Assimil Il Tedesco Senza Sforzo MP3 77.00M
Sondra Pevy
Finally, after 3 months of intense study, I have finished my Assimil German manual. I thought the community would be interested in a review of it. This concludes phase 1 of my study. Now onto graded readers. All questions are welcome. Here is the link to the review:
Book Title: Il tedesco senza sforzo [German with ease] (Mp3 Pack) Book Author: Maria Roemer Adapted by: Manuela Benetton Edition: July 2010 ISBN: 978-88-86968-51-5 My Rating [from 1 to 5]: 5 Pros: Excellent audio quality. Excellent typography....
The quality of the book and the recordings is excellent, and everything is created in a very professional way. I am studying the lessons within LingQ and repeat them sentence by sentence (with audio) in Anki, see (in German).
The Assimil course has beside its high quality of the recordings and the excellent speakers other advantages: it contains a lot of humour and is progressive in a very efficient way. New words are repeated in the following lessons within new contexts. The grammar explanations are very little, the focus is always to learn the grammar from reading and listening the dialogues and stories (in context).
IMHO, the LingQ library has not enough guidance, progressiveness and explanations for beginners. The beginner has to find out a lot of things alone, and many people are not able or not willing to do this, so they give up.
When I learned Spanish, I used free resources, and among mediocre podcasts, I found delightful documentaries by Felix Rodriguez de la Fuente, radio programs by Juan Antonio Cebrian (true gems) and RNE, and some more. I definitely do not dislike free resources a priori.
I find that I need lot of content, from different sources. Focusing on one source, just wont do it. Thus Assimil is just a source of content for me, and the amount of words covered by these texts is of necessity limited. Thus I prefer the LingQ approach, especially in a language where we have so much content as in German. I prefer to focus on words and phrases. I prefer the ability to choose the words and phrases that I need to know. And there is so much different content, and eventually the ability to import so that the possible content is unlimited.
I have not learned German from scratch at LingQ so cannot compare. I am looking forward to getting new languages at LingQ and I will do them from scratch at LingQ. Yes the lack of grammar explanations at LingQ can be a problem, although the kind of grammar related content that we have in our German library should help. There is also more opportunity to add grammar notes at LingQ and hopefully that will come over time. Meanwhile, I think we still need to buy a small grammar book for regular reference.
That said, personally I prefer any material transcribed post hoc, rather than read out loud, and I do not like unnaturally slow speaking speeds. Any sort of graduation of material I make myself by altering the length according to my level. Shorter for beginners etc Word repetition is irrelevant to me. In the long term, it takes care of itself. I honestly see no need for grammar explanations. Maybe this will change as I progress in Arabic.
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