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| COF Senior Member United States Joined 5837 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 4 25 December 2008 at 5:57am | IP Logged |
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If I was to use Assimil Spanish for 2-3 months, would that be enough for me to get my
Spanish to a level where I could communicate well enough for a holiday or are the dialogues a bit too "random" to learn for that? Would it give me enough grammar to be able to construct my own sentences using the vocab learnt? Thanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6476 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 2 of 4 25 December 2008 at 7:19am | IP Logged |
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Assimil dialogs are typically very well thought-out, and you do learn the grammar as well, but to move from passive understanding to active usage of everything you learned will typically take you longer than 3 months, even if you do one lesson a day.
For achieving conversational Spanish really quickly, I would recommend the Synergy Spanish approach, followed up or supplemented by a regular course, SpanishPod101 or study of a phrasebook. Edited by Sprachprofi on 25 December 2008 at 7:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| COF Senior Member United States Joined 5837 days ago 262 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 4 26 December 2008 at 11:39am | IP Logged |
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Also, could Assimil be used as the primary course to use to learn a language, or does
it need to be supplemented by a more comprehensive study of grammar in order to become functional in the language? Would I be on my way to learning to learning Spanish to a fully conversational level by solely using Assimil and prehaps trying to read a few small newspaper articles, Spanish websites, listening to radio, etc? Thanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6915 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 4 26 December 2008 at 11:55am | IP Logged |
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In my opinion, Assimil gives you a good language base (for a decent price). No course/method is complete in itself; you have to learn new vocabulary, refine the grammar rules (even learn a few uncommon ones), improve your pronunciation et.c. - all of which can be done later on, during "real" practice.
One of my strongest arguments for Assimil is that you only have the target language. By all means, supplement it with other courses. Nothing wrong with that. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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