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| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4627 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 1 of 14 30 June 2012 at 4:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was just wondering what everyone's thoughts were on the active wave lessons a day. I'm pretty much stuck on the fact that the active wave is to just give the the passive wave one has previously completed an extra "spark" to recall words already in your head.
I eagerly want to jump into the next Assimil book. It seems like one active wave lesson a day is going a bit slow especially because it's summer and I have more free time for the moment. Does anyone do more than 1 a day? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cortical Tetraglot Newbie CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4624 days ago 30 posts - 52 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, SpanishB1 Studies: Russian, Mandarin | Message 2 of 14 30 June 2012 at 5:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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In general I'd say do as many as you feel comfortable doing.
but either way, you could always start the next Assimil book passively while catching up with the active wave in the old one. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4627 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 3 of 14 30 June 2012 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Awesome! I just figured that rushing through the book would hinder any results I could gain but I mean, I guess if in the end I can still translate a lesson word for word, then it's considered done anyway and it's time to move on.
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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5523 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 14 30 June 2012 at 6:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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If you can translate from English to French during the active wave without too much
trouble, you're in excellent shape, and whatever you're doing is working fine. :-) By the way, if you jump ahead to a passive wave with Assimil Using French, you'll find that the first 10 or so lessons are step down from the end of Assimil New French with Ease, but that it gets pretty hairy after that. So don't feel bad if you have trouble around lesson 15. Also, when you finish New French with Ease, start looking for cool native materials! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4627 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 5 of 14 30 June 2012 at 7:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Great! So I guess it doesn't matter how quickly or how slowly you finish the active wave, but I can see why the passive wave should be one lesson per day. I think I can go at a rate of 3-4 active lessons a day. Oh, the joy of being an unemployed university student during Summer.
I hear there are some good stories in Using French and some tid bits of literature so I'm excited for that. Did you personally, emk, ever have to stretch out a lesson to beyond a day in Using French? I'm also curious about how you say to jump into native materials after New French, I always thought that would be saved for after Using. I'll take your advice though and start up Le Petit Prince. Thanks for the replies! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5556 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 6 of 14 30 June 2012 at 7:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have to confess that I found Using French a BIG step up from New French With Ease
after a few lessons - to the extent that I wish I had taken NFWE a bit slower and really internalised it. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5444 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 7 of 14 30 June 2012 at 8:02pm | IP Logged | ||
Although native materials are too difficult at the very beginning, there is no reason to hold on until you have finished an Assimil Using XX course. For French, Le Petit Prince is probably a good place to start. You could also try reading online newspapers, listen to internet radio or read comic books. Another great Assimil course you could try is the old Assimil French without Toil. I'm using it right now, and there are plenty of idioms, vocabulary and grammar that isn't covered in Assimil New French with Ease. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4627 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin | Message 8 of 14 30 June 2012 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Elexi - What do you think was the most challenging part? Are there just tons more vocab words per lesson compared to NFwE or are they still gradually introduced?
tractor - The one thing that can discourage me at times is that there are some radio stations I can understand and others just take it to a whole new level. My assumption was that radio/TV should be saved until you build up more vocab. Also, I have Without Toil that I was going to use, but I'm not sure. I'd still like to learn either German and/or Italian plus Latin before I graduate, so I'm not sure if I want to spend a whole lot of time on French courses when I could start a new language. Do you think it would matter if I did WT before or after Using? If I use it, I don't think I would do it's active wave. Oh one more question regarding active waves, what do I do for the Using French active wave if I'm even supposed to do one? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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