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| Nephilim Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 6958 days ago 363 posts - 368 votes  Speaks: English*, Polish | Message 17 of 19 23 June 2005 at 4:22am | IP Logged |
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I had that one when it had the totally unpolitically correct picture on the cover of an old lady, a peasanty looking guy and an open cart full of cabbages. When I showed my new Polish friends they were not amused at all. I think that's why they changed it.
Content-wide though, it is a great introduction to the language. Pity that the CDs are separate - the good thing about them though is that you can record them onto an MP3 player. Caroline, have you used the Teach Yourself book. This is very, very useful if you plan to come to Poland as it is situation based. I thoroughly recommend it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| liddytime Pentaglot Senior Member United States mainlymagyar.wordpre Joined 6042 days ago 693 posts - 1328 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Galician Studies: Hungarian, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew, Norwegian, Persian, Arabic (Written) | Message 18 of 19 20 April 2010 at 2:47am | IP Logged |
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Personally, I have never been a big fan of the "Colloquial" series.
I think there is too little audio support and the dialogs are spoken WAY too fast for a beginner. The best thing I can say about the series is that they represent some very obscure languages ( eg: Lithuanian, Mongolian, Yoruba etc...) that have no other self-instructional options for the self-learner. If you have the option, go for FSI or DLI followed by the living language Ultimate or Spoken World then it is a toss-up Colloquial vs Teach Yourself. It is very language dependent. Most importantly, HAVE FUN!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| GREGORG4000 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5336 days ago 307 posts - 479 votes Speaks: English*, Finnish Studies: Japanese, Korean, Amharic, French | Message 19 of 19 20 April 2010 at 3:43am | IP Logged |
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Colloquial Finnish has some of the best descriptions of Finnish grammar I've seen (even though they're unlike to other methods). I'd say the series is extremely worthwhile when teamed with an Assimil or something that has lots of sentences to practice.
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