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| Elizabeth_rb Diglot Groupie United Kingdom polyglotintraining.b Joined 4423 days ago 54 posts - 84 votes  Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: GermanB1 | Message 1 of 19 19 February 2014 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I like this series, which works mostly on the grammar translation method and is quite
similar in format to the perennially popular 'Living Italian' book. I have almost every language they ever published in it (except Arabic, Welsh, Swedish, Polish and Turkish. Czech too, if they did it), and all the 'Advanced' series too. I was just wondering if anyone had used one seriously and how they felt about it? I'd love to give it a trial with a language that's quite unknown to me, say Norwegian or Greek, and see how I got on. Anyone done this? Edited by Elizabeth_rb on 19 February 2014 at 4:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6992 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 2 of 19 19 February 2014 at 4:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Professor Arguelles reviewed Hugo X in Three
Months. He mentions there are different generations of the program. It would also be helpful to know the vintage (publication date) of the program reviewed. Ardashir, AKA Professor Arguelles, also did a review of the Living Language series. Edited by luke on 19 February 2014 at 4:30pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Elizabeth_rb Diglot Groupie United Kingdom polyglotintraining.b Joined 4423 days ago 54 posts - 84 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: GermanB1 | Message 3 of 19 19 February 2014 at 4:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Interesting vid, thanks. It didn't teach me anything new - except a look at the very old
versions, which was interesting - as I have several already from 3 different cover types. Has anyone used them themselves? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5352 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 4 of 19 19 February 2014 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Arguelles' video is slightly misleading. The different generations of the Hugo 'In 3 Months' series are merely
changes to type setting and layout (unsurprisingly he doesn't like the new 'easier to read' layout) and currency - not content. Edited by Elexi on 19 February 2014 at 5:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5352 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 5 of 19 19 February 2014 at 5:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have used German in 3 Month and French in 3 Month - they are both useful courses, but suffer the
problems of many grammar translation based courses in that they do a function and then move on to the next one - so one never gets to practice 'joined up language'. Being quite dated (they are essentially adaptions of their predecessor 'Simplified System' courses from the 60s)they use quite stilted language. Personally though, I like them - when I get round to learning Dutch I will use the Hugo course after I have finished the MT and Pimsleur courses (which is how I like to start a language) and before moving on to Assimil and Linguaphone. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Elizabeth_rb Diglot Groupie United Kingdom polyglotintraining.b Joined 4423 days ago 54 posts - 84 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: GermanB1 | Message 6 of 19 19 February 2014 at 9:07pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, that's mostly true! The Italian one he showed had been re-written at one point. I think, once they became 'in three months', they've stayed essentially the same. The issue I have with the German one - both the first and second volumes, is that they don't use proper grammar terms, so you have to 'translate' the name of all the cases etc back to the real thing before you can look them up in other books. Bit silly really. Edited by Elizabeth_rb on 19 February 2014 at 9:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5352 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 7 of 19 20 February 2014 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I agree with you Elizabeth - I found it silly,
especially when it used English grammatical terms in place of German ones. I pencilled in the case names and proceeded from there. Have you used the advanced course from Hugo for German? If so, what is it like? Edited by Elexi on 20 February 2014 at 6:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elizabeth_rb Diglot Groupie United Kingdom polyglotintraining.b Joined 4423 days ago 54 posts - 84 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: GermanB1 | Message 8 of 19 21 February 2014 at 10:43am | IP Logged | ||
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I've looked through it more than used it. It continues with the same dumbed down
grammatical terms and, when I get around to studying it, I'll do as you did and pencil in. The content itself looks OK, but this silliness with re-naming stuff is a big negative.=( 1 person has voted this message useful |
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