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| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 73 of 86 07 July 2011 at 10:56am | IP Logged |
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I'm sure others have experienced this, but I am at the point in my French studies where I don't feel like I am
learning anything as I am going through my lessons. Naturally I know that this isn't true, but it's an interesting time. I am about halfway through the passive phase and nearly a week into the active phase of Assimil and have noticed that I'm not really having any huge lightbulb moments like I did in the weeks prior. I'm not complaining or anything, it's just interesting. I just have to push through this false plateau as I know my French is continuing to grow. I might try to through in some native listening and TV this week to see how my comprehension matches up to newscaster speed. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 74 of 86 14 July 2011 at 11:53am | IP Logged |
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Still plugging along in French, gave a 20 minute diatribe to myself yesterday completely in French and also had a
long conversation with my French speaking friend. Overall I am very happy with my progress. If I can keep up my consistency of study I would like to get through ALL of Assimil and Michel Thomas' French programs and see what level those will get me to. Ultimately though, I think it will be me vs. the calendar as I do not necessarily want to carry my French studies over into the new year. I've given up the notion of the multiple languages this year, unless I manage to get through everything I want to in French, in which case I will move on to German. I'm finally convinced of working on one language until you really grasp it before moving on to another language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 75 of 86 24 July 2011 at 3:36am | IP Logged |
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French is progressing still. I have finally got myself to working everyday on my French and did the math to figure
out that as long as I work every day I will get through all of my planned French program by Jan. 2, which is only 2 days past my planned goal when I changed my objectives for the year. I have also found that during the active phase of Assimil my only real consistent issue lies with the little words (du, de, au, etc.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 76 of 86 27 July 2011 at 11:55am | IP Logged |
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I'm progressing nicely in French still. I did the math recently and discovered that I will be done with my French plan
within the first week of the new year, so I will probably just continue through and finish it and then move on to German. I find that French comes to mind a lot quicker now than it used to which is nice. I still have trouble understanding things in radio and movies though. The speed seems to get me, so I need to start upping my amount of listening to native materials. I understand my friend quite well though and most in-person speech doesn't seem to be as fast as media speeds. I also am going to start reading L'etranger in the next little bit, although I am contemplating treating it like Assimil and finding an audiobook and English translation (especially since Borders is closing and I can probably find a translation on the cheap). Either that or I may try my hand at the Kato Lomb method of reading acquisition. For my goals as an opera singer I need to be able to read, hear and react, and speak the language. So this will be my plan for the rest of the year I suppose. I'm excited that French is becoming comfortable for me! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 77 of 86 02 August 2011 at 8:10am | IP Logged |
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Well, I had my first lesson that kicked my a** today. I would like to blame it mostly on the content, gambling, which
I do not deal with much and thusly know practically no terminology for. However, the things that I have noticed give me the most fits are the little words (de, du, des, etc.). My current plan is to just keep plowing away and let them fix themselves through exposure. I have noticed that over the three weeks I have been in the active wave I am getting less little words wrong, but I am still screwing them up more than I am content with. I am looking forward to tomorrow and putting this really bad active wave day behind me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 78 of 86 10 August 2011 at 11:53pm | IP Logged |
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I have had a rough spell where I haven't been able to study over the course of the last week or so. No excuses, I
should have made the time to do the work. Anyways I'm getting back to the grind now, I think I might try to double up on day 6 +7 of the week in Assimil (the revision day and the day prior) to try and make up for the time lost. Although, thinking about it time isn't a huge issue for me, so I might just stick to the one day at a time deal. I have found it difficult to study on my days off from work (namely because my fiancee is with me and would rather I spend time with her than study) so I need to determine whether I can work out a way to study those two days, or just chalk it up as rest days. As far as progress goes I am about two-thirds of the way through the passive wave and about a quarter of the way through the active wave. I think that I am going to order the Advanced Course when I get to about three-quarters through the passive wave. I am also about two-thirds through the first level of MT (I'm taking this very slow) and already have the vocabulary builder and advanced courses loaded onto my computer when I am done. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 79 of 86 29 August 2011 at 8:07pm | IP Logged |
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I am now 75% through the Passive Wave Assimil and MT. I feel like my spoken level has kind of plateaued at the moment, but I attribute that more to my own slacking in study the last couple of weeks. On the plus side, the Active Wave is starting to flow out of me a lot easier, so I suppose I am making progress. I have noticed that in the earlier stages of Assimil I was able to remember things from the passive wave and use them in my day to day conversations, but as I get further in it is not as easy to do (it almost seems like there is more new things introduced per lesson), however I seem to retain them for the Active Wave.
Wanderlust confessional: Since Borders is going out of business and the entire store was 50-70% off I purchased the 7th edition of Wheelock's Latin for about $10. Since I generally take the weekends of from French, I think I am going to work through this for a change of pace. I do not really have any aspirations for Latin, just one of those spur of the moment type things. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5496 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 80 of 86 31 August 2011 at 3:10pm | IP Logged |
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Wow 10 bucks? That's an awesome price for such a good book! I hope you enjoy using that
book as much as I did. I took two semesters of Latin, and that was the text we used in class. However; I think it will be equally valuable for self study. I really enjoyed the translating exercises. I hope all is well and good luck with your studies! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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