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| tennisfan Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 5346 days ago 130 posts - 247 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish Studies: German | Message 1 of 6 08 October 2011 at 6:10am | IP Logged |
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I remember reading in a post a while back that someone (fanatic maybe?) went through an Assimil course very quickly---in a few days or something---and then afterwards started from the beginning doing one lesson a day.
Has anyone else ever tried this with Assimil? do you feel it gave you an advantage over using Assimil the regular way? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| TMoneytron Groupie United States Joined 4847 days ago 70 posts - 83 votes Studies: German | Message 2 of 6 11 October 2011 at 4:33am | IP Logged |
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Well, I did like to "cushion" the next lessons. That means I went ahead and put in vocab into Anki or expressions I didn't understand before hand.
Did it help me? Yes, it did a bit. It also helped when I used native text, because I recognized some of the ahead stuff I had entered. I mean, do what you want to. I'm sure it can't hurt. I'm not expert but anything you have experience in, even if it is scant, will be easier to learn or relearn. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5257 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 3 of 6 11 October 2011 at 7:25am | IP Logged |
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I have used this type of approach but I modified it a little bit. I did 10 lessons and then returned to the previous chapters to see if I remember all of the vocabulary and grammatical structures. If don't I usually redo the chapter again. When I'm pretty sure I know everything from the first 10 lessons, I go to the next 10, and so on.
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| leosmith Senior Member United States Joined 6536 days ago 2365 posts - 3804 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Tagalog | Message 4 of 6 11 October 2011 at 1:07pm | IP Logged |
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Be careful not to make the lessons boring to yourself.
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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5997 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 5 of 6 11 October 2011 at 2:45pm | IP Logged |
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I went through half the lessons in the Catalan course while suffering insomnia and staying in a hotel, and then went back over them later. I doubt I would have been able to do that with any other language, though, as I already knew Spanish, French and Italian to various levels by that point, so Catalan was easy.
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| amethyst32 Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5635 days ago 118 posts - 198 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, French | Message 6 of 6 13 November 2011 at 12:00pm | IP Logged |
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I think previewing any type of study materials beforehand is always a good idea. The really great thing about it is that you can see the benefits of doing it almost immediately once you're into the real study session and you start seeing how easily it sticks. Tony Buzan also recommends it for learning in one of his brain books (sorry, it was years ago I read it and I can't remember the title now!). I'd say give it a try; in my opinion often the best and the most effective methods are the simple ones like this.
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