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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 17 of 18 09 October 2014 at 8:17am | IP Logged | ||
I started my study of Mandarin by listening to ChinesePod lessons while on the bus and in other situations, not paying a lot of attention and not doing any other study. It was indeed very inefficient, but I didn't mind much. Took me maybe a year and a half to get past the elementary level. :) Memorizing words, though, is always useful, though it's hard to get them to stick if you're not encountering them in lessons and such. Better to use Anki to memorize the vocab in a course, but then that won't work with the listening-at-the-gym method. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4037 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 18 of 18 11 October 2014 at 11:06am | IP Logged | ||
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But indeed the problem is that the combination of the two alone will not bring him anywhere.
About Anki should be contextualised how, in which moment of learning and with which content to use it. Can be useful to study the 300 highest frequency words the absolute first three days and mantaining them for a month removing immediately the ones that stick in memory very well. Then to enforce comprehension you need the basic grammar otherwise the comprehension will be blurry. Then you can start to assimilate much faster in my opinion. After one month. But these are my current findings after a year of learning how not to learn a language and having finally results. Also, since he's already studying two really challenging languages, I don't think he has the necessary focus to implement what said plus studying the other two languages. I must conclude that "if you have fun and you don't mind then will be not a problem", but I highly suspect that the lack of immediate fast results will lead to frustration and cause a damage to the other languages too. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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