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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6621 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 9 of 13 07 February 2012 at 9:01am | IP Logged | |||||
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Although I use Anki to some extent myself I don't think it is for everyone, and if I had only a hour a day, I don't think I'd use it at all. I think both your German and Dutch are beyond the stage where you need any artificial means of learning vocabulary. Simply read and listen as much as you can, which is what you seem to be doing. Your Spanish on the other hand seems to be more at a beginner level. I don't think Anki is really necessary at this level either. Any beginner textbook will give you enough repetition of vocabulary for you to memorize it without Anki and most of that vocabulary is going to be fairly important words, so your time is better spent in using a textbook or course. Since you like Assimil, that is your best choice.
I think also, if you consider carefully, you might find that you have a bit more than an hour. You probably have some bits of time here and there that you can use. Keep a paperback novel in your coat pocket, or have some audiobooks on your mp3-player ready for such times. You might have time at lunch or when traveling/commuting for example. Also you might be able to cut down on things like native language TV and reading (and of course HTLAL) and replace them with German and Dutch. Then you could leave your hour a day for Spanish. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| garyb Triglot Senior Member ScotlandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5208 days ago 1468 posts - 2413 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, French Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 13 07 February 2012 at 12:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm not a massively experienced learner, so don't take this as advice, but in an ideal world: for beginner to intermediate I'd work through an Assimil lesson or similar (as that involves listening, reading, learning new words and grammar, and speaking) and then spend the remaining time talking, with a native if possible. For advanced I'd skip the lesson and just talk to one or more natives for an hour.
Of course it's not an ideal world, and most days I don't have access to native speakers at any given moment, a consecutive hour to dedicate to one language, or even time at home where I can speak aloud, so I have to compromise and use "better than nothing" methods like reading, writing, and self-talk. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| James29 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5376 days ago 1265 posts - 2113 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 11 of 13 08 February 2012 at 1:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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ElBrujo, you asked: "Have you found LR to significantly improve your listening comprehension or any other aspect of your L2?"
Yes, I find LR is helping my listening comprehension. That is the primary reason I am doing it now. I find the weakest part of study courses like FSI and Assimil are listening comprehension. The "problem" with LR type things is that they seem to be ineffient in the sense that you really need to sit for a long time. I often think that I would get so much more out of an hour of FSI than an hour of LR-ing, which is true, but I simply cannot do FSI every day. I hope that makes sense. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 12 of 13 09 February 2012 at 11:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
You understood this refers to words of the novel as complete sentences, not 600-700 distinct unknown vocabulary words, right? My previous sentence had 20 words, so you'd just need to memorize 30-35 such sentences, which will include tons of common words like "the." If you could memorize my sentence in 2 minutes, you're on pace. I don't do this myself, but I don't see why it wouldn't be doable. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| FuroraCeltica Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6866 days ago 1187 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 13 of 13 10 February 2012 at 10:21am | IP Logged | |||||
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I think its too simple to say what would you do in one hour. The question is where you spend that hour. For example, if you commute to work 1 hour a day, its easy to listen to an audio book, whereas if your hour a day is in a busy family home, it might be more appropriate to do something else
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