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| aanhetleren Newbie Australia Joined 5027 days ago 17 posts - 18 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Swedish | Message 1 of 4 24 July 2011 at 5:26pm | IP Logged |
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I read a few posts on here about talking to yourself in your TL as a way to begin activating the language. I'm wondering, for people who do this, what types of things do you talk to yourself about? Would you have dialogs with imaginary people, or just describe the tasks that you're performing?
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| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5310 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes  Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 2 of 4 24 July 2011 at 6:35pm | IP Logged |
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All of the above, plus all of anything else. Or else you'd get bored.
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| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6677 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 3 of 4 24 July 2011 at 7:04pm | IP Logged |
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I have a video about this:
------------------- Talking to yourself and learning languages: This is an output training often used by polyglots and successful language learners. It's important to think in your target language, but more important to move your mouth. If you want to use this technique you should talk aloud or murmur. I think it's much better talking aloud because you will get used to the sounds. Benefits: -Drilling vocabulary. -Drilling grammar structures. -You become aware of the holes in your target language (vocabulary, structure): it focus your attention where you need to improve. -Getting used to open to your voice in the target language. -Developing automaticity. -Develop fluency, spontaneous speech. -You can use it when you don't have native speakers. -It is free. HOW do we use this technique? You can talk as you go along. Talk about anything that comes to your mind. What are you doing right now? What have you just done? What did you do last week? What are you going to do? What are you going to do next week? Prepare different topics: family, holidays, job, hobbies,... You can argue against yourself talking about religions, politics, sports... You can use two main formats: -Monologues: -Fake dialogues: think about situations and you can talk as if you were talking to someone else (receptionist, doctor, manager, ...). You can play both sides. You can imagine an imaginary friend, like children do. Be creative. WHEN can you use this technique? When you are alone in your room or walking or driving your car. If there are people you can murmur, but I think it's less useful. Some people use their mobile phone to fake conversations with imaginary friends in public places. WHO can use this technique? ANYONE. Beginners can use it with their limited vocabulary and, if necessary, it's possible to use it in a diglot weave way. Mix your native language with your target language and try to change it progressively to the target language 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6013 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 4 of 4 24 July 2011 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
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The difficult part is knowing what language you know well enough to use with feedback. You should aim to work on language you know the rules for, but which isn't automatic yet.
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