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| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3694 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 1 of 4 29 June 2014 at 11:11pm | IP Logged |
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I started using Assimil Italian and am enjoying it but it seems to be riddled with errors so far (I already know a little Italian so I was able to pick up on them). I remember one being in one of the English explanations (a spelling error), one was in one of the dialogues and I just found another, which I thought was funny: For the fourth lesson, it says:
QUARTA LEZIONE (oondeetshee) Where it should be giving the pronunciation of "quarta" it randomly gives the pronunciation for "undici" (11). These aren't a big deal to me, but I'm worried that there might be errors in future dialogues that I don't pick up on and I'll end up learning something wrong. For anyone that has used this, are the errors negligible or does it get worse? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6166 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 4 30 June 2014 at 3:19am | IP Logged |
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I didn't notice any abundance of errors. Compared to another Assimil course that I have completed, Chinese, it had a lot fewer, and the errors were less substantive.
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| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7008 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 3 of 4 30 June 2014 at 7:30am | IP Logged |
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Is it okay if you are able to place the information in the Criticised Assimil programs thread? I made the thread, so anyone interested in purchasing an Assimil program that have errors will be aware what they are getting into to make an informed decision, and make corrections accordingly. I am curious about the Chinese with Ease as I bought the book and cds for an affordable price for less, than $30 each. The course was not reviewed in the thread. The Italian program was reviewed with translation errors, but the edition was listed as the latest by the reviewer. The Italian review is on page three. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6166 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 4 30 June 2014 at 2:23pm | IP Logged |
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alang,
I reviwed Chinese With Ease in my log. To summarize, it's good and worth doing (if you like Assimil) but there are some quality control issues. I'll add my review to the Assimil thread. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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