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| tomsawyer Senior Member Aruba Joined 5278 days ago 103 posts - 141 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: GermanB1, French, Russian | Message 1 of 9 30 May 2011 at 4:37am | IP Logged |
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New Text hours: 13hrs 45mins
Total L-R hours: 23hrs 25mins In order to assist those interested in L-R, I'm branching off from my TAC log and creating this separate record. For those unfamiliar with the L-R method, you can find the thread that started it all TID=6366&PN=1">here. I'm using printed and bound copies of the following parallel texts, with accompanying audio: - Jules Verne - Le Tour du monde en 80 jours (06:42) - Victor Hugo - Notre Dame de Paris (19:32) - Alexandre Dumas - Les trois mousquetaires (26:58) Apparently, one needs between 80 - 120 hours of L-R, with exposure to a minimum of around 40 hours of new text, to get to the natural listening stage, so my choice of above texts seems in order (I have 53hrs 12mins of new text). My background in French is basic - around 6 months ago I did the Michel Thomas basic and advanced courses, and 12 months ago I worked through French in 3 Months. The end goal, of course, is natural listening, and being able to understand and use French comfortably. I plan on doing a lot of conversing with local French people at the tail end of this assault. Edited by tomsawyer on 31 May 2011 at 2:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tomsawyer Senior Member Aruba Joined 5278 days ago 103 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English* Studies: GermanB1, French, Russian | Message 2 of 9 30 May 2011 at 4:38am | IP Logged |
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23rd May
- Jules Verne - Le Tour du monde en 80 jours - 20:15 - 23:15 (3hrs) - Step 1 - Reading English - Step 2 - Listening French, Reading French I have difficulty separating spoken French into distinct words, so Step 2 is my first port of call. Also peeking across at the English to get an overview of the story, satisfying Step 1. Edited by tomsawyer on 30 May 2011 at 4:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tomsawyer Senior Member Aruba Joined 5278 days ago 103 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English* Studies: GermanB1, French, Russian | Message 3 of 9 30 May 2011 at 4:39am | IP Logged |
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24th May
- Jules Verne - Le Tour du monde en 80 jours - 19:45 - 23:30 (3hrs 45mins) - Step 1 - Reading English - Step 2 - Listening French, Reading French Finished my first run through of this text. I feel confident now in recognizing most French words when hearing them spoken. This is a really enjoyable text, which I can imagine is critical for effective L-R. Edited by tomsawyer on 30 May 2011 at 4:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tomsawyer Senior Member Aruba Joined 5278 days ago 103 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English* Studies: GermanB1, French, Russian | Message 4 of 9 30 May 2011 at 4:51am | IP Logged |
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25th May
- Jules Verne - Le Tour du monde en 80 jours - 19:30 - 23:00 (3hrs 30mins) - Step 3 - Listening French, Reading English This really feels like just enjoying a good story, rather than learning French. Keeping up well, though lost my place a few times (as to be expected). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tomsawyer Senior Member Aruba Joined 5278 days ago 103 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English* Studies: GermanB1, French, Russian | Message 5 of 9 30 May 2011 at 4:53am | IP Logged |
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26th May
- Jules Verne - Le Tour du monde en 80 jours - 22:00 - 01:15 (3hrs 15mins) - Step 3 - Listening French, Reading English Finished rather late, but couldn't put the book down till I'd finished it. Really started to follow the French quite well tonight. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tomsawyer Senior Member Aruba Joined 5278 days ago 103 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English* Studies: GermanB1, French, Russian | Message 6 of 9 30 May 2011 at 4:56am | IP Logged |
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28th May
- Jules Verne - Le Tour du monde en 80 jours - 15:00 - 17:45 (2hrs 45mins) - Step 3 - Listening French, Reading English Started going back through this wonderful story once more, but I started to tire of the plot. I know the "official" thread suggests to go through up to three times, but I think I'll come back to this one later. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tomsawyer Senior Member Aruba Joined 5278 days ago 103 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English* Studies: GermanB1, French, Russian | Message 7 of 9 30 May 2011 at 5:00am | IP Logged |
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That's the backlog taken care of - I didn't want to start a log on here like this until I could do some initial testing of the idea.
If you're currently using L-R or a similar method, I'd love to hear from you, and how you're getting on with it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tomsawyer Senior Member Aruba Joined 5278 days ago 103 posts - 141 votes Speaks: English* Studies: GermanB1, French, Russian | Message 8 of 9 31 May 2011 at 2:27am | IP Logged |
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29th May
- Victor Hugo - Notre Dame de Paris - 18:00 - 19:00 (1hr) - Step 3 - Listening French, Reading English Wasn't really feeling this book after an hour of L-R, and since it's so important to find books you enjoy, I'm going to leave this one aside for the moment. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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