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| SimonD Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5086 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 7 15 June 2010 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello,
I have just begun learning Spanish (I have the Spanish course by Michel Thomas) which I'm making steady progress with. Having read through a lot of the posts on this forum, I discovered that another popular course is Pimsleur. However, seeing that its fairly pricy I thought I would check my local library and see if they had it. Considering the language section of the library is very small, I couldn't believe my luck when I found it. However, I've just noticed that its the Latin American version and don't know if this will be a hindrance or even confuse my learning. Although I do intend to travel to South America, my primary reason for learning Spanish is because I will visiting Spain a fair amount as I now have family living there. I'm also considering using Assimil and FSI once I've finished MT and Pimsleur. Are they likely to be very different from the Pimsleur Latin American version? Thanks for any advice. Simon 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5821 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 2 of 7 15 June 2010 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Which part of Spain? Some dialects are more like America than others.
FSI is based on South American dialects, but Assimil is based on Spanish Spanish. Edited by Cainntear on 15 June 2010 at 8:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5357 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 3 of 7 15 June 2010 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Pimsluer is good, particularly if you get it at the library. I wouldn't worry too much about it
being Latin American, you will still learn all of the basics. you can then "convert" your learning to Spanish Spanish very easily 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| SimonD Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5086 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 7 16 June 2010 at 9:07am | IP Logged | ||
Some family members have moved to Malaga so I will be focusing my travels on the south, although I do intend to visit Madrid, Barcelona etc. FSI is another course I am considering after I've completed MT and Pimsleur. If this is based on South American dialects, I think I'll give the Pimsleur I have a go. Thanks for the replies. Simon 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6913 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 5 of 7 16 June 2010 at 9:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Interestingly our library has a Peninsular Spanish version. County-wide, they seem to offer either the "short course" which is 5 CDs or the Beginners Part A and B both of which are 9 CDs each - which IIRC together form Pimsleur I. I'm not sure what the short course is.
Which one do you have? The short course seems very minimal (in size) to me - so it might be worth doing a catalogue search to see what else is available. Otherwise - note what Cainntear has said - particularly about the part of Spain. I found it a little strange at first switching from one accent to another - I started with Platiquemos (a FSI derivative) and added Assimil to the mix part way through (as a result of Prof. Arguelles' recommendations here). We tend to visit Andalucia when going to Spain, so I decided to concentrate on a Latin-American pronunciation and after a while the differing accents became an irrelevance. Edit: I notice our posts have crossed... FSI courses aren't for everyone. Many find the drilling tedious and of little benefit. The fortunate thing is you can try if out for free and see if it's for you. Edited by Andy E on 16 June 2010 at 9:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5821 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 6 of 7 16 June 2010 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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The biggest difference between Peninsular (Spanish) Spanish and Latin American Spanish is that LAS makes no distinction between S and Z whereas PS does... except in the southwest -- you know, places like Málaga.
I'd just get whatever course is best and I wouldn't worry about the dialect! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daveyboy Newbie Spain Joined 5092 days ago 33 posts - 46 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 7 16 June 2010 at 9:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Simon, If your going to learn Spanish and your planning on visiting your family in Spain more than anywhere else, then I think it would be better to teach your self the Spanish from Spain, there are differences in the Latin American Spanish and the European Spanish, not so many but but some. I live in Madrid, and at the moment I am teaching my self Castillian Spanish, I use various methods like Flash cards and a pretty good grammar book called USO ( De la gramática española, elemental ) I don´t use the Grammar book so much though these days but it´s a good book to start with for a beginner of Spanish. I have added 2 more methods to teaching my self Spanish and they are The Assimil Spanish with ease ( very very good ) and some short story books that come with audio cd ´s there called Lola Lago Detective, there are about 7 books in the series with levels in Spanish ranging from A1 up to B1, there are only about 70 pages in the books but they are very good for the listening comprehension, plus you can read the story while you listen. Which ever Spanish you decide to teach your self Simon, just stick with it and enjoy it. David. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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