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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4447 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 129 of 129 13 February 2015 at 5:57am | IP Logged |
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Definitely there is a correlation between exposure & results as in listening. Any approach geared to increase
your daily exposure would be beneficial including: 1. The shadow method: just listening to audio recordings in a language and repeating even without any understanding of a single word / phrase. 2. Immersion language class. 3. A language or social club outside class that would meet a few times a week. 4. Watching TV series and listening to radio programs daily over a period of months until you get to a comfortable level. 5. Finding materials of interest such as news articles or any reference materials online, an interesting book, etc. Back in my high school days, exposure to the French language is limited to less than 2h in class. Even in class the teacher would explain French words & phrases in English. During my 3-month summer break my exposure would be down to 0. For the first 5 years I was consistently getting high marks repeating almost the exact same subject-verb conjugations and got nowhere. Part of your success has to planning your schedule. I was in Taiwan for a summer exchange program a while ago. I was assigned to an advanced class with a daily dose of reading materials and dictation on Chinese characters. I was comfortable enough shopping and asking for directions. Living outside of Asia I needed to keep my exposure up and decided for 8 months I would limit my English TV & radio programs to the news and watch only drama series from China, Taiwan or Singapore. After I got my level to a comfortable level, I introduced English TV programs slowly back to the mix. To date I still watch more TV programs from Taiwan or Singapore. In order to get results in language learning you have to set goals how far you want to go in 6 months, 1 year, etc. and how you expect to get there. Before Christmas I started working on a composition for piano which I wanted to perform in 2 weeks. The piece is not at the beginner level or something you can figure out in 1 hour. I basically worked on the piece a little bit more each day until I got to a comfortable level of playing. Having a deadline puts additional pressure for you to push yourself harder until you get to your set goal. Edited by shk00design on 13 February 2015 at 6:01am 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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