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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 9 of 20 10 January 2012 at 10:21pm | IP Logged |
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I'll be interested in knowing how it works out for you following Assimil the way it is supposed to be done. I seem to be unable to, and around lesson 20-something I started having problems following. I'll be following your progress with interest!
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| drsarvo Diglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 4713 days ago 143 posts - 149 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Russian | Message 10 of 20 11 January 2012 at 2:15am | IP Logged |
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I am also following Assimil (El Ruso sin Esfuerzo) in Spanish, it's very light about grammar and fun because of the cartoons, but at the same time has a lot of tips and you learn a lot of vocabulary, idioms, sayings, etc.
I am doing with it the whole drill: I listen to the recordings several times, I try to understand them without reading the transcript, I look for new vocabulary in the dictionary,then I follow the script and the recordings at the same time, and read the text on my own, following the grammar explanations. Finally the supreme challenge: to use the recording as a dictate, correct errors and write the wrong words five times (the old school way). I am really impressed about the methodic way of quantifying hours, vocabulary target, etc., people in Sweden have a reputation as methodic, and I see why :) Good luck! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6241 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian | Message 11 of 20 16 January 2012 at 5:39pm | IP Logged |
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Week 2 (8 – 14 January)
Hours studied this week: 17.30 h (this year 37.70) Russian 8.28 h (22.73) Assimil 4.92 h (14.06) I adhere to my one-lesson-a-day plan, so in a weeks time I'll be halfway through the passive wave and ready to go active. I actually prefer the older edition and I use that as well in a more unsystematic way. Learn in you car 0.75 h (1.80) Vocabulary 2.12 h (6.03) French 7.63 h (12.92) Listening 0.17 h (0.67 h) RFI. I should be able to do more. Ten minutes a day shouldn't be that difficult! L(Fr)-R(En) 7.47 h (11.15) That's the first half of Le jeu de l'ange by Zafón. I'm not all that impressed so far by the story but the level of French suits me quite well. German 1.38 h (2.05) Reading 0.72 h (1.38) Die Zeit. Solle ich nicht etwas auf Deutsch schreiben? Na, vielleicht nächste Woche ... Listening 0.67 h (0.67) Vater Goriot. @Solfrid Well, it remains to be seen how it goes, but so far I'm OK. And I'm not sure I do Assimil as it's supposed to be done, but at least I try to stick to the intended pace. @drsarvo The other day I went to Ikea and bought some kitchen equipment called "Rationell" (which I suppose is transparent enough to leave untranslated). But on the other hand people in Mexico seem to do Assimil in a much more methodic way than I do ;-) /aloysius 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 12 of 20 17 January 2012 at 10:11pm | IP Logged |
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What exactly do you do with each lesson? Do you just read through it, or do you learn all the grammar, the vocabulary and translate to and fro? I ask because I am starting to suspect that my failure with Assimil is due to my unability to do it thoroughly enough. Generally I just read through it, and I have tried to enter vocabulary into Anki, but since I am on this 10-minutes-whenever-you-have-time routine, it is a very irregular thing.
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| aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6241 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian | Message 13 of 20 17 January 2012 at 10:53pm | IP Logged |
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Yes, I believe the key is regularity, which I have thanks to my daily commuting.
Basically I listen while walking to the bus stop, then on board the bus I LR once or twice, switching between L1 and L2 when reading, and then just reading trying to translate as best I can while checking out the grammar points. Finally trying to do the fill-in-the-blanks with varying results. I try to listen a couple of times during the day and revise earlier lessons when I can, usually I revise the whole week's lessons on Saturday. It's probably not necessary to do it thoroughly the first time round, as long as you revise. I've also considered Anki to solidify the material, but I haven't started doing it consistently yet. /aloysius 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 14 of 20 20 April 2012 at 11:01pm | IP Logged |
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Hi, will you be joining us for the Skype session on Sunday at 8?
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| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4798 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 15 of 20 12 May 2012 at 4:14am | IP Logged |
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Hi, it's great to see you're still posting in the Russian thread, and thanks for the
great tables. Hope you're progressing well with your languages, and looking forward to your updates! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 16 of 20 07 July 2012 at 8:49am | IP Logged |
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How are you doing? Anything interesting you can tell us about?
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