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OUT NOW: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course

Postby willcouchman » Wed Jan 05, 2022 1:25 pm

Hi all,

I saw in Assimil's 2022 catalogue that a brand new Hindi course (with a french base) is coming out later this year.

Great news for Hindi learners as I found - as seemingly did many other reviewers - that the existing course had far too steep a learning curve, and I could not stick with it for very long. Hopefully this new course, which will have 85 lessons compared to the old course's 55, will have a much smoother gradient.

I emailed Assimil asking for a release date, and they said "sometime in the second quarter" (i.e. April onwards). However a google search shows one website listing a release date of 11th March.

Just in case any Hindi learners, with a decent base of French, weren't aware!

Best,

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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out later this year

Postby bolaobo » Wed Jan 05, 2022 4:33 pm

Good to know. I might check it out, but I happen to like the old course. It's just really hard and you have to split lessons up into multiple days.

I hope it's not dumbed down, like when they re-released the Latin course.
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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out later this year

Postby Faust » Thu Jan 06, 2022 4:00 pm

Here is the full catalog for anyone interested:

https://www.assimil.com/extraits/catalo ... ssimil.pdf

Looks like a new Hebrew A2 course for French speakers as well.
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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out later this year

Postby Vordhosbn » Mon Jan 10, 2022 10:20 pm

I have a copy of the current book for Le Hindi, so I suppose I'd better get the audio too before it's replaced. :idea:

bolaobo wrote:I hope it's not dumbed down, like when they re-released the Latin course.

Are you referring to the 2007 course they removed from circulation? Because the current edition, which is indeed a re-release, is based on the venerated 1966 edition by Clément Desessard.
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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out later this year

Postby David1917 » Tue Jan 11, 2022 1:25 am

This is good news. I actually just began working with the old one yesterday. That plus the TYS series will hopefully balance out pretty well. Getting a new course in a few months will be great way to consolidate, and then move on to readers.

The new one shares one author from the original: Annie Montaut.
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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out later this year

Postby bolaobo » Tue Jan 11, 2022 12:29 pm

Vordhosbn wrote:I have a copy of the current book for Le Hindi, so I suppose I'd better get the audio too before it's replaced. :idea:

bolaobo wrote:I hope it's not dumbed down, like when they re-released the Latin course.

Are you referring to the 2007 course they removed from circulation? Because the current edition, which is indeed a re-release, is based on the venerated 1966 edition by Clément Desessard.


Yes, I meant the 2007 one. The newest one is fine, and I'm currently using it!
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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out later this year

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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out later this year

Postby willcouchman » Wed Mar 30, 2022 8:42 am

Assimil has released the audio previews on Soundcloud for lesson 1, lesson 50, and lesson 85.

Just to whet the appetite for those interested :)

https://soundcloud.com/assimil/sets/le- ... al_sharing

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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out later this year

Postby bolaobo » Wed Mar 30, 2022 2:50 pm

willcouchman wrote:Assimil has released the audio previews on Soundcloud for lesson 1, lesson 50, and lesson 85.

Just to whet the appetite for those interested :)

https://soundcloud.com/assimil/sets/le- ... al_sharing

Will


It seems decent, but I prefer the voices from the previous course. More emotion. I'm pleasantly surprised that lesson 1 isn't spoken at that insanely slow pace though.
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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out on April 14th

Postby kennyaa » Tue Apr 12, 2022 1:18 pm

I know there are many fellow Assimil maniacs on this forum and I think it would be good to have a general thread for updates to the catalogue and general discussion (feel free to move this post if anybody else is interested and thinks it should be a different thread).

A new version of the Le Bulgare was released as a e-version last year and it looks as if it will also go to print this year, although from what I can see nothing has been announced by Assimil themselves yet. I have run through the original Bulgarian copy several times and have enjoyed it but was put off buying the new method as I'm not really as fond of the e-courses.

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