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| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3907 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 1 of 16 22 November 2014 at 4:53am | IP Logged | |||||
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Have any of you used Instant Immersion for any of your languages before? With factors like price aside (which is relatively cheap anyway), would this be a good option for someone that is a complete beginner? Is it any good?
p.s. I did a search and could not find any review of this product 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6582 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 2 of 16 22 November 2014 at 8:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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Could you give us a link?
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3 of 16 22 November 2014 at 9:49am | IP Logged | |||||
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The problem with asking about Instant Immersion is that there are so many version. From what I can tell, originally it was just computer software. Then they added audio lessons, so you could get a software version with some audio CDs. Then they released an audio-only version, with 16 CDs of audio. I bought the audio-only version Instant Immersion French because I got it pretty cheap (£15 for 16 hours seems like pretty good value for money).
The audio is made up of lessons and exercises. It is more like Teach Yourself X Conversation than like Pimsleur or Michel Thomas, in that there are teaching sections, exercises and dialogues. I think the lessons are well constructed, and if you are new to a language they would be a great introduction. I'm not sure if they intentionally use spaced repetition, but words you've learned in one lesson will be briefly reviewed in later lesson, and used in dialogues, etc. Overall, I think it is a very good audio course for a beginner, especially if you can get a copy cheap. I only used the first 6 CDs and then moved on to other things because I got bored of covering things I already learned elsewhere like numbers and days of the week. I can't say anything about the software versions, but it seems you can transfer the audio files to an mp3 player, and they seem to have transcripts for the audio lessons. However, there are 11 hours of lessons, compared to 16 for the audio-only version. That might be an improvement, or it might be because that's all they could fit on the DVD-rom. Here's a link to the latest software version of Instant Immersion German: http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Immersion-German-Family-Editio n/dp/B00G212Q76/ref=pd_sim_sw_2?ie=UTF8&refRID=1HFD2Z25E9ZME ZBCWEC2 Flipping briefly through Amazon.com, I haven't found a copy of the audio-only version, but that's because they now have so many languages. They have downloadable courses in Maori, Nepali, Canadian French, Esperanto, Hawaiian, Hebrew, Malagasy, Rawandan, Latin, Chichewa, etc, etc. Sounds great that they are doing a lot of unusual languages, but it can only mean that they are producing "cookie-cutter" courses. EDIT: here's the audio-only version of German on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Topics-Entertainment-German-Deluxe-Edi tion/dp/B0049AB5H4/ref=sr_1_18?ie=UTF8&qid=1416646248&sr=8-1 8&keywords=instant+immersion+16+cd EDIT2: found the French audio-only edition. You have to search for X audio deluxe. http://www.amazon.com/Topics-Entertainment-81134-French-Delu xe/dp/B004XXOOBG/ref=sr_1_2?ie=UTF8&qid=1416646293&sr=8-2&ke ywords=french+deluxe+audio Edited by Jeffers on 22 November 2014 at 9:56am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| chokofingrz Pentaglot Senior Member England Joined 5189 days ago 241 posts - 430 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Japanese, Catalan, Luxembourgish | Message 4 of 16 22 November 2014 at 2:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Buy a CD - immerse your toes.
Buy a plane ticket - immerse yourself. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 5 of 16 22 November 2014 at 2:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
Sounds great. Tell me where the £15 plane tickets are. 6 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4533 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 6 of 16 22 November 2014 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ryanair. Shudder. :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3907 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 7 of 16 22 November 2014 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Ari - I was referring to the software (online) version, http://www.amazon.com/Instant-Immersion-Norwegian-subscripti on-Download/dp/B00CULMIRA/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1416666408& sr=8-1&keywords=instant+immersion+norwegian
I don't expect it to take me to intermediate or anything (I have other materials), just something to break the ice 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4082 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 8 of 16 22 November 2014 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
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But, but, you've already crushed ice....with Assimil and Pimsleur and Hugo...
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