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Kugel
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Message 81 of 83

18 June 2012 at 6:59pm | IP Logged

One would spend roughly 36-40 hours per Assimil lesson if a track was put on repeat
1000X. I don't believe anyone would go through this.

From personal experience it takes me 35-50 min to memorize an Assmil lesson; and with spaced intervals during idle time through the rest of the day, add another 20 min.

And I thought this approach was borderline nuts. It will be interesting to see if I can
keep track of all 100 lessons.
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kujichagulia
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Message 82 of 83

02 July 2013 at 7:58am | IP Logged

Ugh... 1000 times?

I used to collect dialogs from all the textbook audio and podcasts that I listen to, put
them all in a playlist, and review them from time to time. But that has become quite
boring. I am finding that when I am learning a new dialog in my textbook or podcast, I
need to listen to it 5-10 times. But I reach a point after that where I become bored
with the audio, or I have gotten what I need out of it. My point of diminishing returns,
I guess. So I probably just need to discard the audio at that point.
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FuroraCeltica
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Message 83 of 83

15 July 2013 at 10:19pm | IP Logged

tractor wrote:

Splog wrote:

My question, then, is ... have any of you folks tried this 1000+ repetitions approach, and if so,
why? In addition, are there any studies on this and the effectiveness of the approach?

I know that I'd be bored to death if I tried.

I agree. One of the worst things you can do in learning a language is to bore yourself. Boredom is the pre-runner to motivation tailing off

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