|
 |
Splog’s Birthday Italian | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Language Learning Log |  | |
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5667 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes  Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 22 12 February 2012 at 11:42am | IP Logged |
|
Today is my birthday, and as a gift to myself I have decided to spend one year learning Italian.
As of today, I know pretty much nothing about the language apart the names of various pizzas and that lots of words seem to end in the letter o. I am putting some restrictions on myself to make it interesting: 1: I will devote only 30 minutes a day to this. 2. My only textbooks will be the Assimil Italian With Ease, and Assimil Using Italian, along with the accompanying audio CDs 3: I will enter one Assimil lesson per day into the Learning With Texts software, and review the lesson in that software. The above should take me roughly 200 days for both Assimil books, totalling 100 hours. Once I have finished with the Assimil books I intend to use only native materials for the remaining 165 days. Again, for only 30 minutes a day. Then I will go to Rome for a few days and (fingers crossed) survive using only Italian. Edited by Splog on 12 February 2012 at 11:43am 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6166 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 2 of 22 12 February 2012 at 12:13pm | IP Logged |
|
I'll be most interested to hear your thoughts on Assimil as you progress. I find myself
analysing what exactly makes the Assimil method standout. There are several reasons why which I won't get into here and as you progress I look forward to hearing your thoughts. I'm reading between the lines of your post and supposing that your study of Italian is as much of a genuine trial run of the Assimil method...fair presumption ? I'm following a similar low maintenance strategy but I'm mixing in Pimsleur when I don't have the patience to sit with a written text. I'm finding this anti all or nothing approach quite effective as long as study is kept up on a regular basis. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5667 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 22 12 February 2012 at 12:30pm | IP Logged |
|
You are right. As you say. more than anything it is a fun experiment not just of Assimil, but also of LWT. They seem like a promising combination.
I think of Assimil as a graded reader more so than a textbook. LWT also seems like the perfect environment for working with graded readers. So, this is really seeing whether or not that is true. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| magictom123 Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5591 days ago 272 posts - 365 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, French | Message 4 of 22 12 February 2012 at 1:05pm | IP Logged |
|
Happy Birthday Splog/Anthony
...or perhaps I should say auguri, tanti auguri...or even buon compleanno! I will be interested to see how you progress with your experiment. Just over a year ago, I went through Assimil Italian with ease to the point of reaching the 48th lesson in the active wave. I was doing other things at the time but I think it would be accurate to say I was a comfortable B1 on the CEFR scale. I will be particularly interested to see how you get on understanding Italian grammar via Assimil alone. As per the Assimil method, their explanations are sometimes scant and I personally would have suffered had it not been for other things such as Michel Thomas' course. Good luck with the experiment. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 5 of 22 12 February 2012 at 2:48pm | IP Logged |
|
Happy birthday Anthony! This sounds like a wonderful experiment and I look forward to following your progress from pizzas to St. Peter's Basilica over the next year. :)
1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 22 12 February 2012 at 4:19pm | IP Logged |
|
Happy birthday Anthony! What an inspiring idea! Maybe I'll do something like this when it's my birthday.
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6140 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 7 of 22 12 February 2012 at 7:05pm | IP Logged |
|
Happy birthday and buon compleanno, Anthony! Having just recently taken up Italian again myself, I'm excited to follow your progress through la bella lingua over the next year.
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Tecktight Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States Joined 4974 days ago 227 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, Serbian Studies: German, Russian, Estonian | Message 8 of 22 12 February 2012 at 7:22pm | IP Logged |
|
Happy birthday!
Your little tidbit about the pizzas made me laugh. I'm looking forward to reading your log. Also, your tidbit about pizzas has inspired my lunch selection. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
