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Message 57 of 68

07 June 2014 at 9:02am | IP Logged

Hey Ron,

Just a hello to say i'm still lurking about following your log. Sounds like a good plan with the easy readers and
tutoring in particular. I too am more keen than ever to keep advancing my French. So you say you're
continuing your log on Polydog, just wondering why so? (not saying don't do it, just curious, i'm not familiar
with Polydog). Anyway you're doing really well with NFWE! keep going (pat on your back).

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Message 58 of 68

07 June 2014 at 9:29am | IP Logged

PeterMollenburg wrote:

In my opinion, HTLAL is without question the single best language learning resource on the internet. I certainly plan on checking in often, and I'm following the status of many people in the language challenge. I hope to celebrate at the end of next year my own and other peoples accomplishments. I work long hours as well as study, so I don't spend much time overall contributing to forum conversation. But I definitely want to keep an active log. I'll probably contribute more overall when I get more experience and feel I can offer insight to others.

But I've grown frustrated with this forums neglect. During the hours I access it, its fair to say that page timeouts or very long wait times account for the vast majority of page loads - horrible. The forum is not cared for and is on auto-glide. What a waste. I noticed a number of people starting logs on the other forum and though I'd follow. Someone said there is room for multiple forums, I think that is true.
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Message 59 of 68

07 June 2014 at 9:42am | IP Logged

rlnv wrote:

PeterMollenburg wrote:

In my opinion, HTLAL is without question the single best language learning resource on the internet. I
certainly plan on checking in often, and I'm following the status of many people in the language challenge. I
hope to celebrate at the end of next year my own and other peoples accomplishments. I work long hours as
well as study, so I don't spend much time overall contributing to forum conversation. But I definitely want to
keep an active log. I'll probably contribute more overall when I get more experience and feel I can offer insight
to others.

But I've grown frustrated with this forums neglect. During the hours I access it, its fair to say that page
timeouts or very long wait times account for the vast majority of page loads - horrible. The forum is not cared
for and is on auto-glide. What a waste. I noticed a number of people starting logs on the other forum and
though I'd follow. Someone said there is room for multiple forums, I think that is true.

Thanks for the explanation Ron. It quenched my curiosity. Sounds like logic to me :)
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Message 60 of 68

29 June 2014 at 10:06am | IP Logged

rlnv wrote:

luke wrote:

Merci bien, monsieur. J'ai vu que vous avez écrit NSF chez polydog. Qu'est-ce que
c'est NSF?

I was referring to News in Slow French. I
signed up for one month to see how I like it, and I do. I added it to my activity list
as a supplemental activity as I have time.

Hey Ron,

This program has sparked my curiosity... have you had much of a chance to try it out? I
might try it 6 months or so away in order to transition from audio programs like
Pimsleur to actual news radio as an intermediary between the two stages.
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Message 61 of 68

01 July 2014 at 1:45am | IP Logged

PeterMollenburg wrote:

rlnv wrote:

luke wrote:

Merci bien, monsieur. J'ai vu que vous avez écrit NSF chez polydog. Qu'est-ce que
c'est NSF?

I was referring to News in Slow French. I
signed up for one month to see how I like it, and I do. I added it to my activity list
as a supplemental activity as I have time.

You know, I haven't spent much time with it at all yet. I don't have as much spare time as I thought I'd have now that my Hachette books have arrived. They are excellent and will be one of my primary focuses along with completing my second NFWE wave, and writing NFWE wave. The audio that comes with them is full speed, which makes Assimil seem slow, and that's a good thing for me right now.

One nice thing I noticed about News in Slow French is that the news is downloadable in PDF and MP3, in both slow and regular speed. Recently I've been spending 20 minutes to an hour every day just listening to various things on my phone and the news material seems like it will be a good addition to my listening rotations.

So many great methods and material, so little time.

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Message 62 of 68

01 July 2014 at 4:01am | IP Logged

rlnv wrote:

You know, I haven't spent much time with it at all yet. I don't have as much spare
time as I thought I'd have now that my Hachette books have arrived. They are excellent
and will be one of my primary focuses along with completing my second NFWE wave, and
writing NFWE wave. The audio that comes with them is full speed, which makes Assimil
seem slow, and that's a good thing for me right now.

One nice thing I noticed about News in Slow French is that the news is downloadable in
PDF and MP3, in both slow and regular speed. Recently I've been spending 20 minutes to
an hour every day just listening to various things on my phone and the news material
seems like it will be a good addition to my listening rotations.

So many great methods and material, so little time.

Thanks for getting back to me Ron. Sounds you're doing really well :) Yes indeed so
many great methods, and so little time, so true! I can't complain about the time myself
really. I do get more done than most altho it would be nice to nice have to force
myself out of bed at 6am every morning just to get a decent amount of study done...
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Message 63 of 68

01 July 2014 at 10:42am | IP Logged

News in slow French is available as an app (which gives access to those who have a
subscription to the audio and scripts). It's also available as a podcast in which you can
download all previous episodes to date for free. Thus I am currently downloading all of
them to use as passive listening material during my more passive activities in which I
don't speak out load (ie walking the dog, going for a walk, doing the dishes, etc). I was
going to listen to audio books as Jeffers suggested during this time but I think i'll
gain more out of filling these gaps with these podcasts.
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Message 64 of 68

06 July 2014 at 11:44pm | IP Logged

rlnv wrote:

One nice thing I noticed about News in Slow French is that the news is downloadable in PDF and MP3, in
both slow and regular speed. Recently I've been spending 20 minutes to an hour every day just listening to
various things on my phone and the news material seems like it will be a good addition to my listening
rotations.

So many great methods and material, so little time.

Yes indeed, about the methods! Not every learning technique will will work for everyone, but one of the
things I like about this forum is that people have so many different approaches, and there's such a wealth of
tips and advice, that it's not hard finding a combination of things which work for oneself. (And this personal
combination will continue change, of course.)

And thanks for the additional info. on the News in Slow French.

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