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| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 7146 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 33 of 36 11 September 2012 at 11:53am | IP Logged |
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The Swedish Linguaphone course has a textbook entirely in Swedish that follows the CDs.
It has a handbook that explains the Swedish textbook in English. Instead of a simple translation of the texts and dialogues it has a sentence by sentence explanation of the Swedish. I have refurbished copies of Swedish and Russian and I am entirely happy with them. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| langluv Newbie United States twitter.com/ladyling Joined 5884 days ago 24 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Modern Hebrew, French | Message 34 of 36 11 September 2012 at 5:47pm | IP Logged |
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Great info. Thanks fanatic!
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| N_J_F Senior Member Australia Joined 4106 days ago 7 posts - 9 votes Studies: French, German | Message 35 of 36 27 February 2014 at 12:23pm | IP Logged |
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My granddad had a beautiful collection of Linguaphone books (and presumably records) including German, Russian and French and my aunt had later used the Linguaphone Arabic course. As my granddad has passed away in the early 1980s I'm assuming these were purchased no later than the mid-70s. Unfortunately, these books were lost, given away or sold over the years and for sentimental reasons I would like to collect them as well.
At present, I'm learning French and German and would like to study Russian, Spanish and Italian at some point. I was inspired by Prof Arguelles video series on Linguaphone, especially when he mentioned that there one "generation" of Linguaphone texts were identical in content between all the languages and ideal for the hopeful, budding polyglot. From what I can make out, there should be one book for "lessons" and one book which acts at the "handbook" with vocabulary and exercises? Is that right? I've found two on Ebay but can't seem to work out if it from the generation with identical content. I'll have to defer to the experts on this one - would someone mind taking a quick look and let me know? Hope this isn't against the house rules. http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Deutscher-Kursus-Lektionen-1984-H ardcover-London-Book-written-in-German-/310850463471?pt=Anti quarian_Collectible&hash=item486021a6ef http://www.ebay.com.au/itm/Linguaphone-Cours-de-Conversation -Francais-Book-83436/380461548802?_trksid=p2045573.c100033.m 2042&_trkparms=aid%3D111000%26algo%3DREC.RVI%26ao%3D1%26asc% 3D20131017132637%26meid%3D5129960987783430827%26pid%3D100033 %26prg%3D20131017132637%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D4%26sd%3D3108504634 71 On a more general note, what's the best way to go about collecting these books? Thanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5565 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 36 of 36 27 February 2014 at 12:38pm | IP Logged |
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The German one is 1970s onwards course (it is the one still available today) - not the
one Arguelles is talking about. The French one is the 1920s and 1930s course - also not the one that Arguelles talks about in his video. It is pointless, imo, to buy incomplete Linguaphone courses - unless they have all the elements, they are pretty useless. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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