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| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5131 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes  Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 9 of 12 07 August 2014 at 8:53pm | IP Logged | ||
I go back to pretty much all previous courses from time to time, even fairly simple ones like Pimsleur or Michel Thomas. But, as James29 noted, I usually wait a few months to do it after moving on to other resources. There's almost always something that I'd either forgotten or, more importantly, after studying other resources, I can see in a different light. R. == 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| grunts67 Diglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5303 days ago 215 posts - 252 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 10 of 12 07 August 2014 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think it all go down to repetitions over period of time and novelty.
Repetitions: Doing the same course a few times with time between each time is, in my opinion, beneficial if your passive skill are B2 or less for the basic Assimil course. I'm not a polyglot but I do like to do a Assimil course (passive and active wave). Then, I'm able to do read easy text (with the help of lingq) and/or I take another course (Assimil or another) and do it. I will come back and I always find stuff that I didn't fully understand that are now acquire (yea!) or I find area of difficulty. The latter can be review again. I might do a the passive/active wave twice. Novelty: As it was mention before, at some point after doing the same Assimil book over and over again the problem of memorization arise. That where novelty is key. By using native or others courses to in conjunction with your Assimil book you have another perspective on a same grammar point for example. Another thing I'm trying at the moment, is to review the course in a different matter. For example, the Assimil audio is use as a way for me to do a dictation of the lesson without looking at the text. I listen to the audio twice. No more no less. Pausing between sentence to give me enough time to write down the dialogue. After, I correct my dictation and I reread the grammar explanation. I did 35 lessons so far from L'espagnol, and almost all my mistake are accents. I note down the grammar rule that are not internalize. This give me something to look for when I read the newspaper. At some point, I guess that the benefit of doing Assimil many times will decrease to a point that it will be more advantageous to use native materials or others programs. For me, mastery of over 80-90% of a course is decent that exclude idiomatic expressions before I find them, for the most part, useless. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5101 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 11 of 12 08 August 2014 at 2:21am | IP Logged | ||
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I never bothered to finish Assimil. I sort of feel like I should, but I never really feel
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| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5346 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 12 of 12 09 August 2014 at 2:20am | IP Logged | ||
N + 1. Whatever I have just finished, I try to continue with something that is a little more advanced, comprehensive, or that in some way complements rather than simply reiterate what I have already seen. Unless I were studying a language utterly devoid of materials or that I had neglected to the degree that it altogether slipped out of my mind, I see little point in going back to completed courses. Select your materials so that each of them in succession brings you a little closer to the summit instead of revisiting already trodden paths. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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