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| TMoneytron Groupie United States Joined 4861 days ago 70 posts - 83 votes  Studies: German | Message 1 of 14 11 August 2011 at 4:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey guys!
So I am ripping through Deutsch with Ease by Assimil. I have a basic question. What kind of schedule should I follow? I have been doing two a day, since I took a year of college German and finished Pimsleur a couple of weeks ago. I basically just want vocab reinforcement and expansion. So here is the basic schedule, for now: 2 a day, plus 4 revisions. That means I learn two new lessons (listen to each recording around 6 or 7 times, speaking it out loud sentence by sentence, etc) and review 4 older ones. I have a loop going, so basically I will continue to review previous lessons no matter how far I progress. My idea of review is simply listen to the recoding and read a long, perhaps stressing something I forgot, or didn't learn very well. So far I haven't forgotten anything lol. Is this enough? Too much? I think I will tone it down to 1 a day when it gets hard or when I reach the Active stage. Thanks for any help! Edited by TMoneytron on 11 August 2011 at 4:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5231 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 2 of 14 11 August 2011 at 6:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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I think it depends on how comfortable you feel with the information. If you don't feel super comfortable with it, I would do less. If you do feel comfortable with the material and you're just looking for review, do more. I would also recommend a seperate study of vocab, using Anki or something similar. Especially if you could find a Dutch with Ease deck.
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| TMoneytron Groupie United States Joined 4861 days ago 70 posts - 83 votes Studies: German | Message 3 of 14 11 August 2011 at 6:33am | IP Logged | |||||
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Excuse my ignorance, what's Anki?
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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6379 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 14 11 August 2011 at 6:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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Anki is flashcards software that uses a spaced repetition algorithm for presenting cards. Edited by newyorkeric on 11 August 2011 at 6:41am 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| TMoneytron Groupie United States Joined 4861 days ago 70 posts - 83 votes Studies: German | Message 5 of 14 11 August 2011 at 6:42am | IP Logged | |||||
Holy crap, where was this when I was studying German in college? lol. Thanks both of you! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| The Stephen Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5052 days ago 65 posts - 77 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Czech, Hungarian | Message 6 of 14 11 August 2011 at 7:10am | IP Logged | |||||
It's definitely more than necessary, but that's not necessarily bad. As long as you feel comfortable with it. I remember I did Assimil German with a ridiculously irregular schedule but still got a hell of a lot out of it (though probably not all I could've gotten out of it). Are you actually memorizing the dialogs or just letting the content kind of 'sink in'? I'm just curious, I've heard people recommend against memorizing dialogs by rote but I don't believe it hurts anything as long as you don't tire yourself out by doing it, and as long as you're still thinking about the underlying grammar and structure when you say it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5565 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 7 of 14 11 August 2011 at 10:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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One of my own techniques with Assimil is to go back from week 3 to week1 (and so onsequentially) and see if I can still do the fill in the blanks and translate the exercises from L1 to L2 (i.e. do a partial active wave early). I find the trouble with passive methods like Assimil is that you think you are able to produce sentences orally but when you try after even a short period of time you can't.
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| TMoneytron Groupie United States Joined 4861 days ago 70 posts - 83 votes Studies: German | Message 8 of 14 11 August 2011 at 4:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
I think that is the important thing, not trying to "burn out" on the Assimil. It's a definiate change from Pimsleur, because you can do 3 Pimsleur's a day and feel fine. I guess that's because there's so little words. I'm also not trying to memorize them rote. I mean, I remember them very well so far, but what's the point of simply memorizing it if you UNDERSTAND it? Isn't that the point?
That's what I'm more or less doing. I have it looping everyday, so I'll simply look at 4 of the previous lectures to see if I forgot anything, if anything this takes only about 15 minutes, so it doesn't FEEL like overkill. Eventually the lessons will loop back on themselves, going 1, 2, 3, 4, all the way up to my current lesson then back again. I made myself a nice little calendar in Excel. :) Thanks for the input everyone! Sehr hilfreich. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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