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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6532 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 9 of 15 18 December 2011 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Scorpicus, great strategy if you like movies and cartoons too, but it can and should be adapted if you don't.
I recently found yet another book promising to teach you to read German in 12 lessons, but this one actually made a lot of sense. The main idea is that you can learn to read fluently in one area and build up from there. The suggested types of texts are newspaper articles on politics and economics, and there are some great strategies given. I think the same applies to listening. instead of watching cartoons, you can listen to podcasts on familiar topics for people who're new to them. your knowledge and the loan words/proper nouns will help. While it's true that movies usually give more visual clues than podcasts (though podcasts can use images too), very often the language is also more clear in podcasts (like in audiobooks, which are another great source). my strategy is more like: football matches->football interviews/harry potter (LR or movies)/the hobbit/narnia->(will be) familiar and more complicated works as audiobooks (LOTR, The Master and Margaret)->(will probably be) unfamiliar books and/or books in the original (LR, then "natural listening")->....... but i think it's pretty much the same strategy, only with the important tweak that i usually don't like movies but there are some exceptions. Edited by Serpent on 19 December 2011 at 1:18am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6532 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 10 of 15 27 December 2011 at 2:41am | IP Logged | ||
Has anyone else tried this? Experiences/comments? Edited by Serpent on 27 December 2011 at 3:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| allen Newbie United States Joined 5019 days ago 23 posts - 73 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Korean, Thai | Message 11 of 15 27 December 2011 at 2:59am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm also want to learn more about the listening-reading method, but it looks like Volte's
link is broken. Where was it meant to go? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6532 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 15 27 December 2011 at 3:24am | IP Logged | ||
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http://learnlangs.com/Listening-Reading_important_passages.h tm
there's a lot more stuff on this forum. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ushikougeki Newbie Korea, South Joined 4650 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 13 of 15 30 December 2011 at 3:40am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi. I'm new to this forum, and new to self study. My previous language learning experience was years ago studying Japanese in college where I was told what to do every step of the way. Now I'm about 7 months into learning Korean on my own and I am still trying to figure out the best way to go about learning it.
I am wondering what should the first steps be with developing listening comprehension? Most of the strategies in this thread seem to be geared toward a higher level than mine. I am already used to the general sound of Korean cause I lived there for a year and I can read and write Korean much better than I can speak or understand spoken Korean. How much should I be able to understand of the listening materials if they were written out? I have read things like I should be spending X minutes or hours listening everyday. So does that mean listening to a brief dialog with words and grammar I understand 100% fifty times in a row? Or listening to something longer where maybe I cannot understand much of what they are saying? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6532 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 14 of 15 30 December 2011 at 6:37am | IP Logged | ||
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well, if there's a huge gap between your reading and listening (i've experienced this in the very beginning of my Finnish studies), it makes sense to learn to understand familiar words when spoken. there's no need to listen 50 times, chances are you'll get bored and hate it etc. best listen to various simple texts, perhaps you can find some with questions/tasks/exercises for your comprehension and the material covered.
if there's anything specific you want to listen to, go ahead regardless of your level. try out Listening-Reading too:) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ushikougeki Newbie Korea, South Joined 4650 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 15 of 15 01 January 2012 at 1:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks. I'll just keep at it with the simple dialogs for now. I just wasn't very confident that my listening practice is getting me anywhere since I have never done this on my own before. It's much easier for me to measure my progress with reading and writing.
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