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| Keilan Senior Member Canada Joined 5087 days ago 125 posts - 241 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1 of 9 15 March 2013 at 4:08am | IP Logged |
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Hey all,
I recently read about a vocabulary learning technique called "Diglot Weave" which consists of learning new vocabulary by inserting it into a sentence in your native language. For example if you want to learn the Russian for dog you could write "I like to play with my собака every day." Does anyone have any experience with this? I'm curious if it would have any negative effects such as hurting your sense of word order in your L2? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| htdavidht Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4624 days ago 68 posts - 121 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: French | Message 2 of 9 15 March 2013 at 7:00am | IP Logged |
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I am not even willing to try this out. I have the idea that I will end up mixing both languages, and will hurt the ability of creating a fluent speech on the TL, and even probably confusing a little bit the mother language.
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| Keilan Senior Member Canada Joined 5087 days ago 125 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 3 of 9 15 March 2013 at 7:42am | IP Logged |
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Hmm, yeah, I was thinking along the same lines. That's why I figured I'd check if others had used it - I'm definitely nervous to just do it without hearing of any positive attempts.
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| Darklight1216 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5101 days ago 411 posts - 639 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German | Message 4 of 9 15 March 2013 at 2:24pm | IP Logged |
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Yes, I have encountered this before... in high school Spanish. That is: American high school Spanish. Need I say more?
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| freakyaye Senior Member Australia Joined 4839 days ago 107 posts - 152 votes | Message 5 of 9 15 March 2013 at 4:23pm | IP Logged |
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Everybody wait wait wait, there is a guy who does this for teaching Italian called
Antonio Libertino and I implore everyone to check out his book + mp3 combo called 'Speak Italian Magically'. http://speakitalianmagically.com/a-free-preview-of-speak-ita lian-magically/ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 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 6 of 9 15 March 2013 at 4:33pm | IP Logged |
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I don't think there's much risk, but it's not all that much useful either. If you know the grammar, why not make sentences like that in the L2? If you don't know it, you won't learn it by making L1 sentences.
However it's certainly a good idea to add more L2 to what you do in L1 anyway. There's this add-on, for example (doesn't work for firefox ;_;), and I'm going to use ReadLang this way too. But that's a way to waste less time on L1 activities, not a magical solution. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 7 of 9 15 March 2013 at 4:45pm | IP Logged |
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I can see this as having the advantage that you say the word with intent, ie. while
thinking about its meaning. However, you can achieve this in many other ways and it also has the negative effect that you completely forego gender, agreement, case, etc. To me, it just seems like a waste of time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5263 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 8 of 9 15 March 2013 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
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My opinion: in a world of unlimited time and no opportunity costs, then I would say try everything and anything. Unfortunately, we don't live in that world. I've been on the forum for almost three years and have not seen any discussion about this technique. If it were efficient and successful, I would think there would be plenty of threads recommending this method. Then again, you never know until you try. We all learn differently. Just remember there are time and opportunity costs associated with everything we do and our time, sadly, is finite.
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