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| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5387 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 35 29 July 2010 at 8:13pm | IP Logged |
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johntm93
Many thanks for that. I was about to search the forums for instructions, but that saved me some work! Jim 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5167 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 10 of 35 29 July 2010 at 8:36pm | IP Logged |
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No problem.
This is how I use it: 1. Listen to audio 2. Read English in my head while listening to audio 3. Read German w/o audio, compare it to English translation 4. "Shadow" it (Like Prof. Arguelles method, but I don't walk while doing it) 5. Read German text (no audio), see if I understand it 6. Listen to audio while reading English aloud 7. "Shadow" without walking again 8. Listen to audio to see if I understand. 9. a. If I don't understand the audio, I go back and compare German to English b. If I do understand it, I may shadow again if there's a tricky word or something in there I need to get 10. Read notes/comments if I haven't already 11. "Shadow" the exercises, read the German and translate it (then check translation) 12. Add all sentences (normally not the exercise sentences) to Anki (with the notes/comments if they are important) I'm only in the passive stage, but I like how I've been going through it. I haven't done any review, but yesterday I listened to the audio for every lesson I've done and I understood most of it. Of course, make your own method. Start with the instructions from Dutch with Ease, then change it how you will. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5431 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 11 of 35 30 July 2010 at 2:33am | IP Logged |
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You have gotten really good advice and guidelines from the previous posters. Let me just add one idea: don't try to analyze the learning process. Follow the directions as offered by the other posters here (and given in the book itself)but do not get caught up in trying to over-think things. As they say "just do it" and you will be quite satisfied.
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| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5387 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 35 30 July 2010 at 10:45am | IP Logged |
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Many thanks for all the advice.
I'm looking for the postman every day now. Can't wait to start! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| daveyboy Newbie Spain Joined 5122 days ago 33 posts - 46 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 35 30 July 2010 at 11:09am | IP Logged |
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Jim. You should do pretty good with this book, just stick with the instructions that
the other guys have posted above, and like John has mentioned put the phrases into Anki, or some other flashcard program, I use the one from transparent [ byki ] It's a good program. I create lists of about 20 phrases in each, I even put the exercise phrases in if I am not sure about them. The Assimil with the audio really sticks in the mind if done with a good amount of repetitions, but if you put the phrases into a flashcard program and practice them [ every day ] then there is NO chance of you forgetting them. I am on lesson 27 at the moment, last week before I started putting the phrases into the flascards I did a little test: I went back to various lessons and had a look at the English text, I could translate most of them [By thinking a lot ] the constructions on my translations into Spanish were wrong on a quite few of them. Now after creating four lists of 20 phrases in the flashcards [ so far ] I was drilling the first list for a couple of days, on the third day I did not drill the flashcards before opening the Assimil book, this time I looked at the various lessons at the start of the book and without thinking to much, I translated them into Spanish, then checked them, this time everyone of them was right..!! I think the Assimil Spanish with ease is a great method, but used with a flashcard program it just makes it even better. The good thing about putting the phrases into a flashcard program is: after practising them over and over again you will have no problems translating them in the book, plus the phrases actually stick in your mind so you can use them in conversation as well. Give it a try Jim, It really is a good method..!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5387 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 14 of 35 12 August 2010 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
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Arrived today, and lesson one under the belt. Nothing new for me in this lesson, but it
will be good to have easy ones to get used to the program Jim 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| johntm93 Senior Member United States Joined 5167 days ago 587 posts - 746 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 15 of 35 13 August 2010 at 1:17am | IP Logged |
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Good luck, even after a few lessons you'll be amazed how much you can recall. After two weeks away from any German, I could recall Assimil German sentences with almost 100% accuracy (missed a couple of words).
Or course, taking even a one day break isn't advisable, but sometimes you have no choice. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5387 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 35 16 August 2010 at 12:07pm | IP Logged |
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I’m a few days in to Assimil and I’m enjoying it. However it does seem to me that it is a bit “all over the place” It doesn’t follow any logical progression through the language. The very first lesson contained the phrase “Tenia ganas de verte”. This phrase uses a past tense, a personal pronoun, an infinitive and a phrase that is not a literal translation.
Fortunately, I am not a beginner, and this phrase didn’t cause me any problems, however it might have done if I was. My thought is that Assimil looks to be a great course, and very suited to my level of learning, but I can see how I might have struggled if I was a complete beginner. Are the “holes” that Assimil seems to leave filled in later in the course? For example, will I be introduced to tener, ganar and ver as separate verbs and find out how they came together to form “Tenia ganas de verte” Perhaps I am getting too hung up with grammar. I like the idea of learning by assimilation, but perhaps I am so accustomed to learning the “old fashioned way” with grammar rules and tables of conjugations. Jim 1 person has voted this message useful |
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