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| kimmitt Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4886 days ago 33 posts - 38 votes Studies: French | Message 1 of 18 23 November 2011 at 2:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Where can I find a description of his technique for using Assimil?
I've seen it mentioned on here and described in passing but can't find a description of what it actually involves. Edited by Fasulye on 23 November 2011 at 3:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5482 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 18 23 November 2011 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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There is refernce to it here
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=29857&PN=1&TPN=1 Jim 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5664 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 3 of 18 23 November 2011 at 2:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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One of his videos: (there's a better one below)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXiD8JiQNOA He describes his Assimil method in detail while giving a description of his then recent studies. He's a forum member here, so he might even stop in this thread and answer himself. If you have any questions the best way to reach him is through YouTube. ETA: This is the better video, where he describes his method in the most depth and compares Assimil and Teach Yourself: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yK9cX9QFnJ0 Edited by Michael K. on 23 November 2011 at 2:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4844 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 4 of 18 26 November 2011 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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The videos were interesting, but it was an awful lot of listening to get a simple method. From what I could get, he listens to three lessons, and writes them out, all of which takes him 30 minutes. For some reason, he calls the sheets he writes the dialogues on "Deutschmarks", and once he has 7 Deutschmarks "banked", he can move on to the next three lessons. He doesn't say what he does with the exercises.
I haven't read anyone on these forums mention writing the lessons out, but it seems to be a good idea. I think I'll try it. I would think writing out the exercises and fill in the blanks would be useful as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5664 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 5 of 18 27 November 2011 at 6:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry, I should have written the times where he mentions his method, or I should have just written the method out.
As far as the exercises go, I wrote them out in the beginning, but stopped after a little while. I usually just ignore the fill in the blank exercises, especially in the beginning since there's usually only one word missing. Once you get past the first few weeks the fill in the blanks are usually pretty good and I can see value in doing them. I want to see if Moses makes any changes once he gets further along in the courses. Around lesson 60-70 in Assimil Spanish, it took me about 20 minutes to just write out one lesson. I'd say in the beginning it's OK to write out the dialogs, since almost everything will probably be new to you, but once you get further along only write out the new constructions and vocabulary to save time. I think writing out the dialogs is good since it helps you remember the lesson better. I'm surprised no one else thought of it, too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6610 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 6 of 18 27 November 2011 at 7:39pm | IP Logged | ||
There is nothing new under the sun. Prof. Arguelles wrote every Assimil lesson over and over. Sometimes one hundred times. Other people in this forum wrote them too. Some people use the first letter technique to learn those lessons by heart. Edited by slucido on 27 November 2011 at 7:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4957 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 18 27 November 2011 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wrote out several lessons when I did Spanish with Ease. I think it may be a good idea very occasionally, but otherwise is a very inefficient use of study time.
The costs outweighed the benefits, in my opinion, which might be something you want to think about. It is definetly worth experimenting though. Edited by dbag on 27 November 2011 at 11:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6610 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 8 of 18 27 November 2011 at 11:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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You can check this old thread about Assimil:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=22&PN=0&TPN=1 This is the quote:
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