Dunwoody: Foreign Language Learning Seriew Reviews
Alexander Arguelles presents a series of video reviews and demonstrations of those foreign language learning series that he has found most useful in his own studies. For further information about the series, please refer to www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com
Hey, that’s pretty sweet. I was wondering if there were any books for rare languages.
I just checked the Dunwoody website. They even have a reader and cassettes for Abkahzian. I will finally get to learn to use those whistling sounds I heard so much about.
Thanks for the reviews. I really look forward to these each week.
What a great service! But why no Latin American languages like Quechua or Aymara?
What a great service! But why no Latin American languages like Quechua or Aymara?
I had to make a trip to South America to get my materials for those languages and you will probably have to do the same, although Clodoaldo Soto Ruiz’ Quechua Manual de Enseñanza was co-published by the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 1993 and comes with a dozen accompanying tapes.
Did you include hanja in the Korean Newspaper reader? I was in Korea for a month and I don’t remember seeing many hanja.
In the glossary and as they appeared in the actual text – but no, there are not very many, unfortunately, for they actually make reading much easier. The hardest thing about North Korean texts is not the slightly different grammar / vocabulary, but rather the total absence of Hanja because often you will look up a word in the dictionary and then have to guess from context which definition fits, whereas if the Hanja were there in brackets as well, you would know exactly which one was intended.
do they have it in kannada?
do these books teach the written form of the language or spoken?
Wouldn’t they sell more if they produce in the more popular languages? I thought the point of going into business would be to turn a profit. But it is good that they are producing materials for less known languages.
Clearly the very existence of the company and the fact they feature over 130 publications is a testament to their profitability.
They obviously have identified a niche market and have based their business model on this market.
This is an excellent resource for books in Central Asian languages. Where else can you find readers and grammars in Kazakh, Tajiki, Turkmen, Tatar, and Uzbek?
well think of it this way: sell 100 books each in 5 “popular” languages, or sell 20 books each in 20, 30, 40, or even 50 less-commonly taught languages
You sound out of breath in this video. Was it excitement or were you ill?
Is there a good program that you would recommend for learning Persian in order to get to the level of being able to use these resources?
Professor, given that you are relocating to a new environment and obviously extremely occupied, may I ask whether your North Korean and Fiction readers will still see the light of day?
I delivered the complete manuscript of the North Korean Reader to Dunwoody over a year ago and have been periodically assured ever since that it is next on the publishing queue, but they appear to have either a great backlog or a shifting list of other works that for some reason take greater priority. Perhaps if readers were to write requesting its issue that might expedite matters? As for the Fiction Reader, that, too, is slowly but surely being prepared.
I tried sending Dunwoody a message some time ago, but kept getting an automated response saying the e-mail address was invalid. I’ve since sent them another one, and it went through (or seemed to), but I still haven’t received a reply.