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| BobMc Senior Member United States Joined 5651 days ago 36 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 57 of 376 12 October 2009 at 10:33am | IP Logged | ||
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One cheaper way to get Pimsleur is from audible.com. They sell each of the 3 Pimsleur Spanish levels for 6 credits, and you can get 24 credits from audible for $229 with their platinum plan.
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| Woodpecker Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5814 days ago 351 posts - 590 votes  Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (Egyptian) Studies: Arabic (classical) | Message 58 of 376 12 October 2009 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd add to all the resources mentioned, the great (or I assume they're all great based off the French version) series of graded readers written by Karl Sandberg. The only three available are "French for Reading," "Spanish for Reading," and "German for Reading," but the first is excellent and the others get great reviews everywhere I've seen any.
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| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5902 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 59 of 376 13 October 2009 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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I must say that my all-time favorite is Introduction to Sanskrit in 2 vols. by Thomas Egenes. Using a step-by-step approach and a generous provision of examples and exercises (with answers) Egenes succeeds in making one of the most complex languages a breeze to learn. It is the absolute best language textbook I have ever used and recommend it unreservedly. Edited by JuanM on 13 October 2009 at 10:08pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5578 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 60 of 376 14 October 2009 at 1:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Oh! The New Penguin Russian Course...I haven't started it yet but combined with Assimil I think I'm gold for getting to B1 or maybe B2 in Russian.
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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6897 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 61 of 376 14 October 2009 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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Pricing and legality issues aside, I found Pimsleur an effective way to get started and assimilate the basics of a language as difficult as Mandarin. It took me all of 18 months to slog through the complete set of 90 lessons, requiring anything from six to twenty repetitions of each one.
In the case of an "easier" language Pimsleur would have been too slow-paced and too low ambition level for me. I think I'd have run out of patience with it somewhere between lesson two and three. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7159 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 62 of 376 14 October 2009 at 11:24pm | IP Logged | ||
If we define "Language Program" as "Brand" or "Publisher" of language courses then it depends for me. Because I study "unpopular" languages, I'm sometimes forced to look beyond the commonly-used publishers for my materials. The approach, presentation and depth of coverage used by the course's author is much more important than the course's "publishing / branding flag". For BCS / Serbo-Croatian, my favourite coursebook (so far) is "Bosnian/Croatian/Serbian - A Textbook" published by the University of Wisconsin. For Estonian, my favourite coursebook (so far) is "Teach Yourself Estonian" For Finnish, my favourite coursebook (so far) is "Finnish for Foreigners" published by Otava. For Hungarian, my favourite coursebook (so far) is "Colloquial Hungarian" (older edition - the newer edition of "Colloquial Hungarian" isn't quite as good in my experience) For Polish, my favourite coursebooks (so far) are published by Slavica (e.g. "Intermediate Polish") and Universitas (e.g. "Z polskim na ty") For Slovak, my favourite coursebooks (so far) are published by Slavica (i.e. "Beginning Slovak") and Comenius University (e.g. "Slovenčina pre cudzincov - Gramatická a pravopisná cvičebnica") When available, I like to use FSI Basic Courses but more as supplements since their value for me lies in how many drills they offer. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| hobbitofny Senior Member United States Joined 6236 days ago 280 posts - 408 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian | Message 63 of 376 16 October 2009 at 4:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Why is Spoken Languague series not listed in the tags? I had recommend and use it for Russian.
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| janababe Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5517 days ago 102 posts - 115 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German | Message 64 of 376 21 October 2009 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | ||
Why's that Dale? Is it good for learning the alphabet and pronunciation? I've used Rosetta Stone and MT for French and can say that they're quite a load of sh!t. Rosetta Stone labels everything and doesn't actually teach you, and MT has students who are mental - after you learn something they just don't get it right. Tell Me More is more enjoyable but I've only tried the news reports. Edited by Rhian on 18 November 2009 at 11:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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