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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6599 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 17 of 18 28 August 2012 at 9:28am | IP Logged | |||||
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| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4911 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 18 of 18 29 August 2012 at 9:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have been generally logging films as the duration of the feature. I am not so sure
that 100 minutes spent on a textbook are superior to 100 minutes spent watching a native language film. Textbook time certainly has more "content", but is content the end all and be all of language learning? I need both textbooks and media (such as films, music and tv) when I learn a language. I get the structural concepts from the textbooks, but I get language I use from media. What usually happens is that I learn a word/phrase/grammatical point from a textbook, but I usually don't internalize it until I come across it in a natural context. Quiet times during a film are part of the experience: they set the mood, and help tell the story. They are as worthwhile as facial expressions and gestures in a conversation. And even a teaching video such as French in Action has quiet sequences while the characters are wandering about a city, etc. The makers of FIA clearly considered the quiet to be a valid part of language learning, probably because they help to put us in the right frame of mind for learning. So my rambling post comes down to one thing: even the quiet parts of a native film are a part of the language experience because they put us in the right frame of mind. (I do believe, for the same reason, that dubbed films are less valuable. But I haven't yet watched any). (EDIT: Incidentally, I do cut my time when listening to music, when I am listening more passively. In those cases I take a guess as to the amount of time I was losing focus. Other times, when I am actively concentrating, or following with lyrics, etc, I count the time as 100%). Edited by Jeffers on 29 August 2012 at 10:00pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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