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Assimil - don’t do the second wave! | ||
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| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7217 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes  Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 17 of 22 26 May 2010 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am on lesson 67 in the passive phase of Assimil French with Ease and lesson 19 in the active phase. I have to say that I have been finding the active phase to be incredibly helpful. During the passive phase, I did not bother to learn things such as the gender of words, spelling, the nuances of each of the conjugations, little prepositions, etc. The active phase has done an excellent job at forcing me to learn all these things, and it is also greatly increasing my ability to formulate my own thoughts in the language. In my opinion, you would be missing a lot by skipping the active phase.
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| dglass48 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5825 days ago 16 posts - 16 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: German, Italian, French | Message 18 of 22 04 June 2010 at 11:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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When you do the "active phase", are you writing everything out, or saying it out loud from the L1 cues, or both? I have wondered exactly how people do the active phase, since the book says only to translate the L1 text into L2 without specifying how.
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| tractor Tetraglot Senior Member Norway Joined 5482 days ago 1349 posts - 2292 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, Catalan Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 19 of 22 05 June 2010 at 10:24am | IP Logged | ||
I just say it out loud. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 7217 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 20 of 22 05 June 2010 at 4:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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I write down the translation during the active phase. It takes a bit of extra time, but I find the action of writing helps me remember everything better. Plus, I get to practice French's unintuitive spelling.
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| Dragonsheep Groupie United States Joined 5299 days ago 46 posts - 63 votes Studies: Tagalog, English* Studies: Japanese, Latin | Message 21 of 22 07 July 2010 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Quick question:
Is being cheap and using a custom second wave (reversing your SRS cards) feasible? Am I missing out on anything? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5564 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 22 of 22 07 July 2010 at 11:35pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm planning to do both with Spanish. I'm entering data into Anki as I go through Assimil's passive wave, but only in the L2 -> L1 direction. Once I start back through on the active wave, I plan to have Anki auto-create the reverse cards for each lesson I complete. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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