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| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7149 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 113 of 376 18 April 2010 at 6:57am | IP Logged | ||||||||
These posts have forced me to think again about the courses available. First, I have several of the old Linguaphone courses and they are great at what they do. I have a stack of Assimil and they have been a silver bullet for me, with a couple of exceptions. I think you can make almost any course work for you. The best course I have is Russian For Everybody. It has plenty of audio - all recorded in Russian. It has plenty of dialogue as well as narrative. It has plenty of humour. It is pleasant to work with. It has a lot of drills if you enjoy drills. It comes with a library of books explaining grammar, a reader, a fun book with jokes and puzzles, a dictionary, the major textbook which explains grammar in context, as well as material to help with Russian pronunciation. There are written as well as oral drills. Each recorded lesson begins with the narrative (about people you get to know through the course), short dialogues, and then drills. Because I am familiar with the material I still play through the entire audio sometimes when I have a long drive. It is my idea of the perfect language course which seems to combine the best of FSI, Assimil and Linguaphone, as well as extra material. I bought it in East Berlin for a very low price that must have been subsidised by the Russian government. I bought a cheap case to hold the entire program. Edited by fanatic on 18 April 2010 at 7:02am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Khublei Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Yugoslavia homestayperu.net Joined 5350 days ago 90 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English*, Irish*, Spanish Studies: Russian, Khasi, French, Albanian | Message 114 of 376 18 April 2010 at 10:27pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I just spent the day listening to the Advanced Michel Thomas Russian CD. I said before
that this method annoys me, but I have to say I learnt a lot today. Although, the two students are incredibly slow. Does anyone know, are these classes scripted? I can't imagine they're being paid to learn a language, and cannot remember something they learned 10 seconds before. Other than that I think it's great. I'm just about finished the Pimsleur series, now I'm going to get a 'First 1000 words' type book to learn some more nouns. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5343 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean | Message 115 of 376 24 April 2010 at 11:36pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I have read alot that most people use the Assimil programs (and others such as Pimsleurs or Michel Thomas) to learn a foreign language...however, I am wondering, whether anyone uses textbooks (coupled with accompanying CDs) to learn the language too?
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5456 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 116 of 376 24 April 2010 at 11:50pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
What do you mean by "text books"? The kind of text books typically used in school (for instance when learning French in high school)? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5343 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean | Message 117 of 376 25 April 2010 at 12:10am | IP Logged | ||||||||
What I meant by textbooks is: for example for French, there're textbooks such as "Taxi! Methode de Francais", ou "Panorama: methode de francais"...or for example for German, there're textbooks such as "em neu hauptkurs"... 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5456 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 118 of 376 25 April 2010 at 1:03am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I don't know these books, but if they are primarily intended for class room teaching, they may not be suited for self study. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5568 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 119 of 376 25 April 2010 at 11:41am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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For learning French I went through a series of target language textbooks alongside English language textbooks - mainly because they force you to learn new words by immersion but also because they are structured around what a class would learn in passing the various DELF/DALF grades, which I appreciate as I want to know what I should be learning if I was in a classroom - they normally come with a CD and a book of exercises, so are perfectly good for self teaching. Edited by Elexi on 25 April 2010 at 11:41am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| noriyuki_nomura Bilingual Octoglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 5343 days ago 304 posts - 465 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin*, Japanese, FrenchC2, GermanC2, ItalianC1, SpanishB2, DutchB1 Studies: TurkishA1, Korean | Message 120 of 376 25 April 2010 at 12:13pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hi Elexi, that's how I go (or went) about learning languages too. I like using textbooks, since they are more structured around what a class would learn, and most important of all, I love listening to the dialogues recorded in the accompanying CD(s)..
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