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| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5226 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 9 of 17 08 March 2014 at 12:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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To the original post: why not just get the perfectly good/great Assimil course that already exists in an English base?
The "With Ease" course is great and cheap. So, to answer the question posed, I think getting the current Assimil course without the base language would not be a good idea and would be much worse for the language learner than getting the "With Ease" course. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4562 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 10 of 17 08 March 2014 at 3:22pm | IP Logged | ||
The latter is actually a great question! I really was just curious about the concept of "prepping" to study while waiting with the audio. Anyway, what is the difference between the following 2 Assimils? http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-With-Ease-Language-Learning/dp /2700510704/ref=sr_1_1? ie=UTF8&qid=1394288377&sr=8-1&keywords=spanish+with+ease and http://www.amazon.com/Spanish-Ease-Edition-Assimil/dp/354100 0201/ref=sr_1_2? ie=UTF8&qid=1394288377&sr=8-2&keywords=spanish+with+ease It appears the 2nd link is a newer edition, but doesn't come with audio. Anyone know what actually changed between the two? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4562 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 11 of 17 08 March 2014 at 3:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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But, also, I've heard the current "Spanish with Ease" is quite a bore and that the newest
version is much more lively and enjoyable. Edited by ericblair on 08 March 2014 at 3:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| oldearth Groupie United States Joined 4746 days ago 72 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 12 of 17 10 March 2014 at 10:57am | IP Logged | ||
I have high hopes for the upcoming release, but the current English-base "Spanish with Ease" definitely leaves a lot to be desired in the entertainment department. I'm about a quarter of the way through it now, but sometimes it's a struggle to stay motivated to come back to it every day because the "dialogs" are often just collections of sentences illustrating grammar points that do not form a coherent conversation. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4760 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 13 of 17 10 March 2014 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I listened ahead quite a bit when studying Assimil New French with Ease. I found it a
useful way to get used to the sounds. It was more helpful than listening to native audio at the early stages, because I was able to actually make out the sounds [actually I did both: I previewed all of Assimil and I listened to Rfi- both were useful]. And audio previews are useful for when I actually take up the formal study of an Assimil lesson, because I have already figured a lot of it out on my own. While I agree spending loads of time on it might not be efficient, not previewing is also inefficient. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4719 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 14 of 17 10 March 2014 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm currently studying with Assimil le Persan sans Pain despite knowing next to no French. I still find the audio dialogues highly valuable. Assimil has a very painless way of introducing new vocabulary and grammar.
Going in, I already had some knowledge of Persian and I knew the writing system. I don't think that's necessary, but it does make things easier when you have no translation you can rely on. As the grammar part of Assimil is in French and useless for me, I use other sources to get explanations of the grammar points Assimil introduces. To get the most out of it, I have all the sentences from Assimil in Anki - audio sentence flashcards are great for retaining everything you study. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7056 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 15 of 17 10 March 2014 at 2:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't found Assimil Spanish to be as well done as New French with Ease. Not as funny, the audio starts
out extremely slow, less coherence in the dialogues, etc. Using Spanish has terrible translations (but awesome audio), while Using French is a credible continuation from NFWE. The experience of the difference in quality for Assimil courses between these two languages would make me wonder which block L'Espagnol will be a chip off of. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4562 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 16 of 17 11 March 2014 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | ||
I've cannot find the thread on it, but I recall reading comparisons of L'espagnol with Spanish with Ease and recall the L'Espagnol as seeming better. Hopefully the quality of the translation is up to snuff! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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