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| pfwillard Pro Member United States Joined 5493 days ago 169 posts - 205 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 9 of 71 12 December 2009 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I like the Catalan and Greek TY sets as cheap introductions. I hope that making them more "user-friendly" doesn't mean even less of the target language on the recordings--it's unpleasant to work on a dialog in Greek and then have the announcer break in and say, in Estuary, "Did you understand the foreign person? Now I will tell you what the foreign person said."
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| Raincrowlee Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 6496 days ago 621 posts - 808 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Korean, French Studies: Indonesian, Japanese | Message 10 of 71 13 December 2009 at 1:04am | IP Logged | |||||
Chris Could you go into any detail by what you mean by "more user-friendly"? What will be different about these new editions? Will there be more audio material, or is it just an expansion of the text? And most importantly, will anything be taken out? And out of curiosity, what titles have you worked on? I wonder if I've used one. Thanks!
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| maritimeguy Triglot Newbie Canada Joined 5435 days ago 18 posts - 19 votes Speaks: French, English*, German | Message 11 of 71 14 December 2009 at 3:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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Actually all the new editions of the beginner and the standard teach yourself are already out in canada both with the cd's and without.The only that that was changed were the cover pictures.Their is a nwe series called complete french, Spanish ,german ect.I think it is just a packaged version of the beginner series and "improve" books.
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| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 6940 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 12 of 71 14 December 2009 at 6:03am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have both Teach Yourself Indonesian and Teach Yourself Malay, both of which were written (joint written) by Chris. I have a feeling he has written some others.
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| pookiebear79 Groupie United States Joined 5824 days ago 76 posts - 142 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Swedish, Italian | Message 13 of 71 14 December 2009 at 9:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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I did notice on Amazon that a new title has just been released in the "TY Beginner's..." series (Polish,) and at least one additional, new language/course is being released later this month. (Yiddish.) Unfortunately, the price (at least on the US amazon) is between two and three times higher than the average price of a TY book/audio set.
While I appreciate that resources in the language are so scarce that maybe they feel it's ok to charge double or triple price for the course, that is far too much for me since at this point my interest is basically a 'flirtation'/curiosity on the side for when I want to step out on my other languages. ;) Come to think of it, even if I were to fall in love with the language and decide to study it "properly"/seriously, 66 dollars (the 'pre order' cost last time I checked) is way more than I would spend on ANY Teach Yourself title, ever. In fact, the main draw of TY, for me, is availability and affordability, since I am usually able to find used courses on Ebay quite inexpensively. But otherwise, the quality of the series is rather hit and miss, and I can't see shelling out such an obscene price for a course that may not even be very good for one of my 'hit list' languages that I may not even decide to pursue beyond basic familiarization. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Fat-tony Nonaglot Senior Member United Kingdom jiahubooks.co.uk Joined 5934 days ago 288 posts - 441 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Russian, Esperanto, Thai, Laotian, Urdu, Swedish, French Studies: Mandarin, Indonesian, Arabic (Written), Armenian, Pali, Burmese | Message 14 of 71 14 December 2009 at 7:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
@Fanatic or Chris What's the difference between the two "Bahasa" courses? Is the Malay one just a translation of the Indonesian one or do they contain radically different material? I quite like TY Malay and I've been debating whether to get the Indonesian version. Thanks, Fat-tony Edited by Fat-tony on 14 December 2009 at 7:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jondesousa Tetraglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/Zgg3nRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6058 days ago 227 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Mandarin, Spanish | Message 15 of 71 14 December 2009 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Can any explain the difference between the older black cover editions and the more recent white cover editions? Are the exactly the same content just reprinted? or is there different content?
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| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 6940 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 16 of 71 15 December 2009 at 1:43am | IP Logged | |||||
One is not a translation of the other but the two courses are very similar with similar chapter topics. Because the two languages are so similar it is inevitable that there will be similarities. I am not sorry I have them both. The same goes for Colloquial Indonesian and Malay. They are practically the same book--even closer than Teach Yourself. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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