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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5585 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 33 of 37 16 May 2011 at 8:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have Esperanto, Russian, and Portuguese all from 1950's and 1960's era. They are excellent, the Esperanto one is unbelievable, I went off of a recommendation from users on this forum actually :) The only downfall is that they DO throw a lot at you. (And there isn't any audio) but once you master the basic sounds of the language I think they're amazing. I can't speak for the new editions though :/
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5453 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 34 of 37 16 May 2011 at 9:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have a few of those old Teach Yourself books too (German, French, Italian and Catalan). The Catalan one is not that
old (first published in 1975), but follows the same formula. There are no puzzles and no childish games. They treat you as an educated adult. They are traditional grammar-translation based courses, and since they are grammar heavy, I wouldn't recommend them to everybody. Besides, there's no audio and the language is rather formal and dated (at least in the German one). However, I think they are excellent supplements to more "modern" methods, such as Assimil. Edited by tractor on 16 May 2011 at 9:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aru-aru Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 6457 days ago 244 posts - 331 votes Speaks: Latvian*, English, Russian | Message 35 of 37 17 May 2011 at 8:12am | IP Logged | ||
That "Complete Hindi" is exactly the same book as the older edition, "Teach Yourself Hindi". Get that one from e-bay or used somewhere else. I've seen several of the "old" TY books (Nepali, German, etc) side by side with the "new" TY Complete ____ books, they've been the same so far. Of course, the price tag for the "new" one can be more than two times higher. "Teach Yourself Hindi" is sold for around RS 400 (without CD), and the "new" Complete Hindi book was, I think, like 1700+ (also no CD). Try finding the "old" edition! Edited by aru-aru on 17 May 2011 at 8:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5565 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 36 of 37 17 May 2011 at 10:10am | IP Logged | ||
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I have worked through the old 50s (actually originally 1920s) yellow/blue cover TY French and the German 'for fun' and my view is that whilst they were good exercises they are pretty cursorary in their explanation, have out dated vocabulary, and at times quite frankly idiosyncratic grammatical structures. All this means they are probably best left as revision.
There are lots of more modern courses that give you that level of revision without the oddities and antiquarianism found in those old books - older does not of necessity mean better. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| vykis92 Groupie LithuaniaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5315 days ago 68 posts - 71 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 37 of 37 20 May 2011 at 5:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hmmm.. I wonder if there is any differences in content from different TY editions, like for example TY Japanese from 2003 has 381pages, but TY Japanese from 2004 has only 340pages. Does later edition has less content too?
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