The reason I ask this is because TY (I believe) is all you need to get started in language
learning today. It is more “Phrase-bookish” than Assimil, but at least you can learn basic things
you might need to say and you can get a basic footing in the language. Also,
it is shorter with, I believe, better grammar explanations.
Assimil for me is more comprehensive in terms of vocabulary and I think
their audio recordings are excellent, buy I find it extremely boring (to be fair,
TY is too,which is why I choose TY, less boring material to plow though).
Nowadays with today’s technology, we can now jump into real, interesting to the individual content
much earlier than the old days. Steve has been saying this for a long time now, but I have
never applied this way of learning because I have not started a new language after becoming aware
of Steve and his views on language learning.
This approach has saved me with my German studies. I now read news articles of subjects
of interest to me and now my motivation has skyrocketed and when that happens, your language
skills tend to increase.
I guess I am writing this to say thank you to Steve for all the time you have taken to help people
you have met, and many more you haven’t.