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| guiguixx1 Octoglot Senior Member Belgium guillaumelp.wordpres Joined 3881 days ago 163 posts - 207 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Dutch, Portuguese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 1 of 3 05 April 2014 at 6:20pm | IP Logged |
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Hi all,
I hope this subject hasn't been discussed before (but I checked and have not found it...). I was wondering if some of you have used the collection "for dummies" (or "pour les nuls" in french) to study a language. I have the Spanish and russian books in the french collection, but I wonder if it really is a useful material to spend time on, and I have also already spotted a mistake lately in the dutch book of a friend, which is why I wonder if it really is to be trusted... Edited by guiguixx1 on 06 April 2014 at 10:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| linguaholic_ch Triglot Groupie IndiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4837 days ago 69 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English, Hindi, Bengali Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, French | Message 2 of 3 05 April 2014 at 6:39pm | IP Logged |
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I think they are mainly aimed for tourists and passive learners who do not deem it
necessary to have a depth in the language. I have the French, Arabic, and Japanese ones as ebooks and they are all same. Although through serious study you can gain a good level so see for yourself :-) Edited by linguaholic_ch on 05 April 2014 at 6:53pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3696 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 3 of 3 06 April 2014 at 4:57pm | IP Logged |
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I have Italian for Dummies. I never really used it as a main study source but I have used it for reference when I was studying Italian years ago. It has a lot of info, covers grammar, idiots, culture and such. I can't say I've noticed many mistakes in it (I didn't use it that much), but I will say that most sources that I use now for German (Assimil, FSI, RS, etc) have had the occasional mistake so it's not something you can really get around, nor is it a huge deal (unless there's a lot of them).
I'd say go for it. I'm a fan of the For Dummies series, I just (for some reason) find it hard to really dig into them with the paper that they use. It's not pleasing to my eyes or something. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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