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| Rout Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5711 days ago 326 posts - 417 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish Studies: Hindi | Message 17 of 23 04 May 2009 at 6:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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So these are different from those that the Professor reviewed or is it called "spoken world" because they're offering more exotic languages now. Maybe they got the bugs out? Strange that they didn't come out with more popular languages first if that's the case.. I would really like some improved versions of these. =)
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6010 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 18 of 23 04 May 2009 at 8:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
I discovered it via Facebook, as my brothers and sisters had started playing it. I got very competitive and played it lots to improve my score. What amazed me was how quickly I started to be able to place various random cities just from being made to do it quickly. The important thing, I feel, is that you're not following a pattern -- the locations are selected at random from groups of varying difficulty. Similarly, Slime Forest has a more-or-less random series of prompts (it does seem to vary frequency in order to build recall, but there is no detectable pattern). Anyway, play the IQ challenge once every day or two and in a few weeks you'll know a heck of a lot more about geography than you did a year ago! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Ham Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5988 days ago 21 posts - 21 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 19 of 23 05 May 2009 at 6:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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They are a diffrent series, the professor I believe reviewed the ultimate series, which are for the big languages. These spoken word courses are somewhat smaller and cheaper and for more exotic languages. i have not seen any of the new ones, but I have the hindi and persian courses. They seem pretty goods, lots of audio, but there is a fair amount of English on it. They do seem to plunge straight in too, being rather more complicated from the start than other courses. Also whilst the dialogs have a free translation, not all the words are given literaly in the vocabulary. However if you can get over that they seem fairly solid courses, with a good amount of grammar and cultural notes.
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| lecorbeau Diglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 6019 days ago 113 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Turkish | Message 20 of 23 14 June 2009 at 7:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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Has anybody tried the Croatian course?
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| lecorbeau Diglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 6019 days ago 113 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Turkish | Message 21 of 23 15 June 2009 at 7:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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Does anyone else have something to say regarding this series? Anything at all? How "serious" is the program?
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| digitlhand Triglot Groupie United States ryanslrblog.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6220 days ago 77 posts - 108 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Swedish Studies: German, Arabic (Written), Japanese, Greek, French | Message 22 of 23 15 June 2009 at 7:57am | IP Logged | |||||
Both the Korean and Greek course are "serious" introductions to their respective languages. I estimate a vocabulary of 1,500 to 2,000 words when one completes the course. Grammar is introduced throughout the entire course. I don't know what else to say, but that it is an excellent course! Edited by digitlhand on 15 June 2009 at 8:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| lecorbeau Diglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 6019 days ago 113 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Serbo-Croatian, Turkish | Message 23 of 23 30 September 2009 at 6:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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Just bought the Croatian Spoken World. In the meantime, now that they've been out for a little while, has anyone
used the courses? What did you think of them? Thanks... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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