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How do you modify standard courses? why?
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Sprachprofi
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04 February 2011 at 2:17pm | IP Logged

Normunds wrote:

Sprachprofi wrote:

I'm using mp3DirectCut to split Assimil dialogs sentence by
sentence. Then I add the mp3s
to an Anki deck, where I also put the target language and source language text.
Whenever
I study the sentences this way, I also automatically hear the mp3, giving me a better
feel for the language and its pronunciation. Now when I see the English prompt I often
already hear the sentence in my head.

Right "mp3DirectCut" was the program I was trying to remember. As for the process
itself - it must really take a lot of time to prepare it this way. Anki can easily
import bunch of file as a base for cards? or you have to attach them manually one-by-
one. All this sounds to be an enormous work. Maybe you can share your decks?

It's not too bad - ever since I discovered mp3DirectCut the audio editing doesn't take
any time at all (10 secs per lesson). Adding an existing audio file to Anki takes even
less time. What's time-consuming is entering all the sentences, in the target language
and in translation. But I found that it really helps me understand the language and
remember the target-language spelling. It's a modern form of scriptorium, if you want.
Anyway I'm ready to swap decks. I'm working on Assimil Swahili (with translations to
English, not French) and Assimil Dutch (with both English and German translations).
Also, I've seen a similar deck for Polish by forum member Gusutafu; he gave me this
idea.
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Normunds
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Message 10 of 10

04 February 2011 at 3:21pm | IP Logged

Sprachprofi wrote:

Hm, I'm also splitting Assimil recordings, but for me the very best would be the time to take to split in sentences would be the time it takes to listen to it, i.e. about 2 minutes. I always listen to it to make sure my splits get down correct places. As I split them then in even smaller pieces than sentence, it takes me more time - second pass, but that's another topic.

Another thing about this approach. As Assimil advances it sometimes have pretty long sentences. Does not it feel funny to drill these? I tried enter FSI Mandarin target list sentences in SRS (just text, no recording) and frankly at some point I just started to split the long ones. I feel overwhelmed if I get cards with long text.

Anyway, Dutch and Swahili are on my longlist. Polish... not really. I have no equivalent package, but maybe I can get you interested by some Mandarin stuff.
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