Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5675 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin
| Message 17 of 47 16 January 2011 at 12:47pm | IP Logged |
zerothinking wrote:
A good way to get exposure to thousands of sentences is to read
books in the target
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But is extensive rather than intensive, so serves a different purpose.
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6681 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 18 of 47 16 January 2011 at 12:50pm | IP Logged |
zerothinking wrote:
A good way to get exposure to thousands of sentences is to read books in the target
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It is much better if you LISTEN(unabridged audiobook) and READ ALOUD following the audio.
You get more repetitions in less time and you make the most of your time.
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Luk Triglot Groupie Argentina Joined 5341 days ago 91 posts - 127 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English, French Studies: Italian, German, Mandarin, Greek
| Message 19 of 47 21 January 2011 at 11:45pm | IP Logged |
If anyone is interested in Mike's point of view about how to learn you should take a look at his entry in The Polyglot Project, I mean the book compiled by Claude Cartaginese
(YouTube: syzygycc ).
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6681 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 20 of 47 23 January 2011 at 12:19pm | IP Logged |
Luk wrote:
If anyone is interested in Mike's point of view about how to learn you should take a look at his entry in The Polyglot Project, I mean the book compiled by Claude Cartaginese
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I read it, but I am not sure about Glossika's approach. I am watching his Youtube videos, but I am not sure.
It seems he recommends to start with prosody and pronunciation first.
If you want to use his sentence method, I think it is very important to start learning how to read aloud properly as soon as possible.
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Roman Diglot Groupie Spain Joined 5458 days ago 42 posts - 52 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Italian, French
| Message 21 of 47 24 January 2011 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
slucido wrote:
I read it, but I am not sure about Glossika's approach. I am watching his Youtube videos, but I am not sure.
It seems he recommends to start with prosody and pronunciation first.
If you want to use his sentence method, I think it is very important to start learning how to read aloud properly as soon as possible.
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Me too, I saw the whole video and read the polyglot book and still didn't catch his method! Is it just pick bilingual phrasebooks, let's say English-German (if English is your native language) and start recording and after that start listening? And what can do absolute beginners?
Anyone could give the steps?
Roman
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Cammela Tetraglot Newbie Senegal Joined 5059 days ago 28 posts - 31 votes Speaks: French*, ItalianC2, Spanish, GermanB2
| Message 22 of 47 24 January 2011 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
His method doesn't appeal to me because he had a terrible accent, he isn't a model of excellence;D
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slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6681 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English
| Message 23 of 47 24 January 2011 at 8:38pm | IP Logged |
Cammela wrote:
His method doesn't appeal to me because he had a terrible accent, he isn't a model of excellence;D |
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What accent are you talking about?
His Mandarin seems native. This is his stronger language and he learned Mandarin using this method.
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Cammela Tetraglot Newbie Senegal Joined 5059 days ago 28 posts - 31 votes Speaks: French*, ItalianC2, Spanish, GermanB2
| Message 24 of 47 26 January 2011 at 10:07am | IP Logged |
slucido wrote:
Cammela wrote:
His method doesn't appeal to me because he had a terrible accent, he isn't a model of excellence;D |
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What accent are you talking about?
His Mandarin seems native. This is his stronger language and he learned Mandarin using this method.
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I'm not a polyglot, I have been studying mandarin for 2 years without big results ;D , but of one thing I'm sure, his French, Italian and Spanish accent are atrocious. And these are simple languages...
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