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| Dvergr Newbie United States Joined 6176 days ago 32 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch | Message 17 of 69 09 March 2008 at 9:02am | IP Logged |
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My next vote is for Professor Arguelles.
This thread caused me to rediscover my closet full of Assimil courses. I had abandoned them for Pimsleur and Rosetta Stone, both good methods in their own right, but much more expensive. Also his discussions about learning whole language families at a time and his success in doing just that reawakened my desire to learn the Romance and Germanic families that I originally formed after reading the Loom of Language by Frederick Bodmer many years ago. I've been lurking on this forum for quite some time. These three people have immensely improved my language learning. I am finding the combination of Assimil with L-R, especially with so many free and legal audiobooks becoming available, to be the most efficient method for me personally to learn languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6909 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 69 09 March 2008 at 11:26am | IP Logged |
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The member who has inspired me the most is probably ProfArguelles - perhaps thanks to the abovementioned thread. I think it was there that I first read about both Assimil and shadowing, and his recent re-appearing on this forum has given us the study chart, to name just one thing.
Other members that have been very helpful depending on the language I was searching information for (which area I focused on) are Fanatic, Iversen (just off the top of my head). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alfonso Octoglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 6861 days ago 511 posts - 536 votes Speaks: Biblical Hebrew, Spanish*, French, English, Tzotzil, Italian, Portuguese, Ancient Greek Studies: Nahuatl, Tzeltal, German | Message 19 of 69 09 March 2008 at 6:14pm | IP Logged |
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Maybe this answer is not exactly what I'm supposed to say, but I sense that it's somehow the opportunity I was waiting for to thank all those members who have been very patient with me to help me in many cases. Last February I became two years old in this forum and I appreciate very much the support I've received all this time from many of you, not only to improve my English, but know more about language learning. Sometimes they also help me to correct my English Spelling, Syntax or Grammar though.
Special thanks to: * Patuco * Administrator * Sir Nigel * Iversen * Frenkeld * Lucia and of course my compatriot Alas Oscuras who hasn't shown up here in a while. Edited by Alfonso on 09 March 2008 at 6:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ryuukohito Bilingual Diglot Groupie Malaysia Joined 6236 days ago 89 posts - 98 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Malay* Studies: French, Japanese | Message 22 of 69 10 March 2008 at 9:03pm | IP Logged |
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I am torn as to who I should choose, so I too must violate the rules in replying:
1 - Professor Arguelles - Hands down. The Professor has bequeathed us all with some amazing tips over the years. His words have guided me much throughout my own process of learning languages. I do not use a dictionary now because of him (and yes I do agree that you can save more time by using readers, at least until you have a sufficiently large vocabulary, because referring to a dictionary constantly does feel intrusive to the learning/enjoyment experience, at least for me). And shadowing is a skill whose difficulties I have to come to enjoy thanks to the Professor's explanations of its benefits. I love the fact that his writing style has always come off sounding firm, authoritative, but always, and without fail, very polite. He has a very elegant way of writing. 2 - sheetz - His Japanese audiobooks thread has helped me accumulate immensely helpful Japanese literature and audio materials, and many of them. If I were be able to 'master' Japanese in a few years time, then I must attribute a huge part of my success to him. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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