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| flydream777 Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 6492 days ago 77 posts - 102 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: German, Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Greek, Hungarian, Armenian, Irish, Italian | Message 17 of 21 26 February 2011 at 11:11pm | IP Logged | |||||
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[Although I'm not a native speaker of English, according to my dictionaries (Oxford, etc.), "revise" is certainly the most accurate English equivalent to the french verb "réviser".]
Naht in Chicahgo it ain't!! :-) Edited by flydream777 on 26 February 2011 at 11:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| christian Senior Member United States Joined 5251 days ago 111 posts - 135 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Japanese, German | Message 18 of 21 26 February 2011 at 11:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
I find that to be problematic at times because some of the translated expressions and words are put into British English, and then I have to translate that. haha 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| psy88 Senior Member United States Joined 5592 days ago 469 posts - 882 votes Studies: Spanish*, Japanese, Latin, French | Message 19 of 21 27 February 2011 at 2:11am | IP Logged | |||||
Hence the quote:"America and Britain are separated by a common language". But, in all seriousness, the differences are not that great. I have found that when watching British comedies, the sound tract offers a lot of laughter for things that I just don't get, much less think funny. Keep in mind there are many regional differences within the US, not only in word pronunciation, but even in the meaning of certain words. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| giuls Newbie Italy Joined 5019 days ago 23 posts - 31 votes Speaks: Italian* Studies: English, German | Message 20 of 21 01 March 2011 at 1:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm also studying on that version of Assimil German. My method is different though, this is what I normally do:
I listen once again to the lesson I've done the previous day I listen to the new lesson at least 3/4 times (sometimes more, depending on my comprehension) I listen while reading German a couple of times I read the translation and the notes at the bottom I copy the full dialogue on a notebook I write down a glossary (I do this especially to help me remember the gender of the nouns, but I don't try to memorize them) I listen few more times without looking at the text unless I need to I don't do the exercises, I don't find them particularly useful, and I don't read out loud, I don't feel like it, not yet. Even though I'm still in the first half of the book, the one they call 'passive phase', I've also tried to translate to and from my native language, but I soon gave up. The problem is that I end up knowing the dialogues almost by heart! Edited by giuls on 01 March 2011 at 1:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| LazyLinguist Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5604 days ago 105 posts - 125 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 21 of 21 04 March 2011 at 8:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm in deep love with this method. I think it's great and although it's pre-spelling
reform, it's probably the single best thing that's happened to my German. I usually do the following: Hear the Dialogue with the book Read the English Read the German ALOUD Hear the Dialogue and sort of shadow it with help from the text Read the Notes Do the Exercises Hear/Shadow as described before Read the German aloud again Listen to the audio without the book Note down some vocab that I didn't completely understand and Anki it This is more of a sequence and I'll repeat steps if I feel that I need it,but sort of re-doing it from leaving off near the end for a couple of months, as I am now, the first 40 or so lessons are quite easy. I really like the content but as with anything you have to mold it to you. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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