L’Harmattan et L’Asiathèque: Foreign Language Learning Series 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
You said learn German first in an earlier video.
These are indeed the two languages that an English speaker who wants to learn lots of languages should learn first and foremost because they are such useful reference languages that open the doors to many resources for learning other languages that are either not available at all in English or are often simply superior to what is available in English.
Do you know where these series can be bought? I did a search and I can’t find much at all.
Are there series only limited to French ?
Thanks Professor. A request for a future video: I would like to see a review of the available Russian materials from various publishers. There is some great stuff out there but much of is from smaller publishers or is not part of a series like Assimil.
Interesting. You use the old grammer-traslation method, which is fine for
studying ancient, extinct languages.
However, don’t you think being fluent
in living languages requires more
advanced methods of learning?
a real eye-opener… thanks
Thanks for this video!
I had the opportunity to leaf through a couple of books from L’Asiathèque collection, and I have to say it’s probably one of the best I’ve found so far.. They use it at the INALCO (french institute for the study of western civilization/languages). But I’m afraid they only exist in French.
-Oh, and I just discovered this channel, it seems great =D
Professor, could you help me?
Does all of the L’Harmattan series have the vis-a-vis poems? An example: the bielo-russian one have 10 poems in bielo-russian and their respective french translations. But the hungarian one doesn’t have the poems!
I want to know if the entire L’Harmattan series have the poems.
Thank you.
Daniel, from Brazil
PS: Pardon my english.
None of mine do, so this seems to be a feature of the Bielo-Russian manual and not a characteristic of the whole series. Indeed, while all the volumes I have seen have endeavored to give an overall introduction to the language and the culture, the way that each of them does it is quite different. In other words, there really does not seem to be any kind of “L’Harmattan formula” imposed by the publisher, so each author is free to organize his text as he sees fit.
I have visited France and I saw a lot of books of these series. I had brought the Catalan book just for me to survive in Valencia……..
I visited Barcelona and I cannot imagine living there, lol pretty difficult
I’m really interested in learning Mongolian (but I dont speak French). Is there any series of language learning materials for Learning Mongolian and or central asian countries of the former soviet union? such as Turkmen?
I imagine not very many
Have you looked at Dunwoody’s catalog?
Professor, I would like to ask whether the Pratique du Japonais predominantly written in the the native script, or romanized like the Linguaphone course?
What do you think about the “méthode thaï” de Asiathèque?
People still use these editions??? you would really have to go looking for obscure languages and not so popular dialects
most people swear by the Assimil collection, Harraps or the newly (ok 2000 something) established Ellipses (thats for France so I would say Belgium and Switzerland have the same) Ah oui, et c’est pour quand le finnois hein?