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| Chris Heptaglot Senior Member Japan Joined 6915 days ago 287 posts - 452 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian, Indonesian, French, Malay, Japanese, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Korean, Mongolian | Message 1 of 71 12 December 2009 at 2:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Just in case you didn't know, the entire Teach Yourself series is is due for a relaunch in the first half of 2010. This includes all the language titles, obviously. So if you are thinking of learning with TY, then I recommend that you wait for the new editions, as long as you're not in a hurry. More material has been added, and they have been made even more user-friendly, with the addition of self-check tests and extra notes and insights. If you have any questions, as one of their language authors, I can probably answer them.
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| kerateo Triglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5440 days ago 112 posts - 180 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian | Message 2 of 71 12 December 2009 at 3:53am | IP Logged | ||
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I hate the Teach Yourself series... :)
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| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5693 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 3 of 71 12 December 2009 at 4:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Perhaps they could correct the sigma problem with the Ancient Greek course. I would also love to see a "Teach Yourself Tamil".
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| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5669 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 4 of 71 12 December 2009 at 4:29am | IP Logged | ||
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I wish they would fix the audio. There is way too much English on them. Actually, it would be nice if there wasn't any English on them. I would just want the dialogues recorded on them.
They could use the scripts for all of the languages such as Japanese and Korean. That would be nice instead of Romaji in those. Also, put more vocabulary, dialogues, reading passages, and better audio. Then I might use these courses more often. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| IronFist Senior Member United States Joined 6231 days ago 663 posts - 941 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 5 of 71 12 December 2009 at 4:44am | IP Logged | ||
The Korean one was pretty bad. I think I checked out some other ones from the library in the past and was equally disappointed with them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Juan M. Senior Member Colombia Joined 5693 days ago 460 posts - 597 votes | Message 6 of 71 12 December 2009 at 3:53pm | IP Logged | ||
I agree. A course that doesn't teach and use the native script is close to worthless in my opinion. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Captain Haddock Diglot Senior Member Japan kanjicabinet.tumblr. Joined 6562 days ago 2282 posts - 2814 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, Korean, Ancient Greek | Message 7 of 71 12 December 2009 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Those older romaji-only Japanese books like Teach Yourself and 500 Japanese Verbs (or whatever) seem like a
holdover from the days when publishers assumed Westerners were too stupid to actually learn Japanese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Calphidrewby13 Newbie United States Joined 5641 days ago 25 posts - 27 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Swahili | Message 8 of 71 12 December 2009 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hmmm... will they be selling the older versions at a discounted price?
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