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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4045 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes  Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 1 of 5 09 April 2014 at 6:27pm | IP Logged |
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Hi,
as part of my new language learning strategy I'm going to rely mainly on Assimil as method but integrating it with extensive reading (without lookup), memrise (to learn vocabulary) and comparative texts with audio. I explain better myself: I can see how good works Assimil for me to assimilate the language (I'm not talking about speaking the language, that is my phase 2). To integrate I wanted to use the same system with other resources. I initially thought to find other methods that provide dialogues with audio, target language and English or french translations. I quickly discovered there is not too much. Living language can work and maybe but already less also Colloquial. Are there other resources (the best would be if they are native!) to do the same work? Usually I listen the audio one/two times without reading the text, after I listen the audio once or twice while reading the translation, then the same but with the target language text and finally listen again the audio without reading like the first time. That is the work I would like to do. I don't focus to understand and remember every little part since you can get the meaning of sentences through specific keywords and guess the rest from the context. My goal is to start studying grammar when I'm able to understand quite well the language (or meanwhile if with that language I'm doing classes,of course). Right now I'm testing this method with Dutch and German. I'm not concerned by the similarities in this stage: instead, these two languages form a continue so the more I can understand German the more I can understand Dutch and viceversa. Thank you in advance! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5007 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 2 of 5 09 April 2014 at 7:33pm | IP Logged |
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Yes, plenty. Choose a book, get it in your L1, in TL and an (unabridged!) audiobook in TL.
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| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4045 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 3 of 5 09 April 2014 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
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I thought about it... there is a problem with it. It's not very flexible. It would be better to have short texts of 1 to 5
minutes... more it is impractical... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4080 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 4 of 5 10 April 2014 at 4:26am | IP Logged |
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Check out my "Free German audio" thread on this forum which I recently posted. There is
a reader which provides English translation of short passages, vocabulary, and audio. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5164 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 5 of 5 11 April 2014 at 7:06pm | IP Logged |
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Check out Culture Talk (suggested originally by Chung).
There are also some Gloss lessons. You will also get plenty of short dialogues at the pod101 lessons (though the lessons themselves are long and with a lenghty English in the ealier stages). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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