HOW TO USE ASSIMIL 

Hi everyone.🤗I am from Brazil, and I'm studying english with assimil, thank you, that help me. Sorry for mistakes 😊bye

My experience with Assimil is this: listen to the recording all the time, especially on your free time, passively or actively. Then read the book, one chapter at a time. At the same time, keep on listening to the mp3s/ audio of the chapters. Then, listen carefully to the dialogues, and try to distill the words or phrases or idioms that you don't understand. Write them down. Then forget about them. Keep on listening to the audio. Read the book here and there. Keep distilling the words, expressions, and idioms that you don't understand until you understand everything. I am still using my first Assimil book I bought from 3 years ago. It's amazing to see what your brain does or does not retain. Everyone thinks differently. So, always focus on the things that you find more challenging to remember and retain. But, ultimately, you will have to branch out of Assimil and start talking to native speakers of your desired language, read books, and listen to the news.

Thank you for the review, I would like to share my personal experience when using this book. I follow almost all the steps with a few following changes: 1. Listen to dialogue without looking at the transcript 2. Read the dialogue and translation at the same time 3. Read the explanation, pay attention to the new vocabulary and grammar points 4 Repeat the audio sentence by sentence, also pay attention to the pronunciation guide 5. After understanding everything in the dialogue and explanation, listen to the dialogue without the transcript 6. Make translation exercise into listening exercise, write down everything you hear 7. Compare with the transcript and mark which word or sound I cannot understand 9. Do the exercise 10. Learn everything by heart and review one day, seven day, and a month later, respectively. Even though it is a bit time-consuming, but I hope it will pay off later.

Thanks Kent, I moved to France 8 months ago and have been struggling to learn from the audio without the instructions from the book. Clever me had to go and download and print out the lessons without the instructions, I've ordered the book now..

I wish I would have paid attention to this video before starting Assamil. I’ve done one month and didn’t feel that anything was sticking but with this method I feel much more confident. Thank you for your video.

Thank you! I was a bit confused with the second wave translation part as I am almost reaching that part of the book. You have clarified it to me. It sounds doable :) Thank you very much.

I adore Assimil. I have 10 books in the shelf already. They bring the quickest results. And on top of that they are actually pretty fun, interlarded with humor. A shame so few people know about it, at least in my country it is far from being the standard.

Merci kent!

thx mate

Apologies if this is a silly question but essentially could steps 1-2 and 4-6 be cut down to 1 point saying "loop and read the text as often as you like so you eventually understand the audio without text"? The reason I ask is I do that with listening on Yabla/Beelinguapp and could transfer that method to Assimil. Then you could do the shadowing in step 3 and 7 at the end when the audio is understood to help accent/speaking etc. Does this sound reasonable or am I missing something? So potentially: 1. Loop and read the text as often as you like so you eventually understand the audio without text 2. Shadow the text a few times 3. Do exercises / notes Thanks

the moment you don't retain everything from yesterdays lesson should you do it repeat it or keep going?

How is Assimil German? I have Assimil Mandarin Chinese, French, and Spanish. I usually start with Pimsleur and then do Assimil once I'm halfway through Pimsleur.

Is it a lesson per day pace?

HI I AM from Tanzania how can i get to contact to Assimil ? i tried couple of time but seemed difficult to get them i want to learn french, can any one assist me? thank you

Will I need another source to learn grammar?

So is there no real instruction and it's all up to the learner on how they use Assimil right?

Hey bro I really want to learn Spanish and I know assimil is really good but they have Spain's accent of Spanish which sounds bad and annoying to me, if I bought the full version would I be able to switch to a Mexican dialect of Spanish? If not It sucks because I cant use one of the best apps for learning Spanish.

Hey, I have the Using French Assimil book. Does anyone here have the audios please?

I've never heard an Aussie use the word "wee" (small) before. Made me chuckle a little to be honest.

I can barely hear you.

I cant hear you.. I wish you would speak just a but louder please.

This seems incredibly boring?

I that's going until b2 Level?