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| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5335 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 9 of 18 03 February 2011 at 6:58am | IP Logged | ||
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That's a shame to hear.
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| Matty Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5285 days ago 31 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 10 of 18 06 February 2011 at 2:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Day 35:
Over the last few days, my progress in Pimsleur has accelerated. I have jumped from Lesson 1 of Pimsleur II all the way to Lesson 10 of Pimsleur II in just 4 days! I'd say I've increased my effort, but the lessons also seem easier than they were towards the end of Pimsleur I. Also, other exciting non-Spanish (German) news. I started Der Prozess von Franz Kafka (The Trial by Franz Kafka) in German using the L-R method. This is my first experiment with L-R. However, I was not really having any difficulty *understanding* what was being said, so I switched to outright shadowing. But I have only gotten through about 10 pages so far, and I had to slow down the recording to 80% speed. I could not keep up with the full speed German speaking, and had to make it slower in order to be able to stop and breathe! We'll see what comes of this... Edited by Matty on 08 February 2011 at 12:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Matty Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5285 days ago 31 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 11 of 18 08 February 2011 at 12:05am | IP Logged | ||
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Day 37:
In the past few days, I have continued to rocket forwards in Pimsleur. I am all the way to lesson 17 of Pimsleur 2!!! Probably I will need to go back through a good chunk of it, but I find that I am able to keep advancing on to new lessons without being lost. In Pimsleur 1, I generally simply *couldn't* go on to the next lesson until I had repeated it several times and really gotten it nailed into my head. But now, when I go on to new lessons I seem to be able to keep up much better. Hopefully this whirlwind progress continues! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Matty Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5285 days ago 31 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 12 of 18 12 February 2011 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Day 42:
Well, this week I kept up my pace. I spent more or less all the time I possibly could on Spanish. I have gotten through lesson 30 of Pimsleur 2. I will probably go back and review a good chunk of Pimsleur 2 later, but I have internalized a good amount of the material. I also watched a lot of Destinos, jumping from episode 5 to episode 20. It seemed to me that Pimsleur helped a lot with understanding Destinos. Also, I figured out how to edit MP3s to take out pauses with audacity. I have done this for Pimsleur III. I have an ambitious goal for this weekend - I will run through the ENTIRETY of Pimsleur III this weekend, using the MP3s without pauses. Each lesson is about 15 minutes, and with 30 lessons, that comes to 7.5 hours. In practice, this will probably be sort of a "passive wave" in which I am not pausing and thinking of the answers, but rather will probably more be shadowing. My hope is that going through Pimsleur III once will then make it much easier to go through on a second wave, with the regular 30 minute lessons (with pauses). I will try to do a first wave through ALL 30 lessons today, but I will give myself Sunday as well, in case I can't quite do it. I will post how far I get tonight! For some reason, I seem to have the discipline to get myself to do "boring" things like a Pimsleur marathon. :) Finally, it occured to me that if I go through Pimsleur so quickly, I will need something else to do!!! I don't think Michel Thomas will take very long. So Assimil Spanish (1987 edition) is in the mail! I have also downloaded the FSI Programmatic Spanish course. Any thoughts on whether I should do Assimil or FSI first after Pimsleur? If I do Assimil and then FSI, will FSI be redundant, or vice versa? Edited by Matty on 12 February 2011 at 4:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Matty Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5285 days ago 31 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 13 of 18 13 February 2011 at 3:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Day 43:
Well, I got through all 30 lessons of Pimsleur 3 yesterday. After I was done, my voice was very tired from so much talking. Actually, I found that to be the greatest impediment to doing 30 lessons in one day. In addition, I watched the Lion King in Spanish on Youtube. I found that I could understand a good amount, both from Pimsleur and from the fact that I have seen that movie many times in both English and German. Also, I spent 15 minutes or so watching Youtube videos on Mandarin tones and pronounciation... Uh oh. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Élan Senior Member United States Joined 5435 days ago 165 posts - 211 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Persian | Message 14 of 18 13 February 2011 at 3:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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After such an action-packed Saturday, you deserve some wanderlust time! I can't believe you really managed to get through so many Pimsleur lessons. I think it took me 6 months to finally finish 30! Congrats!
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| getreallanguage Diglot Senior Member Argentina youtube.com/getreall Joined 5462 days ago 240 posts - 371 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English Studies: Italian, Dutch | Message 15 of 18 13 February 2011 at 5:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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¡Mucha suerte con tu castellano!
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| Matty Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5285 days ago 31 posts - 35 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 16 of 18 13 February 2011 at 7:31pm | IP Logged | ||
Well, I did "get through" them, but I didn't really finish them. As much as anything else, I repeated what I heard sort of on autopilot. I will have to review them, I am sure. It was a quite a marathon. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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