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| badger2 Senior Member Finland Joined 6422 days ago 156 posts - 156 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Finnish | Message 1 of 5 29 October 2008 at 6:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I remember most people here recommend one over the other... but I can't remember which.
I also recall the one in question (assimil?) had a second name to which most people referred... Ring any bells? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6714 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 2 of 5 29 October 2008 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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I guess most of people here recommend Assimil. FSI can be boring with all the drills, but it's free of charge so you csn try if you like it anyway. Other methods that are mentioned here pretty often are Platiquemos (based on FSI), Learning Spanish Like Crazy, Michel Thomas and Pimsleur. You'll find more information and opinions if you simply search for these names here on the forum.
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| badger2 Senior Member Finland Joined 6422 days ago 156 posts - 156 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Finnish | Message 3 of 5 30 October 2008 at 4:39am | IP Logged | ||
Ahh Platiquemos and FSI... that's where this "double name" thing was coming from. Thanks, Julie. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zerothinking Senior Member Australia Joined 6183 days ago 528 posts - 772 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 5 30 October 2008 at 7:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Assimil. Hands down. No contest. I did the first wave and stoped at lesson 80. I do speak French but sometimes now I stumble across Spanish online and can read whole sentences and get the gist of lots of others. If you actually completed the course you'd have an excellent grounding in the language.
Assimil is the best. Other than De Agostini, so sayeth Luca. :P Edited by zerothinking on 30 October 2008 at 7:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AndrewL Newbie United States Joined 6470 days ago 26 posts - 36 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 5 of 5 30 October 2008 at 11:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd say go Assimil doing plenty of review and not just sliding along by doing each lesson once and also putting the sentences in Mnemosyne or some other SRS once you get to the active phase. THEN go do FSI after completing all 100 or so lessons of the passive phase. This will hopefully help you to solidify the language completely. Besides, with the SRS thing with sentences: It's what I'm doing and I'm actually starting to make some progress with the complex Spanish verb system.
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