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| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6676 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 9 of 15 06 April 2011 at 6:17pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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This remind me of these principles:
1-As long as you have input and output, the most important factors are INTENSITY and TIME. 2-The best method is the method you don't give up. 3-Find out your favorite method and keep practicing it. 4-PRACTICE, practice and practice your target language, because the main problem learning languages is giving up. Keep doing. 5-Do whatever you feel like in your target language, but do something. 6-KISS: keep it simple and sweet. It is all about REPETITION, any kind of repetition. 7-No Retreat, No Surrender. Rest and follow the flow. Edited by slucido on 06 April 2011 at 6:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 10 of 15 06 April 2011 at 7:46pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
When I read Donald Duck as a kid, ever so often I would see these words at the beginning of a story "En Disney klassiker, til glede for nye lesere!" (A Disney classic, for the benefit of new readers). So perhaps you could introduce "En Iversen klassiker, til glede for nye medlemmer" (An Iversen classic, for the benefit of new members" :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7016 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 11 of 15 07 April 2011 at 12:30am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Thanks. I see that you're coming up to a significant milestone yourself. I think that I know what William is trying to say and I can empathise with him. I find that, as time passes, it's getting harder to write anything worthwhile without thinking "didn't I write this already?". I remember way back then when I would log on multiple times a day, read everything voraciously, contribute to every thread that I could think of and generally spend hours here...ahh, the good old days! Lots of things have changed since then, both personally and professionally, and even if I could think of new and refreshing things to say, there aren't enough hours in a day to do everything (if only I had one of those time-bending watches like in Harry Potter...). I've often thought about keeping a log (or actually continuing with the couple of failed attempts I've got lurking somewhere in the Language Log basement) but I realise that I'm not "built" for that sort of thing. Each to their own. P.S. It's 3501 now! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 12 of 15 07 April 2011 at 1:28am | IP Logged | ||||||||
I wasn't suggesting you were. What I mean is that learning a particular language is a process of expansion and refinement of skills, and that learning techniques for learning is a similar process of expansion and refinement of skills. So it makes sense that we can have the same sort of "plateau" where our progress stalls or it looks like we're not progressing. Many of the longer-term contributors may well even feel that they're good enough at learning and what they do works well enough that they have no need to improve further. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6704 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 15 07 April 2011 at 9:51am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Good question, but it falls outside the scope of this thread. It deserves a thread of its own. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5346 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 14 of 15 07 April 2011 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I am relatively new to language-learning, and though certainly I have developed particular preferences, I have found that learning a language is a matter of simply purchasing a textbook and reading through it. All this procrastination about techniques I find of no great utility. Identifying, locating and obtaining quality materials for me is half the battle when learning a language, the other half consisting of plain diligence and a bit of intelligence.
This doesn't mean I don't enjoy language-learning talk for the sake of it. Just think about football and how its fans can spend a lifetime discussing everything attendant to kicking a ball around. All in all I think we language learners have more to talk about than they do, even if most of it amounts simply to passing the time. Edited by Juаn on 07 April 2011 at 4:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5382 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 15 of 15 07 April 2011 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Just a reminder that the thread is about the OP feeling that he is repeating himself NOT when he is learning languages, but when he is posting on the forum.
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