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| blindsheep Triglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6351 days ago 503 posts - 507 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 1 of 10 09 November 2010 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello everyone,
I'm wondering if anyone has any recommended techniques for improving numerical comprehension in a language. I find that with my French my listening comprehension of numbers always lags behind my general listening comprehension. Ideas? Thanks! My French is generally around B2/C1. Edited by blindsheep on 09 November 2010 at 12:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andrew C Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom naturalarabic.com Joined 5181 days ago 205 posts - 350 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written) | Message 2 of 10 09 November 2010 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe:
Listen to French economic news and just write down the numbers. Listen again to check or look at a transcript. Find the the times-tables sung/recited in French and sing/recite along. Ask a language partner to ask you maths questions, or perhaps multiple choice questions where the answers are numbers. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jmagyar Triglot Newbie SlovakiaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5368 days ago 16 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Slovak, Hungarian*, English Studies: German | Message 3 of 10 09 November 2010 at 8:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Everytime you see a number (in shops the prices for example), say it in French.
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| blindsheep Triglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6351 days ago 503 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 4 of 10 10 November 2010 at 4:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ok, thanks for the tips both of you, I'll give those a shot!
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| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6774 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 10 10 November 2010 at 5:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh man, I'm totally the same. When I'm reading a book and there's a number I have the
option either to just look at it and comprehend or to pronounce it, which takes much longer and almost makes me lose focus on what I'm reading a bit. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7094 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 6 of 10 10 November 2010 at 6:41pm | IP Logged | ||
Well, this has a recommendation of one - i.e. me :-) I've always had trouble with this, so what I do is I concentrate totally on visualising the numbers themselves in my head as I hear them while blocking out everything else. If I've got recorded audio, I repeat just the numbers a few times. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5198 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 10 10 November 2010 at 6:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have the same problem so I'll try all these suggestions. Also, french.about.com has some number exercises, which I haven't got round to checking out yet:
http://french.about.com/library/begin/bl-numbers.htm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5838 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 10 12 November 2010 at 7:43am | IP Logged | ||
My Turkish textbook recommends a training with telephone numbers. You can create your own ones like for example: 25 67 89 vingt-cinq soixante-sept quatre-vingt-neuf (EDIT) 45 82 93 59 78 95 26 56 87 etc. Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 12 November 2010 at 3:10pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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