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| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4714 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 17 of 22 20 January 2012 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
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Sometimes I wonder if I am being too passive. I am not really memorizing dialogue or
any words. I am just sort of....going through the steps. A few times I feel a bit of intuition (like, "a verb for plural you usually ends in THIS"). Am I doing this right? Haha. It almost feels too hands off for now. I may start taking the Previous lesson summary that I wrote out (so, Lesson 7 for now, Lesson 14 after next week, etc...) to campus with me so in the middle of my day, I get the basic grammar review to compliment my morning and night run through Assimil. Today is day 11! I've read a lot of people's comments about when they had improvement. When did you all have your first "breakthrough" of any type? I feel like it seems around 3 weeks of daily contact seems to be when people have begun to pick up basic things in daily life. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5265 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 18 of 22 20 January 2012 at 1:40am | IP Logged |
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Try not to worry so much. It's early days still. From time to time, check yourself by reading a newspaper article in Italian or listening to some audio. If you are progressing well you will notice that you are picking up more words, sentences and more of the gist of what you are listening to or reading.
I recommend that you start speaking with natives, even though you think that there is no way that you are ready. Yeah, it's scary because you don't have enough vocabulary yet but you can say a lot via video using what you do know. in this way you will gain more vocabulary. You will get immediate feedback and advance more rapidly. Italian is not a dead language. It is alive! What will I talk about when my language level is so basic Language Exhange Community The Mixxer language exchanges 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4714 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 19 of 22 21 January 2012 at 6:18pm | IP Logged |
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I was thinking that it may be a good time to start learning numbers. Cardinal and
Ordinal. Seems like a good idea. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4714 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 20 of 22 26 January 2012 at 5:21am | IP Logged |
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The amount of typos and grammar errors in the Assimil course are disconcerting. It makes
me nervous that things I don't understand in Italian are wrong :( 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4714 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 21 of 22 28 January 2012 at 9:16am | IP Logged |
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A few changes to how I'm structuring my studies:
I am going to go back to only doing Assimil once a day. One reason is my final semester at my university has begun, and time is becoming much more of a premium! Due to this, I also am changing the format of how I'm doing it. There seem to be as many versions as there are posters, haha. But, after actually getting some hands on experience with it, it seems that the "Dutch With Ease" directions floating around seem to make the most sense. I've done them the past few days and feel really comfortable with them. So, starting today, Assimil once a day with those directions. I will still probably also do a longer review on Sundays (my day 7). I have not missed a single day, though, which is nice. Is it sad that in all my years in school (when I studied Spanish, French, Cantonese, and Russian), I never once studied 19 consecutive days? Haha. And, since I did Pimsleur until my Assimil arrived, it has been even longer! Anyway, I was wanting to work in some Michel Thomas, but I may wait another week or two until I have a chance to feel out this semester in school and make sure I have a good grasp on everything. I figure that my final semester senior year should get the priority since I have the rest of my (hopefully long) life to learn Italian ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ericblair Senior Member United States Joined 4714 days ago 480 posts - 700 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 22 of 22 29 January 2012 at 9:34pm | IP Logged |
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Sad news on the studying front. Though it is actually going well and I am enjoying it a
lot, I think I need to pause in my studies. I've wanted to learn Italian for a long time, but I think I may have jumped the gun a bit. My last semester just began, like I mentioned in the last post, but there are other issues as well. As for school, I barely had time to get in my Italian this past week, and we aren't even into the meat of the semester. I have a few capstone research papers to do (ie, 20-25 pages) and have around 22 books to be read for this semester, etc... Not only that, but I am moving halfway across the country at the end of May and don't have a job sorted yet. I suppose all of this was still as true as it was a few weeks ago, haha. However, the massive amounts of downtime during my month long winter break made me want to just jump into it. But, I think I owe it to my final semester (and current lack of a job post- graduation) to stop the Italian and focus on the job search and finishing out well with high grades. The bigger issue is also that I really want to be able to focus on Italian and not have it seem like just another piece of homework. So, tragically, I think the dream is dead (at least for a bit). Thanks to everyone for the help and suggestions so far, though. I feel really confident that when I restart Assimil (probably after moving, sometime in summer) that I will have had this good base of practice for the past 3 weeks to know that I can be successful. 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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