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| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5874 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 1 of 10 19 September 2009 at 4:06am | IP Logged | ||
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I have been wanting to buy an Assimil course for some time now and I am not sure where to go. I did some searches on Amazon.com and for the Arabic course it is nearly $200.00 and on their (Assimil's) website, it goes for a bit over $100.00. The thing is, is it difficult to buy from Assimil directly? It has to be shipped from France to the U.S. for me.
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| jpxt2 Triglot Groupie United States Joined 6730 days ago 46 posts - 52 votes Speaks: English, Spanish*, French Studies: Mandarin, Catalan, Portuguese, German, Italian | Message 2 of 10 19 September 2009 at 4:21am | IP Logged | ||
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From my experience, it's not difficult at all to order directly from Assimil, they'll ship anywhere.
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| Paskwc Pentaglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5676 days ago 450 posts - 624 votes Speaks: Hindi, Urdu*, Arabic (Levantine), French, English Studies: Persian, Spanish | Message 3 of 10 19 September 2009 at 4:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Seeing as it is fairly expensive new, you could check on abebooks.
Here's one result: http://www.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL? bi=1364347808&searchurl=bi%3D0%26bx%3Doff%26ds%3D30%26kn%3Da rabic%26sortby%3D2%26sts%3Dt% 26tn%3Dassimil%26x%3D0%26y%3D0 The only caveat for that one is that the audio isnt digital. There are others too, but I'm not sure if they have the audio. Edit: Try as I might, I just can't get the link to work; please delete the space if you feel like looking. Edited by Paskwc on 19 September 2009 at 5:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lagwagon555 Diglot Groupie New Zealand Joined 6118 days ago 38 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 10 19 September 2009 at 5:19am | IP Logged | ||
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Ordering from Assimil seems incredibly expensive. Not the shipping, but the actual product. The standard courses cost 70 euros from the site, where from my local store, I can get them for $80NZ, or 40 euros. I'm sure you can find a store that sells them that cheap around you, but if not, you might as well order from New Zealand stores, since the cost of the internationally shipped product is cheaper than the product without shipping from Assimil. Edited by lagwagon555 on 19 September 2009 at 5:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Grosse Affe Newbie United States Joined 6835 days ago 32 posts - 47 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 10 19 September 2009 at 6:25am | IP Logged | ||
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It's $125 on amazon. Don't search amazon directly or you'll get the high priced version
which I think is an older revision (not exactly sure). This also happened to me for Assimil Spanish. http://www.amazon.com/Assimil-Language-Learning-Arabic- Multimedia/dp/2700520696/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1253333779&s r=8-1 To check for yourself. Go to assimil.com and get the ISBN you want. Then search amazon for the ISBN and you get the correctly priced version. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5874 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 6 of 10 19 September 2009 at 6:34am | IP Logged | ||
Wow! That really did help me! Thank you! I found some really cheap used ones for around $70. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7014 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 7 of 10 19 September 2009 at 6:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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I actually found them to be relatively cheap on Amazon.fr but this was a while ago and might have changed by now.
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| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5874 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 8 of 10 20 September 2009 at 3:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Ok, when I put in the ISBN number into amazon to look for a course from Assimil.com, do all of the courses I come across have both the book and the CDs? I see in some that they say Audio.
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