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French, worth it for Assimil.
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vikramkr
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05 June 2010 at 8:18pm | IP Logged

Volte wrote:

ruskivyetr wrote:

Does anyone think using French only Assimil programs before you are fluent is a bad idea?

...It's significantly less effective, but still better than most approaches.

Less effective because of the amount of translation required?
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Volte
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05 June 2010 at 8:20pm | IP Logged

vikramkr wrote:

Volte wrote:

ruskivyetr wrote:

Does anyone think using French only Assimil programs before you are fluent is a bad idea?

...It's significantly less effective, but still better than most approaches.

Less effective because of the amount of translation required?

Less effective because you'll consistently be less sure of the nuances of the meaning, and what shades are given to it by whatever verb tenses and moods are chosen, various synonyms in French, etc.
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vikramkr
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05 June 2010 at 8:21pm | IP Logged

Gotcha!
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Andy E
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05 June 2010 at 10:52pm | IP Logged

RedBeard wrote:

I tried to use my (quite bad) knowledge of French to use an Assimil book for Esperanto studies. I quit after just a few lessons. It felt like toil. (Heh, Assimil joke...) It felt like too much work when there is already so much good (and free) Esperanto material out there. Perhaps one could plow through it this way, but it was not enjoyable, so I stopped.

Yes. It shouldn't feel like "toil" . I think you need to be absolutely comfortable in the language to use the French=based courses - or indeed any other L2-based language to learn L3.

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