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| heartburn Senior Member United States Joined 7207 days ago 355 posts - 350 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 25 of 29 04 March 2005 at 2:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Are you using a version in your native language as a reference? Did you read it in your native language first? Edited by heartburn on 04 March 2005 at 3:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| pentatonic Senior Member United States Joined 7247 days ago 221 posts - 245 votes | Message 26 of 29 04 March 2005 at 4:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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No, IMHO if you need a native version then the book is too hard for you. I'm reading a junior book so it's more on my level.
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| jradetzky Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom geocities.com/jradet Joined 7207 days ago 521 posts - 485 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2, GermanB1 | Message 27 of 29 04 March 2005 at 4:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I always recommend the "parrot" method to overcome listening comprehension. That is picking a difficult conversation in your target language (with transcript preferred), listening to it and repeating it obsessively as many times as necessary (that means 20 or more times) paying attention to accents, intonations and any weird oral features you notice. It doesn't matter if you don't know what they're talking about, just repeat it. After a while you will even get to know the meaning of unknown words and expressions. Memorising songs and singing them alound also helps a lot!
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| heartburn Senior Member United States Joined 7207 days ago 355 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 28 of 29 04 March 2005 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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LOL. Well, this is a children's book, but I still think the audio version might be too hard for me. I do have a copy of the book in English, but maybe I'll just give it a try without that.
I've read a little bit of the book in Spanish. I'm reading pretty slow, but I'm getting it. But what I really want is to be able to listen to it. I bought the audio version on my way home from work. I was happy to see that the tracks are very short. There's an average of 10 tracks per chapter. That should make it easy to concentrate on a very small slice at a time. I listened to the first chapter on my way home and it seemed very hard. I will need to listen to it MANY times. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jdq Newbie United States Joined 7120 days ago 6 posts - 6 votes | Message 29 of 29 28 May 2005 at 2:25pm | IP Logged | ||
I think that if you do a search on "bimodal input" or "multimodal input" or "redundant input" and "acquistion" you will come across a lot of scholarly studies by researchers in the field of applied linguistics that will almost all support the idea of using transcripts. I've never seen any research that would advise against it. (Of course common sense might suggest that after a while you might put the transcript down and see how you're doing without it, see how you are progressing.) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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