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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6958 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes  Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 27 27 April 2006 at 6:15am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm not working on the Linguaphone much at the moment since I want to reinforce the alphabet first. I'm probably going to go over all three alphabet books again. The trouble is that I haven't got much time and I've been trying to improve my French, Portuguese and Italian.
P.S. Mine was a gift but it's not worth the money. Get Assimil instead. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| biki2 Diglot Groupie United States vatoweb.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6965 days ago 57 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Arabic (Written), Catalan, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 10 of 27 27 April 2006 at 7:32am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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If you keep an eye on ebay, you should be able to find an older Linguaphone cassette course for about the price of a new Assimil course (never see the Arabic course used). I haven't used Assimil Arabic, so I can't offer a useful comparison. In one of Ardaschir's posts (last one on first page), he says he prefers Linguaphone's Arabic course to Assimil, but doesn't say why. Edited by biki2 on 27 April 2006 at 7:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6958 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 27 27 April 2006 at 11:07am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I forgot about eBay. If you are going to go for it, make sure that it's the ten cassette/CD version, not the short course with 4 cassettes.
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| pieces of rain Bilingual Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 6733 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Croatian, English* Studies: Arabic (Written)* Studies: French | Message 12 of 27 27 April 2006 at 6:36pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Hm, it sounds like they are both good courses. Thank you very much for mentioning Assimil - I wouldn't have known about the course otherwise, and I think because if price I'm going to go with it. I was considering supplementing it with Mastering Arabic or Teach Yourself Arabic. We'll see...
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| vinz Tetraglot Groupie United States Joined 6826 days ago 55 posts - 56 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Vietnamese, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 13 of 27 29 April 2006 at 11:52am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I have Assimil's Arabic course. I'm going to learn from that next, while I continue to learn colloquial with my friends at the same time. I really like Assimil's courses. :)
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| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6958 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 27 29 April 2006 at 12:49pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'm not sure how much help these would be when you're going through Assimil or Linguaphone, especially since you have access to native speakers. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| pieces of rain Bilingual Diglot Newbie Canada Joined 6733 days ago 10 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Croatian, English* Studies: Arabic (Written)* Studies: French | Message 15 of 27 30 April 2006 at 1:06pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Actually, besides my friend and her parents, I don't know any native speakers. I live in a small town... Would that change how useful other books would be to me? Sorry for bombarding you with so many questions. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6958 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 16 of 27 30 April 2006 at 6:41pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
In that case, I suggest that you spend a great deal of time speaking with them!
I doubt that it's smaller than Gibraltar but, to answer your question, no. The usefulness of a book doesn't depend on where you live but simply on how much you already know when using it and how much you can get out of it. I think that with Assimil and Linguaphone you'd learn a great deal and it would be unnecessary to then do a TY or Mastering course. If you were doing it the other way around, however, then I would imagine that it would be a more efficient use of resources. In any case, after you've finished whatever course you choose, get onto native materials ASAP.
That's OK. The best way to learn is to ask. Actually, we should probably apologize to vinz for hijacking his thread! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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