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| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4687 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 1 of 6 05 January 2013 at 5:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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This article was published in April last year, but apparently didn't make it to HTLAL.
I Learned to Speak Four Languages in a Few Years: Here’s How (by Gabriel Wyner). Please share your thoughts about his method. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5537 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 6 05 January 2013 at 7:26pm | IP Logged | ||
Hmm. Looks like intense pronunciation work, then L2-only Anki for vocab and grammar up through several thousand words, then very intensive listening, reading and writing, and then 7 weeks monolingual immersion at Middlebury to activate speech skills. He's big on not using English, which works well for some people. All this looks like a perfectly reasonable roadmap for reaching B2 quickly, at the cost of lots of hard work (and $7000 for Middlebury's immersion program, which is supposedly pretty decent by US standards). But there's nothing really magic or unusual here; lots of language learners use various combinations of similar techniques. 5 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Marski Diglot Newbie Macedonia Joined 4860 days ago 12 posts - 16 votes Speaks: Macedonian*, English Studies: Italian | Message 3 of 6 11 January 2013 at 2:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've seen his posts on reddit, and he even shared his Italian deck with me. Pretty nice
guy, and I have no doubt that he's speaking the truth about his method/abilities. However, I'm not sure about his insistence of not using any English for the Anki decks, but just pictures and the target language. I mean, pictures are great, but I see no reason why English translation wouldn't work as well (it seems to be working great for me). Edited by Marski on 11 January 2013 at 2:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5276 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 4 of 6 12 January 2013 at 7:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Like emk said, there's nothing unusual here. It's just the author's personal approach. He puts vocabulary before reading, some people do reading first and then learn the words that they don't know. If someone hasn't found yet his best method of learning a language, this can be worth a try.
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| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4526 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 5 of 6 13 January 2013 at 2:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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FYI: The method has been discussed here.
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| Quique Diglot Senior Member Spain cronopios.net/Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4687 days ago 183 posts - 313 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French, German | Message 6 of 6 13 January 2013 at 5:40pm | IP Logged | ||
Oh, so he was a fellow HTLAL'er for a short while! Apparently he only posted in that thread, but at least he clarifies some aspects of his method. Thanks for the pointer, daegga. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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