"Teach yourself series"???? Advice please

Ok guys, im actually a (G)imperial Engineer but i want to go back to french and german as i did them for GCSE and i cant remember a thing now. Are these a good series to use? I thought the best way would be to have the audio sets as well as the vocab and grammar books etc. They saeem to have excellent ratings on amazon.

http://www.teachyourself.co.uk/language.htm

Thats the complete series

I was going to do french and german and then once ive mastered them, move onto spanish and italian.

Reply 1

Fleece

15

Well you won't master anything just using those.

Reply 2

billydisco

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Fleece

Well you won't master anything just using those.

are they good just to get a good grounding? I mean they sell a conversation set which included 3x CD's worth of conversations, i havent really seen much else like this.

Reply 3

EPD

11

Yeah, they'll give you a grounding, but it'll take a hell of a lot more than 3 CDs to master a language.

Reply 4

billydisco

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EPD

Yeah, they'll give you a grounding, but it'll take a hell of a lot more than 3 CDs to master a language.

ah- what im trying to get at is, there isnt really much more i can get to begin with?

Obviously visiting the countries will be the ultimate method to master, yeh?

Reply 5

EPD

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It'd take more than just a visit - you'd have to live there for a good while to become fluent, but yeah, you're right, immersing yourself is the best way.

Reply 6

tbtommyb

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They should give you a decent idea of the basics. Most Teach Yourself books are fairly light on grammar (except the Latin. My God...), so once you've read through them you might want to get a grammar book. Then read lots of stuff in the language.

Reply 7

billydisco

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burntgorilla

They should give you a decent idea of the basics. Most Teach Yourself books are fairly light on grammar (except the Latin. My God...), so once you've read through them you might want to get a grammar book. Then read lots of stuff in the language.

yeh if u check that link, it has a "complete course" im gonna get those, see what books thya have and then get the ones that arent there ie vocabulary, gramamr etc

"Teach yourself series"???? Advice please

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