Owain, I would recommend you pick up a grammar book to at least supplement the Assimil course I love the courses, but grammar instruction / clarification isn’t really their strong suit, even though they do discuss grammar in the footnotes / review lessons. In order to progress in terms of the active knowledge, it’s very important to write the lessons out. You will gain a general impression of the sounds, hearing the pronunciation without being influenced by the spelling.īut I agree that Assimil is much better at teaching a passive knowledge than active. It does not matter if you do not understand what is said. There are also “exercise” sentences at the end of each lesson, but it’s never really clearly stated what you’re supposed to do with them do you not look at the translation, and translate them on your own after doing the lesson? Do you just treat the exercise sentences exactly like the lesson itself, listening, reading, and understanding? The Dutch with Ease course, unlike the other courses, actually has very detailed instructions: 1.
In many of the courses, the instructions amount to: “during the passive wave, just listen to the audio and read the text, and you’ll slowly start to understand during the active wave, go back and translate from the base language to the target language.” Considering Assimil uses a methodology that is different from most textbooks, the instructions are rather vague, especially for a person who might be studying their first foreign language.
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