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| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4508 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 17 of 20 30 June 2014 at 2:58am | IP Logged | ||
I think I'll have to disagree in a way. I've done the first ~22 lessons of Assimil Japanese and it's a very nice course! You probably won't learn how to write, but it can really develop your listening/speaking. The transcription/transalations are amazing, you can find both a "natural" translation and a more literal one. Finally, the grammar notes are very very good as well. I you want to learn how to write, it's probably not for you, but for those wanting to start communicating soon, it can be very very helpful! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| evilado Diglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3799 days ago 64 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 18 of 20 30 June 2014 at 4:55pm | IP Logged | ||
I'll second this statement. I would say that Assimil can be a bit overwhelming for an absolute beginner, but having the two translations and lots of grammar notes is a godsend for Mandarin. I've been dabbling in Mandarin for about a year and a half now, and if I had to start over, I'd start with Pimsleur/Michel Thomas, then Assimil/FSI. After that, start Anki/Memrise for the characters and something like Chinesepod/cc101 before moving on to native materials. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 5918 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish | Message 19 of 20 30 June 2014 at 5:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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Assimil Japanese was just so so so so slow. Even at beginner level, I found the slow speech maddening, I couldn't do it. I think I'd prefer audio at normal speed, but with limited vocabulary.
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| BobbyE Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5040 days ago 226 posts - 331 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin | Message 20 of 20 03 July 2014 at 5:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I started Mandarin with Assimil and that is exactly what I'd use if I started over again. I've also used Linguaphone (the older one from the 80's, even better than Assimil actually, I wouldn't suggest it though unless you can find it cheap (I paid like $90))
Chinese-pod is not bad, I would copy-paste there text into MandarinSpot though. The English translations are helpful, but not as helpful as a word-by-word pop-up definitions. If I did it over again I would go from Assimil straight into native material though, I waited way too long to get into native stuff. Three months of intro material is plenty. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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