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Uses for a notebook in language learning | ||
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| jondesousa Tetraglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/Zgg3nRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6274 days ago 227 posts - 297 votes  Speaks: English*, Portuguese, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Mandarin, Spanish | Message 17 of 25 02 July 2014 at 3:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I also use my notebook to copy dialogs (i.e. Scriptorium technique). I recently did this with Latin using Assimil's course Il Latino Senza Sforzo written by Clement Desessard. It has been very profitable for me as I can also carry just my notebook around for study when I am out and about as I have all the dialogs there.
It might sound funny but I always carry my language books and iPad with me wherever I go but when at social functions people would look at me funny if I opened a book. When opening a non-descript notebook (like a Moleskine or a Rhodia Webbie) no one seems to mind at all. I use this to my advantage to fill time that would be otherwise wasted. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4838 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 18 of 25 02 July 2014 at 11:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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The main advantage of notebooks over almost any modern technology, and this applies
whether it's a cheap notebook from a "pound shop" or a de-luxe moleskin. is that you are not constrained by the architecture of the notebook (which you can examine and understand fully before you buy it) or are in any way dependent on updates or dubious "improvements" during the life of your notebook. You may do with it exactly as you please. Well, I suppose you are "constrained" by its physical size, but if you chose wrong, you can go and get another size, with minimal cost or waste of money. And your notebook will not be subject to software going out of date, and (provided you keep it dry and out of the sunlight), should be readable for at least the next 20-30 years, or more. I'd also echo much of what Iversen said. COPY+PASTE - no need to go via brain! - hmm... 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4857 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 19 of 25 03 July 2014 at 2:44am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, I'm a computer guy, but I would agree with what montmorency is saying.
Paper notebooks have an awesome operating system and a killer interface. The learning curve is not steep at all. And the battery life is to kill for. 6 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6713 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 20 of 25 03 July 2014 at 10:42am | IP Logged | ||
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And if there is a solar flare in the neighbourhood your electronic devices will go pouff. But your legacy notebook will survive.
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| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4699 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 21 of 25 03 July 2014 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | ||
Excellent question. I do almost all of the things you mentioned. The most common ways I use my notebook are: 1. Review. I start from the beginning and work my way through it. In the early stages of the notebook, this can take 5 minutes. When it is full, this can take upwards of an hour. By review, I mean that I re-read all sentences, quiz myself on vocab, refresh any grammar points, etc... I usually try to do a full notebook review every 2-3 days. 2. Vocabulary to SRS. I often use my notebook to pull out interesting vocab/sentences for ANKI. 3. I will use some of the grammar patterns and/or vocab from my notebook to use in self-talk exercises. The best thing about my notebook is that it's all I need to take with me. I can leave my textbooks at home. The important stuff is in my notebook. The drawback would be if I ever lost it. I would feel pretty lost I think. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4857 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 22 of 25 04 July 2014 at 2:03am | IP Logged | ||
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@BaronBill - Thank you very much for the reply!
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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4154 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 23 of 25 04 July 2014 at 2:30am | IP Logged | ||
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A few more thoughts on notebooks…
I've never used Assimil before, but I think that I'm going to use my dual-language notebook with a passive wave and an active wave inspired by my understanding of Assimil. Right now I'm just intensively writing out the dialogues/texts (ie. very carefully copying out the dialogues, saying each word out loud as I write it, looking for patterns and making sure that I understand, reading it aloud and asking for a native speaker to correct my intonation) / reading along / listening. In a few months, I'll start back at the beginning, hide the Tagalog text, and work on reproducing the English side in Tagalog. I recently started a second notebook that I use just for tutoring, instead of the random scribbles on scrap papers that I've used up until now. It has basic greetings, sentences that I use often, a list of "help!" phrases (ie. "I don't understand", "Could you please repeat that?", "How do you say _____?", etc), words that I want to learn, and so on. I jot down words as I'm doing a tutoring session, write sentences as I'm working through new ideas, and write down vocabulary that I know I'll need before a session. I look over the last few pages before a tutoring session, leaf through it often while in a conversation, jot notes as I practice, and review afterwards. Pretty much every single word and expression in my notebook ends up in anki, since they're all words that I need in my active vocabulary. Notebooks make me happy. I have a very large collection of unused ones. ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Rozzie Senior Member United States Joined 3422 days ago 136 posts - 149 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 24 of 25 10 August 2015 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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What about digital notebooks do they count?
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