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| erinserb Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7224 days ago 135 posts - 144 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 5 04 August 2010 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am interested in getting opinions/consensus about two methods for learning French which I will use in my further long-term studies (along with FIA).
There is a podcast called "Learning French by Podcast". It has approximately 140 lessons built up since 2006. It also (for a fee) has excellent, detailed pdf files which complement each lesson. On the other hand, there is Assimil. I have found it to be quite formidable and very easy to use. LFBP moves a bit more quickly, but nearly everything in the dialogue is read verbatim and repeated. If anyone has comments about either one of these, I would greatly appreciate hearing from you 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5409 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 2 of 5 05 August 2010 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I had a look at both and suggested them to a friend who wanted to learn French. She ended
up using Assimil, but I think I would have used the podcasts instead. It's just so lively, so versatile, and practical. I feel like Assimil is so disconnected; it presents dialogs that look so disconnected from reality (at least at the beginning). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| erinserb Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7224 days ago 135 posts - 144 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 5 05 August 2010 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks to Arekkusu :-) - for a podcast learning program, LFBP is fairly high quality - perhaps after LFBP, I can look at the Assimil advanced program in French.
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| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7131 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 4 of 5 05 August 2010 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes. I had a look at some of the sample materials. Very good quality. Myself, I'd be tempted to use both. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5409 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 5 of 5 05 August 2010 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used a different podcast series for Japanese and I learned LOADS from it, so I warm-heartedly encourage anyone wondering if they should give podcasts a try.
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