2022 Assimil Spanish?

[haziz]

I recently became aware that the online/digital version of Assimil Spanish, and also the book form of the course actually is a new text as of 2022. I have not seen much information regarding this online. The initial lessons are unusually short although they do seem to get longer fairly quickly. There seems to be greater emphasis on informal colloquial Spanish. The grammar section seems fairly detailed. The grammar section looks thick until you realize it includes a 100 page glossary (dictionary), it seems to be effectively shorter than the immediate prior edition. The physical (dead tree) version of the book does appear unusually thick.

The printed edition has the highlighted sections in red, together with delineation of the grammar section also in red.

https://www.assimil.com/en/with-ease/18 ... 09113.html

Has anyone tried to compare this to earlier editions? Any opinions or feedback?

[elAmericanoTranquilo]

Interesting, I worked through an older edition last year and I wasn't aware they had updated it. I noticed they make available a preview pdf of the newer edition that includes lesson 1 and lesson 100: https://monachat.assimil.online/extrait ... xtrait.pdf

If those 2 lessons are a respresentative sample, they've rewritten the dialogs. Were you planning on getting the audio files as well? Note that the audio can be very slow during the first 50 or so lessons, so much so that some people preprocess it in Audacity or a similar tool to speed it up.

I ended up having mixed feelings about Assimil Spanish after I worked through it. At least in my edition of the book, I liked the grammar explanations, but it was challenging for me to come up with a study routine for the material that was effective and engaging. I felt like I got more out of other resources including Language Transfer, Pimsleur and (later) Platiquemos / FSI. My takeaway was that Assimil is great for experienced language learners who have used it to learn other languages but (depending on your learning style) there may be better options available, particularly for languages that are as popular as Spanish.