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| jpazzz Groupie United States Joined 5045 days ago 54 posts - 76 votes  Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 3 05 August 2014 at 2:41am | IP Logged |
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Hello Everybody, I've been using Linguaphone courses for about twenty years now. The 1970s courses (and those are the only ones I'm concerned with here) seem originally to have come with four tapes. Three were the tapes of the course book and tape four usually had speaking exercises and, perhaps, sounds of the language. The eight and ten tape versions of these same courses added an oral exercise book and a variety of oral exercises. But what about the five tape sets. I think I may have figured out what the difference between the four and five tape sets were. There appears to be no difference in either the books or the tape content. Rather there is a difference in the tape layout. Instead of the oral practice exercises being all on the fourth tape, the oral practice exercises have been inserted into the lessons as they go on. The reason for the tape number being increased from four to five is that the in the five tape versions, each individual cassette has less material (less tape) on it. I began to suspect all of this when I was able to compare the four and five tape versions of the Polish course. The five tape versions appeared to have (visually) less tape in each cassette. And that proved to be the case.
Hope this may help a few of you who may have wondered about this in the past. Does anyone else have similar observations...or, for that matter contradictions? Cheers, John 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| issemiyaki Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5029 days ago 38 posts - 58 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 2 of 3 04 January 2015 at 12:36pm | IP Logged |
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I have similar concerns, but they deal with CDs.
I have the 1971 Version, with only 8 CDs. But on Linguaphone's site they advertise the product as having 12 CDs. Am I missing anything? Or is the layout just different (a marketing ploy to make you think you're getting more for your money)? Also, strangely enough, in the Handbook, they don't mention anything about "Audio Actif." 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6909 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 3 04 January 2015 at 5:46pm | IP Logged |
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Slightly related topic:
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