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| Racer X Newbie United States Joined 4111 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Studies: Portuguese | Message 1 of 3 13 September 2013 at 8:04am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm a newbie at learning languages so I come across a lot of programs, techniques, etc. This is mainly aimed at anyone with first hand or maybe even second hand experience with a method called the Mimic Method, which was founded by one Idahosa Ness, a polyglot from the US. This method focuses on learning the phonemes of a language via music. Now while I know he is not the first to focus on language learning utilizing music-his program sounds very interesting and goes beyond simply learning and/or listening to music in order to learn. What do you know and/or think about this Mimic Method and its effectiveness in terms of learning a language? Any and all feedback is appreciated including other similar programs. For more information, here is a link to the Mimic Method youtube channel in which Idahosa explains his method:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-z4IsnpyWk&feature=share&lis t=TLdCgOW5L6BDI Here's a guest post Idahosa did on Benny the Irish Polyglot's site: http://www.fluentin3months.com/rap/ Here's a video of Idahosa and Benny the Irish Polyglot together: http://youtu.be/lYv0_7fIN2U Other links: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-z4IsnpyWk&feature=share&lis t=TLdCgOW5L6BDI Post about Idahosa and Moses McCormick: http://www.mimicmethod.com/2/post/2013/01/two-polyglots-chal lenge-you-to-self-record-your-language-learning.html Article he did on ployglot Luca Lamariello's site: http://www.thepolyglotdream.com/idahosa-ness-the-mimic-metho d/ Also, the site where it is found is mimicmethod.com Thoughts? Edited by Racer X on 13 September 2013 at 8:33am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6441 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes  Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 3 13 September 2013 at 11:16am | IP Logged | ||
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He's a nice guy, and his method is a lot better than ignoring pronunciation almost entirely, like most materials and courses do. Small amounts of it vary in their results: if you listen to his multilingual music video, his French is rather shaky - though he doesn't claim to speak it, he has used his method on it, if memory serves.
It's not a magic bullet, but you could do worse, and he clearly cares strongly about what he's doing. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Racer X Newbie United States Joined 4111 days ago 18 posts - 18 votes Studies: Portuguese | Message 3 of 3 16 September 2013 at 10:55am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for the feedback, definitely helpful for me-especially given that I don't currently speak in an L2 at present.
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