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LL and TY Experiment? | ||
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4689 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 1 of 18 21 June 2013 at 4:49am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I thought the Assimil Experiment turned out very well - there were a lot of interesting
insights into what worked and what didn't with Assimil. Anybody game for trying it again with the new Teach Yourself or Living Language courses? Both of them have issued significant updates in the past year or two, and it might be time to re-visit them as a group. It would also help the HTLALers who are putting together the wiki pages by providing fresh data. If people were interested, I'd recommend that we run it looser than the Assimil experiment. That is, less rules about being a beginner, or following the method, or not using other resources. Assimil makes a lot of claims we wanted to test; for these it would be nice just to have more reviews. These courses also cost a lot less than Assimil (about $35), so it'll be easier for more to join in. If we timed it right we could start it at the same time as, and overlap with, the 6WC in August. Anyone interested? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6029 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 2 of 18 21 June 2013 at 3:28pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Which Living Language courses were you referring to; the "Ultimate" series or the "Basic" courses? The project
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4966 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 3 of 18 21 June 2013 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'd be glad to join, but I think my languages aren't covered in Living Languages (no Estonian, for example, and I don't own the German one). Besides, I'd rather go through Living Language after having been through Assimil. It's rather extensive and the dialogues/lessons are long. This amount of exposure for each lesson is something I can only handle after I'm close to A2.
Still, I'd be following the experiment attentively! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Gala Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4350 days ago 229 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 4 of 18 21 June 2013 at 8:22pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'm pretty sure that he's referring to neither, but rather the new Complete Beginner- Advanced, which is discussed in a thread a few lines below this one. Despite its name, it apparently has much less content and is more basic than the Ultimate Beginner- Intermediate. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| stelingo Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5632 days ago 722 posts - 1076 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, French, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Czech, Polish, Greek, Mandarin | Message 5 of 18 21 June 2013 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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From what I have seen, the changes in the TY books are purely cosmetic. Certainly in the case of TY Arabic the content is identical to the previous edition.
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| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4689 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 6 of 18 21 June 2013 at 9:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yes. There's some talk about it, but not enough reviews to make a call on how good / bad it is.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4809 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 7 of 18 21 June 2013 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Expugnator, the whole point of the experiment would be to try the new LL courses and I'm afraid their content is anything but long and comprehensive. They seem to be A1/A2 courses.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4809 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 8 of 18 21 June 2013 at 10:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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One of our newbies is using the new LL and seems to like it as a beginner course.
here is the log: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=36253&PN=1 1 person has voted this message useful |
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