Register  Login  Active Topics  Maps  

New course: Le québécois en 10 leçons

  Tags: Canada | Textbooks | French
 Language Learning Forum : Language Programs, Books & Tapes Post Reply
167 messages over 21 pages: 1 2 35 6 7 ... 4 ... 20 21 Next >>
tommus
Senior Member
CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name
Joined 5626 days ago

979 posts - 1688 votes 
Speaks: English*
Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish

 
 Message 25 of 167
03 October 2012 at 10:48pm | IP Logged 
I just received my new "Le québécois en 10 leçons" in the mail. Very quick delivery from LuLu.com. And I downloaded the audio files.

My first impression: EXCELLENT. There is a massive amount of great material in these 144 pages and the audio files. I can only imagine the huge amount of work required to develop and write this book.

It certainly is not your standard "Learn French" textbook. It looks like the missing link in my years of trying to learn to speak and understand French in Canada. That being said, it is going to take a huge amount of work on my part to do justice to what this book and audio have to offer.

More comments later when I have been able to absorb more of this wonderful new resource.

Thank you Arekkusu!




7 persons have voted this message useful



Arekkusu
Hexaglot
Senior Member
Canada
bit.ly/qc_10_lec
Joined 5141 days ago

3971 posts - 7747 votes 
Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto
Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian

 
 Message 26 of 167
07 October 2012 at 2:35am | IP Logged 
If you happen to live or around Winnipeg, the book is now available at the French-
language bookstore called
À la page.

[Oct. 13] It's now also available at McNally Robinson (in Winnipeg).

Edited by Arekkusu on 15 October 2012 at 6:10pm

2 persons have voted this message useful



Arekkusu
Hexaglot
Senior Member
Canada
bit.ly/qc_10_lec
Joined 5141 days ago

3971 posts - 7747 votes 
Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto
Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian

 
 Message 27 of 167
16 October 2012 at 4:11pm | IP Logged 
Volte kindly presented a detailed review of her work with the first lesson of the book in this thread.
2 persons have voted this message useful



Arekkusu
Hexaglot
Senior Member
Canada
bit.ly/qc_10_lec
Joined 5141 days ago

3971 posts - 7747 votes 
Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto
Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian

 
 Message 28 of 167
21 October 2012 at 11:36pm | IP Logged 
At this point, the book is only available in book format. Is anyone interested in
purchasing the e-book version? I understand this would save people the shipping costs,
but there is the risk that the book might become available for free online... What do you
think?
1 person has voted this message useful



Homogenik
Diglot
Senior Member
Canada
Joined 4584 days ago

314 posts - 407 votes 
Speaks: French*, English
Studies: Polish, Mandarin

 
 Message 29 of 167
22 October 2012 at 3:00am | IP Logged 
Did you try to get it published through L'Harmattan? They do publish books "à compte d'auteur", which implies the
author needs to finance part of the process, but it does guarantee some kind of distribution.
1 person has voted this message useful



Arekkusu
Hexaglot
Senior Member
Canada
bit.ly/qc_10_lec
Joined 5141 days ago

3971 posts - 7747 votes 
Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto
Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian

 
 Message 30 of 167
22 October 2012 at 3:16am | IP Logged 
Homogenik wrote:
Did you try to get it published through L'Harmattan? They do publish
books "à compte d'auteur", which implies the
author needs to finance part of the process, but it does guarantee some kind of
distribution.

Thanks, I'll consider that. Another publisher is looking at it now. I don't dislike self-
publishing though, and I'll see what they have to offer.
1 person has voted this message useful



hrhenry
Octoglot
Senior Member
United States
languagehopper.blogs
Joined 4890 days ago

1871 posts - 3642 votes 
Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese
Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe

 
 Message 31 of 167
22 October 2012 at 3:22am | IP Logged 
Arekkusu wrote:
I understand this would save people the shipping costs,
but there is the risk that the book might become available for free online... What do
you think?

Tricky question. I personally like having digital versions of books, maybe not
exclusively, but I like having the option.

I think piracy is always a concern, but it't not something that's going to go away,
either.

I guess you'd have to weigh whether you plan on making the book a bigger part of your
income being generated, or whether you view it as "extra money", so to speak.

That said, and maybe I'm naive, but I truly believe that if a person finds something
useful, they'll pay for it in the end. The ones that steal for the sake of stealing
would never have bought it in the first place.

Have you talked to any other authors that have dealt with the situation?

R.
==

Edited by hrhenry on 22 October 2012 at 3:24am

1 person has voted this message useful



Arekkusu
Hexaglot
Senior Member
Canada
bit.ly/qc_10_lec
Joined 5141 days ago

3971 posts - 7747 votes 
Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto
Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian

 
 Message 32 of 167
22 October 2012 at 3:28am | IP Logged 
hrhenry wrote:
I guess you'd have to weigh whether you plan on making the book a bigger
part of your income being generated, or whether you view it as "extra money", so to
speak.
==

How do you mean? Which option would belong to which scenario?

I did speak with one other author who is not in the least worried about piracy.


1 person has voted this message useful



This discussion contains 167 messages over 21 pages: << Prev 1 2 35 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21  Next >>


Post ReplyPost New Topic Printable version Printable version

You cannot post new topics in this forum - You cannot reply to topics in this forum - You cannot delete your posts in this forum
You cannot edit your posts in this forum - You cannot create polls in this forum - You cannot vote in polls in this forum


This page was generated in 6.2031 seconds.


DHTML Menu By Milonic JavaScript
Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved
No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization.