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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4443 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 9 of 12 15 October 2013 at 4:32am | IP Logged |
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There have always been immersion programs for learning languages. To get the benefits you need to have a
group of people in a social setting. If somebody has a hobby like singing, you can teach him / her to sing while learning English. Give the person audio recordings of different singers like Hip Hop artists where there is more spoken dialog than actual singing. Before the Internet, people listen to audio versions of a language course. With DVDs you can still find all kinds of movies and TV programs with captions for the hearing impaired. You learn to read the same words & phrases that are spoken by the actors. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4638 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 10 of 12 15 October 2013 at 10:18am | IP Logged |
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Well, I learned most of my languages before the internet was a reality. Some I learnt in school, but others I started studying on my own the "old-fashioned" way, using teach yourself courses, correspondence courses (you "interacted" with your teachers by writing letters - not the quickest way to get an answer to your questions or your texts corrected, but it worked somehow), dictionaries and what resources were available at the university library. I also had courses with cassettes that I could listen to with my Walkman (remember those?) and I went to evening classes.
I can even say that I do not use the internet as my main source of learning today. Maybe because I am used to doing things the "old way", I still prefer to use manuals, course books and grammars. However, I use internet a lot as an additional resource for reading on-line papers, listening to music, watching videos etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4706 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 11 of 12 15 October 2013 at 11:44am | IP Logged |
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Books, CDs, whatever. I use what is at hand. Because the internet is quick and useful I
use it. If it's not there I use something else. Not such a hard question really. If you are in a forest with no internet coverage in China you better have some Chinese books with you. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| languagenerd09 Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom youtube.com/user/Lan Joined 5099 days ago 174 posts - 267 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Mandarin, Japanese, Thai | Message 12 of 12 16 October 2013 at 4:11pm | IP Logged |
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Without using the internet, I would use things like books (teach yourself, colloquial etc) to practice situational things.
Or I would go out to my town centre and practice speaking in languages where possible, so a big Chinese supermarket, I go in and practice saying "where is ...?" " how much?" " thank you " etc Also, I watch films in other languages, i've watched them on numerous occasions in French, Spanish, Icelandic, Korean, Japanese and Farsi. I then keep notebooks and write things down that I think I heard and also I use notebooks to practice writing if it's a scripted language such as Russian or Japanese. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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