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| QiuJP Triglot Senior Member Singapore Joined 5649 days ago 428 posts - 597 votes  Speaks: Mandarin*, EnglishC2, French Studies: Czech, GermanB1, Russian, Japanese | Message 25 of 26 09 November 2014 at 5:17pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks, Speakeasy for the detailed explanation on what is going on with LL. I actually
have all the editions of Assimil Russian, including "Perfectionnement Russe". 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| day1 Groupie Latvia Joined 3686 days ago 93 posts - 158 votes Speaks: English | Message 26 of 26 09 November 2014 at 8:07pm | IP Logged |
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I have Living Language Hindi, a complete course for Beginners.
See sample pages here: http://www.amazon.com/Hindi-Complete-Course-Beginners-Audio/ dp/1400023459 It's a decent book, uses native script only. What I disliked about it as a beginner were the very long and complicated dialogs starting from Lesson 1. Bit of a too much of an overkill. Bad for motivation. For a self study, grammar explanations are very much OK. Am I a big fan? No. I also used TY Hindi by Snell, and, well, his book is better than LL. But then again, TY Hindi is, in my opinion, one of the better ones in TY series, many other TY books are dull. For other languages LL book can probably be a lovely choice. In terms of Hindi, I would not buy this particular edition of LL again, I'd get Colloquial Hindi (superb explanation of grammar and phonetics) and TY Speak Hindi with Confidence CDs, and the quite recent book Elementary Hindi published by Tuttle (never used it, heard it's better than TY). My Hindi book is by Sunil Kumar Bhatt, 2007 edition. I looked at the latest edition on amazon, it's written by "Living Language" and Monisha Bhat, the reviewer/co author of previous edition. Living Language has set up a supplementary resource site http://www.livinglanguage.com/languagelab/hindi from there it is quite clear that both editions are very different. Layout, dialogs, all seems to be different. Native script is most certainly used. With 9 CDs and such a nice supplement site, as a beginner I'd probably buy the new edition. But.. advanced? I am now looking on the same site at the last Lesson of LL Chinese complete course (last lesson in the so called Advanced book), it looks like A2 level at the most. But, if the 9 CDs help you get to a solid A2 with as much speaking practice as a CD can give you, great! MT CDs (based on the transcripts I've seen) would give you less than this LL edition. Edited by day1 on 09 November 2014 at 9:58pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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