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| Sin_Nombre Newbie United States Joined 5127 days ago 19 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 1 of 6 02 April 2011 at 7:08am | IP Logged |
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No seriously, I do. Ever since I quit my job, I realized just how much free time I have. Anyway, I'm doing Assimil's New French w/ Ease course, and was wondering if doing as many as four or six lessons a day (split up into various double shots in the morning and then later in the afternoon) would be okay. Is that too much? Or, more accurately, will doing so many lessons in one day be detrimental to the learning process, even if they're split up? Many thanks.
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| arturs Triglot Senior Member Latvia Joined 5263 days ago 278 posts - 408 votes  Speaks: Latvian*, Russian, English | Message 2 of 6 02 April 2011 at 8:12am | IP Logged |
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As long as You are familiar with the vocabulary and structures of the previous chapter, You can do that. If You don't know the vocabulary (at least 90 % of it) and the structures, for example, of chapter 4, You can not move on to chapter 5.
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| Nudimmud Groupie United States Joined 5184 days ago 87 posts - 161 votes Studies: Greek, Korean | Message 3 of 6 02 April 2011 at 8:17am | IP Logged |
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In general I would say multiple lessons shouldn't be a problem. The FSI language programs (at least of the 60s and 70s) assumed intensive, 6 hour days of language learning, 5 days a week -- more for students who felt they were able to handle it -- with the objective of reaching function fluency in a language sufficient to carry out diplomatic business in a span of 6 to 9 months. I'm guessing that you're not even at the 6 hours level let alone at the 8 - 10 that advanced students would do.
The one caveat I would add is that by doing many lessons close together, you might short circuit the graduated intervals that the course uses to fix material in long term memory. As an over simplified example: a sequence of six lessons might introduce and and reinforce a new phase: so the phase might be introduced and repeated multiple times in lesson 1, a couple times in lesson 2, once in lesson 3 and once to anchor it into long term memory in lesson 6. And then afterwards it might never be used again. If you were do do all six lessons in one sitting you wouldn't benefit from the graduated interval that was calibrated for one lesson a day. In that case you would have do perform the reviews yourself. Edited by Nudimmud on 02 April 2011 at 6:52pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Ikipou Diglot Newbie Norway lingua.ikipou.com/ Joined 4982 days ago 24 posts - 23 votes Speaks: French*, English | Message 4 of 6 02 April 2011 at 1:31pm | IP Logged |
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Personally I would mix with some audio like watching movies/TV shows to have some immersion instead of active learning. For me, forcing myself to learn too fast never works.
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| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5487 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 5 of 6 02 April 2011 at 3:49pm | IP Logged |
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I agree with what the previous three posters have said.
In addition to the problem of not being able to fix material in your longterm memory, you might also face the challenge of feeling that you need to cover a certain amount of material every day. For example, you could progress for several days through x relatively easy chapters. Then one day you might only be able to complete x-1 chapters in the same alloted time period, and you may feel either compelled to rush through the material, or less likely, disheartened at your seemingly lesser progress. I recommended you use several different programmes to complement each other. Perhaps a regimen such as two lessons of Assimil, a French radio or television programme that interests you, and then some vocabulary study would be a better choice than just six lessons of Assimil per day. Edit: text formatting Edited by canada38 on 02 April 2011 at 3:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5445 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 6 of 6 02 April 2011 at 7:26pm | IP Logged |
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I too think you could run into problems with not being able to retain what you learn in the long-term memory.
There are so many additional resources you could use for French that there is really no need to mess with the Assimil method this way. Stick to what Assimil recommends: one lesson a day. That is how the course has been designed to work best. Spend the rest of the time on other resources: radio, podcasts, TV, movies, comic books, newspapers, Living Language, Linguaphone, Berlitz, FSI etc. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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