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| bobjoe Newbie United States Joined 4286 days ago 3 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* | Message 1 of 7 08 May 2013 at 4:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi,
I've started studying French after achieving an intermediate level of Spanish. I've already started with Michel Thomas, but instead of following up with Assimil like I did with Spanish, I'm going to use the complete French in Action course. My question has to do with the time to complete this course. Each lesson has one video with about 25 minutes of content, but then another hour of audio recordings. When I actually use the recordings and workbooks to complete the exercises, how long will it take me to complete a lesson? I'm asking because it seems like given the amount of audio included and the written exercises, this 52 lesson course could take forever to finish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| napoleon Tetraglot Senior Member India Joined 5015 days ago 543 posts - 874 votes  Speaks: Bengali*, English, Hindi, Urdu Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 2 of 7 08 May 2013 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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I remember having read somewhere on this forum a figure of around one episode every week. An episode every week is the rate you can expect if you do all the exercises and the audio drills. Go too fast and you run the risk of burning yourself out!
I have only used the videos myself, so I can't say with much certainty. Bonne chance! EDIT: Someone who is not studying full time will probably proceed at a pace of one episode along with the relevant exercises per week. This works out to just over a year to complete the entire series. If you have a lot of free time on your hands, you might make much better progress. Edited by napoleon on 09 May 2013 at 6:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5564 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 3 of 7 08 May 2013 at 7:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have got to lesson 15 and it takes about 4-5 solid hours to finish each lesson if you
use all the materials involved. So if you study 1 hour per day, it takes about a year. My view is - with a course this good, why rush it? Take the whole year to complete it and do plenty of revisions. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5668 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 4 of 7 09 May 2013 at 2:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I took me just over a year, doing about an hour a day six days a week. Some days I would do two hours, but never more than that.
During that year, I went through the course very thoroughly, watching videos several times, and studying the textbook and workbooks very methodically, plus doing all the audio at least twice. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| twopossums Newbie United States Joined 4356 days ago 34 posts - 53 votes Speaks: English* | Message 5 of 7 09 May 2013 at 6:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I made it to lesson 6 before I stopped using it but figure each episode is 25 min and you probably should watch it at least twice. Then the audio recording is around an hour plus pausing to complete the workbook. So would think 2 and half to 3 hours would be the bare minimum on each lesson but probably more.
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| bobjoe Newbie United States Joined 4286 days ago 3 posts - 5 votes Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 7 10 May 2013 at 1:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the responses.
Splog, how do you feel your level of French is after working through the entire course so thoroughly? One of the reasons I want to try FIA rather than using Assimil, is that after completing half of Pimsleur, both levels of Michel Thomas, Assimil Spanish with ease, 2 months of intensive immersion language school, and living in a Spanish speaking country, I still feel my language abilities are not very high. I certainly do not have the B2 level claimed by Assimil, even with all the extra work. I'm hoping the additional time required for FIA will get me to a much higher level than Assimil did with Spanish. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5668 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 7 of 7 14 May 2013 at 10:38am | IP Logged | ||
Unfortunately, I cannot give a helpful answer to that. About 15 years ago, I spoke French quite well, but had completely neglected the language since. So, I did the FIA course and some others to bring back some of the lost knowledge. What I can say is that the later lessons in the FIA course are certainly not "baby level" lessons at all, and if you complete the whole course your comprehension of French should be good enough to get by in a French speaking country. Of course, your spoken abilities will lag, unless you are supplementing the course with real conversations with humans. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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