Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7171 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 9 of 26 25 May 2012 at 6:20pm | IP Logged |
You're right. It's the shipping cost to the US that's $4.95 US whereas to rest of the world it's $18.
$1 for a well-regarded book isn't the worst thing in the world and certainly bettter than paying several hundred bucks for it to some schmuck on Amazon Marketplace.
Edited by Chung on 25 May 2012 at 6:25pm
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Kappa Groupie Japan Joined 5535 days ago 99 posts - 172 votes
| Message 10 of 26 25 May 2012 at 6:24pm | IP Logged |
Are these what people are talking about?
Le français d'aujourd'hui en 90 leçons
Méthode 90 - Le Russe en 90 leçons et 90 jours
Méthode 90, chinois : Pratique de base
Methode 90 Arabe Pratique de Base
Edited by Kappa on 25 May 2012 at 6:27pm
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Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5684 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin
| Message 11 of 26 25 May 2012 at 6:37pm | IP Logged |
Chung wrote:
You're right. It's the shipping cost to the US that's $4.95 US whereas to rest of the world it's $18.
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Or, worth buying for $1, and then selling on Amazon Marketplace for a mere $499.
Even better, you could sell it on Amazon.co.uk where the current price for a used copy is £1,623.89
Edited by Splog on 25 May 2012 at 6:42pm
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jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6924 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map
| Message 12 of 26 25 May 2012 at 8:09pm | IP Logged |
What's the thing with these astronomically high prices we see now and then on Amazon? Are these people insane? A thousand dollars/euros/pounds for a USED book (or even worse - LP/CD). Oh, the humanity...
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Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7171 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish
| Message 13 of 26 26 May 2012 at 12:11am | IP Logged |
Splog wrote:
Chung wrote:
You're right. It's the shipping cost to the US that's $4.95 US whereas to rest of the world it's $18.
$1 for a well-regarded book isn't the worst thing in the world and certainly bettter than paying several hundred bucks for it to some schmuck on Amazon Marketplace. |
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Or, worth buying for $1, and then selling on Amazon Marketplace for a mere $499.
Even better, you could sell it on Amazon.co.uk where the current price for a used copy is £1,623.89 |
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It seems that someone's snapped up that dirt-cheap copy as it's no longer available at Abebooks for $1. This may be a coincidence but the used copy on Amazon.com Marketplace for about $510 US is also gone.
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tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5468 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 14 of 26 26 May 2012 at 12:18am | IP Logged |
Is the content the same wether the course is called Le X d'aujourd'hui en 90 leçons, Méthode 90 - Le X en 90
leçons et 90 jours or Methode 90 : X Pratique de Base?
Edited by tractor on 26 May 2012 at 12:18am
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akkadboy Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5423 days ago 264 posts - 497 votes Speaks: French*, English, Yiddish Studies: Latin, Ancient Egyptian, Welsh
| Message 15 of 26 26 May 2012 at 9:41am | IP Logged |
tractor wrote:
Is the content the same wether the course is called Le X d'aujourd'hui en 90 leçons, Méthode 90 - Le X en 90
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As far as I know "Le X en 90 leçons et 90 jours" is the old version with few languages offered (Italian, German, English, Spanish, Dutch, Russian) made around the 1970's.
"X Pratique de base" are the new ones (beginning- mid-2000's), more languages (Arabic, Chinese...) are available and some of the "classics" (German at least) were rewritten.
It seems that all the books (wether old or new) are now called "X débutant-xyzXYZ 2/3 mois".
For those of you who are interested, you can find the French editions of the old books for more or less 1€ on priceminister.com
Edited by akkadboy on 26 May 2012 at 10:05am
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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5181 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian
| Message 16 of 26 30 May 2012 at 10:29pm | IP Logged |
I'They are not as much talked over as Assimil because they offer less languages, but I do like them over Assimil. A similar series (with more titles but less content) is the 40 leçons series.
I have been using Methode 90 for chinois as some people widely know and I like it way better than Assimil. It is better structured. It does have its flaws, like the lack of pinyin in most grammar explanations and sometimes the constant shift of subjects in small dialogues that make them sound a little nonsense, but I like it and recommend it overall. I own a physical copy of the Russian one, and apart with German, they seem a bit more grammar-blocked than vocabulary-oriented, when compared to the Chinese one. I have to go through them further in order to check whether most of the lessons consist of sample sentences covering specific grammar topics or the language presented is actually living as in the Chinese one.
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