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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4703 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 1 of 1 29 July 2012 at 8:11am | IP Logged |
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So,
Rather than waiting for the "perfect" time to begin studying a language again, I decided Monday is it. If I make excuses about being at a new job and in a new position, then it will just snowball and keep me from ever getting anything done! Anyway, I have tons and tons of sources (hooray for studying such a popular language), but my plan is to start with German Without Toil. After having the experience of using Assimil with a few other languages, I think I know what will work well for me. I think I will eschew the traditional passive/active waves and instead do the following, based mainly off of the Dutch with Ease directions, but with a few slight tweaks: 1) Listen to the German with the book closed. 2) listen while reading the English. 3) listen while reading the German. 4) listen to the German again, pausing after each line and repeating out loud (doing it line by line helps ensure more accurate pronunciation) and then comparing with the English until I can say the German translation properly while looking at the English. 5) read the German out loud again without looking at the English translation 6) listen to the recording 2x; first looking at the English and 2nd at the German 7) repeat step 4 8) listen once with the book closed 9) listen a final time with the book closed, and stop after each sentence, repeating out loud 10) Review the grammar and punctuation notes 11) Read the exercises, repeating each several times until all words are familiar. I figure I will do that once in the morning and once at night. On day 7's, I plan to go back and shadow all of that weeks exercises after reviewing the grammar notes and such. Once I get to the active phase, I will work in Luca's system. Here is a quick review of Luca's method of Target Language=>Native Language => Target Language, which I've also seen called direct-inverse translation (with some added tweaks): 1. Listen to audio 2. Replay audio, but stop after each line and read aloud. Play audio again and shadow (aka, read along with the speaker matching the speed and intonation to the best of my ability (at least, this is how I understand shadowing, feel free to correct me)). 3. Read text along with the audio (silently in my head) and then read text aloud without the audio. 4. Translate the German into English line-by-line. 5. Translate my English translation of the German text back into German line by line. This one intrigues me. Has anyone ever used this as a form of active wave for Assimil? I am just trying to think of the best way to integrate it as I sort of think it makes sense. I am just not sure how to stagger the delays. Here was my plan I've somewhat formulated in my mind as an example (with Day 1 being day 1 of beginning the active phase): Day 1: Lesson 46 passive Lesson 1: Do steps 1-4 of Luca method Day 2: Lesson 47 passive Lesson 2 - Do steps 1-4 of Luca method listed above Lesson 1 - Do step 5 of translating my English translation back into German. Check for errors. If it is just another way of saying the same thing, ignore it. Any vocab that doesn't stick by this point, make a note card for. Day 3: Lesson 48 passive Lesson 3 - Do steps 1-4 of Luca method listed above Lesson 2 - Do step 5, etc... Thoughts or input on how I plan to do the passive and active wave as of now? I suppose I could just do the Luca system from Day 1 as well and do that in the evening instead of repeating my passive steps again. It'd save me a month and a half in terms of getting through the book. However, the point is to learn the language, so speed isn't really a necessity. Thoughts either way on it? Edited by ericblair on 29 July 2012 at 8:19am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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