Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7120 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian
| Message 9 of 22 01 October 2009 at 10:31am | IP Logged |
Well, I like Linguaphone, and it has a follow-on course, and also I am a great fan of Living Language,which also has an advanced course, but if I were learning French today, knowing what I know now (if you see what I mean) I'd go for the slightly older BB series of A Vous La France/France Extra/Franc Parler with all the materials.
Pimsleur is a great start too, but very expensive.
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Lingua Decaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5575 days ago 186 posts - 319 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Swedish, Danish, French, Norwegian, Portuguese, Dutch
| Message 10 of 22 01 October 2009 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
Chris wrote:
... I'd go for the slightly older BB series of A Vous La France/France Extra/Franc Parler with all the materials.
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A very good series.
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Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7120 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian
| Message 12 of 22 02 October 2009 at 6:04am | IP Logged |
I meant to write BBC French in my last post.
Buttons, if you like French DVDs, you might find this interesting...
http://eurotalk.com/en/products/movietalk/french
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Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 7120 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian
| Message 14 of 22 03 October 2009 at 5:20am | IP Logged |
Hi Buttons.
In all honesty, no. My French is at degree level, and I used to teach it, so I doubt I'd get a lot from it. I came across the Movie Talk series a few years ago, and I thought it looked like a really good idea. I would consider giving it a go with another language though.
You're right about the price though.
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Killian Newbie Italy Joined 6132 days ago 23 posts - 27 votes Speaks: Italian* Studies: German
| Message 15 of 22 03 October 2009 at 1:24pm | IP Logged |
Today i bought the Assimil French course (in Italian).
I am thinking to buy a dictionary, is useful to take a big size dictionary or for the assimil course it's ok a small dictionary with about 30.000 words?
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Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6108 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian
| Message 16 of 22 03 October 2009 at 1:48pm | IP Logged |
Killian wrote:
I am thinking to buy a dictionary, is useful to take a big size dictionary or for the assimil course it's ok a small dictionary with about 30.000 words? |
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For the Assimil course you don't need any dictionary. And surely you will find plenty of online French - Italian dictionaries if you want to check a word.
Surely a dictionary might be useful in general.
Did you buy the audio too? I can't imagine studying French (as opposed to other languages) without audio.
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