The same went true with Dutch and Danish after knowing German and English, however I still used just 1 book on these. Romance languages I probably won't even buy a book, since most of them I can already understand with little to no effort. From my experience, even after one course, I am nowhere near good enough to start tackling authentic material, UNLESS it's a language which is related to one of my better ones.

'Do you think it's more useful to tackle several beginner courses in the same language to hit the same topics from different angles and in different scenarios, or to move on to authentic material asap?'

If you have any more questions or comments about this particular book, feel free to post below. Well if you find it cheaper than $40-50 dollars with audio, then yes, I would buy it, but other than that no. I feel as though even though I used it, I could probably only recall 35-45% of what was in the book. Overall I believe this series is a pretty mediocre one for Korean, however, it will be used to strengthen my pronunciation and accent as I continue with Korean into the future. I noticed that in this one (not sure about other Asian languages), but they put a proverb at the end of each lesson, which I found really cool. The Hangeul was really small, and hard to read at times making you have to use the romanization to some degree Only 71 lessons, whereas most have 100 or more They continued to give romanization all the way through the 71 lessons Grammar explanations could have been better, but I also didn't rely on them as a valuable source Short dialogues (around 30 seconds, and 1 minute at most* (*2 minute final lesson))īoring dialogues (I originally picked up the book, and put it back away after a few days, but as my motivation grew, I continued reading it) Quality audio (as always with their newer books) Listened for the rest of the time to get to an hour of listeningĪlso once a week I went back and reread the lessons once or twice Read over and saved words until I moved the words into the known category I spent an hour a day on each lesson, where I typically followed this method: I did type all the lessons and put them in LingQ so that I could use LingQ to help me learn the words better. Reminder: This was my first time through the book, normally I will end up going through an Assimil several times in a year before putting it away. With all of those, I feel I overall achieved a higher level than I did with the Korean one.

I have used and completed the French with ease, Using French, Spanish, Catalan, Danish, German, Hindi, and Russian versions of the books. Hello everyone, I have just finished the Assimil Korean book - Le coréen sans peine and thought I would share my thoughts on it.

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