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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4690 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 345 of 376 17 June 2014 at 2:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
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TY stands for Teach Yourself. It is one of the big language publishers and has a lot
of courses. Most of their courses follow the traditional pattern of: dialogue, vocabulary list, grammar notes, exercises. They also have beginner courses, audio courses, advanced courses, etc. They have a lot of the normal languages you would expect, like French, German, Italian, etc. In that case, they have a lot of competition and might not be the best choice. But for some languages, they are one of very few choices. So I recommend TY for people learning Hindi in part because there are few other options. One more comment: TY have a habit of bringing out new versions of courses every three years or so. In most cases they have simply re-packaged the older course without any substantial change. What makes it worse is that they re-name the course, which makes people think it's a different course. Edited by Jeffers on 17 June 2014 at 2:14pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6937 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 346 of 376 15 July 2014 at 3:15am | IP Logged | |||||
Almost five years later, I think that I can add to my list a bit even though my basic premise still holds in that it's not so much the brand that interests me as much as the course's quality. In the TY... and Colloquial... series, quality varies from one course to the next because of how the author(s) set to work. "TY Estonian" was excellent but "Colloquial Estonian" should never have seen the light of day. The first edition of "Colloquial Slovene" by Albretti is junk whereas the newer edition by Pirnat-Greenberg is much better. For Turkish, my favourite coursebook (so far) is Öztopçu's "Elementary Turkish" (2 vols.) I have no real favourite among the books that I've used for Ukrainian, although Shevchuk's "Beginner's Ukrainian" is probably the best of a so-so lot for beginners since its extensive audio is freely downloadable in .mp3 and the exercises come with an equally freely downloadable answer key despite Shevchuk not teaching quite as much grammar or vocabulary as "TY Ukrainian", "Colloquial Ukrainian" or the older "Modern Ukrainian". It's hard for me to include Northern Saami, since I've really used only one set of coursebooks: the old series "Davvin" in 4 volumes. I've browsed the newer challenger "Cealkke dearvvuođaid" which is also in 4 volumes but was disappointed in that it didn't have answer keys like "Davvin". 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 4911 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 347 of 376 15 July 2014 at 3:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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Chung, thanks for bringing up lesser studied languages again.
If anyone is interested in Ojibwe, there are a couple decent textbooks available: Our Ojibwe Grammar and Ambe, Ojibwemodaa Endaayang!. If you are in an area where universities teach Ojibwe, you might be able to find these books at their respective university book stores, otherwise they can be ordered from the links above. They are somewhat expensive, but the most definitive that I've found for the language. And for a good intro to the language, Pimsleur, in association with Bemidji State University, has created a 30 lesson course. It's unlike the other Pimsleur courses. R. == Edited by hrhenry on 15 July 2014 at 3:50am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mentecuerpo Newbie United States Joined 3533 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Studies: Italian | Message 348 of 376 21 August 2014 at 8:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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Assimil Italian and French.
Living Language. Babbel.com Lingq.com Assimil method for Italian and French: I remembered my father owing the German, English, Italian and French editions around 1960's. It brings nostalgia and I remembered how much my father enjoyed this old vinyl recording. I like the humor, the illustrations and the progressive learning as you go with the lessons. Living Language for Italian. Lingq.com reading as I listen to the pronunciation: Great to encounter the same word within different context and meanings. Great vocabulary building. I like babbel.com due to the "space repetition" "supermemo" vocabulary building. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Enrico Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 3526 days ago 162 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Italian, Spanish, French | Message 349 of 376 30 August 2014 at 2:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Paul Noble Michel Thomas Pimsleur Edited by Enrico on 30 August 2014 at 2:31pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| doodoofan Tetraglot Newbie Vietnam japanesetest4you.com Joined 4496 days ago 19 posts - 25 votes Speaks: Vietnamese*, English, Mandarin, Japanese Studies: Korean, Spanish | Message 350 of 376 13 September 2014 at 1:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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My favorite program is Rosetta Stone. I've learned Japanese, Chinese, Korean and Spanish with it. It's a
great program for beginner, but not very good for advanced levels. If you finish 3 levels of Rosetta Stone Japanese, you'll be at JLPT level N4. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| liam.pike1 Groupie Australia Joined 3535 days ago 84 posts - 122 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto, French | Message 351 of 376 16 October 2014 at 3:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am new to language learning, and my only real experience so far has been with Duolingo. I think it's great, but I
realise that it will only take me so far before I'll have to move on; then again, isn't this the same with all language learning programs? And Duolingo is free! (Here is the post on DL which I recently made: http://how-to-learn-any- language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=39413&PN=1 ) Just a question: do the Colloquial courses tend to be more easy-paced than the Teach Yourself courses? And do Colloquial courses tend to not take one as far as TY courses? (I know each book varies, but just in general) If so, then it'd make sense to go through the Colloquial book in one's target language, and then go through the respective TY book... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| habadzi Super Polyglot Senior Member Greece Joined 5355 days ago 70 posts - 106 votes Speaks: Greek*, Spanish, Portuguese, Romanian, Hindi, French, German, Italian, Ancient Greek, Modern Hebrew, Arabic (classical), Indonesian, Bengali, Albanian, Nepali | Message 352 of 376 16 October 2014 at 5:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
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