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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4508 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 145 of 174 11 October 2013 at 12:20am | IP Logged | |||||
That was me that posted that originally. I even went and double checked my email, and that is what was said. I just emailed a follow-up asking about Spanish along with some other courses that are to be released soon-ish. Once I get a reply, I will post it in here. I hope the delay is just due to thorough revisions of the translation into English. Poor translations generally seem to be the biggest/only issue with Assimil courses, so that would be a delay that is worthwhile, in my opinion :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4485 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 146 of 174 11 October 2013 at 12:44am | IP Logged | |||||
Yeah, there are a few Italian courses not listed there, like Swedish, Hebrew and Latin, to name a few. If you want an Italian-based Assimil course, you have to check assimil.it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4508 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 147 of 174 16 October 2013 at 10:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well this does not seem promising. I wrote and asked for updates on the English base
German and Spanish due out this year and the Hebrew, Yiddish, and Arabic. The reply:
So......not really sure what this means for the release of an updated German and Spanish. If someone else wants to write and ask specifically about those two, that would be great. The replies to my queries seem to just be going in a circle now. Kind of a bummer for me, as I was very interested in the German that I was told would be out next month. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5172 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 148 of 174 16 October 2013 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This does not make sense. I wrote to them in 2011 and was told they were "preparing" the new version of Spanish. I wrote to them again in 2012 and was assured they were still working on it and indeed "plan to publish" it. Below are the emails I received:
------- Hello, Thank you very much for your message and your interest in our publications. This is to confirm you that we are preparing a new version of our course "Spanish with ease" but we have no date of publication at the present time. For sure, it won't be in 2011. Best regards. Nathalie FROEHLY ------- Hello, Thank you very much for your message. This is to inform you that we plan to publish a new "Spanish with ease" course, but it won't be released before 2013. Best regards. Nathalie FROEHLY 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4508 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 149 of 174 16 October 2013 at 11:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Indeed. I still have the email from earlier this year when she said the Spanish With Ease
should be released in September of 2013, and the German in November of 2013. Maybe I just poorly word my emails and they get confused? I have no idea.....it seems odd for a courses' released to be imminent and then.....not get referenced ever again, haha. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4508 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 150 of 174 19 October 2013 at 5:15am | IP Logged | |||||
And I got a response to my follow-up:
So, there it is. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4465 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 151 of 174 19 October 2013 at 2:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
It is funny they subject a language not used in Europe to European norms. Typical burEUcracy. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4512 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 152 of 174 19 October 2013 at 6:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
I don't think that's a problem at all. The company is European, and the EFL is a good standard, why not use it? 7 persons have voted this message useful |
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