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| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5541 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes  Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 1 of 8 19 April 2009 at 6:08am | IP Logged |
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I was researching more resources for my Turkish studies, and I was wondering about the EuroTalk programs I saw
on amazon.com (I always use the American site because they have the best material). If anyone has bought or used these programs before, would you please inform me on how they work. I do not feel comfortable just buying them without insight. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5806 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 8 19 April 2009 at 11:55am | IP Logged |
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If you mean the TalkNow! series, I'd say it's worth no more than €5, but they sell it for far more than €5....
Why? It's a "template course" -- they've taken a set list of words and phrases and found the nearest translation, which often doesn't work. For example, "yes" and "no" are on the list, and a fair few languages don't have a single word for one or both of these (eg Irish, Chinese, Kannada). They claim to teach you how to count, but they teach you 0-20, then a handful of random examples between 21 and 100. I've never tried anything past TalkNow, because I now have no faith in that company. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6698 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 3 of 8 19 April 2009 at 4:48pm | IP Logged |
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I've tried an EuroTalk program once (for Czech), I guess it was TalkNow! but I don't remember any more. There's just one thing I was truly happy about it - that I borrowed it instead of buying... The amount of words and phrases to learn was tiny, the exercises were boring and even not efficient.
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| sprachefin Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5541 days ago 300 posts - 317 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: French, Turkish, Mandarin, Bulgarian, Persian, Dutch | Message 4 of 8 20 April 2009 at 4:15am | IP Logged |
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Well now I know not to buy. Thank you! They advertise themselves as good language programs, and I was really
doubtful because the programs are so... cheap looking. I mean, I can't judge a book by its cover, but I'm glad I did in this case. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7016 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 5 of 8 09 May 2010 at 9:40am | IP Logged |
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Anyone can try out free lessons and review it themselves if it is or is not worth it. Eurotalk It is funny to me, as it is the same hostess, but dubbed in different languages. I personally would prefer to see the actual native speaker of the language IMO. Put me in the same boat that thinks it is not worth it. Nice vocab testing though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5806 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 6 of 8 09 May 2010 at 1:37pm | IP Logged |
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Oooooooooooh. I'd forgotten about that bit. That really, really, really wound me up.
I was trying to learn Kannada, and there's some white English guy on the video, overdubbed in a language spoken by dark-skinned South Indians. Not only that, but the Kannada for "yes" is two syllables, so every time I got a question right I could lipreading the man saying "yes" and hear this completely different two-syllable word. He also nodded as he said it... and Indians don't nod!!! Aaargh. I hated that piece of rubbish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Frieza Triglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5148 days ago 102 posts - 137 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishC2, French Studies: German | Message 7 of 8 11 May 2010 at 5:49pm | IP Logged |
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I've got a few of the Eurotalk cds and booklets for several languages, but only because they came out with a newspaper for free (I think the newspaper cost € 0.80 at the time).
So far I only used the first German cd to revise vocabulary. It's acceptable as a vocabulary tool but can't really teach a language since it provides no grammar or structure explanations. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6898 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 8 of 8 11 May 2010 at 11:41pm | IP Logged |
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I have the Papiamento version of this course on order from Amazon but that's due to the absence of anything else rather than any great belief in its utility.
Nevertheless I'll report back once it's arrived and I've taken a look. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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