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| guilon Pentaglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6184 days ago 226 posts - 229 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, PortugueseC2, FrenchC2, Italian, English | Message 1 of 4 29 March 2008 at 9:55pm | IP Logged |
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I started German two days ago, I just bought "El nuevo alemán sin esfuerzo", it looks great for the time being.
Professor's methods (scriptorium and shadowing) are very helpful, I had tried shadowing before, in order to improve my Spanishesque English accent, and I can guarantee it is a a fast and powerful method. So, my line of action would be: -Assimil, on a daily basis, no matter how many lessons per week as far as I feel comfortable, I'll even slow down whenever I feel it is becoming overwhelming, I don't want to burn myself out. I am listening to the lessons again and again, shadowing when I feel like doing it and one scriptorium exercise for every lesson. -Podcasts from Ö3 Wecker-Comedy and Treffpunkt Europa (Deutsche Welle) as a background sound, repeating them several times a day, with no interest on improving understanding which is rather poor right now, it is only intended as an habituation task, I want to become accustomed to the sound of the language. -Audiobooks, fairy tales, accompanied by the corresponding texts. I am just flirting with those for the moment. Extensive reading is usually the core of my own learning methodology, but it is not feasible at the very beginning, of course. I hope I won't have to wait too much to start reading novels and other books in German. I hope this is going to work. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cisa Super Polyglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6411 days ago 312 posts - 309 votes 2 sounds Speaks: Hungarian*, Slovak, FrenchC1, EnglishC2, Mandarin, SpanishB2, RussianB2, GermanB2, Korean, Czech, Latin Studies: Italian, Cantonese, Japanese, Portuguese, Polish, Hindi, Mongolian, Tibetan, Kazakh, Vietnamese, Modern Hebrew | Message 2 of 4 30 March 2008 at 4:44am | IP Logged |
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Good luck to your German, Guilon!! Viel Glück! ;)
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| guilon Pentaglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6184 days ago 226 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Spanish*, PortugueseC2, FrenchC2, Italian, English | Message 3 of 4 30 March 2008 at 10:57am | IP Logged |
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Danke, Idril ;)
It is raining today in my town, but still I am getting ready to take a long walk shadowing lessons 1 to 6 of Assimil. To be honest, I have never liked German too much, but it is beginning to sound attractive to my ears after some days of exposure. It is being especially difficult to deal with so many consonants combined, even in as simple sentences as the ones I am learning now, this has always been a serious issue in English too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| guilon Pentaglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6184 days ago 226 posts - 229 votes Speaks: Spanish*, PortugueseC2, FrenchC2, Italian, English | Message 4 of 4 02 April 2008 at 6:17pm | IP Logged |
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Almost a week shadowing German and I still feel my tongue and my mouth are too clumsy to pronounce all those
consonants stuck together, I got more acquainted with the peculiarities of the language though. I've been working through 1st to 6th lessons of Assimil again and again and listening to podscats and audiobooks sporadically. Since I only learned Romances and English in the past, it is like I am studying a foreing language for the first time somehow. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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