Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5103 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German
| Message 9 of 23 04 February 2011 at 12:42pm | IP Logged |
I've been meaning to ask this for awhile: I've noticed that many people have high praise for the old Assimil courses. Is there something wrong with the new ones?
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staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5700 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written)
| Message 10 of 23 04 February 2011 at 12:55pm | IP Logged |
Darklight1216 wrote:
I've been meaning to ask this for awhile: I've noticed that many people have high
praise for the old Assimil courses. Is there something wrong with the new ones? |
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Not at all.
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datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5588 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French
| Message 11 of 23 04 February 2011 at 8:15pm | IP Logged |
staf250 wrote:
Darklight1216 wrote:
I've been meaning to ask this for awhile: I've noticed that many people have high
praise for the old Assimil courses. Is there something wrong with the new ones? |
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Not at all. |
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They are excellent all around in my opinion, I have the old German course, and the new one, They are all very similar and my favorite way to start out with a language, it's just like Russian for example, Assimil doesn't produce a "new" course for it, so we resort to the old :D
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zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5347 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 12 of 23 04 February 2011 at 10:01pm | IP Logged |
Well I'm going to wait for Assimil's Russian with Ease course when it's released the end
of this year or beginning of next year.
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Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5103 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German
| Message 13 of 23 05 February 2011 at 12:19am | IP Logged |
datsunking1 wrote:
They are excellent all around in my opinion, I have the old German course, and the new one, They are all very similar and my favorite way to start out with a language, it's just like Russian for example, Assimil doesn't produce a "new" course for it, so we resort to the old :D |
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Thank you very much for anwering my question. I might seriously consider their French course.
Edited by Darklight1216 on 05 February 2011 at 12:24am
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Ericounet Senior Member France yojik.euRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5438 days ago 157 posts - 414 votes Studies: English, German, Russian
| Message 14 of 23 05 February 2011 at 3:14pm | IP Logged |
Hi,
I have "le russe sans peine" bought in 2000, and got: the 1951 and 1971 version (with audio):
The best one is from far the 1951 version, in my opinion.
The actual version has a big step to take around the 13/15th lesson: it's not progressive enough. But, it's something I noticed also with the German course. (but later in this course).
The more progressive course is the DLI course, which you can get for free.
Yes, 80 pages only for the accusativ, but after that, you'll never forget how to use it.
Hope this help,
Eric!
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ps: I use many sources together: assimil and other audio courses, FSI, DLI, grammar books, reader books, TV, podcasts ...
For me, it's the best way not to be bored. And every method has a different focus, so it's a good way to see more topics.
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datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5588 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French
| Message 15 of 23 06 February 2011 at 12:51am | IP Logged |
zekecoma wrote:
Well I'm going to wait for Assimil's Russian with Ease course when it's released the end
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Did they say they're going to be producing it? :| Oh wow I'm excited!
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leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6553 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog
| Message 16 of 23 06 February 2011 at 4:16am | IP Logged |
Has anyone tried the Russian assimil for French speakers?
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