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| juman Diglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5246 days ago 101 posts - 129 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: French | Message 1 of 5 04 May 2012 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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You are a beginner in a language (a real beginner) you have about 30 minutes in front of
you and you want to spend the time well. So what would you do? If you say go through flashcards? How do you do it... by just running through them, do you write the answers down for each card, do you speak out load to answer each card? If you say go through a textbook what do you do? Just sit down and read, read some and follow up with exercises? Or what would you do with the next 30 minutes of you study time? I'm stuck at the moment and need inspiration on how to study :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6625 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 2 of 5 04 May 2012 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | ||
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You can get some random ideas in this thread :)
I'd do one of the activities listed here :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| JiriT Triglot Groupie Czech Republic Joined 4825 days ago 60 posts - 95 votes Speaks: Czech*, English, German | Message 3 of 5 04 May 2012 at 10:38pm | IP Logged | ||
If you are a beginner, you probably have a textbook or some material for your study. I suppose you at least know which language you will study and from which textbook. I think that for real beginners are best good textbooks. With good texts (conversational phrases that you can hardly learn from reading newspaper articles or books etc) and with conversational articles. It also has some phonetics explanations and it should contain basic grammar. And here the advice is quit simple, learn well from the textbook. Phonetics, vocabulary, grammar, articles etc. If you have just 30 minutes, you can not learn so much during this time. I would try to get acquainted with the language in order to get some idea about it with the respect to the learning method. Then, during the first days, I would learn from the textbook at a medium pace. There is no need to haste, it is better to learn the basics pretty well. And still to modify my learning strategy. And to get used to the sounds and melody of the language. Only after some time (two weeks or more) I would increase my learning speed. More vocabulary, more reading articles, more grammar drills etc. After lesson ten (or say learning some 500 word and some grammar I would add reading real texts, if possible with audio). If one wants to gain at least a partial knowledge of a language, it is matter of investing much more time than a few hours. If one does not have the time, it is a waste of time to start learning a new language. Maybe it would be better to improve the knowledge of a foreign language I know. There is always a lot one can learn. When the knowledge is very deep and extensive, it needs to be maintained, otherwise one loses the knowledge. Not necessarily by forgetting vocabulary, but maybe you can recall the words more slowly, you know the meaning but not quit accurately etc. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| amethyst32 Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5677 days ago 118 posts - 198 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, French | Message 4 of 5 06 May 2012 at 4:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'd probably use my 30 minutes to do a lesson of Assimil, followed by listening to something authentic in my target language. Keeping it simple works for me. :-)
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| zerrubabbel Senior Member United States Joined 4628 days ago 232 posts - 287 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 5 09 May 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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too bad, only 30 minutes :(
well, depending on availability, I would probably start with a Pimsleur lesson for my first 30 minutes... that way, its fairly easy to pick up pronunciation and simple grammar... as I get farther along in the language I would begin to focus on reading and writing... for instance, my dry erase board has nothing but Japanese all over it... practice sentences, Kanji and stroke orders... I forbid any English on that board (and I think its time to go find a bigger one) ^.^ 1 person has voted this message useful |
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