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| tomgosse Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3938 days ago 90 posts - 143 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 18 25 January 2014 at 4:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have been studying Spanish for a month. Among other things, I'm using Pimsleur's Latin American Spanish and I'm up to lesson ten. At first I could zip through a lesson a day. Now I need to review each lesson at least once before moving on. Also, I'm finding more difficult to respond to prompts and need to listen to the answer first.
My thought is: go back to lesson five or six and review everything before moving on to a new lesson. What are your thought? Does anyone have experience doing this? Did it help or slow you down? Your input is much appreciated. Tomás 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4090 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 2 of 18 25 January 2014 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think that's a good plan. I did the same thing when I got stuck with FSI. I backed up three lessons, and by the time
I got to the tricky lesson again, I was ready for it. Buena suerte! 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6543 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 3 of 18 25 January 2014 at 6:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Pimsleur is quite slow-paced anyway. Better add an extra resource/review the same things with another book you're using. Your goal is not to master Pimsleur but to master the language.
See this thread about the multi-track approach. 9 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5321 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 4 of 18 25 January 2014 at 7:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Pimsleur gives a great base to work from. I did exactly what you are suggesting. If I could not master a lesson after two tries I would back up 4 lessons or so and start from there. When I got to the tricky lesson it was pretty easy. Pimsleur has spaced repetition so when you back up to the tricky lesson it will be much easier... it is easier (and much more enjoyable) to do it this way than just re-doing the tricky lesson a few times.
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7151 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 5 of 18 25 January 2014 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | ||
I think you are doing good. I try to push myself a bit in situations like that and not retreat too easily. If after the third listen, I'm still dissatisfied with where I'm at on a lesson, I may go back a lesson or two because sometimes there's a certain point that I've missed. Also, sometimes I have to focus from another angle, rather than repeating a lesson. For instance, if I'm missing the gender of too many nouns, I may create a list of nouns and genders independent of my lessons to help with that sticking point. Edited by luke on 26 January 2014 at 1:15am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Lizzern Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5855 days ago 791 posts - 1053 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: Japanese | Message 6 of 18 26 January 2014 at 12:32am | IP Logged | ||
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It tends to work best for me if I just move through the lessons without being too careful about getting everything, and then review things from an earlier level alongside the new stuff. Some things that are difficult early on are much easier later, even if I didn't study it carefully the first time I went through the lesson. (Assimil seems to plan for this so that 10 lessons later it makes a lot of sense and the old stuff feels natural and normal.) I haven't used Pimsleur before but maybe you could review lesson 5 around the same time you do lesson 11, then 6 and 12 together, and so on?
I guess it depends on your learning style - if you're not comfortable moving on if you don't understand everything then yeah, you might want to stop with the new material until you're comfortable with the old. I'm a bit of a messy learner so I don't mind if I don't learn the new stuff 100% right away. Reviewing, and more exposure, helps. Good luck :-) Liz 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| YnEoS Senior Member United States Joined 4200 days ago 472 posts - 893 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Cantonese, Japanese, French, Hungarian, Czech, Swedish, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish | Message 7 of 18 26 January 2014 at 3:19am | IP Logged | ||
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I definitely have to repeat pimsleur lessons a few times before I completely master them. If grammar starts becoming difficult, sometimes doing Michel Thomas at the same time as Pimsleur can have some nice synergies, and you'll find working through both becomes much easier.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6543 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 8 of 18 26 January 2014 at 9:09am | IP Logged | ||
Reminds me on how the AJATT guy says that nobody would watch TV if we felt obliged to "finish" the channel (or even the programme) before switching. Also, to some extent it's probably Pimsleur's fault, with their lack of a system in teaching the grammar, so it just doesn't make sense to me to go through the same resource repeatedly. Of course I'm not saying you should get 20 textbooks and barely do anything with each, but if you have other resources, they will fill the gaps that Pimsleur left. Heck, Pimsleur itself will also try to fix these problems if you continue. Also, note that you're supposed to come up with the correct answer, not memorize it. If you review too much, you'll basically just know the answers by heart. It's much better to get some explanations from another source. And feel free to pause if you think you just need a bit of time to come up with an answer. Edited by Serpent on 26 January 2014 at 9:21am 4 persons have voted this message useful |
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