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Luso
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Message 25 of 61

16 June 2013 at 2:12am | IP Logged

tanya b wrote:

For the most ridiculous language learning methods, here are my recommendations--

Sleep with TL dictionary under your pillow.

Work as panhandler in front of embassy of TL country.

Call total strangers in TL country, pretending to be long-lost relative.

Open up your studio apartment to impoverished refugees from TL country.

Pose as drunken illegal alien in order to be placed in Immigration holding cell with speakers of TL.

Stow away in taxi driven by TL speaker. Record his cell-phone conversations with loved ones.

To maximize language absorption into entire body, only wear clothing manufactured in TL country.

This is brilliant. Especially for an American to learn Russian. I guess you didn't use any of these techniques... :P

Edited by Luso on 16 June 2013 at 2:15am
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leosmith
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Message 26 of 61

16 June 2013 at 6:52am | IP Logged

simonov wrote:

I was quite impressed by your oral French, so maybe your oral Russian is also better than your
writing.

I always recommend my language partners use the word "spoken" instead of "oral" here.
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kujichagulia
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Message 27 of 61

16 June 2013 at 7:40am | IP Logged

#1 definition of ORAL at dictionary.com:

Quote:

uttered by the mouth; spoken

I added the boldness for emphasis.
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Serpent
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Message 28 of 61

16 June 2013 at 12:06pm | IP Logged

leosmith wrote:

simonov wrote:

I was quite impressed by your oral French, so maybe your oral Russian is also better than your
writing.

I always recommend my language partners use the word "spoken" instead of "oral" here.

Are you on a mission to troll every single thread out there?
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Jinx
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Message 29 of 61

16 June 2013 at 12:20pm | IP Logged

tanya b wrote:

Open up your studio apartment to impoverished refugees from TL country.

Pose as drunken illegal alien in order to be placed in Immigration holding cell with speakers of TL.

To be honest, these sound like some of the most fun and effective techniques I've ever heard of! You've really got me wanting to try them. (Well, at least the first one.)
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Cavesa
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Message 30 of 61

16 June 2013 at 5:05pm | IP Logged

schoenewaelder wrote:

I actually have hypnosis down as one of the things I'd quite like to give a go. I've found
it helpful in the past, curing my spider phobia, and (maybe) helping me to get motivated
to study once, before an exam. What I'm vaguely thinking of is just something to make you
feel more open to and focussed on the target language, but I haven't really thought out
how it would go. Obviously if she could bake cookies and was interested in motivational
undressment, that would be a bonus.

Sure, it helped with my claustrophobia too. The motivation for exams, there it works much worse. So I doubt it would help with languages. Of course, any placebo that makes you more open to the language is fine in my opinion :-)
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AndrewS
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Message 31 of 61

15 June 2014 at 11:01am | IP Logged

Listen without getting bored, because you can't hear it.
I would greatly love to know how many customers they have.)))
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Michel1020
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Message 32 of 61

15 June 2014 at 2:45pm | IP Logged

Don't worry - be happy and the languages you want will come to you - in numbers and letters, and so is health and money.

Get body fluid from a native.

Get rich first - everything comes a lot more easily to rich people.

Learn mandarin by unicode - how many foreigners claim to read and write chinese and don't even know the unicodes.

First we determine the words you don't know - then we teach you the words you don't need.

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