Comments on: How good are Hugo language-learning courses? http://free-onlinecourses.info/how-good-are-hugo-language-learning-courses/ Find Free Online Courses Today Thu, 09 Sep 2010 00:04:15 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.5 hourly 1 By: Cosimo ♥ मरीय http://free-onlinecourses.info/how-good-are-hugo-language-learning-courses/comment-page-1/#comment-673 Cosimo ♥ मरीय Fri, 29 Jan 2010 21:39:50 +0000 http://free-onlinecourses.info/how-good-are-hugo-language-learning-courses/#comment-673 They are not very good, in general, and that is my opinion, not an incontrovertible statement of fact. The biggest beef I have with them is they way they approximate pronunciation using a grossly unscientific (as well as visually distracting) system of transcription. They are not alone in that failing, it has to be said. I used a number of Hugo courses when I was very much younger than I am now. Let's try to be balanced though. The Hugo verb books for Italian and Spanish are really useful - by far the best on the market. So it's not all doom and gloom. They are not very good, in general, and that is my opinion, not an incontrovertible statement of fact. The biggest beef I have with them is they way they approximate pronunciation using a grossly unscientific (as well as visually distracting) system of transcription. They are not alone in that failing, it has to be said. I used a number of Hugo courses when I was very much younger than I am now.

Let’s try to be balanced though. The Hugo verb books for Italian and Spanish are really useful – by far the best on the market. So it’s not all doom and gloom.

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