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gravityguy
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 Message 1 of 4
10 July 2012 at 9:25pm | IP Logged 
OK, I am a little confused about exactly what I should be listening to on each of the
tracks for Assimil Italian. On each of the recordings (tracks) there are 2 versions of
the same recording; one slow and one fast. When the instructions say 'listen to each
track once...' does it mean, listen to both the slow and fast recordings once or listen
to either the slow or the fast recording? If so, which one?

I've just finished the first lesson and I listened to the whole track (meaning both the
slow and the fast) for each time it said, listen to the track then....

Is this right what I am doing? There doesn't seem to be many instructions for assimil and
the ones I have found make no mention of 1 slow recording followed by 1 fast. Maybe I
have a dodgy copy of the recordings and there should actually only be 1! :-S
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newyorkeric
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11 July 2012 at 2:59am | IP Logged 
After the first week, there is only one speed so don't worry too much about it. Besides you should be listening to each lesson many times so it doesn't really matter.
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11 July 2012 at 6:03am | IP Logged 
gravityguy wrote:
OK, I am a little confused about exactly what I should be listening to on each of the
tracks for Assimil Italian. On each of the recordings (tracks) there are 2 versions of
the same recording; one slow and one fast. When the instructions say 'listen to each
track once...' does it mean, listen to both the slow and fast recordings once or listen
to either the slow or the fast recording? If so, which one?

I've just finished the first lesson and I listened to the whole track (meaning both the
slow and the fast) for each time it said, listen to the track then....

Is this right what I am doing? There doesn't seem to be many instructions for assimil and
the ones I have found make no mention of 1 slow recording followed by 1 fast. Maybe I
have a dodgy copy of the recordings and there should actually only be 1! :-S


You listen to the fast and the slow. They only do this for the first lessons.The idea is for you to hear exactly what they are saying on the slow track and then get used to hearing it at close to normal speed on the fast.

I would play through the lesson several times anyway until you can easily understand it.
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gravityguy
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11 July 2012 at 8:50am | IP Logged 
Ahhh right! Thanks for the explanation all. I spent about an hour yesterday on the first lesson trying ticket
used to it.

I think I'm going to enjoy this course :)


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