Dunwoody: Foreign Language Learning Seriew Reviews
Alexander Arguelles presents a series of video reviews and demonstrations of those foreign language learning series that he has found most useful in his own studies. For further information about the series, please refer to http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/index.html
Duration : 0:8:47
Tags: foreign, Language, learning, polyglots, polyglottery
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
well think of it …
well think of it this way: sell 100 books each in 5 “popular” languages, or sell 20 books each in 20, 30, 40, or even 50 less-commonly taught languages
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
This is an …
This is an excellent resource for books in Central Asian languages. Where else can you find readers and grammars in Kazakh, Tajiki, Turkmen, Tatar, and Uzbek?
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Clearly the very …
Clearly the very existence of the company and the fact they feature over 130 publications is a testament to their profitability.
They obviously have identified a niche market and have based their business model on this market.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Wouldn’t they sell …
Wouldn’t they sell more if they produce in the more popular languages? I thought the point of going into business would be to turn a profit. But it is good that they are producing materials for less known languages.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
do these books …
do these books teach the written form of the language or spoken?
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
do they have it in …
do they have it in kannada?
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
In the glossary and …
In the glossary and as they appeared in the actual text – but no, there are not very many, unfortunately, for they actually make reading much easier. The hardest thing about North Korean texts is not the slightly different grammar / vocabulary, but rather the total absence of Hanja because often you will look up a word in the dictionary and then have to guess from context which definition fits, whereas if the Hanja were there in brackets as well, you would know exactly which one was intended.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Did you include …
Did you include hanja in the Korean Newspaper reader? I was in Korea for a month and I don’t remember seeing many hanja.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
I had to make a …
I had to make a trip to South America to get my materials for those languages and you will probably have to do the same, although Clodoaldo Soto Ruiz’ Quechua Manual de Enseñanza was co-published by the University of Illinois Champaign-Urbana in 1993 and comes with a dozen accompanying tapes.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
What a great …
What a great service! But why no Latin American languages like Quechua or Aymara?
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
What a great …
What a great service! But why no Latin American languages like Quechua or Aymara?
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
I just checked the …
I just checked the Dunwoody website. They even have a reader and cassettes for Abkahzian. I will finally get to learn to use those whistling sounds I heard so much about.
Thanks for the reviews. I really look forward to these each week.
November 19th, 2009 at 6:10 am
Hey, that’s pretty …
Hey, that’s pretty sweet. I was wondering if there were any books for rare languages.