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| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 33 of 52 07 March 2012 at 10:56pm | IP Logged |
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DreamCH, thanks for asking! I haven't yet decided how to exactly use the Birkenbihl method... and for which language. I might choose Bengali in order to try the decoding method. As soon as I've made a plan I'll write it down here.
How do you like the decoding method? Do you think it works for you? Do you use it for all of your languages or just one? Bengali: texts and grammar, 30 min French: listen to the news, 30 min Russian: Assimil lesson 39 (and 4), 35 min Swedish: watch gameshow, 30 min Portuguese: listen to the news, 15 min 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| DreamCH Tetraglot Newbie Switzerland Joined 4504 days ago 18 posts - 25 votes Speaks: German, Swiss-German*, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 34 of 52 09 March 2012 at 1:20pm | IP Logged |
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it`s just a bit too early to give a summary on my approach, but a bit of decoding helps me to get in touch with the structure of a language the fast way.
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| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 35 of 52 10 March 2012 at 12:04am | IP Logged |
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@ DreamCH: I see. Anyway, whenever you feel like it's the right time to write about your approach I'll be very interested to read it!
My Amazon order (most of it) arrived today and with it my Assimil Brazilian Portuguese. Of course I had to do the 1st lesson right away! As expected, it was fairly easy but there are still 99 lessons to go! On the cover it says that the book should take you to B2... hm, we'll see about that. After that followed lesson 40 (+5) of Assimil Russian and a bit of Bengali... didn't have time to do more because I went to the movies to watch a French film (original version with - unfortunately German - subtitles). Yesterday all I did was: Spanisch: 40 min Französisch: 30 min Arabisch: 25 min Türkisch: 10 min 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| aodhanc Diglot Groupie Iceland Joined 6100 days ago 92 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish | Message 36 of 52 10 March 2012 at 10:30am | IP Logged |
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Don't you think maybe that you're attempting too much? In total, you list 10 languages (in addition to your native language). Some of them very different i.e. Bengali, Arabic, Mandarin. Unless you have time to study on an almost full-time basis, and attain a high level in all of these languages, would it not be better to focus on maybe 2 languages (i.e. you mention French and Swedish), and abandon the others until you achieve fluency in these 2 target languages. Otherwise, you run the risk of never being able to competently speak any of them. Just a suggestion. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 37 of 52 10 March 2012 at 8:28pm | IP Logged |
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@ aodhanc: I understand what you are trying to say and I totally agree with you that focusing on only one or two languages would lead to better results in those. I've given this a lot of thought in the past and there are several reasons why I chose to try to do it the way I do now (that doesn't mean I'm doing it right).
The first is, if I was to drop most of my languages, I'd have no idea which ones to keep and which ones to drop. Keep the ones I already speak fairly well (i.e. French, Spanish, Swedish - but that's 3 again already)? Keep the ones that are most useful to me? But besides English none of my languages is particularly "useful" to me at the moment unless I travel to a country where it's spoken (which would be Spanish and Russian this year). I know my choice of languages may seem a little random at first but it isn't at all. There's a certain reason and story behind every of my languages so I'm somehow attached to all of them. Then, considering I usually have 2-3 hours a day for language study, I could spend 60-90 min on one language every day - and I know I wouldn't do it. I'd still do maybe 30-45 min of each and then move on to something else. Just because it bores me to spend to much time on the same stuff. In the end it comes down to this: I learn languages for fun. I don't have to achieve anything in any of them. If I do it's great (and actually I do think that I am making some progress) but it is not a must. There already are enough "musts" in my life so if language learning is no longer fun I might drop the whole thing. I'm aware that many people will not agree with my approach but as often said on this forum everyone has to find out what works for himself and I guess that's what works for me. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 38 of 52 11 March 2012 at 8:28pm | IP Logged |
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Russian: Assimil repetition of lesson 37-41 (+2-6)
Portuguese: Assimil lesson 2 Arabic: Usrati audio lesson 1-7 Swedish: watch gameshow Chinese: TargetChinese Book 1, lesson 1+2 Bengali: DSLA lesson 4 Spanish: listen to Amaral’s Gato Negro/Dragon Rojo 1 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 39 of 52 12 March 2012 at 9:02pm | IP Logged |
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Portuguese: Assimil lesson 3
Russian: Assimil lesson 42 (+7) French: watch an episode of Big Bang Theory Spanish: watch an episode of Big Bang Theory Chinese: TargetChinese Book 1 lesson 3 Bengali: DSAL lesson 5 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 40 of 52 13 March 2012 at 9:21pm | IP Logged |
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Portuguese: Assimil lesson 4
Russian: Assimil lesson 43 (+8) Turkish: grammar and vocab (lesson 11/12) Spanish: watch an episode of Big Bang Theory Arabic: Usrati lesson 10 Swedish: watch gameshow French: listen to Zaz Chinese: repetition of lesson 1-3 of TargetChinese Book 1 Bengali: repetition of lesson 4-5 of DSAL 1 person has voted this message useful |
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