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| Oasis88 Senior Member Australia Joined 5696 days ago 160 posts - 187 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 49 of 112 24 November 2010 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Congratulations on finishing Assimil! I could easily gather how conflicted you were with
the programme so you must feel really happy to be finished with it. Any advice for an Assimil noob such as myself (currently up to lesson 28)? I generally approach the lessons in this order: 1/ Read the text a few times and lookup any unknown words (I don't particularly like the translations offered). 2/ Listen to the lesson while reading the Italian 5-6 times. 3/ Load the lesson on my iPod and listen to it while I'm driving anywhere up to 40-50 times. After each lesson hits 50 plays, or I can easily understand it, then I do a short review before marking that lesson "complete" and removing it from my iPod. This is probably overkill but I'm almost reciting Assimil lessons in my sleep. I think it's helpful, plus I drive a lot, so I don't see why not. Ideas? I lost track of your progress with Assimil Italian. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6774 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 50 of 112 24 November 2010 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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You are doing it a lot more thoroughly than I. This is what I have been doing:
1. Read the lesson, the extra sentences that follow and the exercises (trying to fill in the blanks). 2. Start the lesson "from the top", but now go through it again, also reading the notes, to make sure I understand everything and record anything new/interesting in Anki as a flashcard. 3. Do one lesson of translation for the second wave. This is very focused on visual learning, I haven't even used the recordings, and my method of remembering stuff is Anki, not repeating lessons. The downside, not surprisingly, is that I have gained no listening practice from this. But that's because the recordings don't appeal to me, they are too short to "seem worth doing" and I don't like reading the lesson while I listen to the audio, my brain just tunes out. So I've gotten as much out of Assimil as I can chew, and it's a lot anyway. In the case of Italian I barely used Assimil at all, I basically went through the whole course after I had already reached a point where it didn't teach me much. You must have noticed that I have a very conflicted opinion about Assimil. I'm trying to like it, but some things I don't. I'll probably return to Assimil again to learn French, that will be my third try at Assimil. The gradient so far is positive. Edited by numerodix on 24 November 2010 at 5:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Oasis88 Senior Member Australia Joined 5696 days ago 160 posts - 187 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 51 of 112 05 December 2010 at 3:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Making progress?
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| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6774 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 52 of 112 06 December 2010 at 6:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah, I am. I have to say that whoever came up with the Assimil second wave idea deserves
a lot of credit. All I have left now is the second wave, I'm on lesson 59 (of 84) and I can't believe how effective this exercise is. I'm getting better fast, to the point that I now reproduce half the lines of the Dutch version word for word. It seems I'm getting the hang of how sentences are formed in Dutch. I realize now that I've underestimated Assimil. And it's working. I got a letter today from the bank and I could read the whole thing yay. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Oasis88 Senior Member Australia Joined 5696 days ago 160 posts - 187 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Italian | Message 53 of 112 07 December 2010 at 1:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Nice work -- it's great that Assimil is doing what you want it to after your earlier
concerns. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5557 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 54 of 112 08 December 2010 at 3:02am | IP Logged | ||
Ja mijn Spaans gaat goed. Ik heb eindelijk vacantie daarom nu kan ik elke dag een paar uur doen. Ook heb ik veel films en wat boeken in het Spaans, dus studeren is tamelijk makkelijk om te doen. Zo veel goede schrijvers in het Spaans.. Ben ik weer actief met het Nederlands ook, het heeft een heel lange tijd geweest sinds ik een beetje heb gedaan, maar het komt nog wel. Hoe gaat alles in Nederland? Hebt je al sneeuw zoals vorig jaar? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5688 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 55 of 112 08 December 2010 at 12:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sneeuw? Ja, wij hebben hier dit jaar reeds zeer veel sneeuw gehad. Het vriest nog steeds. De winter en het
winterse weer is ook dit jaar vroeg begonnen! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Vos Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5557 days ago 766 posts - 1020 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, Polish | Message 56 of 112 10 December 2010 at 3:49am | IP Logged | ||
Leuk! Ik hou van winter en de sneeuw, ik wens die ik er was! Heeft alle de rivieren en grachten ook gevroren worden? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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