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koba
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 Message 1 of 174
13 March 2012 at 12:30pm | IP Logged 
Assimil has just released four new courses for French speakers:

Assimil Le Croate
http://www.assimil.com/descriptionProduitDetail.do?
paramIdProduit=2199¶mIdMethode=2199¶mIdPartenaire=50 0

Assimil L'Ukrainien
http://www.assimil.com/descriptionProduitDetail.do?paramIdPr oduit=3745

Perfectionnement Arabe
http://www.assimil.com/descriptionProduitDetail.do?paramIdPr oduit=3575

Perfectionnement Italien
http://www.assimil.com/descriptionProduitDetail.do?
paramIdProduit=3160¶mIdMethode=3160

I think I'm going to try the Croatian course!

Edited by koba on 13 March 2012 at 12:32pm

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bjornbrekkukot
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 Message 2 of 174
13 March 2012 at 3:35pm | IP Logged 
Oh, I just got the newsletter, and this has made my morning. More than my coffee, even.

After struggling with grammar-heavy, old, traditional Ukrainian courses, I cannot express how fortunate we are to
have this new course appear. Teach Yourself and Colloquial are helpful--but after completing them, while studying
in Lviv last summer, I had no clue how to continue with the language. This offering has rekindled my desire to
achieve competency, and finally read that pile of Ukrainian literature I brought home.

And then Croatian, too! The old Assimil Serbo-Croate course is great, but some of the lessons are based on literary
texts that are, for a beginner, more frustrating than helpful. I've gone through that Assimil course, Linguaphone
Serbo-Croat, and several others (Teach Yourself, Colloquial, Hippocrene). I will use this new Assimil offering to
solidify my intermediate level, in keeping with my policy of using books that teach Bosnian, Croatian, or Serbian,
indiscriminately.


Edited by bjornbrekkukot on 13 March 2012 at 3:38pm

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koba
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 Message 3 of 174
13 March 2012 at 3:56pm | IP Logged 
I know, right, whenever I receive an Assimil newsletter I get so excited, but in terms of
new language courses, there's rarely anything new at all.

I think it's great they've released a Croatian course, they don't offer any other South-
Slavic language course at the moment, even the Serbo-Croatian one seems to be unavailable
on the website. (It's listed there, but the link doesn't work)

I hope they will still release courses for rare / less popular languages this year. Maybe
even the long-awaited Icelandic course, who knows.
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Danac
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 Message 4 of 174
13 March 2012 at 5:14pm | IP Logged 
koba wrote:
they don't offer any other South-
Slavic language course at the moment


Fortunately, this is not true. There's a Bulgarian course available in both German and
French. I'm not sure if it exists in an English version, though. :)
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13 March 2012 at 5:29pm | IP Logged 
koba wrote:
Perfectionnement Italien

Good news! Is this their first advanced Italian course?
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koba
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13 March 2012 at 6:22pm | IP Logged 
Danac wrote:
koba wrote:
they don't offer any other South-
Slavic language course at the moment


Fortunately, this is not true. There's a Bulgarian course available in both German and
French. I'm not sure if it exists in an English version, though. :)


Oh, good that you mentioned it, I had totally forgotten about the Bulgarian course!

tractor wrote:
koba wrote:
Perfectionnement Italien

Good news! Is this their first advanced Italian course?

Yes, and it seems very promising too. I've tried other "Perfectionnement" courses from
Assimil (Spanish, German, French) and they're all very well made/arranged. I'm
definitely going to check it out too as soon as I feel more comfortable using French.


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daristani
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 Message 7 of 174
13 March 2012 at 6:23pm | IP Logged 
Assimil has a book by the same title ("Perfectionnement Italien") published back in 1987; whether or not this is a new edition isn't clear.
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kanewai
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13 March 2012 at 9:02pm | IP Logged 
Perfectionnement Arabe

If they fix the first course, I would be ecstatic over this.


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