these textbooks!
Language level: from zero up to A1.
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hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5130 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe
| Message 20 of 24 27 March 2011 at 9:47pm | IP Logged |
The only language in your list I can contribute to is Norwegian.
For audio, Pimsleur's Complete Norwegian course (the 30 lesson course).
For textbooks, which also include audio and workbooks, På Vei, then Stein på stein. These two courses are completely in Norwegian. But completing the Pimsleur course was enough to get through these two courses. In addition to print copies, the courses are available on the web:
http://pavei.cappelendamm.no/
http://steinpastein.cappelendamm.no/
R.
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Edited by hrhenry on 28 March 2011 at 5:46am
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exscribere Diglot Senior Member IndiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5279 days ago 104 posts - 126 votes Speaks: English*, Danish Studies: Mandarin, French, Korean, Hindi
| Message 21 of 24 09 May 2011 at 5:12am | IP Logged |
Hindi: Elementary Hindi (textbook + workbook, has audio CD); Teach Yourself "Get Started In Hindi"; Hindi for Non-Hindi Speaking People
Elementary Hindi - It's a big book, proper college textbook style, but it's one of my favourites. I like that it breaks out the alphabet slowly while introducing relevant vocabulary and structures--it builds on everything as you go allowing for a more comfortable approach to the alphabet. The workbook is a great secondary support.
TY Get Started In Hindi - a different way to look at things, introducing grammar differently (a bit faster, IMO) and a significantly smaller book, better for travellers. I work out of both, building on what the one teaches.
Hindi for Non-Hindi Speaking People - divided up into lots of units where it covers a specific grammatical feature or lexical feature each time; verbs, adjectives, oblique, etc. I'm also recommending this to some ESL students I'm working with as a way to get a grasp on English, through their mother tongue.
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jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5418 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian
| Message 22 of 24 09 May 2011 at 4:43pm | IP Logged |
For Norwegian I'd nominate the out of print Linguaphone Norsk Kurs which, although
having some old fashioned language as it was written in 1964, is very thorough and
teaches a lot of stuff and even features excerpts from Norwegian literature in the last
few lessons.
It is possible to find the course online to download. If anyone is interested, private
message me and I will send you the links so you can download the books and audio. The
audio is split into four big tracks though as they originally came on LPs and later
cassettes but never made it to CD. The audio is very slow too, but you can use windows
media player to speed it up if you want. It is very heavy on grammatical terminology,
so you will need to look up the terminology if you are not familiar with it.
I'd also nominate Teach Yourself Complete Norwegian which is a decent course and deals
with more modern language though it does contain some phrases that younger generations
would almost never use, like "på gjensyn". It contains more easy to understand
explanations of grammar than the Linguaphone course and comes off as less intense which
is good at helping novice language learners not get overwhelmed but is less substantial
than the Linguaphone course.
For French I definitely recommend Assimil New French With Ease.
Edit: For those interested in the Linguaphone Norsk Kurs, I am currently editing the
audio into separate oggvorbis tracks. If you want these then give me a PM and I will
send you a winzip with the files when I'm done. Should have it edited completely into
separate tracks by the end of the week.
Edited by jazzboy.bebop on 09 May 2011 at 6:19pm
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stesani Newbie United States Joined 4951 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English
| Message 23 of 24 11 May 2011 at 10:16pm | IP Logged |
Japanese:
- Remembering the Kanji vol. 1 & 3 by James W. Heisig
- Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese Grammar (guidetojapanese.org) ;; not a textbook but there
is a pdf to be printed
- Japanese the Manga Way
- Japanese for Everyone
Edited by stesani on 11 May 2011 at 10:16pm
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translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6919 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 24 of 24 18 May 2011 at 1:44am | IP Logged |
The textbooks I recommend are on my blog (link on the left) so I won't repeat them here.
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