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| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4474 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes  Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 17 of 102 20 January 2014 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||
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For those who have seen it, how does the new Japanese (available in Italian somebody said) compare to the 2 previous books of ~50 lessons?
Anyways, a new "perfectionnement" is always good news (though I feel I will be jealous, studying Polish and not Russian), and Cantonese and a new Occitan are fantastic news! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5328 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 102 20 January 2014 at 12:46am | IP Logged | ||
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According to Assimil's Twitter account, the English base for Egyptian hieroglyphic has been pushed back to sometime in 2015. Just thought I would pass this along.
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| Hungringo Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 3784 days ago 168 posts - 329 votes Speaks: Hungarian*, English, Spanish Studies: French | Message 19 of 102 20 January 2014 at 10:34am | IP Logged | ||
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I would be very interested in Croatian and Indonesian Assimil courses with English/Spanish/Hungarian base.
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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4507 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 20 of 102 21 January 2014 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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The English based Spanish course is not currently searchable on the Assimil website when
it was as of a few days ago. Maybe this means the release of the new version is imminent since, after the delay, they said January 2014 was the release date! This could be exciting indeed. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Wchild453 Newbie United States Joined 4837 days ago 1 posts - 1 votes Speaks: English* | Message 21 of 102 23 January 2014 at 11:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wonder what changes they're going to make to the Spanish course. I have the old one. I haven't started it yet but I plan on to.
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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4507 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 22 of 102 26 January 2014 at 5:18am | IP Logged | ||
Interesting first post after joining so long ago! Anyway, the English base course that is going to be released for Spanish is just the French-base one from in the early 2000's called L'espagnol. I am not sure how good it is supposed to be compared to Spanish With Ease or Spanish Without Toil. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5579 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 23 of 102 27 January 2014 at 8:48pm | IP Logged | ||
My answer is not really adequate, but in the absence of a better ine so far... I have gone through the course in question with the French base (I don't speak a word of French but already knew enough Spanish to use it with "no" base by that time). The dialogues are lively, interesting and funny. I really liked the humour in the "Spanish with ease" course but i think the humour in this new course might be a little less obscure. The recording quality was massively better than the previous course IMO. I had the impression that it covered a little less ground than "with ease"; but the courses are completely different so that you can profitably use both. I don't think "ground covered" is the main point with Assimil anyway- I think it's more about building a thoroughly assimilated base in a fun way (and for the dialogues to be fun, they need to incorporate some language that is well beyond the basics, but it tends to be quite a random, non-systematic selection of such language IMO). Hope this helps Edited by Random review on 27 January 2014 at 8:49pm 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4507 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 24 of 102 28 January 2014 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for chiming in! Are all of the dialogues unrelated in the newest Spanish learning
course? Or do they follow a coherent story line? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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