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| WillyJames Newbie Canada Joined 5035 days ago 15 posts - 16 votes Speaks: French* Studies: English, Spanish, Russian | Message 1 of 18 07 February 2012 at 4:48am | IP Logged |
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Hi everyone
My name is Jean-William Perreault.,I am a young-16-year-old student living in Montreal, Quebec, Canada.,For over a year I studied Russian and thus discovered a great passion for language learning. At school, I am in the International Program, IB (International Baccalaureate).,I am now in my fifth and final year of high school.,For this last year as a student in the IB program I have to do what is called a personal project. Essentially, I have to choose a certain problem and try to find a solution to it in a rather complex process where I need to develop a logbook, a text analysis of the issue and a way to achieve,my goal which is to solve the original problem.,In short, this long project spans on about 10 months. The problem I chose is foreign language learning by self-instruction.,When I tell people that I'm learning Russian, of course they are impressed, but they mainly call me crazy. They pretend that to be fluent in it I will need at least 10 years of dedicated study, or that I am gifted in language learning .,All these false beliefs and myths are too deeply inlaid in people's mind and discourage too many people about language learning. Therefore, I would like to create a guide to language learning, the basic pillars ensuring success. A guide intended for complete,beginners,in this area. When I started to learn Russian last year I had absolutely no clue on how to do this. So I had to search the whole internet and find resources and tips on language learning. To help people in their elementary phase, I decided to create that guide. I was wondering if you anyone here would be interested in reading it and giving me some feedback about it. (Also because I really need some feedback in order to pass that project and get a good mark.) The guide however is in French. Looking forward to receiving your responses and thank you for reading. Jean-William Perreault [EDIT] Here's the link to the guide: 1nibkbjsjn1l1rz44e8w">http://www.scribd.com/fullscreen/81124 492?access_key=key- 1nibkbjsjn1l1rz44e8w Here's the link to the survey Thank You in advance Edited by WillyJames on 10 February 2012 at 2:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6484 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 2 of 18 07 February 2012 at 8:07am | IP Logged |
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Sure. Just post a link.
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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 3 of 18 07 February 2012 at 8:38am | IP Logged |
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I'm interested but I don't speak French. It would be great if you posted a summary in English (or Spanish or Russian, hehe)
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| Ari Heptaglot Senior Member Norway Joined 6516 days ago 2314 posts - 5695 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese Studies: Czech, Latin, German | Message 4 of 18 07 February 2012 at 9:52am | IP Logged |
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Post a link and I'll probably give it a read-through. What sources are you using? Lots of people here have their own methods for language learning. Hang around here for a while and search the forums for methods like Shadowing, Listening-Reading, Gold List, Iversen's List, SRS, AJATT, Passive Wave, Self-talking, The Schliemann Method and I'm sure there are other methods I'm forgetting about. This forum has taught me so much about the self-study of languages.
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4943 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 5 of 18 07 February 2012 at 3:24pm | IP Logged |
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I would be interested in reading it as well.
But I should warn you that you may get not only much more feedback on this forum than from most other people but perhaps even more than you want :-) In general it sounds to be a great idea to create such a guide, so I am quite curious at the result. You said it was intended for beginners but is there as well advice on how to progress not only to intermediate but as well to advanced level and fluency? How far are you with your Russian? 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| WillyJames Newbie Canada Joined 5035 days ago 15 posts - 16 votes Speaks: French* Studies: English, Spanish, Russian | Message 6 of 18 08 February 2012 at 2:30am | IP Logged |
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Thank you for you kind responses! That's really appreciated! :)
First of all I would like to say, that this is mainly a school project of a 16-year-old student, so it may not be the best. But I've puted a lot of effort in the making of guide, and I tried to do my best. I hope you will like it. :) And if it can become a reference guide for beginners to have an overview of how to learn a language I'd be very pleased, and I would for sure translate it in English and other languages. @Cavesa The way I did it, I divided the guide in 5 diffrerent chapters The first is talking about the myths and the false beliefs about language learning, the different ingredients needed such as the state of mind, time management, setting goals, choosing your target language and the CECR levels. The second one, is The beginner phase (A1-A2) The third one is the intermediate phase (B1-B2) The fourth is the advanced phase (C1-C2) The the fifth one, some useful tools like many different techniques to speed up the process such as Iversen's list, Shadowing, different ways to use assimil and so on, mnemonics, mind maps, learning from songs. For my russian I guess I am at a somewhat B1 Level for now. This project ironically prevented me from studying russian everyday for the last six months... :( 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4943 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 7 of 18 08 February 2012 at 3:37am | IP Logged |
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That is quite a common phenomenon that thinking of language learning keeps you from the
learning itself :-) The more in combination with forum addiction. Don't underestimate your project. Your age should not prevent it from being great as long as you have put your best efforts in and you are speaking of something you love. So, where is the link? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| WillyJames Newbie Canada Joined 5035 days ago 15 posts - 16 votes Speaks: French* Studies: English, Spanish, Russian | Message 8 of 18 08 February 2012 at 3:53am | IP Logged |
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I should post the guide tomorrow along with a little survey so I can evaluate the impact
of my project! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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