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| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 6012 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes  Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 9 of 10 16 April 2011 at 6:30pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm not going to drag this thread off-topic. Instead, I've written a blog post which goes into far more self-important detail than would be acceptable here. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| BartoG Diglot Senior Member United States confession Joined 5448 days ago 292 posts - 818 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Italian, Spanish, Latin, Uzbek | Message 10 of 10 16 April 2011 at 6:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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As mentioned above, a lot of this has to do with how you do the course and the background you bring, not just to the language but to language learning in general. Assimil gives you general parameters about how to do the lessons. Some people take the strictest interpretation, others the loosest interpretation. And some people come up with their own ways of using the Assimil content.
It's my impression that you can get quite far if you really do make sure you get full understanding in the first wave and really do work at the lessons until you can reproduce their content exactly in the active wave. Using Anki lists and the like may have an affect on how well the other aspects of the process work out. I recently did an Assimil experiment to see how much you could learn while doing as little as you could get away with. The results were not as impressive, though I've found that since I stopped actively studying I have a lot more Alsatian floating around in my brain than I realized, a fact I realized when I started to talk in German and had Alsatian come out instead. Of course part of the rub there is that if I was speaking German, I had a headstart on Alsatian. Which is why I'd suggest that Cainntear's offsite post is worth the read. Assimil is largely about soaking up knowledge passively, and that means fitting it into your existing framework of knowledge. If you're in the habit of learning things, especially about language, and are comfortable using language inexactly till you get better at it Assimil can take you some distance. If you feel the need to understand everything you're learning and to get it right, Assimil could be quite tedious because since it doesn't tell you everything exactly you'd probably get a mental block about things that you'd actually be able to come up with if you had to just get the message across. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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