Paco Senior Member Hong Kong Joined 4288 days ago 145 posts - 251 votes Speaks: Cantonese*
| Message 1 of 9 09 June 2014 at 6:49pm | IP Logged |
Something pops up as I check my subscriptions - the professor has just uploaded a new
video on Youtube in which he recorded himself working with the new Assimil course. It
features over an hour of his learning process exclusively in the Russian language.
Assimil Perfectionnement Russe 70, 09
Juin 14
Edited by Paco on 09 June 2014 at 7:22pm
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Retinend Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4319 days ago 283 posts - 557 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), French
| Message 2 of 9 11 June 2014 at 8:24am | IP Logged |
" I meant to upload it privately, but inadvertently did so publicly. Because people seem
to find it useful, I will leave it up. "
Odd...
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Sterogyl Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4378 days ago 152 posts - 263 votes Studies: German*, French, EnglishC2 Studies: Japanese, Norwegian
| Message 3 of 9 11 June 2014 at 7:56pm | IP Logged |
Yes, it is odd. But it's good to see Arguelles em acção. Hehe... It's actually the first time I see Arguelles speaking in another language than English (except for the Dutch interview)...
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Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4855 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian
| Message 4 of 9 11 June 2014 at 8:30pm | IP Logged |
Well, his Russian accent is, let's say, interesting. A little more shadowing probably wouldn't hurt. But taking into account the amount of languages he's studying it's of course an achievement, the more if we consider that he studies languages mainly in order to read literature.
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Retinend Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4319 days ago 283 posts - 557 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Arabic (Written), French
| Message 5 of 9 12 June 2014 at 10:06am | IP Logged |
Can someone native or good enough in Russian translate the part of the video where he's
reviewing the course?
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hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5141 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe
| Message 6 of 9 12 June 2014 at 3:17pm | IP Logged |
Retinend wrote:
" I meant to upload it privately, but inadvertently did so publicly.
Because people seem
to find it useful, I will leave it up. "
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It is odd. I know no Russian (and frankly didn't want to sit through the entire thing
with no subtitles), but it seems almost a sort of "review" of the course. I don't really
see the point of doing it in Russian.
R.
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AndrewS Diglot Newbie Russian Federation Joined 4437 days ago 27 posts - 37 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Spanish
| Message 7 of 9 12 June 2014 at 6:32pm | IP Logged |
It is not a review except just a few words: the course (issued 3 months ago) is excellent but it is hard to comprehend 1 of the 4 narrators.
The video is showing simply the professor’s ordinary morning lesson.
Edited by AndrewS on 12 June 2014 at 6:38pm
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Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5356 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish*
| Message 8 of 9 12 June 2014 at 6:47pm | IP Logged |
Retinend wrote:
Can someone native or good enough in Russian translate the part of the video where he's
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I don't know if this is the part of the video you're referring to as I haven't watched the rest of it yet, but from what I am able to understand (anyone is welcome to correct me) at the very beginning he says he has been studying with the book for a few months one lesson mostly every morning, about an hour and forty five minutes, and he is now on the last lesson, number seventy. He says it is an excellent manual which he recommends to everyone, but that he does not like one of the voices in the recordings. He then outlines how he works with the manual, that he is going to read and listen to the lesson three times, and gets on to work.
On a lighter note though, as someone who treasures his Assimil book collection, I must say it makes me cringe the way he bends the spine of his copy.
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