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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4995 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 9 of 18 27 November 2011 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I write them out as well. Not several times (not in the passive weave) but still. It helps my memory. But doing three lessons at once sounds as a good idea. I tried something like that but due my lack of frequency in learning, it didn't go well.
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| IansDad Newbie United States Joined 5700 days ago 28 posts - 41 votes Studies: French, English | Message 10 of 18 28 November 2011 at 2:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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Can we back-up?
Slucido said, "Some people use the first letter technique to learn those lessons by heart." What is the "first letter technique"? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| JimC Senior Member United Kingdom tinyurl.com/aberdeen Joined 5533 days ago 199 posts - 317 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 18 28 November 2011 at 11:55am | IP Logged | |||||
I presume that they are referring to this Mnemonics Check out the second paragraph "first letter mnenonics" Jim 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6661 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 12 of 18 28 November 2011 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
I am referring to " How to Memorize Verbatim Text": http://www.productivity501.com/how-to-memorize-verbatim-text /294/ We wrote about text memorization in this thread: Text memorization and imitation http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=23070 Edited by slucido on 28 November 2011 at 6:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| haplology Newbie United States Joined 4772 days ago 1 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French | Message 13 of 18 29 November 2011 at 1:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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Does anyone use an SRS to make flashcards out of the Assimil sentences, or just write out the dialogs a few times
to familiarize themselves with spelling and constructions? I do like the idea of writing them out, as I started Assimil French and at first wasn't doing the exercises - when I started the fill in the blanks around lesson 10 or so, I found my spelling and use of accent marks was pretty atrocious. Also had to back up a bit as I found that I didn't think I was really internalizing the lessons very well. I've never used Assimil before so maybe that's taken care of during the active wave, but I was spending 20 minutes on a lesson (just reading, listening and repeating) and then going on the the next one the following day. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5715 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 14 of 18 29 November 2011 at 4:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Haplology, if you go on Anki someone has uploaded all the sentences from Assimil New French with Ease into the shared decks.
There have been some posts of people who upload Assimil to an SRS on the forum. In other news, Moses announced on YouTube yesterday that he and his wife are expecting twin girls on December 9th. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5008 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 15 of 18 29 November 2011 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
I should probably qaulify my previous remarks. I was learning Spanish, which is very easy to spell. Maybe writing out dialogs would be more helpful with a language like French? Ive seen people on this board criticised for combining Assimil with Anki, usually on the grounds that it "undermines the value of the passive wave" or something like that. If your interested in actually learning a language, and not in defending an ideology, then I think its a fantastic idea. Dont feel you have to put everything in there though. Why not have have fun with it? 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4895 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 16 of 18 29 November 2011 at 5:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
I'm not "defending an ideology" but I can see the value of just doing Assimil according to the instructions. One of the things that makes Assimil great is that it's fairly fun to do. Writing out dialogues can be helpful, and using an SRS would be brilliant. Personally, I pick 3-10 words to make vocab cards from. However, if it becomes too much of a chore and you don't enjoy it, then the extra benefit is lost. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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