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| asies Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie India Joined 4704 days ago 36 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English, Hindi*, Nepali*, Urdu Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 22 16 November 2011 at 7:28am | IP Logged | ||
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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6028 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 10 of 22 16 November 2011 at 9:55am | IP Logged | ||
I second this. I love Tatoeba. I use my English (native) as a base for my L2 French (intermediate), and I look up sentences for L3 (beginner). It's a great way to maintain a level in one language while starting another! edit: I adjusted the link so that there's more than two languages for the sentence. Edited by Sunja on 16 November 2011 at 10:13am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6028 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 11 of 22 16 November 2011 at 10:04am | IP Logged | ||
Not only do I think it's a good idea, I think it's necessary! Changing methods, programs, etc. can speed up your progress because it keeps you interested and motivated. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6525 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 12 of 22 16 November 2011 at 10:37am | IP Logged | ||
I must have been unclear. I think that switching materials a lot is NOT a good idea. I advocate sticking with one set of materials and keep using it until it bores you or it stops working well. You do need to switch around a bit, because different approaches have different strengths, but you should give each set of materials a good amount of time and effort. And I don't recommend doing several sets at once, either. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 7099 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 13 of 22 16 November 2011 at 4:34pm | IP Logged | ||
It happens a fair bit. Think of all of the non-native but fluent users of English who study languages using courses in "Teach Yourself...", "Colloquial...", "Living Language...", "Michel Thomas...", "FSI..." etc. The reverse happens too. For Saamic languages I've had to study Inari Saami and Northern Saami with courses printed in Finnish just because nothing useful in English exists. I've also brushed up my knowledge of Czech using a pretty solid German course. Knowing English gives arguably the widest access to a lot of learning material but not everything is designed for such people, thus making it necessary to gain basic understanding of the relevant intermediary language in order to make sense of instructions and explanations. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| asies Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie India Joined 4704 days ago 36 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English, Hindi*, Nepali*, Urdu Studies: Spanish | Message 14 of 22 16 November 2011 at 7:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good points, i will keep note of all of them.
Anything that you all would like to say about Platiquemos, Linguaphone(Complete course) and Living Language courses(New Edition-Beginner-Advance)? I am thinking of starting with either one of these courses to supplement myself along with RS. What do you all say of their effectiveness?? Are these any good? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| asies Bilingual Tetraglot Newbie India Joined 4704 days ago 36 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English, Hindi*, Nepali*, Urdu Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 22 17 November 2011 at 6:13am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi
Decision has been made, i don't think i would be supplementing myself with any of these right now(later for sure i am gonna use them.) Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Verb Tenses is the book which will work as my Spanish supplement tool. Today, i did the first lesson and it was very easy(maybe because of the Rosetta stone's effect.) but not to degrade the usability of this book, i must say that author has beautifully explained everything by giving examples.(I still remember my first Spanish workbook was also by the same author.) But just using book and no audio makes learning boring and uninteresting but "NO ME IMPORTA" it has all the essential material to understand Spanish. I know this book will not make me think in Spanish but it is my second step towards this beautiful language. I hope i am gonna do good. =) ..bueno entonces!!! Edited by asies on 17 November 2011 at 6:14am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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