Professor, how advanced is the Icelandic book, if you (or anyone else) can recall? I'm beginning my German learning and I would desire more readings for Icelandic in particular. Are the readings a large proportion of the book or is it largely grammar explanations and colloquialisms? I do think if you say either, I'll be happy to buy it as it should be useful for both languages, but I'd like to know what I'm preparing myself for. Thankyou.
@PaulSLambeth As I recall, it is relatively advanced, containing a large number of substantial reading passages that take up about 90 minutes of rapidly read accompanying recording. I do recommend the book, but I issue a caveat on the recordings themselves: they are the model that I used for my reading on my Icelandic introductory overview, and if you read the comments there, you will see that I did a particularly poor job of it - there are lots of reasons for that, but the model may be one.
@ProfASAr Thanks for responding. That's great news - the main thing I'm looking for at the moment is vocabulary and larger readings. Your warning about the audio might be quite logically founded: when I watched your Icelandic video the main pronunciation flaws I picked up were what I thought to be some lag from German (pronunciation of "ei", etc). I assumed that to be because you know German so well, but having mispronounced audio of Icelandic by German speakers may have been another reason.
Park's books are good, as are others, but Hermann's stands alone in a class by itself if you have the kind of mind that can profit from logical and systematic organization and explanations.
I speak 4 languages (English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese), and I must say that I cannot wait until I develop my German more. This series looks excellent! Where did you buy those books, and for about how much do you suppose they would be nowadays? Any info appreciated, Thank you.
Their webs site is Buske(dot)de. If you click the "fremde sprachen" link, you will get a page with an alphabetical list of all the languages they offer. Just click on a language to see all the books for that language. They don't offer the Korean book the professor pointed out, but you may find it on E-bay.
I'm now even happier that I know German and French.
KimCyunHi 3 weeks ago
Professor, how advanced is the Icelandic book, if you (or anyone else) can recall? I'm beginning my German learning and I would desire more readings for Icelandic in particular. Are the readings a large proportion of the book or is it largely grammar explanations and colloquialisms? I do think if you say either, I'll be happy to buy it as it should be useful for both languages, but I'd like to know what I'm preparing myself for. Thankyou.
PaulSLambeth 1 year ago
@PaulSLambeth As I recall, it is relatively advanced, containing a large number of substantial reading passages that take up about 90 minutes of rapidly read accompanying recording. I do recommend the book, but I issue a caveat on the recordings themselves: they are the model that I used for my reading on my Icelandic introductory overview, and if you read the comments there, you will see that I did a particularly poor job of it - there are lots of reasons for that, but the model may be one.
ProfASAr 1 year ago
@ProfASAr Thanks for responding. That's great news - the main thing I'm looking for at the moment is vocabulary and larger readings. Your warning about the audio might be quite logically founded: when I watched your Icelandic video the main pronunciation flaws I picked up were what I thought to be some lag from German (pronunciation of "ei", etc). I assumed that to be because you know German so well, but having mispronounced audio of Icelandic by German speakers may have been another reason.
PaulSLambeth 1 year ago
Park's books are good, as are others, but Hermann's stands alone in a class by itself if you have the kind of mind that can profit from logical and systematic organization and explanations.
ProfASAr 2 years ago
I think I might brush up my German a bit and try out that Icelandic book, do you know where I would be able to purchase it?
Razekial 3 years ago
I speak 4 languages (English, French, Spanish, and Portuguese), and I must say that I cannot wait until I develop my German more. This series looks excellent! Where did you buy those books, and for about how much do you suppose they would be nowadays? Any info appreciated, Thank you.
sheepthing 3 years ago
Their webs site is Buske(dot)de. If you click the "fremde sprachen" link, you will get a page with an alphabetical list of all the languages they offer. Just click on a language to see all the books for that language. They don't offer the Korean book the professor pointed out, but you may find it on E-bay.
zorksvik 3 years ago
Where do you get all these books? All I can really find are like the Teach Yourself series.
AdamskiAirsoft 3 years ago