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| M-Squared Senior Member United States Joined 6949 days ago 117 posts - 118 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 1 of 2 23 June 2005 at 7:51pm | IP Logged |
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After some of the discussion here, I took the opportunity to browse a
local used bookshop for foreign language materials. I found a book called "New German Self Taught," 1959, revised by Erich Berger, Funk & Wagnells, though with other dates back to 1945. A 1982 edition is listed at Amazon, though not available. Now that I've used some materials from the 50's I see Ardaschir's point about older materials being better. I'm impressed by the general literacy of the materials. It seems to be written for somebody who knows English grammer well, and who has literary interests. The main sections are side-by-side pages with German sentences on the left and corresponding translations on the right, with the translations mixing literal and a more idiomatic translation. This is interspersed with reviews, sections written in the older style Germanic alphabet, and some literary selections. The facing page materials are labeled "The Language Phone Method" at the top of each page. The frontspiece indicates there is a series in various languages. So, has anybody seen this before? Is this related to the Linguaphone courses now? I find the facing page format with matching target language and literal translation very useful. I understand Assimil also uses this format. Does anybody else use this format? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| 3Dfan Newbie United States Joined 4950 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes | Message 2 of 2 05 December 2010 at 11:05pm | IP Logged |
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Language Phone was Funk & Wagnells language course. It was only related to Linguaphone in that Linguaphone was a competitor with a similar name. They made courses for major languages like French, German, Italian, etc. I have the 78rpm records for the French course, but unfortunately not the transcript. I'll have to check for "New French Self Taught" and see if it matches.
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