Je parle l'Allemand (Editions Atlas, 1988)

[Slowpoke]

The cassette links all give 404 pages, just to let you know!

[guyome]

Thanks, Slowpoke. I removed the links and will try and repost some others later. In the meanwhile, the first ones I linked to (at ufile.io) will hopefully do the trick for most users.

[Le Baron]

Looking at the pdf these are exactly the same as the Cursos de Idiomas courses in Portuguese. They're the same drawings with empty speech bubbles, split into sections with the coloured dotted lines. Also the audio is organised on the same principle. So it must have been rendered into many other base languages and under different names. There are ones for Spanish, Italian, French, English, and the German.

Edit - In fact I just checked and it's exactly the same course. I have the entire thing in Portuguese - German.

[guyome]

I guess that these courses, with their audio 100% in the target language and minimal use of L1, were quite easy to translate.

I googled the the Planeta-De Agostini (Spain) and Globo (Brazil?) versions and found more about the courses. They seem to have been/be quite popular in Brazil.

There is also a couple of threads about them at HTLAL (here for instance) and it seems this is the course Luca Lampariello used to learn German.