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| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6170 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes  Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 9 of 42 13 January 2012 at 9:23am | IP Logged | ||
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It is with great great excitement that I will enter the Assimil active wave. Only a
language geek could understand. I have done the 50 lessons, some attentively, some by halfs. Often I skip the fill in the blank thingys - very naughty. I try to do the listening exercise with attention and I find it fab! Assimil is great I've found because you get the best juicy bit of any text book every lesson. What is the best bit of a text book? The dialogue! I've found with other text books that I labour and toil to get to the juicy dialogue but with Assimil - every day! Something must be going right because I've made it this far to lesson 50. Now I've read the instructions in the Assimil text how to do this whole active wave thing which are a bit vague and I've searched google a bit but my ideas are not completely clear. Any help would be appreciated for approaching the active wave. So far I've inferred by looking around on the net. But please add your thoughts, even if you're just familiar with the Assimil method and never used it. -Cover the L2 text and try to translate from L1 -You can go line by line -It's not important to get sentences 100% correct - It's trial and error. Did I mention that I'm using assimil for a French basis to learn German, very Freutschy of me. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6170 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 10 of 42 22 January 2012 at 10:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Attended a French meet-up this week. I'm trying to get that target of 40 hours of
actual communication in French down to zero for 2012. Now it stands at 38 hours! Definitely my stronger point is being able to comprehend. I have to make these meet-ups a habit as it's a good excuse to talk to some new people. I'm soldiering on with Assimil. The lessons are getting much more complicated as one goes along. I've now done the first five lessons again as part of the active wave and I'm astonished how much I remembered. Those lessons have really stuck and I'm able to translate without many errors. I imagine that translating later and bigger lessons would cause the most headaches. I guess my short term goal this week would be to find a French exchange partner, whether it be with Skype, conversation exchange or the like, just so I can get that target of 40 hours rolling. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4870 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 11 of 42 22 January 2012 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Maybe to late but..
How to use an Assimil course Assimil's second, active wave Edit: Fixed link Edited by Bjorn on 23 January 2012 at 6:17am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5211 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 42 23 January 2012 at 4:38am | IP Logged | ||
Bjorn, Thanks for the posting the links. However, the second link points to the same page as the first. That second one should probably be http://languagegeek.net/2011/03/14/assimils-second-active-wa ve . (Please copy and paste, removing any extra spaces inserted by the forum software.) Edited by songlines on 23 January 2012 at 4:41am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4870 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 13 of 42 23 January 2012 at 6:18am | IP Logged | ||
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songlines: Thanks, link fixed.
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| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6170 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 14 of 42 30 January 2012 at 11:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for those links, you're very kind.
I have not seen one French film for the first month of this year. I've been averaging 60 or so per year for the past three years so this is unusual. I haven't renewed my Alliance Francaise Mediatheque card which would explain this. Things looking rather slim film wise this year. I have been working through Assimil as consistently as possible. As lessons get longer and as there is a lesson to review as part of the active wave I find progression slowing. I have been also working through Pimsleur and I'm on track to complete Pimsleur 3 and Pimsleur plus by the end of April. Classes begin next week 4 hours a week for 16 weeks I think. I should begin to expect to see some results me thinks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6170 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 15 of 42 06 February 2012 at 10:28am | IP Logged | ||
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I attended a French meet-up the past week. I felt quite strong at this meet-up and it flowed pretty good. I met somebody who has spent very little time in France yet spoke almost like a native with a workable accent. He told me it was almost exclusively from reading. He also made it clear that it was lots and lots of work all the time which has got him to his level. I've seen my first French film this year called "Une Femme Francaise". I also saw 'Hugo' which is set in Paris. Some lovely shots of Paris in 3D, very stylized but still very impressive. German Consistency is the word I would apply since the beginning of the year. I haven't exactly put in the hours but I've put in lots of quality short-study sessions on a daily basis, whether it be an Assimil or Pimsleur lesson or both. This is working remarkably well for me at the moment. No need to complicate things. My German class was cancelled due to numbers. I was the only one that signed up. No panic, I've signed up for another which is only once a week which works better for me anyways. ---- Aside from language learning I've spent the last few months dedicating my time (early mornings) to road cycling and being part of a club. Anyone out there enjoy road-cycling and racing ? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6170 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1 | Message 16 of 42 19 February 2012 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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I didn't attend a meet-up this week but I did spark up a random conversation on the train after I saw the person sitting next to me was reading in French. Turns out she was from Quebec. We chatted away in a carriage full of early morning commuters. I have seen my second French film this year. A couple of podcasts and some intermittent reading German I'm having my third lesson with my German class this week. It's much better then the one I took last year. I think it's the desks facing the front. Learning prepositions and clauses; it's nice to have it explained to you and it makes sense (at the time of the lesson). Progress with Assimil slowed but still enjoying the lessons at this point. I can't imagine coming back to lesson 62 in the active phase to translate it. Too hard! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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