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| Ruan Diglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6180 days ago 95 posts - 101 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, English | Message 1 of 9 22 January 2008 at 12:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would like to know the name of the old Assimil courses and where to find them living outside US and Europe, especially the French, Russian, English, German and Spanish courses. Thank you.
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| rafal Diglot Groupie Poland besmart.pl Joined 6853 days ago 83 posts - 85 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC1 Studies: German, Spanish | Message 2 of 9 27 January 2008 at 4:55am | IP Logged | ||
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Check out www.abebooks.com. You can buy there lots of used books.
The old English-based Assimil courses have the name ending with "without Toil" instead of "with Ease". I'm not sure about the second level or "Using <language>" series, i.e. French-based German courses level 2 is named "La pratique de l'allemand" (1973). Bear in mind that it's nearly impossible to get audio for those versions. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ruan Diglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6180 days ago 95 posts - 101 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English | Message 3 of 9 27 January 2008 at 7:13am | IP Logged | ||
Thank you, this information was really useful. I know that the audio is hard the find; but I think it worth the effort. If it is really impossible, I could ask a native to read and record the texts at natural speed and intonation. Is there anyone at this forum offering this kind of service? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rafal Diglot Groupie Poland besmart.pl Joined 6853 days ago 83 posts - 85 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC1 Studies: German, Spanish | Message 4 of 9 27 January 2008 at 7:42am | IP Logged | ||
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I know nothing of any such service but it seems like a lot of work and I guess it'd be a bit expensive.
On the other hand I've "heard" that you can find bootleg copies of the old Russian course on p2p networks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ruan Diglot Groupie BrazilRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6180 days ago 95 posts - 101 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English | Message 5 of 9 27 January 2008 at 9:06am | IP Logged | ||
Besides Russian I’ve found Japanese, Latin, Tedesco, Romanian, Euskera, New and Old Greek, Polish, French, German, Advanced English, Chinese, Arabic, Hebrew, Swedish, Norwegian, Turkish, Hindi and Breton old Assimil methods. And I did not even look at everything. Since Assimil stopped to sell these methods and, as they said to me, they will never do it again, I do not see any good reason to do not download these methods through peer to peer network, neither understand I why Assimil does not releases it to public domain. Shameful indeed. Edited by Ruan on 27 January 2008 at 9:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| rafal Diglot Groupie Poland besmart.pl Joined 6853 days ago 83 posts - 85 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishC1 Studies: German, Spanish | Message 6 of 9 27 January 2008 at 9:19am | IP Logged | ||
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There's no money in giving things away. Simple as that.
Apart from that making old courses freely available would create competition for their new products. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LatinoBoy84 Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5574 days ago 443 posts - 603 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish*, French Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Latvian | Message 7 of 9 21 November 2009 at 1:24am | IP Logged | ||
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I would expect these to be eventually scanned by google books.
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| maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5573 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes Speaks: English* | Message 8 of 9 21 November 2009 at 6:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Which Google would not release without approval from copyright holders which, as previously mentioned, will never be forthcoming.
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