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| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5364 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 9 of 14 13 October 2015 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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The Paul Noble course and the Michael Thomas 'Advanced' course (although its not really
advanced - it covers GCSE material) will give you a good grammatical overview that will hold you in good stead, but I doubt you could get past CEFR A1 with those courses. A quick count at the back of Magrigal's Magic Key shows me it teaches about 1750 words - which is a good base and you should certainly stick with it. I am not sure if you have used Assmil for other languages, but it is essentially a guided parallel text method with grammar notes. In my view the current Assimil German course (German - With Ease Series) would propel you forward far more than non-guided parallel texts in the first instance and give you enough vocabulary, modern idiom and language to move on to the higher A2-B1 range. I 'finished' Assimil New French with Ease a good few years ago and still find reviewing it rewarding. Of course, there will be many who disagree with me :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 3851 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes Studies: German | Message 10 of 14 13 October 2015 at 11:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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| rmel Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4040 days ago 20 posts - 24 votes Studies: French, Russian | Message 11 of 14 17 October 2015 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Have never tried Assimil checked out their website and they have texts in French and German as well as English and German so I could practice French and improve my German at the same time.
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| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5364 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 12 of 14 17 October 2015 at 5:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good strategy - I do exactly that.
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| Speakeasy Senior Member Canada Joined 3851 days ago 507 posts - 1098 votes Studies: German | Message 13 of 14 17 October 2015 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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As it turns out, there is a recently-opened discussion thread on L2-L3 learning on the "New" HTLAL Forum.
Although a few of my Assimil courses are in English, most of them (German, Italian, Spanish, Polish, Russian, Dutch) are in French. However, I have the advantage of having worked in French for more than 25 years and, as a result, studying from a French base has become somewhat "second nature" for me. I have also studied Assimil Italian from a German base and, even though my German is somewhere around B2, I found the L2-L3 approach to be somewhat taxing. I have also noticed that the Assimil "notes" are not the same in the English, French, and German editions. That is, while there are, indeed, common elements to the notes, they tend to emphasize some different points as well. When you think about it, this probably makes a lot of sense as, from the point of view of the "base language", some issues are so obvious as to not worth mentioning whereas other issues need to be emphasized. Edited by Speakeasy on 18 October 2015 at 12:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6708 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 14 of 14 18 October 2015 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | ||
This makes sense. No need to explain transparent vocabulary or grammar points. This made me think of easy readers. Nearly everyone I've seen has had English as the "L1", i.e. supposed difficult words in the text are translated to (or explained in) English. I've even seen the German word Hund get translated to dog, while I already know that it's hund in Swedish. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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