ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4711 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 169 of 174 12 March 2015 at 4:43am | IP Logged |
Also, does anyone know if:
L'Arabe sans Peine ISBN: 2700502744
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L'Arabe ISBN: 9782700502749
are the same book with just different titles? They both seem to have 77 lessons, but are
different lengths and one has a different cover. Thanks for any clarification help.
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kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4889 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 170 of 174 12 March 2015 at 5:22am | IP Logged |
ericblair wrote:
I am going to order the course with
audio once it is available on Amazon, but I really do hate paying for the super slowed
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The dollar and euro are almost at parity, for the first time in ages ... it might be
worthwhile to order directly from Assimil for the courses.
edit: I just did a test run. Ordering direct it's 62 euro for the course, 17.50 euro
for shipping. Or, $84 US. Other Assimil courses on Amazon range up to $140.
(I think I need to take a wander over to amazon.fr and go on a shopping binge)
Edited by kanewai on 12 March 2015 at 5:29am
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Arnaud25 Diglot Senior Member France Joined 3842 days ago 129 posts - 235 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Russian
| Message 171 of 174 12 March 2015 at 6:28am | IP Logged |
ericblair wrote:
Also, does anyone know if:
L'Arabe sans Peine ISBN: 2700502744
and
L'Arabe ISBN: 9782700502749
are the same book with just different titles? They both seem to have 77 lessons, but are
different lengths and one has a different cover. Thanks for any clarification help. |
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It's the same, in theory. The newest one (with the cube on the cover) has usually a better presentation, with blue ink to separate the dialogs from the lexical part, etc, but it should be the same dialogs if they have not updated the book (I haven't heard it was updated, but you can contact Assimil to be sure)
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ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4711 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 172 of 174 12 March 2015 at 11:05pm | IP Logged |
I just went ahead and ordered with the audio. I download to sample, but do not mind at
all paying full price for good quality from language learning companies. I'd hate to see
them disappear!
It arrived quickly. Ordered on the 12th in the evening and arrived the 16th.
Edited by ericblair on 18 March 2015 at 3:04am
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QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5855 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese
| Message 173 of 174 28 March 2015 at 8:23am | IP Logged |
Assimil has released these new "editions" of these courses in March:
Assimil Le Polonais sans peine 3#super-pack-livre-cd-audio-cd-mp3">http://fr.assimil.com/me thodes/le-polonais-
3#super-pack-livre-cd-audio-cd-mp3
Assimil Le Tcheque sans peine pack-livre-cd-audio-cd-mp3">http://fr.assimil.com/methodes/l e-tcheque#super-pack-
livre-cd-audio-cd-mp3
Assimil Le Japonais du manga manga">http://fr.assimil.com/methodes/le-japonais-du-manga
A warning: I have heard the sample recordings of Assimil Le Tcheque sans peine. It is
the same as the old version, which I bought 2 years ago. So it is a repackaging rather
than a new edition!
Edited by QiuJP on 30 March 2015 at 7:26pm
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4909 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 174 of 174 28 March 2015 at 12:42pm | IP Logged |
Le Japonais du manga seems like a great concept. It's not unique, but I would hope it would follow something like the Assimil method (although there's no audio). It's interesting that it is targeted at C1. So it's not trying to be like so many "learning with comics" tools: weak comics for A1 students. Here's hoping they do similar things for other languages (e.g. a book about French BDs?)
The link above doesn't work, so here's a new one:
http://fr.assimil.com/methodes/le-japonais-du-manga
Edited by Jeffers on 28 March 2015 at 12:44pm
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