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| ALS Senior Member United States Joined 5796 days ago 104 posts - 131 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian, Finnish, Russian | Message 1 of 5 25 March 2011 at 6:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Audio courses are, for the most part, my favorite way of studying a language. Michel Thomas is the one I like best, Pimsleur a close second. The only problem is that I get kinda bored with just sitting there listening and staring at a wall. I can't really read while listening since it all gets jumbled and I don't absorb it. One of my other favorite hobbies is knitting. Unfortunately even very basic knitting (stockinette or garter for those in the know) is too much to concentrate on, even though I can do it quite mindlessly and without looking, and again it just doesn't absorb well.
So I'm looking for things to do while listening to audio courses that don't impede absorption and learning. I thought of easy exercise like walking on a treadmill but I haven't tried it yet. Ideas, please? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5661 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 2 of 5 25 March 2011 at 7:53am | IP Logged | ||
Walking is certainly a good solution. Many on here do that, including me. When sitting at home with audio, my mind drifts after 15 minutes. When out walking, I manage about two hours audio per day. Highly recommended. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| hrhenry Octoglot Senior Member United States languagehopper.blogs Joined 5122 days ago 1871 posts - 3642 votes Speaks: English*, SpanishC2, ItalianC2, Norwegian, Catalan, Galician, Turkish, Portuguese Studies: Polish, Indonesian, Ojibwe | Message 3 of 5 25 March 2011 at 2:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Another one for walking. But outdoors. I'm not sure my mind would stay as focused if I were just on a treadmill.
That said, once I've absorbed some audio, I can go back and listen to it again with less focus and still get use out of it. But the first listen (or two) has to be done with good concentration. R. == 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| mr_chinnery Senior Member England Joined 5749 days ago 202 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 5 25 March 2011 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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| schoenewaelder Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5552 days ago 759 posts - 1197 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Dutch | Message 5 of 5 25 March 2011 at 5:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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As well as a more passive activity for your active audio, you might want to have some passive audio to accompany your active activities (eg knitting).
So for example, if you were doing Assimil (Hooray! Everybody's favourite) you could listen to previously completed lessons on loop. Edited by schoenewaelder on 25 March 2011 at 5:17pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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