– 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.
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