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| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5347 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 1 of 11 29 May 2011 at 4:50am | IP Logged | ||
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I was wondering, which books should I use after Assimil? Should I stick with Living
Language Begin/Inter and the Advanced, or should I go with Colloquial/Teach Yourself? Also, when I started my Assimil adventure again, I didn't bother listening to the audio, while I understand the writing decently with the words I do know. When I started bothering with listening to the audio, I realised, I could only understand up to lesson 17. I'm already close to lesson 90. Should I start over again? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Carlosm Triglot Newbie Chile Joined 4953 days ago 2 posts - 5 votes Speaks: Spanish*, French, English Studies: Italian, German, Japanese | Message 2 of 11 29 May 2011 at 6:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Hi there!
Well, first of all, I think you need to study again Assimil, you need to assimilate it all. What I personally do after finishing my lessons, is listen them several times, I always have them in my mp4 player, so I can listen them anywhere, anytime (during the travel to work/university. I've read here some people arguing that you need to listen 100 times every single lesson, to assimilate it. Actually I think that depends of the person, but you really need to assimilate the Assimil course. When it be finished you will be maybe in B1 or B2 level, then you can choose between two options: 1)Use an advanced assimil course, or use the FSI courses (more structured, formal, and free... they have very good reputation in this forum) 2) Turn out to Native materials, music, films, books for native speakers, etc... I mean: immersion. I insist with the importance of reviewing (re-listening) the Assimil material, the audios are a powerful tool! Specially if you repeat it aloud, that internalize the language in your procedural long-term memory. Greetings! Edited by Carlosm on 29 May 2011 at 6:50am 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5347 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 3 of 11 29 May 2011 at 6:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks. Yeah I have no problems getting German movies (mostly dubbed), sadly they do not
contain subtitles that much like my Matrix Trilogy. Though I already have about 5 bands in German, so yeah. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tibbles Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5194 days ago 245 posts - 422 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Korean | Message 4 of 11 29 May 2011 at 8:41am | IP Logged | ||
Too bad that you didn't start listening earlier. Also, are you reading aloud the dialogs and "ejercicios de control" at least once each lesson? I suspect you may need to start over. When you do start over, you might find that you can plow through a lot of early lessons fast, as you probably have assimilated some stuff from there already. And then slow down and make sure the stuff sinks in better when the lessons become more challenging. If you need to listen to a lesson 4x, who cares? It's only 10-12 minutes.
I would lean towards #2 provided that a pretty good attempt of the 2-wave Assimil has been completed first. Some people like to do 3rd, or 4th waves, or go to other beginner's texts. However, there should come a point (hopefully early in learning) where you can take control of your own learning rather than being guided by Assimil (or any other beginner's course). In my case, I'll be done with the 2nd wave of Assimil Spanish in about 30 days, and great though it is, I don't think I could stomach a 3rd wave of it right now because it will start to get stale for me. So I will fill the Assimil gap with more native materials. Edited by tibbles on 29 May 2011 at 8:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5347 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 5 of 11 29 May 2011 at 8:51am | IP Logged | ||
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Yeah when I went to the second wave. I didn't get the sentences perfectly, miss a few
words here or there or I used Sie rather than Du. But I just couldn't really recall the words for higher lessons in the second wave. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5456 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 6 of 11 29 May 2011 at 9:02am | IP Logged | ||
There's a third option: continue studying using an advanced course and, at the same time, start using native materials. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| zekecoma Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5347 days ago 561 posts - 655 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 7 of 11 29 May 2011 at 9:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Well there is no "Using" for Spanish or German for English, only in French =[
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| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5568 days ago 938 posts - 1840 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 8 of 11 29 May 2011 at 10:01am | IP Logged | ||
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There is a Using for Spanish in English - its just out of print.
Have you thought of tracking down the Linguaphone courses on ebay? The 70s-90s courses are excellent and there are advanced German and Spanish courses - although these are all in the native language. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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