Sir Nigel Senior Member United States Joined 7062 days ago 1126 posts - 1102 votes 2 sounds
| Message 33 of 99 10 November 2005 at 2:50pm | IP Logged |
No choice? Is that because you plan on using an Assimil course that's not based in English?
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Brent Groupie United States Joined 6972 days ago 55 posts - 54 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 34 of 99 10 November 2005 at 3:25pm | IP Logged |
Yes, I do. I plan on learning French and possibly German before anything else (after I finish my Spanish), but I'm not really sure.
Some of the Assimil courses not available in English I'm interested in (these would all be years in the future, as I'm just now starting my "language journey"):
Using German
Using Italian
Swahili
Hindi
Japanese
Russian
Greek
Turkish
Obviously I will never make it through all of these, and I really have no idea just how many languages I plan to learn, or how well I will learn them. All I know for sure is that I want to know a great number of them.
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Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7061 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French
| Message 35 of 99 11 November 2005 at 3:10am | IP Logged |
Brent wrote:
Hmm... I'm learning Spanish now using "Spanish With Ease," and I will probably learn French when I'm at a suitable level. |
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I must admit to now being extremely confused. I have a second-hand copy of "Le nouvel Espanol sans peine" which I can't find on the Assimil site at all - there only appears to be "L'espanol sans peine". It has 109 lessons over 475 pages rather than...
"Un livre format 12 x 18 relié-cousu de 100 leçons en 608 pages."
It has a different ISBN and a different front cover. How many lessons does the English version have?
Andy.
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Brent Groupie United States Joined 6972 days ago 55 posts - 54 votes Speaks: English*
| Message 36 of 99 11 November 2005 at 9:23am | IP Logged |
Andy E wrote:
It has a different ISBN and a different front cover. How many lessons does the English version have? |
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The English version has 109 lessons over 475 pages.
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luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7163 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French
| Message 37 of 99 14 November 2005 at 5:58pm | IP Logged |
http://www.europeanbook.com/langlearning.html sells Assimil courses in the US and the "Using" courses are cheaper than Amazon. Using French with CDs $75, Using Spanish with CDs $95. That's where I made my purchases of the advanced books.
Edited by luke on 20 April 2007 at 9:32pm
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6973 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 38 of 99 09 April 2006 at 3:48am | IP Logged |
Farley wrote:
I just found this link. If you are an Assimil fan and can read French, this site is great. Amazon.fr has a whole category devoted to Assimil:
Assimil at Amazon.fr |
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I used to enjoy browsing the Assimil page(s) at Amazon but it looks as if it's been removed. I've been trying for the past few days and I keep on getting a "page not found" error. Does anyone know what's going on?
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Farley Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 7050 days ago 681 posts - 739 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 39 of 99 09 April 2006 at 9:13am | IP Logged |
patuco wrote:
Assimil at Amazon.fr
I used to enjoy browsing the Assimil page(s) at Amazon but it looks as if it's been removed. I've been trying for the past few days and I keep on getting a "page not found" error. Does anyone know what's going on? |
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I’ve had the same problem, I can still find the URL in Google, but Amazon.fr removed it from their directory. Darn! :(
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patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6973 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map
| Message 40 of 99 09 April 2006 at 11:14am | IP Logged |
All the courses are still available if you search for them by name (at least the ones I looked for were!). They're just not in a dedicated Assimil section like they used to be.
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