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| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5840 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 9 of 13 16 December 2008 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
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I have used the ultimate Russian course and would recommend it. The recodings are clear and the actors have nice, clear diction. The grammar is explained in detail with lots of examples and the content of the dialogues is interesting and fairly authentic. My only criticism is there are too few written exercises to reinforce the new material. However all dialogues have an English translation and I would often translate this back into Russian for extra practice.
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| dmg Diglot Senior Member Canada dgryski.blogspot.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7019 days ago 555 posts - 605 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch, Esperanto | Message 10 of 13 16 December 2008 at 7:44pm | IP Logged |
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I haven't used the beginners course, but I did like the "Beyond the Basics" and "Ultimate French Advanced" courses. The dialogs are good and cover a lot of material.
The "Ultimate French" has plenty of cultural notes as well. I actually preferred them to Assimil's "Using French" course, I think because they centered more on dialogs and less on the literary aspect of French. "Using French" course to me just felt out-dated somehow. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5883 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 11 of 13 16 December 2008 at 9:39pm | IP Logged |
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I have been using the Living Language courses ever since I started learning languages and I'm just more familiar with their programs and such. Is there much of a difference between the Basic-Intermediate courses and the Advanced? And how well does the Basic-Intermediate courses take you?
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| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5883 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 12 of 13 19 January 2009 at 1:09am | IP Logged |
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Here is another question that I have not found and have been wondering. Does anyone know if they will make anymore languages using the Ultimate Series method such as Persian or Korean?
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| Yishay Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5962 days ago 27 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 13 of 13 20 January 2009 at 11:04pm | IP Logged |
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I borrowed Ultimate Spanish Beginner-Intermediate Spanish from my library and am using it right now as a review and to go more in depth in grammar. It explains things simply enough for me and the dialog is about the right pace for me to understand everything.
The book breaks down things like question words and tells you pretty much everything about them from the getgo. Which is nice. I'd go for it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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