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Hendrek
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Message 65 of 174

03 October 2012 at 9:25pm | IP Logged

Hendrek wrote:

I was just informed that Assimil is planning on releasing a Persian course for Italian speakers soon... unsure of the exact date though.

Good news for me!

First half of 2013 is the timeline for Persian in Italian
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caracao
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Message 66 of 174

04 October 2012 at 11:05pm | IP Logged

Advanced Spanish (for french speakers), new method, 2014.
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Peregrinus
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Message 67 of 174

05 October 2012 at 4:33am | IP Logged

caracao wrote:

Advanced Spanish (for french speakers), new method, 2014.

I wonder what exactly "new method" means here. Does Assimil mean better base language translations? Or are they chucking the "old method" because it failed (or rather deterred potential buyers) and they don't realize the reason (at least for English base) was in fact the poor translation itself rather than the target language content and structure?
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seldnar
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Message 68 of 174

05 October 2012 at 7:34am | IP Logged

Peregrinus wrote:

According to a September 10th posting on their Facebook page "new method" means the same as refreshed or updated edition. Or, in their words: "ASSIMIL: C'était juste pour éviter une répétition ! nouvelle édition et édition mise à jour ou rafraîchie, c'est pareil !"
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vermillon
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Message 69 of 174

05 October 2012 at 1:26pm | IP Logged

So is it basically a new cover, as is the case with quite a few of their languages? I'm quite eager to know to which extent to the new Indonesian is different from the old one. Ideally, a completely new author would be great. And new actors too... the old ones just sound like idiots in the way they speak.
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Expugnator
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Message 70 of 174

05 October 2012 at 5:32pm | IP Logged

I'd like to know if there is indeed a new Norwegian edition in French, anyone got it?
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alang
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Message 71 of 174

05 October 2012 at 8:25pm | IP Logged

I am interested in learning other languages from a related language. This is why I am looking into Scandanavian languages through the German base. Romance languages through the ones offered.

Spanish-> Portuguese, Catalan, French.
French-> Italian, Occitan.
Italian-> Latin, Romanian.

English-> German.
German-> Dutch, Norwegian, Swedish, Danish.

The Norwegian course, I read did not have good reviews.
Unfortunately, some are not an option (Ex. German-> Alsatian), so a person will have to make due with whatever is offered. I thought it would have been great if there was a Russian base for the Slavic languages.
I emailed ASSIMIL Germany for a German based Yiddish course. The priority are this and next years courses. Yiddish is not a priority at this point, but Hebrew is in the works.

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Registrador
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Message 72 of 174

16 October 2012 at 10:54am | IP Logged

seldnar wrote:

Peregrinus wrote:

I wonder what exactly "new method" means here. Does Assimil
mean better base language translations? Or are they chucking the "old method" because it failed (or
rather deterred potential buyers) and they don't realize the reason (at least for English base) was in fact
the poor translation itself rather than the target language content and structure?

According to a September 10th posting on their Facebook page "new method" means the same as
refreshed or updated edition. Or, in their words: "ASSIMIL: C'était juste pour éviter une répétition !
nouvelle édition et édition mise à jour ou rafraîchie, c'est pareil !"

So does this means that the "new" assimil books are going to have the same content than the previous
ones?. Are they going to limit their work to just correct the misprints and make a new front page? That's
very disappointing.

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