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Steve Kaufmann
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12 April 2009 at 7:06am | IP Logged

I am not sure why the Skype Call me! button appears under my name. Can someone please explain? How do I get rid of it?
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12 April 2009 at 10:59am | IP Logged

Steve Kaufmann wrote:

I am not sure why the Skype Call me! button appears under my name. Can someone please explain? How do I get rid of it?

1-Go to your Profile.

2-Below you will find Member Control Panel Menu

3-Go to Edit Profile.

4-Look for Skype Name in Profile Information (it's the fourth option) and erase your Skype adress.

I hope it helps.

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12 April 2009 at 11:02am | IP Logged

icing_death wrote:

slucido wrote:

aYa wrote:

I remember the learning log of a guy who spent some six hundred hours
intensively studying Pimsleur. But his secret key didn't open any lanaguage doors, I'm sure.

Please, we are talking about intensity learning a language and not about learning Pimsleur or Assimil
or whatever...

But aYa makes a good point - the learner studied intensively for 600 hrs, but didn't progress very much. So
intensity was not the key to success for him. Maybe he should have used linq.

Ok OK. You can try to study your target language for one minute every day without any intensity, for example daydreaming about your ex-girlfriend.

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12 April 2009 at 12:00pm | IP Logged

Steve Kaufmann wrote:

If you read the post you will see that I was contrasting my present situation as a dilettante learners to my situation when I was learning for a living so to speak. Now I say that enjoyment is the key because otherwise you simply will not put in the time. But I remember clearly that upon completing my year of Chinese I felt strongly that learning efficiency increased exponentially with the intensity of study. Intensity of study is not only a matter of hours per day. It is a matter of efficiency, of not studying lists of words out of context, of not sitting in classrooms, of not asking useless questions like "why is this right or wrong?""Can I also say it this way" etc.,of moving to authentic content asap, of combining listening with reading, of not looking things up in a conventional dictionary, of learning and relearning, and anything else that increases one's efficiency so that the learning per unit of time goes up. This plus the time per day adds up to intensity. Movies are not intense, songs are not intense, at least for me.

The more intense the learning, the sooner the brain gets used to the new language, in my experience.

I agree with the intensity and time thing. I don't agree with the method stuff. What works for you may not work for me or other people.

People succeed with very different methods. As long as their methods have input and output and they work with enough time and intensity, they will succeed.

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12 April 2009 at 3:43pm | IP Logged

Steve Kaufmann wrote:

But I remember clearly that upon completing my year of Chinese I felt strongly that learning efficiency increased exponentially with the intensity of study. Intensity of study is not only a matter of hours per day. It is a matter of efficiency,

Somewhat tautologous, this. Efficiency increases with intensity. Intensity is efficiency. Efficiency, therefore, increases exponentially with efficiency -- a mathematical impossibility.

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of not studying lists of words out of context,

Then you're using the wrong word. Lists can be studied "intensely".

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of not sitting in classrooms, of not asking useless questions like "why is this right or wrong?""Can I also say it this way" etc.,

I agree to a point with th classrooms thing, but appropriate questions are vital. If you have a communicative need, find out how to fill it.

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of moving to authentic content asap,

Here's another dangerous vaguery: as soon as possible. What does that mean? When exactly is it possible? As advice goes, it carries no meaning.
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