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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4899 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 65 of 164 03 July 2014 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
If you like French villages, you should check out the programme, "Les villages de France". It consists of 15-20 minute episodes focusing on a particular village, describing a bit about the history, people and characteristics of the village. Unfortunately I haven't been able to find out any info from the internet about the show, probably because the title is so generic. Even a search on TV5 Monde's website yields nothing.
I thought you had finished up to unit 12? I've repeated some tracks many times, others I was happy after one run through. Once I get to the end of 7 I'll give the whole unit a once through before moving on to 8. Lot's of people find the exercises dull; I find them effective and so I'm happy to do them again and again until I get them right. I think, even if I've mastered the grammar points in an FSI lesson, the practice it provides is still excellent.
Thanks! I am being hit by a bit of wanderlust, and to be perfectly honest you bear part of the blame. After discussing German resources on your log, I've been thinking about getting back to German. But don't worry, I have a plan! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4899 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 66 of 164 03 July 2014 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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German study plan
As I mentioned in my last post, I want to be doing German for the next Super Challenge, which would begin in May, 2016. So I have plenty of time in one sense, but really, two years isn't much time when it comes to language study! My plan is to start slowly working on some of the Deutsche Welle podcast lessons, starting with Radio D. Then I'll slowly start to revisit some of the courses I have (Teach Yourself, Michel Thomas, InTense) as this current Super Challenge is still going on. During the four months between the Super Challenges I will devote the majority of my language study time to getting my German up to speed. And then (and here's the fun part), I will include German as a fourth language for the Super Challenge. Hopefully by that time my French will be good enough that a half challenge will be enough to keep it progressing. Here's an initial outline of the German courses I want to work on before the next SC: * Radio D podcasts (Deutsche Welle) * Audiotrainer (100 short vocab podcasts on DW) * Warum Nicht? (104 lessons from A1 to B1) * Michel Thomas (I have the full set, basic, advanced and vocab) * Teach Yourself Beginner's German & Teach Yourself German. If the mood takes me to work on them! * It might be good to borrow Pimsleur German from my library, but I don't expect to have that much time! * Some episodes from Germanpod101. I remember liking these better than Frenchpod101. Ha ha! That means I have a language study plan until the end of 2017! Ridiculous, of course, because life has a habit of getting in the way. Besides that, I'll never have time to complete my current Super Challenge goals, and still complete all of those German courses. Still, it's nice to dream! Edited by Jeffers on 03 July 2014 at 3:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5466 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 67 of 164 04 July 2014 at 3:16am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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The villages of france show (which when you mentioned it once before I tried to find online) is only available
on Amazon from what I can figure out. I'll get it one day, as it is exactly the kind of thing I love- a combination of language, history, culture and geography, all in my favourite place- Europe and in my favourite country too! FSI No i have only completed units 1 through to 6 which correlates to book 1 of "Mastering French" (that's what I completed). As for German... I'd encourage you for sure, but be very careful! I think a good measure is basically if you can progress in all your languages and have room for another then it's doable, if not, then expect to fall back in one or more of your languages. I now only take on new languages provided my current languages won't fall back as a result ie... they all have to be able to be worked on simultaneously otherwise it's back and forth constantly 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4899 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 68 of 164 06 July 2014 at 2:01pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I put a clip on the Team Deuxième log, with a few FSI exercises that have been melting my brain lately. If you're interested, slide on over there and try them out!
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| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4072 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 69 of 164 06 July 2014 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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German! Woo! Now I have a second active blog to follow!
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4899 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 70 of 164 06 July 2014 at 9:27pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
I'd love to have you following, Gemuse. I'm still holding off on studying German for a few months, though! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4072 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 71 of 164 08 July 2014 at 10:11pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Jeff, what level German are you?
Regarding learning material, one book I highly recommend is "Hugo German in 3 Months". A few of us have used that book here on HTLAL, and we all have liked it (at least the first 9 chapters, it gets a bit crazy towards the end). As a bonus, it is fairly inexpensive, especially if you get it without the audio CD. Edited by Gemuse on 08 July 2014 at 10:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4879 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 72 of 164 09 July 2014 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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The thought of doing FSI for a second round just sounds overwhelming ... but it's such a
comprehensive course that I think it would be incredibly useful. After listening to these clips I'm going to add this to my "to do (some day)" list. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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