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| tujiko Senior Member United States Joined 6532 days ago 140 posts - 144 votes  Speaks: English* | Message 17 of 23 24 March 2007 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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Leaving the radio on during the day while doing things was quite beneficial for my aural comprehension in Spanish and French. Like Sir Nigel, however, I prefer silence while sleeping, and any sounds would simply be distracting. I recommend backgrounding during the day, instead of during the night.
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| Kymera Newbie United States Joined 6823 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Latin, German, French | Message 18 of 23 28 March 2007 at 5:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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Since you want to practice during your sleep, maybe you could try inducing lucid dreams? I'd be very curious to see if (and how) this would work for language learning.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 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 19 of 23 02 April 2007 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6596 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 20 of 23 20 April 2007 at 1:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't been leaving music on overnight recently, mainly because now I'm so tired all the time that I need something REALLY heavy to wake me up, so there's little use in leaving music on in order not to sleep too long. On the other hand, I now somehow usually manage to wake up at 5 am or so, then do my learning and go back to bed for about an hour or a slightly longer time. However a few days ago I did sleep with music on, albeit I just wanted to concentrate on listening to the lyrics and probably to understand more than I would when I'd listen to these songs while paying conscious attention (there were quite a few songs I hadn't heard before - I should mention that I didn't really notice any difference when I then listened to these songs later). So, I slept for about 4 hours with music on, then I spent about an hour learning Finnish and went to bed. And I saw a dream in Finnish - that hadn't happened for quite a long time. Feels quite strange that I didn't dream in Finnish when I left the music on, but did dream later.
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 Hencke Tetraglot Moderator Spain Joined 6893 days ago 2340 posts - 2444 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Finnish, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: Mandarin Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 23 20 April 2007 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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(First posted in Serpent's Study Log thread, in Finnish, but considering the interest in dreams in this thread I think it might be interesting to translate and include it here too)
A while ago I had a dream, in which I was fluent in Chinese. I remember having a conversation with a woman in Mandarin and I was even called upon to act as an interpreter in some kind of situation, which I was also able to do. The only trouble is that, while I could perfectly remember those events when I woke up, I could not recall a single word of the discussion that had supposedly taken place. Could it be that I had just been daydreaming about it even in my dream, dream within a dream sort of thing ? And when do you suppose I'll wake up from this one ...? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Celtica Newbie New Zealand Joined 6481 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Latin | Message 22 of 23 21 April 2007 at 6:38am | IP Logged | ||
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One time, not that long after I began to learn Latin, I had a dream one night where I was at a university and walking around, chatting away in fluent latin(in the dream, everyone was). However, it was actually gobbledegook with a few latin words thrown in :P
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| MarkTime Newbie United States Joined 6418 days ago 30 posts - 29 votes Studies: Russian | Message 23 of 23 30 April 2007 at 6:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm really envious of some of you. I've studied Russian for the past 5 years, and I have the TV on a Russian station most every night. 2 or 3 hours a night. Maybe more sometimes. I just turn it there to make noise, and because I'm not going to learn Russian from the English channel, anyway. Still, I have learned very little from this. I would guess I have learned 20 or 30 words in 5 years from watching TV. I am now up to the beginnings of a sizeable vocabularly, 5000 words or so, but I learned them all by looking up the words in the dictionary, or using a flash card program to learn word lists (about 1500 words that way). I cannot imagine listening to Russian in my sleep...everytime I try something like that, I just stay awake all night and keep trying to sleep, but I know the words are playing....nightmare!
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