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| Kleberson Diglot Senior Member Great Britain Joined 6267 days ago 166 posts - 168 votes  Speaks: English*, Portuguese Studies: Italian, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 17 of 22 05 July 2007 at 4:44am | IP Logged | ||
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I was really surprised when I started using it; I thought it would be an out-dated course. However, it has been a really excellent course, which I'm thoroughly enjoying at the moment. If anyone ever has the chance to use this course, do it, you wont be disappointed.
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| LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6540 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 18 of 22 05 July 2007 at 2:15pm | IP Logged | ||
Do you think its better than Assimil's Italian course?I ask because of Assimil's poor translations. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kleberson Diglot Senior Member Great Britain Joined 6267 days ago 166 posts - 168 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese Studies: Italian, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 19 of 22 06 July 2007 at 3:51am | IP Logged | ||
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If I had to pick one to keep at this moment, I think it would be Assimil, because the poor translations can be easily rectified by the learner re-doing them him/herself. I think assimil has more content, with the exception being grammar explanations.
The Linguaphone course has literal translations, which is a big plus for me, and the course has a separate book explaining the grammar of each lesson. If I was a total beginner I would choose corso d'italiano over assimil, because I think the Assimil Italian course would have just confused me in the beginning. Both great courses, it just seems more effort was put in by Linguaphone not to confuse beginners. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| LilleOSC Senior Member United States lille.theoffside.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6540 days ago 545 posts - 546 votes 4 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 20 of 22 14 July 2007 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Do you think someone could gain basic fluency with Linguaphone or would you need Assimil to suppliment it?
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| Kleberson Diglot Senior Member Great Britain Joined 6267 days ago 166 posts - 168 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese Studies: Italian, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 21 of 22 21 July 2007 at 2:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think so yes, though I'm not really qualified to answer this because I'm new to language learning. However, this is what I'm doing now. I'm not using the courses to their instructions though.
EDIT: I mean I think you could gain basic fluency, with Linguaphone and Assimil. Using just the Linguaphone course wouldn't take you to basic fluency, I don't think. Edited by Kleberson on 21 July 2007 at 2:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kleberson Diglot Senior Member Great Britain Joined 6267 days ago 166 posts - 168 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese Studies: Italian, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 22 of 22 28 August 2007 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't been on the forum much lately, because I've been studying Italian really hard. I think it's safe to say I'm on my way to basic fluency, which is my goal. I am finding that basic and complex sentence constructions are starting to come naturally now, through the use of Assimil. I have also been using news articles from the Internet, which is also helping quite a lot. All in all, I feel I'm making good progress with this language and I look forward to watching TV in it, which shouldn't be too long I hope. Ciao! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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