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Mike (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 5 Kigarama 2011 03:29:12

Anybody have any experience with this? I stumbled across it while looking at the forums on the Klingon Language website--it looks like these guys just turned out a book and CD for Klingon (with the blessing of the Klingon Language Institute). Just for the heck of it, I took a look around the rest of the website, and sure enough they had quite a few learning aids for Esperanto. Here's the link, if anybody is interested:

http://eurotalk.com/us/store/learn/esperanto

Opinions welcome. If this stuff is any good, I might get the intro CDs or books for several languages I've always wanted to study.

Evildela (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 5 Kigarama 2011 04:52:32

I have it, and I was greatly disappointed with the Esperanto CD when I first purchased it. They have very good audio Esperanto recordings but its content is massivly lacking. Basically it teaches body parts, colors, food, time, and a few other topics. No grammar, grammar is never even explained, it’s basically like a cut down interactive flash card game for Esperanto. Unfortunately after one week use, about a month after my initial study of Esperanto I found it had already served its purpose.

I only purchased: Talk Now Esperanto

Bemused (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 5 Kigarama 2011 06:31:35

Excert from their spiel on "Talk Business Esperanto".

"Watch and learn! See and hear how to speak Esperanto by watching video footage of native speakers."

As I understand it, native Esperanto speakers are not exactly found on every street corner.

So if the lessons are anything like the hype I will not be donating any money to this outfit.

ceigered (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 5 Kigarama 2011 10:21:10

Eurotalk have a "methodology" they apply to every language they do without really checking if a language needs a certain level of "flexibility" (aka a completely different methodology) from what I've heard.

A pain in the arse since they do have some of the few easily purchasable resources for things like Cornish, which means it's a gamble where as for other languages with plenty of resources you'd just go and defer to something more specialised or better looking. Or free!

brodicius (Kwerekana umwidondoro) 5 Kigarama 2011 12:45:29

(First off, use pronunciator instead).

Now then, I used the iPhone version of whatever their software is called now, it was pretty good for memorisation, actually. Really quite good for learning the time, especially with how much it makes you panic with timed answers. Other than that, not great. No real teaching except for flashcard type things.

Also it really does seem that they've used the exact same lessons for every language and just chucked the words into the nearest automatic translator they can find.

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