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| ninuzzo Newbie Italy ninuzzo.freehostia.c Joined 4668 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 1 of 2 12 March 2012 at 3:24pm | IP Logged |
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Hi there,
I've lately been fascinated by Michel Thomas tapes. I know the Michel Thomas method is copyrighted, but his teaching ideas aren't. That is similar methods can be conceived and legally used by everybody, privately or even commercially, as long as they are not named after the great polyglot and language teacher and their content is novel. So, I have devised a simple method based on some Thomas' ideas, but tailored for language tandems between two people who are starting to learn each other's language, either from scratch or from a very basic initial level. It is important that their levels are comparable, otherwise who knows more may easily get bored. They communicate using a third language known enough well to both, e.g. English, but not necessarily this one. It is maybe easier to see my method in action rather than to put it into words. If you are interested, please have a look at the transcript of a real session using it: http://web.tiscali.it/insegnanteitaliano/german-italian- tandem/Live_your_life_as_if_every_day_were_your_last.html This dialogue has been annotated by me later on, to better explain some points. As you can see, each partner acts both as a Michel-like teacher and a student on each step. The prompt de? means that the German learner has to translate, it? asks the Italian learner to translate. BTW I am also looking for a German native who wants to learn Italian for German, using this same method. Ideally someone aware of the structure of her/his own language and curious to see how this method works and learn more about it too. Any suggestion or criticism is welcomed! Edited by ninuzzo on 12 March 2012 at 5:29pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ninuzzo Newbie Italy ninuzzo.freehostia.c Joined 4668 days ago 2 posts - 3 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 2 of 2 24 March 2012 at 10:41pm | IP Logged |
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I am turning my language exchange sessions using this innovative method into a computer
program, useful to both partners for coaching. It runs in a browser: http://ninuzzo.github.com/ Feel free to contact me if you speak German natively and want to try this method to learn Italian. I have a few language friends already, but they are never enough. I am especially looking for people who are aware of the syntax and structure of their language and can explain that to me well, as I will do for Italian. Edited by ninuzzo on 02 April 2012 at 7:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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