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| owverysweet Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 3652 days ago 18 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Polish*, English | Message 1 of 8 03 January 2015 at 11:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello. If I want to start new language from scratch
I need a good plan how to do it. Plan is routine and to do list. My plan assume that I would go through all lessons MT as soon as I can and then switch to ordinary/daily routine. Routine: Films and tv series (probably bbc, Easy languages etc) • Listen and read podcasts every day for 30 minutes(probably lingq) • 1 essay about my interesting thing a week. • 20 mins shadowing daily with German podcasts. • Assimil 1 lesson a day, (somedays 2 lessons to finish all assimil book) • Free time with reading interesting articles about my passions. Any ideas to improve routine to make it most effective and efficient? I don't really like listen Reading (I feel exhausted after 30mins), I love speaking (but tutors costs to muuuch). Thank you for your responses, I really appreciate that. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4134 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 2 of 8 03 January 2015 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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If tutors are too expensive, have you thought about finding a language exchange partner? There are lots of native
German speakers on italki who are learning Polish: language partners You connect with someone, set a time to meet on Skype, and then spend half the time speaking Polish and half the time speaking German. Language exchanges are a really excellent free resource - they were a huge part of my study when I started learning Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| owverysweet Diglot Newbie Poland Joined 3652 days ago 18 posts - 20 votes Speaks: Polish*, English | Message 3 of 8 04 January 2015 at 9:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Okay, I will try if it's really valuable :) I would
spend after MT 1h for Exchange :)) nice! Better would be if I would exchange my English for German because it's 2 languages on target but I think that I am not that good yet xD. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4134 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 4 of 8 04 January 2015 at 3:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Most people interested in a language exchange are looking for a native speaker.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6572 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 5 of 8 04 January 2015 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've had a lot of people contact me on iTalki wanting to practice their English, but that might just be the good reputation of Scandinavians (coupled with my audacious C2 self-ranking). I wish they'd contact me more for Swedish, since English is such a dull language. :)
As to the routine, it looks good to me. I'd suggest saving lessons you've worked through on a "studied" playlist and listen to it often, even shadowing random pieces from time to time. I've found this very helpful to overlearn the basics. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mareike Senior Member Germany Joined 6214 days ago 267 posts - 323 votes Speaks: German* Studies: English, Swedish | Message 6 of 8 04 January 2015 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | ||
What a pity that you don't study German. I sometimes prefer non-natives. They are better at explaining grammar(ok, that should do a teacher/book) and they are usually easier to understand (vocabulary range, speaking speed). In particular a beginner could get something out of it. I am usually interested in a person who really wants to learn the language. So I take this seriously. When I write/spoke in German to my language partner I make sure that I use proper German. That also includes reread my own emails in order to eliminate spelling and grammar mistakes before I send them. And I expect that the other way round. Before you can get familiar with accents and colloquial speech you have to have proper basics – just my two pennies worth. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Tyrion101 Senior Member United States Joined 3903 days ago 153 posts - 174 votes Speaks: French | Message 7 of 8 05 January 2015 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Lang8 is great, if you spend enough time with it, helping out others, you will get feedback for what you have posted. I've learned a bunch with the site that I couldn't have ever otherwise.
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6572 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 8 of 8 06 January 2015 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | ||
I'll probably take it up pretty soon (unless I give in to another language first), but It'd take a while before I'd feel like I could get anything out of an exchange. And I only do written exchanges, really. For speaking practice, I prefer paying in order to get and not have to give. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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