budonoseito Pro Member United States budobeyondtechnRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5796 days ago 261 posts - 344 votes Studies: French, Japanese Personal Language Map
| Message 9 of 14 31 August 2010 at 6:45pm | IP Logged |
I am doing Assimil French and Japanese. If you have enough time, give it a try.
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vexx Groupie Australia Joined 5209 days ago 81 posts - 82 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin
| Message 10 of 14 01 September 2010 at 10:29am | IP Logged |
budonoseito wrote:
I am doing Assimil French and Japanese. If you have enough time, give it a try. |
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How's the Japanese course? Is it focusing on understanding/speaking Japanese mostly?
I may do this but with Italian/Japanese!
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vykis92 Groupie LithuaniaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5306 days ago 68 posts - 71 votes Studies: Spanish
| Message 11 of 14 01 September 2010 at 12:20pm | IP Logged |
What is your opinions on "Assimil french with ease". I'm thinking about buying it, is it worth?
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Enrico Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 3736 days ago 162 posts - 207 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: Italian, Spanish, French
| Message 12 of 14 31 August 2014 at 6:55am | IP Logged |
What is the better way to use two Assimil simultaneously? Will it be better to do for instance Italian in the morning
and French in the evening? Or maybe Italian in one day and French on another day? Or maybe it will be better to do
20 minutes Italian and then immediately go to 20 minutes French?
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Mutant Groupie United States Joined 3902 days ago 45 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German
| Message 13 of 14 31 August 2014 at 4:57pm | IP Logged |
You can probably handle doing both. But I had to back off after trying to add German last week. I'm still going to add it, but I only have an hour or two in the morning and I realized that with finishing up the passive wave of Assimil New French With Ease, doing FSI French and Skyping with my French tutor, reading Le Monde or watching France 24, I really wouldn't have enough time to devote equal attention to German, which would not be fair because I really want to get good at both. So now I'm going to wait until I'm really, truly done with Assimil and am deep in FSI before I start German. By that time, I'll have had at least a solid six months of French, which will be a good time to "stagger" my languages and add the next one. But if you can do it, go for it! Et bonne chance!
Edited by Mutant on 31 August 2014 at 5:02pm
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Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish
| Message 14 of 14 31 August 2014 at 5:34pm | IP Logged |
Enrico wrote:
What is the better way to use two Assimil simultaneously? Will it be better to do for instance Italian in the morning
and French in the evening? Or maybe Italian in one day and French on another day? Or maybe it will be better to do
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Experimenting is the only way to find out. Start with the strategy that seems to make more sense to you, and then adjust as needed. You don't need to work with it the same way all the time. Maybe on some days you only have the time to do the lessons one after another, then do this. Or if you have time for only one lesson, focus on your more important language (unless you need to catch up with the other one or are about to have an opportunity to use the language). Simultaneous learning requires flexibility.
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