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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4687 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 1 of 9 14 September 2012 at 3:10am | IP Logged |
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I just stumbled on this: Assimil has posted tracks from fifty of their courses on
Sound Cloud. Most of them contain lessons 1, 50, and 100. It appears to be legitimate, and it's not a download / pirate site. It has lots of the smaller languages from Europe (Basque, Breton, Provençal, Malgache, Corse, et al.); some of the ancient languages (Hieroglyphics, Latin, Greek); lots of versions of English; and some Asian and African languages. Hope none of you were hoping to get any work done today. I've just lost a whole afternoon. (And I am sad to report that the "L'Anglais d'Amérique" might have Assimil's second most painful recordings. It's bad, but still not as bad as "L'Arabe.") Edited by kanewai on 14 September 2012 at 3:50am 10 persons have voted this message useful | |
| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4408 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 2 of 9 14 September 2012 at 3:27am | IP Logged |
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The Assimil Facebook page has been posting links to the Soundcloud files for a few weeks
so I assume it's legit. Definitely addictive. Edited by embici on 14 September 2012 at 3:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6027 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 3 of 9 14 September 2012 at 7:28am | IP Logged |
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What a great find. There went my evening.....
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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6177 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 9 14 September 2012 at 10:07am | IP Logged |
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Very interesting, thanks for posting the link.
The actors on the American English clips are terrible! Really painful to listen to. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5363 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 5 of 9 14 September 2012 at 10:23am | IP Logged |
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If you think the American English one is bad, check out L'anglais des affaires - its
like a bad Mexican telenovella set in Chelsea (although, I must say, the women in it do remind me of some of the more Sloaney girls from when I was at University, and so the course does has a certain ring of truth to it...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| MarcoDiAngelo Tetraglot Senior Member Yugoslavia Joined 6245 days ago 208 posts - 345 votes Speaks: Serbian*, English, Spanish, Russian Studies: Thai, Polish | Message 6 of 9 14 September 2012 at 12:28pm | IP Logged |
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I went through the whole Assimil Anglais d'Amerique and I thought it was great. :) It's just what you need to get the hang of the American intonation and pronunciation, although I suppose it must be painful to listen to if you are American. On the other hand, the emotion I get from listening Assimil Croate (especially the last lesson) is embarrassment mixed with amusement. No one speaks like that! So I concluded that it has more to do with the fact that we're listening to beginner material in our respective native languages than with the quality of the course itself.
EDIT: Oh, and thanks for the share! I love it! Edited by MarcoDiAngelo on 14 September 2012 at 12:33pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5173 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 7 of 9 15 September 2012 at 1:25am | IP Logged |
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Assimil has also put the audio from the first five lessons of many of its courses on youtube.
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| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5005 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 9 15 September 2012 at 1:04pm | IP Logged |
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I found it interesting. The English and American recordings do sound a bit false and
over-acted, but nothing really wrong with that. In fact I listened to New French with Ease and, after having much more exposure to French than I had had the first time I worked through it, I thought quite the same thing. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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