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| Mikael84 Bilingual Pentaglot Groupie Peru Joined 5234 days ago 76 posts - 116 votes  Speaks: French*, Finnish*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Arabic (classical), German, Russian | Message 1 of 5 28 February 2012 at 12:04am | IP Logged |
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Guys,
Here's the situation: in May of last year I started learning Russian with the old 1973 version of Assimil's Le Russe sans Peine. I made steady progress, not missing a day until I reached lesson 80 sometime in August. That's when, due to work, I had to put the Russian learning on hold... It has remained on hold until right about now. I feel like I have the time to work on it everyday again, and my goal is to finish the book's 100 lessons within a few months. However, having been out of it for a good 6 months my level has dropped considerably. It's not catastrophic, because during those 6 months every now and then I would read some old lessons so I didn't forget everything. I'm not really sure how to go about things now. Obviously I can't just begin with lesson 81 like nothing happened, I guess I would crash and burn if I tried that. Starting from zero sounds stupid too. So what method would you recommend to get back on track ? What things should I do before I can pick up where I left off? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Zwlth Super Polyglot Senior Member United States Joined 5160 days ago 154 posts - 320 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Dutch, Swedish, Portuguese, Latin, French, Persian, Greek | Message 2 of 5 28 February 2012 at 8:42am | IP Logged |
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I don't know that the fundamental technique of review and revision with Assimil is any different from that which you might use with other courses, but the format makes it much easier:
1. Without using the book, start shadowing all the audio from lesson 1. 2. Note when you first start to miss a few words (perhaps around lesson 20 or 30), but keep going. 3. Note when you first lose the thread of what is going on (perhaps around lesson 40 or 50), but keep going for another few lessons as well to see whether this was just a blank spot or whether it really marks a breaking point. 4. When you only get the gist of several lessons in a row, that's where you should stop. So, let's say you first missed a word in lesson 25 but didn't get lost until 50. Start reviewing by simply reading from lesson 25 aloud. You should be able to zip right up to or even past lesson 50. From that point, work through the lessons as if they were fresh, but expect to cover two or three rather than just one at one sitting until you get into the 70's. From that point, just work forward as you normally would. Good luck! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| tibbles Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5125 days ago 245 posts - 422 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean | Message 3 of 5 28 February 2012 at 8:58am | IP Logged |
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If I were you, I'd start with lesson one and go for maybe 5-10 lessons per day as a review. After all, a lesson amounts to little more than 3 minutes of audio and a couple of pages of text. Do the first 30 Active and the remaining 50 Passive. Assuming you haven't forgotten too much, you should be able to breeze through the first 25-30 pretty quickly. Then gradually lower the number of lessons per day as you get closer to the one you had quit at.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6531 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 4 of 5 28 February 2012 at 1:37pm | IP Logged |
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the default recommendation is to go to the previous lesson, the one before it etc until there's one you're pretty much comfortable with. however specifically for Assimil this depends on how you plan to use it. if you did only the passive wave and want to do the active, it should be a good idea to find that breaking point, do a few lessons passively to get the hang of it and then start the active wave from lesson one.
but that's just one of 34594357 ways to use Assimil. first decide how you want to use it. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Mikael84 Bilingual Pentaglot Groupie Peru Joined 5234 days ago 76 posts - 116 votes Speaks: French*, Finnish*, English, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Arabic (classical), German, Russian | Message 5 of 5 28 February 2012 at 8:48pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks for the recommendations guys. I plan on using, and have always used Assimil "the standard way", meaning the way that Assimil itself recommends... 50 lessons passive way only and then passive + active. I also use the shadowing technique on old lessons from time to time but I see it more as a bonus and mostly just do it for fun.
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