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Great video, professor. When it comes to textbooks, my biggest problem with a lot of contemporary ones is that they choose to introduce the language as if you're going to be traveling there in a few months, so you end up getting chapters structured around situations like checking into a hotel, going through an airport, etc. I never liked this. Certainly, I hope to travel to many of these places one day, but I would prefer more general vocabulary centered around the most common verbs, as well as the most basic adjectives and adverbs in the very beginning. Instead, I'd get too many context-specific nouns that are far less versatile and useful as a beginner. I also prefer short chapters, just so I don't feel overwhelmed. Psychologically, it also makes you feel like you're making quick progress, so it spurs you to go further. For that reason, one of my favorites is Russian for Beginners by Duff & Makaroff (1962). I also like Basic Oral Spanish by Barlow (1947), Basic Italian by Speroni & Golino (1972), Teach Yourself Polish (1992), and Getting Started with Latin by Linney (2007). I also like using Fastlingo's apps to learn French, Spanish, and German; they are very effective and intelligently made. It's a shame they aren't available in more languages.
There aren't a lot of materials for Tagalog/Filipino. Other than the Teach Yourself (which I think is now only available as an ebook nowadays), there are some books released by Tuttle Publishing and materials from the University of Hawaii from the 1970's. Living Language also had a Spoken World textbook for Tagalog, but I don't believe that's available anywhere. I think the situation is a bit better for Indonesian and Malay, where there are also textbooks from Assimil IIRC.
@@ProfASAr That reminds me, a local seller has a mint condition copy of Linguaphone Malay they're selling for $5. I haven't bought it because it's not a language that really interests me all that much, but maybe I should... I did get their Finnish Linguaphone for $20...
The Routledge Colloquial series is pretty good. I've tried their Greek course. Not bad!!! Good, clear and pleasant native speaker audio and good conversational and grammatical material.
Colloquial seems to seems to put the vocabulary in the back of the book and only part of it in the lessons itself at least for the Icelandic and Japanese courses
@@ProfASAr Apologies for the confusion Prof. It's not you. It's me. Me and my bibliophilic paranoia. Three things that usually appear in your videos are your cat, a jug of water, and books. I was just imagining your cat knocking over the jug of water onto the books. Sorry if I confused you.Hope you have a great new year! Καλή και ευτυχισμένη χρονιά! !Feliz ano nuevo!
Join my virtual academy www.alexanderarguelles.com/academy/ and meet with me every week to get a systematic theoretical framework for long-term language learning in Principles of Polyliteracy. Join also to read and discuss French, German, Italian, and/or Spanish literature, to learn to read sacred languages such as Arabic, Persian, Sanskrit, Greek, or Old Norse, to develop conversational abilities in Latin, and/or to read and discuss Great Books of Western Civilization in English. And subscribe to my monthly newsletter at: www.alexanderarguelles.com/newsletter/
Great video, professor. When it comes to textbooks, my biggest problem with a lot of contemporary ones is that they choose to introduce the language as if you're going to be traveling there in a few months, so you end up getting chapters structured around situations like checking into a hotel, going through an airport, etc. I never liked this. Certainly, I hope to travel to many of these places one day, but I would prefer more general vocabulary centered around the most common verbs, as well as the most basic adjectives and adverbs in the very beginning. Instead, I'd get too many context-specific nouns that are far less versatile and useful as a beginner. I also prefer short chapters, just so I don't feel overwhelmed. Psychologically, it also makes you feel like you're making quick progress, so it spurs you to go further. For that reason, one of my favorites is Russian for Beginners by Duff & Makaroff (1962). I also like Basic Oral Spanish by Barlow (1947), Basic Italian by Speroni & Golino (1972), Teach Yourself Polish (1992), and Getting Started with Latin by Linney (2007). I also like using Fastlingo's apps to learn French, Spanish, and German; they are very effective and intelligently made. It's a shame they aren't available in more languages.
Yes, the "glorified phrasebook" model is too widespread.
I love the jug of water next to your glass idea. I’m always getting out of my chair to refill in the kitchen 👌🏻
Stay hydrated!
There aren't a lot of materials for Tagalog/Filipino. Other than the Teach Yourself (which I think is now only available as an ebook nowadays), there are some books released by Tuttle Publishing and materials from the University of Hawaii from the 1970's. Living Language also had a Spoken World textbook for Tagalog, but I don't believe that's available anywhere.
I think the situation is a bit better for Indonesian and Malay, where there are also textbooks from Assimil IIRC.
There was also an older Linguaphone Malay.
@@ProfASAr That reminds me, a local seller has a mint condition copy of Linguaphone Malay they're selling for $5. I haven't bought it because it's not a language that really interests me all that much, but maybe I should... I did get their Finnish Linguaphone for $20...
The Routledge Colloquial series is pretty good. I've tried their Greek course. Not bad!!! Good, clear and pleasant native speaker audio and good conversational and grammatical material.
Thanks for sharing.
I do prefer the videos that are just you talking about things. They flow a bit more naturally and are more engaging (to me).
You mean you prefer this kind of video to the one's where I am answering someone's questions?
Colloquial seems to seems to put the vocabulary in the back of the book and only part of it in the lessons itself at least for the Icelandic and Japanese courses
Thanks for sharing your experience with Colloquial.
Those are beautiful
Cat... Jug of water... Books...
Hmmm...
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@@ProfASAr Apologies for the confusion Prof. It's not you. It's me. Me and my bibliophilic paranoia. Three things that usually appear in your videos are your cat, a jug of water, and books. I was just imagining your cat knocking over the jug of water onto the books. Sorry if I confused you.Hope you have a great new year! Καλή και ευτυχισμένη χρονιά! !Feliz ano nuevo!