Linguaphone English Course Free Download 509
Gladys Anick
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LISTEN
Listening to native speakers in your new language is the most relaxing and involved way to learn, helping you associate the sounds you hear with the words and sentences you read. The native speakers on all Linguaphone courses begin by speaking slowly (but without distorting the intonation of the language) and, as the course progresses, speak at normal speed.
UNDERSTAND
By listening and reading the language, you begin to discover what each word means. Everyday objects have exciting new names. Gradually words, then phrases, become clear and your reading, writing and speaking of the language will improve.
SPEAK
Many people find that speaking their new language is the hardest part. But Linguaphone`s method makes sure that you start speaking from the very first lesson with the correct pronunciation. Imitating the voices of the native speakers on the course will help you get used to the intonation and accent. Later on in the course, you will have the opportunity to take part in conversations. Each lesson introduces new themes featuring useful words and phrases thus developing your conversational skills and confidence.
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Beginner course suitable for those learning a language for the very first time. Really easy to use and a great introduction to target language. Includes 4 hours audio and a 64 page course book. Available in CD or MP3 download. Available in French, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Arabic, Thai and Greek.
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After watching, rewatching, and taking notes on both of your step-by-step shadowing videos (this one, and your other from many years ago for a 30-minute study session), I was wondering if you could briefly explain how you would recommend using several books for the kind of shadowing you are describing here and that other video.
In any event, as I prepare the main text I intend to use for this purpose (Athenaze), I wonder whether it would be a distraction to be preparing several other grammars to serve the same purpose so that I have something like 4-6 grammars to be prepared in this fashion so that they can be used in conjunction with audio recordings for shadowing.
On another note entirely, I have seen your video for the Great Books of the Eastern World, and I would definitely love more information about how best to navigate the language learning journey that would entail.
If you could go back and do it all over again, knowing the resources that you do now, what would you use for studying the main source languages of those traditions? I know that my initial query just had to do with Classical Chinese, but if there are grammars or manuals that you would recommend for that as well as, for that matter, Persian, Arabic, Sanskrit, and the like, what do you feel have been the most helpful resources for you in that journey, or what do you think would set up the next generation of students well for continuing that work?
Thank you for writing with your original question about sequential use of manuals, and then your other note entirely question prompted by my recent (as of this writing) video about Great Books of Eastern Civilizations. As these are two utterly different issues, let me just address the first one here and now, and we can follow up on the second one later as posting it here should serve as a prompt for to return to it in the near future.
Regarding your basic question of how to do this, the simple answer is sequentially, not simultaneously. You will of course find that you can go through each additional volume more rapidly than the one before, and also of course during this learning phase, continuous review of what you have learned before is the key to real internalization. Thus, while you are working on one volume, you should have the previous volumes on various review cycles or ellipses (picture a model of the universe, with the names of manuals in place of the planets).
Regarding a number of such manuals to use, there is no fixed and set answer. This depends upon both availability and the relatively difficulty of the language. Though it is helpful to go through the different generations of the above mentioned publishers, there is no point in doing this for its own sake. At a certain point you will find that you are ready to move on to more advanced materials, and there is no sense in holding back just to go through everything in your textbook collection. Edging towards a general rule, though, since both Assimil and Linguaphone work more intuitively, in addition to using several of these, I would also add some other textbook that approached the grammar in a much more explicit fashion.
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The new courses of Linguaphone, are really quite terrible compared to the older ones. The style changed completely. Even courses like the German one from the 80s is quite excellent. Probably the best of all is the Icelandic one.
I am glad to have these Linguaphone courses. I think they help people get started, people who are not confident language learners. Thereafter there are ample language resources here at LingQ and elsewhere to satisfy every one. However, getting started, getting your feet wet, that is the most important step. These Linguaphone courses cater to that need, in my view.
As you all know, I just start into a language using the kind of content we have at LingQ. I have had great success with Czech using the content provided by our members, and then jumping into the news and audio books. If I were starting any of the languages that are available through LingQ in the Linguaphone PDQ series, I would probably just use the free content we have in our Libraries and go for it.
I feel that we lose a lot of beginner learners, people who are less experienced at language learning. Now they have an option. People can sample a free lesson, and if they like this format they can buy the series.
However, there are many language learners who prefer to have their hands held more, especially at the beginning. The number of such learners is large. I suspect that is why Linguaphone has moved away from their traditional courses and developed these easier texts.
Linguaphone was established in 1901 by Jacques Roston, a translator and language teacher, born in Koło, Poland, and they were the first language training company to recognise the potential of combining the traditional written course with the wax cylinder and later with records.
At the height of their popularity, Linguaphone was not only a large, international publishing house with many prestigious representative offices (for books, records, tapes and cassettes) but they also ran fashionable language schools in a number of major cities across the world, such as London, Paris, New York and Tokyo. This chain of Linguaphone Institutes could claim to be the second oldest among the international language teaching establishments (the oldest being Berlitz, founded in 1878 and known today as Berlitz International) and, as such, Linguaphone had, at one time, the privilege of being an almost automatic first choice among the famous of the day, including royalty.
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