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| Medulin Tetraglot Senior Member Croatia Joined 4464 days ago 1199 posts - 2192 votes  Speaks: Croatian*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Norwegian, Hindi, Nepali | Message 41 of 102 01 March 2014 at 2:41am | IP Logged |
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I would love Assimil Assamese ;)
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| brandnew2 Newbie United States Joined 4438 days ago 2 posts - 5 votes | Message 42 of 102 03 March 2014 at 4:54pm | IP Logged |
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I've ordered Perfectionnement Russe, can't wait for it to arrive! I'm in the US and they didn't give any shipping estimate, so not sure how long of a wait it will be.
My Russian's not strong enough to use the course yet but hopefully having it will give me some motivation :) I've done about half of the 2012 Assimil Russian (English base) and half of the 1970's Le Russe Sans Peine (French base), but my russian study has been kind of sporadic over the past couple years. For what it's worth, I found the 1970's course quite a bit more coherent and helpful - more substance to the conversations, more of a graded difficulty curve, more useful vocabulary it seemed. The 2012 Russian course (which is based on the newer "Le Russe") felt a bit disjointed, as the dialogues were shorter and sometimes quite random, including in terms of vocabulary. This Perfectionnement Russe course is by the same author as the 2012 course, but I'm still optimistic. Even the newer/weaker Assimil courses are better than most language learning programs out there. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4507 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 43 of 102 05 March 2014 at 2:00am | IP Logged |
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It would be cool if Assimil someday fixed the Using Spanish course that is in an English
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| brandnew2 Newbie United States Joined 4438 days ago 2 posts - 5 votes | Message 44 of 102 06 March 2014 at 11:19pm | IP Logged |
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My copy of perfectionnement russe came yesterday, only 3 days after I placed the order! I was expecting a longer wait since it was shipping from France to the US.
My level in Russian isn't high enough to start it quite yet, but leafing through the book, I'm impressed so far. The dialogues appear to be fairly substantial - the book itself is as thick as the beginning Assimil Russian course, even though there's 30 fewer lessons in the perfectionnement russe course (70 vs 100). 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4507 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 45 of 102 06 March 2014 at 11:28pm | IP Logged |
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What sorts of things are in it, brandnew2? Is it all disconnected tracts of literature, a
story binding things together, etc...? More details would be great! Also, if you don't mind sharing, how much was the cost with shipping and all after the conversion to dollars (I am in the US too) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| SomeGuy Groupie Germany Joined 4896 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes Speaks: German* Studies: Arabic (Written), Turkish, Mandarin | Message 46 of 102 28 March 2014 at 2:48pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah,some news about the Khmer Course!
A small Interview with Helene Nut about the upcoming Course ( should be out this Summer) http://blog.assimil.com/entretien-audio-avec-helene-nut-khme r 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bart Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 6956 days ago 155 posts - 159 votes Speaks: Dutch*, French, English Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese, Swedish | Message 47 of 102 28 March 2014 at 4:11pm | IP Logged |
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I received my Perfectionnement Russe a few days ago and I am very impressed.
It looks to be a very thorough course with a lot of content. I will update once I am a little further in it, but as for now I'm very enthusiastic to say the least! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| YnEoS Senior Member United States Joined 4050 days ago 472 posts - 893 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 48 of 102 28 March 2014 at 4:38pm | IP Logged |
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I received mine as well. Dialogs are faster than any of the previous assimil courses right from lesson 1. With audio gaps removed there's ~2 hours 50 minutes of pure rapid speech (3h 50m is the original length). I've only worked my way through the first several lessons, but I've read through all the lesson titles. Seems like it starts with a lot of content regarding travel and life in Russia, but later there's much more cultural stuff with dialogs covering, film, literature, history and painting. It's written by the same author of the most recent basic course (Le Russe: Collection Sans Peine), and the dialogs I've come across so far have the same wit and sense of humor of the previous course. Edited by YnEoS on 28 March 2014 at 4:40pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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