slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6681 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 49 of 93 20 May 2011 at 11:49pm | IP Logged |
Extensive Reading:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGieDKQaRjQ
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6681 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 51 of 93 21 May 2011 at 2:20pm | IP Logged |
Kuikentje wrote:
Hi slucido
wow, you've recorded many videos!!! I like very much that you write the keywords when you talk, this is nice and helpful although I can understand what you say in Spanish and English, mostly. Those are great and beautiful languages in ym opinion. Later I will listen your catalan videos, I think that I will understand some of that. |
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Than you for your nice comments. If you are French and you speak Spanish, Català is easy to understand.
Kuikentje wrote:
Pero no estoy de acuerdo con todo de lo que dijiste por ejemplo en el vídeo Técnica de la palabra clave porque lo vas a pronunciar como en tu lengua materna o peor todavía te vas a recordar la palabra con la significación qui tiene en tu idioma en vez del otro.
Pues mi pronunciación del inglés es un desastre total pero lo sé que no se dice «e» antes de la «s» por ejemplo en «sparrow» y claro, en «espárrago» se lo dice con la «e» al principio. Tengo una amiga española y lo hizo en francés también : puso siempre una «e» donde no lo hay. |
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The keyword technique uses the reminder principle. You use a sound-like word in your own language to remind you the foreign word. Then, we use a visual or verbal association to link the keyword (sound-like word in your native language) with the meaning (word in your native language).
You are right. This is not perfect. In my opinion, this technique is useful with difficult words and only as a provisional crutch. We need to get rid of them as soon as possible. As you say, it is important to learn the correct pronunciation to avoid interferences.
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6681 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 54 of 93 22 May 2011 at 7:35pm | IP Logged |
Kuikentje wrote:
Sorry, I thought that it was slucido's log, and he's Spanish therefore it was more logic to write in Spanish. Now I've seen that it's a differnt one (not a log I mean) and I will write only in English now.
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Yes,I am using this like a log. Maybe I should open another thread.
Kuikentje wrote:
I've the opposite problem: I have to constantly try to not have this verbal associations because I have quite much interference between my Dutch - German - English, those languages are veyr similar, then the difficulty is to separate them in my opinion. Especially Dutch and German, often, something in one is the present tense, and the exact same word is the past tense in the other languaeg, this is an example.
Probably your reminder principle is a good technique between two languages without such similarities or between your native language and a foreign one (not between the foreign ones) but persoannly I have to fight against that sound-like words muddle. |
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I understand. I think those vocabulary tricks and mnemonics are useful when you have to learn long lists. For example when you have to pass examinations.
Maybe these techniques are useful too when you are a real beginner or you want to fix a difficult word.
Visualizing Vocabulary
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xE7HsdfnnI
Avoid Spelling Mistakes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vbLBhb1LvwU
Best Vocabulary Technique:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy9BxDfJcpk
Edited by slucido on 22 May 2011 at 7:36pm
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6681 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 55 of 93 24 May 2011 at 9:16pm | IP Logged |
One-minute technique:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iFCKXC3y1fQ&feature=channel_v ideo_title
Fluency in Foreign Languages:
This is a replay to the Splog's video: "Thinking in a Foreign Language".
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FKP2Rp_grPI&feature=channel_v ideo_title
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6681 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 56 of 93 26 May 2011 at 1:12pm | IP Logged |
5-Year Old Technique and active experiencing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o0hkl4jJ72A
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