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Assimil Icelandic: we got to bring it up! | ||
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| PaulLambeth Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5155 days ago 244 posts - 315 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Icelandic, Hindi, Irish | Message 41 of 53 05 May 2011 at 12:57pm | IP Logged | ||
I can highly recommend this resource. I don't speak any Italian but I've seen from a brief skim some GREAT vocabulary lists, e.g.: phrases taking 'verb + við'; first names and pet names; major world landmarks in Icelandic; names for those who live at particular locations in Iceland; grammatical terms in Icelandic; and of course, most of the book (!!) is made of 36 grammar lessons with tables and examples. Note that the index seems a bit confused regarding pages. A truly excellent resource. It'd cost me about 32 quid, or 16 if I zoomed out, to print the entire book in the library. Tempted. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7003 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 42 of 53 28 June 2011 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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If Assimil ever makes an Icelandic course it might be more than just requests. I actually remembered reading a thread on another website how the Linguaphone Icelandic program came about. The poster wrote an old rich Icelandic man funded the course to be made, as to spread the language. I did look for the website since then, but I have not been able to find it. Hopefully requests do help in getting the attention of the company and not wait for a rich person to show up. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| senor_smile Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6168 days ago 110 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Russian | Message 43 of 53 13 April 2013 at 10:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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http://www.giuristipernaso.it/ is no longer online. Any other locations on the web to
find that? edit: I did find it at http://www.scribd.com/doc/131241591/KENNSLUB-pdf, but it's not downloadable without paying them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daristani Senior Member United States Joined 6926 days ago 752 posts - 1661 votes Studies: Uzbek | Message 44 of 53 13 April 2013 at 10:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just downloaded the "Corso di Islandese Moderno" at the above scribd.com site without having to pay anything.
In any event, I'd downloaded it once before when it was freely available, and so have uploaded it here for those interested. It does look like a great resource. http://www.uploadseeds.com/download/05MEZ9D0/corso_de_island .pdf 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| senor_smile Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6168 days ago 110 posts - 115 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Latin, Russian | Message 45 of 53 14 April 2013 at 12:00am | IP Logged | ||
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You're right... the download does work. Don't know what I did wrong the first time.
Thanks for the extra link as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Homogenik Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4606 days ago 314 posts - 407 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 46 of 53 15 April 2013 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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I also asked Assimil for the Icelandic course.
I would suggest everyone do the same for the Pimsleur method : http://www.pimsleur.com/request-new-language-program Edit: I received a response from Assimil : Bonjour, Merci pour votre message. Nous regrettons de vous informer que nous ne prévoyons pas de méthode d’islandais. Nous restons à votre disposition, Cordialement, Edited by Homogenik on 15 April 2013 at 10:06pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7003 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 47 of 53 20 March 2016 at 2:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well,
It is nice that Pimsleur is releasing an Icelandic comprehensive next month April/2016, since there is still no Assimil Icelandic. At least Pimsleur had noticed the requests from the forum members and I had to direct Icelandic associations about it also. I just noticed a video on Youtube from the Polyglot gathering last year, a person who I think works for Assimil Germany I guess, briefly stated they were interested in making a German based Icelandic course. The problem is the people they know who can do the book, are busy. Maybe the requests were helpful after all from forum members and all the Icelandic Associations around the world. Maybe Assimil France let someone know who does something for the German base Assimil. (Who knows?) One of my posts in this thread, the German base I thought was best suited for the Icelandic course. I guess everything takes time and all we can do is wait, but of course don't rely on the Assimil Icelandic being released anytime soon. It would be great though. I am going to attempt something again and if any more news comes about I will probably post. Depending if I remember. Like one of my earlier post time and patience. v=LZ4WUtk7TbM">Here Edited by alang on 22 March 2016 at 5:55pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| alang Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 7003 days ago 563 posts - 757 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish | Message 48 of 53 11 August 2017 at 8:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well I contacted Assimil France. My question was if they again will be making the Icelandic course and I stated if it will be like the "Sans Peine" series. This was the response I received. "Thank you for your interest in our courses. This is to inform you that we are preparing a course to learn Icelandic but we do not have any publication date at the present time. We will send you a message as we market it. Best regards. Nathalie Froehly Assimil - Service Particuliers" It has been over 9 years since we started the petition. It seems like Assimil has finally taken the course seriously. All this time though I have been learning other languages of interest. I did contact the person in Assimil Germany before as well. After contacting so many organizations and people. Maybe just maybe Assimil Icelandic Without Effort is coming into reality. I already have the Pimsleur Icelandic which did not take even half as long for Pimsleur to take seriously. All we can do now is wait. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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