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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5393 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 33 of 344 04 November 2012 at 6:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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This is the kinda sorta sad reality of the "new and improved" Portugais du Brésil, lesson 10.
1. Que calor! 2. Sim, o calor está insuportável. 3. As janelas já estão abertas... 4. E as portas? 5. Você está louca? E os ladrões?! And no, it is not continued on the next page :(( 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Roman Diglot Groupie Spain Joined 5450 days ago 42 posts - 52 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Italian, French | Message 34 of 344 04 November 2012 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
6. Os ladrões estão no governo! :) Wow, how short! But are there many notes and explanations? 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5393 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 35 of 344 04 November 2012 at 6:31pm | IP Logged | |||||
Not THAT much. It's going from French to Portuguese, so there is a lot of transparency. Each lesson is 1.5-2 double (face to face) pages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Roman Diglot Groupie Spain Joined 5450 days ago 42 posts - 52 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Italian, French | Message 36 of 344 04 November 2012 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For this experiment I'm doing Portuguese to French (1986 version) and each lesson has 4
pages with 7 to 10, sometimes 11 sentences. I'm just on lesson 2 but took a look until lesson 20 and it's the same in quantity. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| fireballtrouble Triglot Senior Member Turkey Joined 4522 days ago 129 posts - 203 votes Speaks: Turkish*, French, English Studies: German | Message 37 of 344 04 November 2012 at 9:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
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L'Allemand - lesson 16 completed.
I began to question what 'passive' and 'active' phases really are. The course doesn't want me to memorize everything but to learn the plural forms of all the words I come across throughout the .course. I had a look today on all the previous lessons I did, I have just read quickly the German text. I see that I remember and understand all the words but on the other hand, while reading I had the feeling that I couldn't have say those German words if they had asked me to translate from my language. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4887 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish | Message 38 of 344 05 November 2012 at 5:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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fireballtrouble - you've hit on one of the main questions I have about Assimil. I have
never been able to do the active wave as described, where you go back and translate the lesson and discover that you've amazingly assimilated it. I just don't retain enough vocabulary, and so the active phase takes me twenty to thirty minutes of hard work, not five minutes of easy work. So it's going to be very interesting to see what happens, since most of us will hit it around the same time, +/- 4 weeks. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| oruixo13 Triglot Newbie Australia Joined 4417 days ago 33 posts - 35 votes Speaks: FrenchB2, Spanish*, EnglishC1 Studies: Mandarin | Message 39 of 344 05 November 2012 at 8:34am | IP Logged | |||||
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I am doing one Assimil lesson every single day since 1 week.
My method is as follows: I listen to the audio without reading the transcript, and see if I understand something. I do it 4 or 5 times until I am sure all the remaining words are unknown. After that I read the transcript, and look for known characters. After I listen to the audio and read. After all that, I read the transcription. Then I listen again while reading. After I listen and write the dialogue while they are speaking. At the end, I listen to the exercises as many times as needed in order to fully understand everything. I also write them down. 2 last considerations: I am learning Chinese, so I learn every character, and the words (composed by 2 or more characters). I am focusing on traditional transcript, but Assimil only has the simplified one. I have to translate. In total no more than 20 minutes daily. It's really fun. The thing that I enjoy the most is the exercises because you don't really know what they will talk about and it's very challenging. Edited by oruixo13 on 05 November 2012 at 9:59am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 40 of 344 05 November 2012 at 6:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Just did the 10th lesson of Il nuovo russo senza sforzo (sticked with the Italian one, just eventually resorting to the French or Spanish ones to clear up this or that Italian idiom that I still can get from context nonetheless).
I still don't feel like there's a vocabulary flood going on, and I only hope it never starts and everything keeps up on a smooth pace. I've realized there's accusative and dative, unlike in Georgian where it's more or less grouped up at least in the present. I'm less worried because instead of reviewing this book, I can do Russian Without Toil and Le Russe - 2008 later on as a review, but I don't want the same feeling I have for Norwegian Assimil to grow with Il Nuovo Russo Senza Sforzo. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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