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| Vanthie Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4141 days ago 38 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 33 of 57 04 February 2013 at 4:47am | IP Logged | |||||
Yeah, it works exactly the same way in Spanish, too. In practice, it shouldn't be at all difficult. I was just so comforted by the fact that temps sounds so much like "time", and then it pulled my comfort out from underneath me and I fell into a ravine of doubt and despair for ten seconds. I appreciate the analogy, though. That puts it in a nice perspective. > Pimsleur II lesson 17 > Assimil lesson 17 Each lesson overlapped a lot with material that the other has taught me in the past. The queue in Anki is growing faster than I'm reviewing, though, so at the very least I'll have a nice buffer at the end of Assimil. My dad, being non-native and out of practice, finds that he doesn't know a few words in the Assimil lessons whenever I show them to him. He said he wants it when I'm done so that he can read through it and learn, too. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Vanthie Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4141 days ago 38 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 34 of 57 05 February 2013 at 4:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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> Pimsleur II lesson 18
> Assimil lesson 18 I haven't really seen how writing out the Assimil lessons helped until today, when I realized I completely missed the word vers and its meaning in my initial read- throughs. I guess since it followed venez I just assumed it was vous. Pimsleur sort of dragged on, in part because of unrelenting grammar problems, and in part because the material as of late isn't that interesting. Right now it's children and where they go to school and what they study. It's definitely useful to know, just not something that I would want to talk about in any language. ç-ç I'm taking a break from adding Anki notes, since I'm sure not going to run out anytime soon. I have all the noun cards set up with the corresponding articles le and la to memorize gender (or an (m) or (f) at the end if it starts with a vowel) and I'm hoping that'll reinforce some memorization where quick guesswork would not suffice. I'm wondering if I should increase the amount of new cards per day, since right now I can finish them in about 7 or 8 minutes. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5344 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 35 of 57 05 February 2013 at 5:50am | IP Logged | |||||
A handy rule of thumb from the Anki manual (emphasis added):
Anki tends to start slowly and build up over the first month or so, after which things start to level off. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Vanthie Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4141 days ago 38 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 36 of 57 06 February 2013 at 4:36am | IP Logged | |||||
Wow, okay. I'll stick to twenty then. I am now noticing that there are slowly more cards coming each day, whereas initially it was just 20 new and 20 review. Good to know. > Pimsleur II lesson 19 > Assimil lesson 19 Today in Pimsleur I finally realized where we got the word "mayday" from. I'm pretty sure I lost some degree of focus for the rest of the lesson because I felt like I had just discovered the secret to the universe. I'm also seeing more and more words that include the "oe" letter, and no way of recreating it on this keyboard except by my word processor autocorrecting as I type it. Hmm. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Vanthie Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4141 days ago 38 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 37 of 57 07 February 2013 at 5:45am | IP Logged | |||||
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> Pimsleur II lesson 20
> Assimil lesson 20 I don't know what it was about Pimsleur, but I was just on top of it today. I was finishing my sentences and everything. Assimil today was virtually all review, which is funny considering the review day is actually tomorrow. Anki has eliminated a lot of need for vocab review within Assimil; even inputting the words into the deck alone is really good review. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Vanthie Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4141 days ago 38 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 38 of 57 08 February 2013 at 5:03am | IP Logged | |||||
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> Pimsleur II lesson 21
> Assimil lesson 21 Today was unremarkable all around. I don't remember at all if anything new came up in Pimsleur or Assimil, and Anki was just business as usual. In fact I checked back over Pimsleur for the benefit of this post, and I can indeed verify that it was pretty much all review. This post will just have to be short and boring. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Vanthie Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4141 days ago 38 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 39 of 57 09 February 2013 at 5:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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> Pimsleur II lesson 22
> Assimil lesson 22 I have a sore throat today, so after Pimsleur I just read Assimil silently. I'll probably go back and read it properly tomorrow. I pointed out to my dad something in my learning French so far that isn't so much inconvenient as it is simply amusing—that I don't know how to say 'happy', but I do know how to say things like 'My daughter studies medicine in college'. Pimsleur has a tendency to teach only what could be relevant to a traveller and Assimil teaches with conversation and narrative, so between the two of them, some basic toddler-level concepts sometimes take longer to get around to. In Pimsleur, for example, I'm learning how to talk about tennis of all things (and, incidentally, shared the verb jouer with Assimil's section on gambling). Meanwhile in Assimil I've recently begun grasping the concepts of hungry and thirsty and tired, so with any luck I will be on the same level as a French two-year-old as far as being able to express my needs. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Vanthie Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4141 days ago 38 posts - 39 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 40 of 57 10 February 2013 at 7:15am | IP Logged | |||||
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> Pimsleur II lesson 23
> Assimil lesson 23 Assimil was pretty lax since a lot of emphasis was on double-digit numbers, and Pimsleur drilled those into my brain for all eternity. Getting to spell them for a change is nice, though. All I really remember from Pimsleur today was the word for "better" and how it sounds EXACTLY like a cat meowing. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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