OUT NOW: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course
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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out on April 14th
Just to let everyone know the new Le Hindi is now for sale!
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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out later this year
bolaobo wrote: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.
I agree, I liked voices in the original version. One particular issue I've noticed with the new version: one of the speakers seems to have a lisp! Listen to lesson 1, at 12 seconds the 2nd speaker says "namaste" with a lisp. I hope he just misspoke on the one instance, otherwise it will be difficult to listen to!
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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out later this year
jeffers wrote:bolaobo wrote: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.
I agree, I liked voices in the original version. One particular issue I've noticed with the new version: one of the speakers seems to have a lisp! Listen to lesson 1, at 12 seconds the 2nd speaker says "namaste" with a lisp. I hope he just misspoke on the one instance, otherwise it will be difficult to listen to!
So my reflections on having been working with this course are that it is fantastic and a delight to be working through - Assimil have nailed this one - EXCEPT that the speaker mentioned above does have a lisp and rather poor diction; this all means that his words slur together and he is really difficult to understand without having the book to hand. The other speakers are fine and clear, but this one is one of the main voice actors in the course and it is making the course that little bit more challenging than it would otherwise be.
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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out later this year
willcouchman wrote:jeffers wrote:bolaobo wrote: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.
I agree, I liked voices in the original version. One particular issue I've noticed with the new version: one of the speakers seems to have a lisp! Listen to lesson 1, at 12 seconds the 2nd speaker says "namaste" with a lisp. I hope he just misspoke on the one instance, otherwise it will be difficult to listen to!
So my reflections on having been working with this course are that it is fantastic and a delight to be working through - Assimil have nailed this one - EXCEPT that the speaker mentioned above does have a lisp and rather poor diction; this all means that his words slur together and he is really difficult to understand without having the book to hand. The other speakers are fine and clear, but this one is one of the main voice actors in the course and it is making the course that little bit more challenging than it would otherwise be.
A main voice actor with a lisp rules this course out as a viable recommendation, in my opinion. If a learner was already confident with their Hindi pronunciation, then perhaps it would be usable, but a beginner would risk picking up the mispronunciation. I don't know how Assimil could have let this happen.
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Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien (roughly, the perfect is the enemy of the good)
French SC Books: (0/5000 pp)
French SC Films: (0/9000 mins)
French SC Books: (0/5000 pp)
French SC Films: (0/9000 mins)
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Re: Brand new Assimil 'Le Hindi' course due out later this year
jeffers wrote:willcouchman wrote:jeffers wrote:bolaobo wrote: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.
I agree, I liked voices in the original version. One particular issue I've noticed with the new version: one of the speakers seems to have a lisp! Listen to lesson 1, at 12 seconds the 2nd speaker says "namaste" with a lisp. I hope he just misspoke on the one instance, otherwise it will be difficult to listen to!
So my reflections on having been working with this course are that it is fantastic and a delight to be working through - Assimil have nailed this one - EXCEPT that the speaker mentioned above does have a lisp and rather poor diction; this all means that his words slur together and he is really difficult to understand without having the book to hand. The other speakers are fine and clear, but this one is one of the main voice actors in the course and it is making the course that little bit more challenging than it would otherwise be.
A main voice actor with a lisp rules this course out as a viable recommendation, in my opinion. If a learner was already confident with their Hindi pronunciation, then perhaps it would be usable, but a beginner would risk picking up the mispronunciation. I don't know how Assimil could have let this happen.
I agree, though I'd welcome input from others who are using the course as maybe I'm being too sensitive to this particular actor's voice - but I am finding blind shadowing (where you try to imitate the sounds before looking up the meaning) too difficult with his voice - I simply can't differentiate some of the sounds :/
I try to avoid criticism in general, and the content of the course is fabulous, but this issue is a massive downside.
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