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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4716 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 9 of 12 23 May 2012 at 10:17pm | IP Logged | ||
Sorry to hear you're getting frustrated--hang in there! After looking at your original post for the third time I did realize that you don't really include reading in your routine beyond transcripts of audio you're listening to. You also express frustration at missing a lot of the vocabulary for understanding the podcasts. My personal learning style works as follows: Reading Is Fundamental. Reading is where I get the most input and I learn tons of vocabulary here. When I listen, I then recognize words I learned from reading and thus learn to recognize them when spoken as well--only rarely do I learn a word from scratch in an audio context. Once I can recognize a word as written and spoken, then I can try using it in conversation or in writing. I'm a very visual learner, but everyone is different, so know yourself. So if endless listening is still not giving you the progress you would like, perhaps you could try adding extensive reading as Serpent suggested. If you feel lost with most standard prose, I'd suggest trying to find a translation of something you've read in English and that you're familiar with and enjoy. The cliche example is Harry Potter, but not everyone likes that, so try to find something that works for you. Just read, and if you are totally lost, keep reading. Since you know the story well, you'll start recognizing things here and there, and it will add up. Just a suggestion--hope it helps. Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Corinwright1994 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4637 days ago 27 posts - 29 votes Speaks: Spanish Studies: Portuguese | Message 10 of 12 23 May 2012 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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yeah cheers man, I will take that on board. The reading does help. but because words
don't sound like they are spelled, it can be hard to learn a word completely from reading and then recognize it in audio. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4716 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 11 of 12 23 May 2012 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | ||
A difficulty, no doubt. I don't know what kind of transcripts/audio you've been working with, but one thing that comes to mind is finding audiobooks to match the books you're reading and listening to the audiobook while reading along (I did this with Dutch because I was having a similar difficulty, due to my poor grasp of the Dutch orthography). I imagine you might run into problems with scarcity of resources, unfortunately. I found matching Librivox and Gutenberg files online, but the selection appears to be more limited for Danish. 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 12 of 12 23 May 2012 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | ||
Well, you're the best judge of what works for you and what doesn't. I feel your pain, I mostly just watch football in Danish hehe. Also found all the Harry Potter audiobooks online. Spanish can sort of compensate for this lack of resources though :) Also, try to find some music in Danish that you like. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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