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AioLingua 2022: New FREE courses in FIGS+PC!

Postby Hash » Sat Jul 23, 2022 4:41 am

https://aiopop.com/

By the author of The Word Brain and the Ear2Memory app. Completely free! (PDFs + MP3)

They are currently available in FIGS, Portuguese and Chinese.
If anyone can contact the author (I didn't find any contact info), please tell him that there is a small mistake in the 2nd lesson of the English edition of the Spanish course. The text is in Italian! (the web version is fine)
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Re: AioLingua 2022: New FREE courses in FIGS+PC!

Postby anitarrc » Fri Aug 19, 2022 10:49 am

What does FIGS stand for... apart from the fruit, and a corporation selling expensive clothes? I'm lost. I know what a PC is though :D
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Re: AioLingua 2022: New FREE courses in FIGS+PC!

Postby DaveAgain » Fri Aug 19, 2022 11:53 am

anitarrc wrote:What does FIGS stand for... apart from the fruit, and a corporation selling expensive clothes? I'm lost. I know what a PC is though :D
French, Italian, German and Spanish.
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Re: AioLingua 2022: New FREE courses in FIGS+PC!

Postby anitarrc » Fri Aug 19, 2022 1:19 pm

Just had a look at chapters 4-6
This is definitely NOT the Spanish you need every day, even less for work.
There is more English, totally unrelated text between chapters than Spanish for dropouts.
The translations are... let's say..approximate.

I guess I know why its called AIO :oops:

BTW. Portuguese is nonexistent.

Yes, they beat duolingo in redundancy.
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Re: AioLingua 2022: New FREE courses in FIGS+PC!

Postby Hash » Thu Sep 01, 2022 6:44 pm

anitarrc wrote:BTW. Portuguese is nonexistent.

The Portuguese:
https://aiopop.com/sound/pt/pten001.html

By the way, their interface is great, you can click anywhere any Portuguese phrase and you will hear the corresponding audio instantly.
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Re: AioLingua 2022: New FREE courses in FIGS+PC!

Postby anitarrc » Fri Sep 02, 2022 5:46 am

Thank you, must be new.
Yes you learn the foul language which you'd never learn in real life :roll: and the important vocabulary for drugheads. Plus, nobody would use such language around his grandmother.. at least not among the Portuguese in Luxembourg.

What can I say, if you Really need that sort of vernacular, you will learn it in 5 minutes in a dodgy place anywhere in the world. I think in this forum you can find more suitable choices to prepare you for a visit to Portugal, a job interview in Brazil or simple life.
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Re: AioLingua 2022: New FREE courses in FIGS+PC!

Postby Le Baron » Thu Apr 27, 2023 9:06 pm

What I've always found odd about this is (from their website):
AioLingua and AioPop are not for young people (teenagers or people in their twenties and thirties). All others will improve their language skills in:

Yet the text and audio is concerned with the lives and goings on of a load of twenty-something students! "All others" don't need some of the vocabulary they use. nor are some of them crying into their beer about things young people are wrestling with. Surely they're exactly for people in their twenties and thirties?
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Re: AioLingua 2022: New FREE courses in FIGS+PC!

Postby luke » Thu Apr 27, 2023 11:51 pm

I noticed chapter 2 of the Spanish for English speakers is in Italian:
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Re: AioLingua 2022: New FREE courses in FIGS+PC!

Postby garyb » Fri Apr 28, 2023 12:17 pm

EDIT: posted this in the wrong thread, please ignore!
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Re: AioLingua 2022: New FREE courses in FIGS+PC!

Postby tastyonions » Fri Apr 28, 2023 2:06 pm

luke wrote:I noticed chapter 2 of the Spanish for English speakers is in Italian:
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Lol! That won't be confusing at all.
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