"Teach Yourself (Languages)" or "Colloquial (

Tiongkoklang   Mon Nov 17, 2008 10:12 am GMT
Teach Yourself (Languages): http://www.hoddereducation.co.uk/RVEd29f61b1267444b0b231be763d547941,,.aspx

Colloquial (languages): http://www.routledgelanguages.com/books/browse


Hello! I'm from China, native Mandarin speaker. Yesterday, I just found 2 websites (see above) by chance, to my surprise, one series of course books (Teach Yourself) actually contains 63 kinds of languages, and it involves much more languages than "Take Off In" that published by Oxford bookshop. I even saw some uncommon books such as "Gulf Arabic", "Modern Persian", "Modern Hebrew", "New Testament Greek", or "Brazilian Portuguese (rarer than European Portuguese)". Besides, the other series (Colloquial) also has a lot of kinds of languages, I searched by Browsing. Personally, I've really got a particular interest in a few of these 2 series, but I don't want to buy from both of them, If I make a decision, maybe I'll just buy my favourite books from only either of them. Which series are better? If you know something about these 2 series, please kindly give me some advice, if not, please don't post any spams or rubbish, thanks.
Tiongkoklang   Tue Nov 18, 2008 5:16 am GMT
Nobody knows either of them?
guest2   Tue Nov 18, 2008 10:40 pm GMT
Alexander Arguelles, who is an amazing polyglot, has video reviews of several self-instructional methods. Here is his website:

http://www.foreignlanguageexpertise.com/index.html

Go to the "language study" page, and scroll down to the "Foreign Language Learning Series Video Reviews" section. Teach Yourself Books and Colloquial are two of the many series he reviews.

His whole website is interesting. And if you want a fascinating view of his linguistic biography, go to:

http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=300&PN=1&TPN=1

Scroll down to where 'ProfArguelles' starts his response.
Xie   Sat Nov 22, 2008 1:46 am GMT
It isn't all that straightforward to find this kind of foreign books in our country. I never saw any in GZ or SZ; instead, I only found tons of language books published locally. You might find it easier to order them on amazon.cn............ but shipping rates could be quite considerable.

Personally, I think it's fortunate to be able to buy loads of both Chinese and English books (and even in some other languages) by traveling in GZ and SZ and Hong Kong. But having that said, quite a few (specifically, language) Chinese books are only found online/elsewhere in BJ/SH.