On a more serious note, unless I’m mistaken, since the 1980’s, Assimil has published complete revisions (i.e., new generations) to many of their courses, including versions from English, German, and other bases. I've never seen Assimil in a UK library, Teach Yourself and Routledge seem to be the dominant course book publishers. Powww!!! Holy vintage, Batman, it’s been almost four decades!ĭaveAgain wrote:I don't think Assimil have much market share in the English language market. Still, given the generally fine reputation that Assimil has earned, it surprises me that they would not commission a complete revision to one of their major products. Ouch!!! Well, unless another member possessing both editions can counter Chris Mac's comment by providing a list of the first five lesson titles thereby indicating changes to the dialogues, then I would be inclined to go with Chris.
With the sneaky and misleading repackaging Assimil's previously excellent reputation takes a knock.
The course remains a worthwhile investment, but it's decades out of date. Nope! Still the same old 1982 course in a shiny new box.
ASSIMIL BUSINESS FRENCH PDF UPDATE
So, you might be led to thing that as this course is called "French" and has new packaging, it's a thorough update much like their excellent new "Italian" course.
ASSIMIL BUSINESS FRENCH PDF MAC
– LLORG – May 2017Īssimil – New courses, new look? – LLORG – August 2015ĭuring the discussions, member DaveBee provided a link to an Amazon Customer Review in which the reviewer was of the opinion that the two courses are identical:Ĭhris Mac commenting on “Assimil French” in February 2016 wrote:While the course itself is acceptable, the buyer should be aware: normally, when Assimil updates their old "With Ease" courses they drop the "With Ease" wording leaving just the language name. Was the later edition a complete revision to the former or was it simply a repackaging? The matter has been discussed at least twice before …ĭifference between two Assimil French editions. In this case, Anthony Burger was the author of both Assimil French courses you are considering. However, given that in some instances the same author has been commissioned to provide a complete revision to the course (dialogues, exercises, audio recordings), this is not a fool-proof method. In some instances, the matter is easily resolved by noting that different authors have been accredited for the different generations. The primary difficulty in differentiating generations from editions is that Assimil, like so many other publishers, issues multiple “editions”, replete with different ISBNs and dates of publication, for changes in audio formats (vinyl records, audio cassettes, audio CDs, mp3 files, combinations of any of the foregoing), minor changes to the title, packaging, and other matters, but for which there are no substantive changes to the contents (dialogues, exercises, recordings). Generally speaking, members on the forum would define different “generations” as courses for a given language for which the content (dialogues, exercise) are different. Bedtime, questions concerning the different Assimil courses come up from time-to-time.