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| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5208 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 9 of 15 20 July 2011 at 2:21am | IP Logged | ||
Truthfully, I get the audio from inter-library loan and then I buy the corresponding book from half.com 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5186 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 10 of 15 20 July 2011 at 2:51am | IP Logged | ||
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To the original question... I have not yet done Using Spanish because I chose to spend more time with With Ease and Without Toil. Using Spanish looked like a significant jump in difficulty so I wanted to save it for later when I was more advanced. I agree with whoever said doing a second active wave is great.
Regarding finding the second course... or any Assimil course in the US... try www.Schoenhofs.com that is where I got my Using Spanish. The price was reasonable. You may have to buy the audio separately from the book for some of the more obscure courses or the ones that are not available on the Assimil site. Edited by James29 on 20 July 2011 at 2:53am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chrisphillips71 Groupie United States Joined 5047 days ago 64 posts - 86 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 15 22 July 2011 at 5:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for all of the information about purchasing Assimil Using Spanish. Am I correct
that you can only get the Assimil Using Spanish audio on cassette? I wrote Assimil and they claimed to not to even have the course. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5376 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 12 of 15 22 July 2011 at 6:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Using Spanish is out of print. The French is the same (except the translation is in French) so the CDs
(available separately- and all in Spanish) for that course works with the English book. You can pick these up quite easily from Abe, etc. Edited by Elexi on 22 July 2011 at 9:19pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| July Diglot Senior Member Spain Joined 5084 days ago 113 posts - 208 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishB2 Studies: French | Message 13 of 15 22 July 2011 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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To me, Using Spanish is a useful book for the point when you are pretty advanced in
Spanish - but I had huge problems with the inaccurate translations from (I assume) the original French to English, that crop up in nearly every lesson. There are mis- translations, spelling mistakes and just really weird phrases that made the book a chore to get through. I know this issue has been mentioned before, but it bears repeating as the problem was so extreme that it really did make a difference to my enjoyment of the course. It was so annoying that I have never really used it. Now that I can just read the lessons in Spanish, and just check the odd word, I'm about to get around to making real use of it. Hopefully they will one day reissue the second level of Spanish with a more clear and precise translation. So my advice would be this - absolutely get this course. I hope you enjoy it. Don't spend a fortune on it, though. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| VityaCo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6892 days ago 79 posts - 86 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Russian*, Ukrainian*, English Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French | Message 14 of 15 22 August 2011 at 4:57am | IP Logged | ||
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Truthfully, I get the audio from inter-library loan and then I buy the corresponding book from half.com [/QUOTE] Truly, this is the best way. I do this way every time I can. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5208 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 15 of 15 24 August 2011 at 6:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Is there a difference between the 1999 and the 1996 version? Or is the one just a reprint of the other?
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