Assimil


Assimil is a French company, founded by Alphonse Chérel in 1929. It creates and publishes foreign language courses, which began with their first book Anglais Sans Peine. Since then, the company has expanded into numerous other languages and continues to publish today.
Their method for teaching foreign languages is through listening to records or tapes, and the reading of a book with the text that you are listening to, one side native language, one side foreign language. This method is focused on learning whole sentences, for an organic learning of the grammar. It begins with a long passive phase of only reading and listening, and eventually adds active exercises. Most books contain around 100 lessons, with the active phase starting on Lesson 50. The word "Assimil" comes from :wikt:assimilate#English|assimilate "incorporate or absorb knowledge into the mind".
The company publishes several different series:

English base

For the English reader, the following languages are available:
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Arabic
Chinese
Dutch
French
German
Hebrew
Hungarian
Italian
Japanese
Korean
Portuguese
Russian
Spanish
Spanish
Yiddish