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| ProfArguelles Moderator United States foreignlanguageexper Joined 1854 days ago 607 posts - 180 votes  Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 14 05 March 2009 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Mr. Tucker,
Although the course offered on the link you provided seems to come with more recorded material than the one I have, I would wager that they are one and the same. To the best of my knowledge, Linguaphone tended to repackage its courses with additions much more frequently than it remade them. However, I would need to see a sample page from this one to compare it to my own book in order to be sure. If it should turn out to be a new and different edition, then it may be as good or better than the one I have, but the odds are that it is much more likely to be inferior. If you can afford to take a gamble, go ahead and order it from the company - they do have a guarantee, do they not? On the other hand, older courses are really not that hard to come by on e-bay. I know that I have seen "my" Arabic courses offered several different times over the past few months, so unless you are in a desperate hurry to get it, keep a watch for it and sooner or later it should materialize. Alexander Arguelles P.S. I hope I am wrong, but I do believe I may have heard somewhere that the Linguaphone company has just gone out of business. | ||||||
| Volte Triglot Pro Member Switzerland Joined 1037 days ago 2909 posts - 167 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Esperanto Studies: Latin, German, Japanese, Polish Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 14 05 March 2009 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
Fortunately, you are wrong. The Hong Kong branch has closed (it filed for bankruptcy), but the company as a whole appears to be in business. The Linguaphone UK site, for example, seems fine. Catalin Martone | ||||||
| JonB Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 863 days ago 209 posts Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, Dutch, Greek | Message 11 of 14 05 March 2009 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
Surely the best way to resolve this would be to make a direct email enquiry to Linguaphone? You just need to ask whether the course they are currently selling is the same (or an up-date/re-print) of the course written by Dr Fuad Megally and Prof. M Mansoor in the 1970s. When their answer comes back as "yes" (which it will) you can be 100% confident that you are getting the same course as Prof. Arguelles! Jon Burgess | ||||||
| stelingo Heptaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 430 days ago 165 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Russian, German, Italian Studies: Dutch, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin, Japanese, Arabic (Written) | Message 12 of 14 05 March 2009 at 11:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
However I notice that they now offer far fewer languages than they did previously. Does anyone know when and why they started cutting back on their courses? I myself am trying to get hold of their Polish course which is now out of pribt it seems. | ||||||
| Woodpecker Pro Member United States Joined 409 days ago 236 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), French, Arabic (Written) Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 14 06 March 2009 at 1:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Jon, I did as you suggested, and it appears Prof. Arguelles is correct. Since 1978, they have only repackaged, not redesigned the materials in any significant way. Definitely excellent news for me. Thank you both.
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| VityaCo Bilingual Triglot Groupie United States Joined 1679 days ago 47 posts 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, Ukrainian*, English Studies: French, Greek Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 14 of 14 12 March 2009 at 10:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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It is a good news for me too.
Thank you everybody. A very good information. |
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