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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4698 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 25 of 26 16 February 2012 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hated it. I've enjoyed Assimil in other languages, and will continue to use them moving forward. But contrary to a previous post, I found that the speakers spoke artificially slow and exaggerated throughout the course. I completed 35 out of 77 lessons, but listened ahead to see if it ever got better. It did not. Have you ever played a record backwards (for those of you who remember what a record is)? That is what the audio sounded like. It was painful to listen to, and the listening/shadowing is usually the best part of Assimil. This was for the French-based version, which is rumored to be better than the Engliah-based one. I do have an Assimil "Guide de Poche" for Tunisian Arabic, also French-based. The recordings are pleasant, but the Guide-series are more like phrasebooks than language courses. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6038 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 26 of 26 17 February 2012 at 2:42am | IP Logged | |||||
I'm with kanewai on this one. I tried so hard to like Assimil Arabic, I really did. I attempted to use both the French and the older English editions. It is just SO painful to listen to. I played it for some native Arabic speakers and they just laughed at it. The dialogues are so slow and unnatural until you get up past lesson 50 - nobody I know has lasted this long though! 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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