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Arnaud25
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France
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 Message 41 of 55
03 August 2014 at 8:03pm | IP Logged 
Concerning the Japanese, the 2nd edition had 99 lessons (not 98)
When they updated it in one volume, it was so big that they removed the last lesson, so the 3rd edition has only 98 lessons, the last lesson in which the author was saying "bye bye, my friends" has been removed.
In the third edition, they have added the Romaji notation in the lexique at the end of the book, and the lexique contains the french->japanese and the japanese->french entries, the second edition featured only a japanese-french lexique in Kanji/kana without romaji.

The Assimil business french is discontinued (they announced it a few days ago on their facebook page: not enough books were sold. They won't reprint it)

"Le croate" has 100 lessons: I confirm.

Assimil has also published a book called "l'orthographe sans peine" in the 80's for french people wanting to improve their orthography and currently they sell also two books for frenchies: "les clés de l'orthographe" and "les clés de la grammaire"

Edited by Arnaud25 on 03 August 2014 at 8:28pm

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RedMadFalcon
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France
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 Message 42 of 55
03 January 2015 at 10:30am | IP Logged 
Since the 2015 Assimil catalogue is out, we could update this. :)

No new language, but I think there is a new Perfectionnement Espagnol and a new Polish
course.
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Mohave
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 Message 43 of 55
03 January 2015 at 12:27pm | IP Logged 
Arnaud25 wrote:
The Assimil business french is discontinued (they announced it a few days ago on their
facebook page: not enough books were sold. They won't reprint it)


I just learned that Assimil Business French was discontinued when I tried to order a copy earlier this week.
Sadly, used copies on Amazon, eBay, etc are already going for outrageous prices!
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Juаn
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 Message 44 of 55
03 January 2015 at 5:38pm | IP Logged 
There is a slight imprecision in the information on the first page. I own a copy of La Pratique de l'allemand printed in 1945 that has both 47 lessons and uses the Gothic script in all of them.
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alang
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 Message 45 of 55
05 January 2015 at 5:16pm | IP Logged 
Mohave wrote:
Arnaud25 wrote:
The Assimil business french is discontinued (they
announced it a few days ago on their
facebook page: not enough books were sold. They won't reprint it)


I just learned that Assimil Business French was discontinued when I tried to order a copy
earlier this week.
Sadly, used copies on Amazon, eBay, etc are already going for outrageous prices!


I thought the Business French was discontinued over a year ago, as it was removed from the
website. Similarly the same with Business Spanish. It is odd Assimil would post the
discontinuation so late. It seems the four other business languages (French, Spanish, German
and Dutch) don't sell, compared to Business English.

I also saw one 3rd party merchant attempting to sell the Business French for $4206.27
Canadian on Amazon.ca and another merchant going for $2432.64 U.S.D. on Amazon.com. Quite
the extortionate listings. I guess they can only try and wish some are desperate enough to
buy it.



Edited by alang on 05 January 2015 at 5:23pm

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lsilvaj
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Brazil
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 Message 46 of 55
06 January 2015 at 8:05pm | IP Logged 
Arnaud25 wrote:
I forgot to answer for "La pratique de l'anglais".
It contains 46 lessons, each lesson containing about 40-45 phrases. 438 pages
Written by A.Cherel, cartoons by Pierre Soymier and Robert Gring.
It's very similar in its format to the "pratique de l'allemand".
If you have questions, just ask.


It seems like it has two different editions. Mine was printed in 1965, and while I was looking for the audio, I came across an ad on priceminister.com selling vinyl discs for this book and the lessons titles were completely different. Someone posted this question to the seller:


"Pouvez-vous dans ce cas vérifier quelques leçons? leçon titre début de leçon 5 Rake's Progress You really must make 24 Kay catches it When Kay came downstairs 46 America seen from without The American quite apart MERCI"

His answer:

Après vérification: 5) Your street is very quiet... 24) Work and play... 46) Can you answer? first; learn this lesson as usual...

The strange thing is the seller says the discs are from 1965, which is the year my book was printed. However my book checks with the one from the question.

Anyone has any idea?




Edited by lsilvaj on 06 January 2015 at 10:01pm

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ericblair
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 Message 47 of 55
07 January 2015 at 1:36am | IP Logged 
RedMadFalcon wrote:
Since the 2015 Assimil catalogue is out, we could update this. :)

No new language, but I think there is a new Perfectionnement Espagnol and a new Polish
course.


http://fr.assimil.com/Catalogue_Assimil_2015.pdf

The 2015 Assimil Catalog for those interested.
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MarcoDiAngelo
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 Message 48 of 55
07 January 2015 at 10:23pm | IP Logged 
No new languages. Too bad.


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