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| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6238 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 9 of 32 16 September 2007 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
Nope. None are old enough to have expired copyrights. Copyright terms are currently far too long, and keep being extended retroactively. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| awake Senior Member United States Joined 6435 days ago 406 posts - 438 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Spanish | Message 10 of 32 17 September 2007 at 3:50am | IP Logged | |||||
That's certainly true in the United States, where corporations keep pushing extensions every time the deadline comes up. The corporations basically pay off the politicians (legal bribes, er, campaign contributions and such) to keep extending the duration of copyright protection. Disney, for example, is terrified that once the copyright on mickey mouse expires, their brand will be diluted by all the uses of mickey that other people will come up with beyond their control (It will probably take less than a day for the first pornographic mickey mouse cartoon to appear on the internet). The irony is of course that Disney made fortunes off stores that were in the public domain. As for this question about using older versions of Assimil, certainly you would be hammered in the U.S. (and I assume the EU, etc...). However, there may be countries which still have reasonable copyright statutes. I wonder what the copyright laws in russia entail. Of course, one could learn french first, and then use the french base language version of Russian with ease (it may be available in other base languages too, maybe Spanish or German, but I haven't checked). Alternatively (though more expensively perhaps), one could use the Linguaphone Russian course. Linguaphone courses use the same basic approach as Assimil 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 11 of 32 17 September 2007 at 7:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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Although I'd be happy to see a "Russian with Ease" (in English), I'm currently learning French partly because I want to have a look at their Russian course. Maybe they translate it into English before I'm finished. :)
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| pythonbyte Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5727 days ago 26 posts - 28 votes Studies: French, German | Message 12 of 32 19 October 2008 at 11:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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Assimil are currently producing a "Russian With Ease" based on "Le Russe". I wouldn't expect a publication date any day soon though but definitely one for the future when i eventually start learning Russian.
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| alindhqra Triglot Newbie Greece Joined 5075 days ago 2 posts - 4 votes Speaks: Serbian, English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 13 of 32 15 June 2010 at 1:42am | IP Logged | |||||
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I think it's a matter of pride for Assimil... that's probably why there are so few English-based courses on sale, even though the English market would probably increase their sales 10-fold!
English surpassed French as the default international language over the last 50 years. So the thinking must be: stuff you, if you want to learn Ancient Greek, Russian, Hieroglyphics and Telugu, you'll have to learn French first! 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Gregy1727 Triglot Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6334 days ago 98 posts - 117 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Afrikaans | Message 14 of 32 15 June 2010 at 11:16am | IP Logged | |||||
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Indeed. I have to admit, Assimil is one of my driving forces to learn French.
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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5384 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 15 of 32 15 June 2010 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | |||||
I also think that may be a reason...but it appears selfish to me because they are isolating themselves from a huge English speaking based market. some courses I'd suggest for English base: Advanced Italian Advanced German Brazilian Portuguese Russian 5 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kugel Senior Member United States Joined 6337 days ago 497 posts - 555 votes Speaks: English* | Message 16 of 32 15 June 2010 at 8:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
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As people become more tech savvy I hope that homebrew Assimil courses, or any language course for that matter,
become the norm. I wonder why all these linguistic students don't do huge projects, something similar to Assimil programs, for senior year assignments or portfolios at the graduate level. Along with the linguistic departments, shouldn't the students be doing this? Assimil obviously isn't going to step up to the plate. And it's not like expensive laboratories and large grants are needed to construct these programs. Besides, aren't graduate students in the humanities slave labor? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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