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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5399 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 5 07 August 2012 at 10:29pm | IP Logged |
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I'm assuming there are alphabet songs like this one for languages other than English . To be honest, I've never looked for the alphabet song in any of my target languages. And I would be guessing to go through the alphabet in its entirety in any of them, too. What about you guys? I'm curious how many people are fluent (maybe B2 and up) who never sat down and properly learn the alphabet for their target languages. With online and electronic dictionaries, it never even occurred to me, really. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4832 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 2 of 5 07 August 2012 at 11:01pm | IP Logged |
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I did eventually learn the alphabet in German, but not for quite some time. None of the
various courses I did in the first few years seemed to think of teaching it. And I don't think any of the various course books I was exposed to in that time referred to it either. Much more recently, 2 years ago actually, I was on a summer school in Jena, and one of the tutors gave us a really fun session, including an alphabet song, and lots of good pronunciation exercises, but done in an enjoyable way. I'd love to have that kind of session on a fairly regular basis, as one can get lazy in one's pronunciation (or at least I can). I think the Open University Spanish beginners course that I did did actually teach the alphabet fairly early on. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jappy58 Bilingual Super Polyglot Senior Member United States Joined 4642 days ago 200 posts - 413 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Guarani*, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Maghribi), Arabic (Written), French, English, Persian, Quechua, Portuguese Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 3 of 5 08 August 2012 at 3:46pm | IP Logged |
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When I was studying Arabic, I didn't learn the alphabet song until after 18 months of having studied the language. I definitely knew how to write in the script and the pronunciation of all the words, but I didn't pay much attention to the actual song until later.
For my other languages, however, I've looked at it earlier on. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5569 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 4 of 5 08 August 2012 at 4:29pm | IP Logged |
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I am not sure you could say you are at 'B2' without knowing the alphabet - after all,
part of the A1 and A2 exams is to be able to write down words from a situation (like a telephone conversation or train station) where a person is spelling them out. I put an MP3 of the alphabet read out on my desktop an play it everyday until I know it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6601 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 5 of 5 08 August 2012 at 9:28pm | IP Logged |
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I believe the criterion is being able to perform like 90% of the tasks or fulfill the requirements 90% of the time. And at a B2 exam you won't even have this sort of task anymore....
IMO it's just important to know the "weird" letter names, like the German [fau] for V or the Finnish koo for K. It's also important to at least understand the most common abbreviations (like OK, UN, USA). Edited by Serpent on 08 August 2012 at 9:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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