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| Baracuda Groupie United States Joined 5805 days ago 53 posts - 81 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French, Russian, German | Message 41 of 174 25 April 2012 at 2:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey ericblair!
Sorry, but I haven't started the Assimil Russian course yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4711 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 42 of 174 25 April 2012 at 7:38am | IP Logged | |||||
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Good to hear Tarvos!
Alright, no worries, Baracuda. I just figured it never hurt to ask. Though, just my luck, after a job interview today it appears some big changes may be on the horizon in my life and Russian (nor any language) might not be in the cards! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| caracao Triglot Groupie France Joined 5120 days ago 53 posts - 84 votes Speaks: French*, English, Italian Studies: German | Message 43 of 174 26 April 2012 at 2:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hello, I have a question, I've decided to learn Ukrainian.
Has anyone used that method for beginners? It's rather new. Beginner's Ukrainian with Interactive Online Workbook http://www.hippocrenebooks.com/book.aspx?id=1699 There are samples on it, if someone speaking Ukrainian, could have a look, it looks good. And it's much cheaper on amazon.com, with good reviews. @ bjornbrekkukot : Had it been Russian (or some other language), I would have borrowed the assimil at my local library to get the audios. Since the new "L'ukrainien" assimil is new, they don't have it yet (they bought the Catalan assimil after all, lol)... As a beginner, do you think I should buy it at all? Is it really that bad. I tried to learn Russian, really prefer Ukrainian. Got one last question, I'm learning Dutch, I have the two assimil "Le nouveau néerlandais sans peine" et "le Néerlandais" assimil, which one do you prefer? I like the new one best, it contains only Dutch from Netherlands, which I prefer. Kinda allergic to anything Flemish. Not accusing anyone of course. Edited by caracao on 26 April 2012 at 2:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5022 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 44 of 174 20 May 2012 at 12:07am | IP Logged | |||||
With an English base? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 7132 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 45 of 174 20 May 2012 at 7:06am | IP Logged | |||||
Sorry, with a French base.
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| FireViN Diglot Senior Member Brazil missaoitaliano.wordpRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5229 days ago 196 posts - 292 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2 Studies: Italian | Message 46 of 174 24 May 2012 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've sent a message to Assimil asking if they were going to release any new material with English or Portuguese base. That's what they answered:
"Thank you very much for your message and your interest in our publications. This is to inform you that we plan to publish a course to learn Yiddish, Arabic and Hebrew as an English speaker, but it won'be before 2013. We are sorry to inform you that we do not plan to publish any new course for Portuguese speakers at the present time. Best regards. Nathalie FROEHLY" 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4707 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 47 of 174 24 May 2012 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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L'Hébreu sans peine it is, then.
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| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5022 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 48 of 174 25 May 2012 at 12:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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As much as I truly LOVE Assimil, I just don't understand this company. Sure, I'm really
glad there bringing out these interesting new courses, but don't these choices seem totally random? A yiddish course when they don't even have a Portuguese one! (for example). Someone mentioned market research somewhere. I seriously doubt they are really carrying out effective market research. How many English speakers are studying Hungarian for example? And of those that are studying it, how many people outside of this forum have even heard of it? I have never seen it sold in any UK bookshops, and I would never of heard of it if it wasn't for this forum. With that it mind, I genuinely wonder how many copies a yiddish course will sell, and how that is even financially viable. Edited by dbag on 25 May 2012 at 12:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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