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| srh9592 Newbie United States Joined 5705 days ago 14 posts - 15 votes Studies: French, Spanish | Message 1 of 3 10 November 2013 at 5:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just started using "News in Slow French" and love it. For anyone else who uses NISF, I'd love to hear your method.
Do you just listen, read, and learn? Do you make physical flash cards? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5533 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 2 of 3 10 November 2013 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | ||
I never used "News in Slow French", but I did use "RFI Français Facile", and later lots of television and movies. Over time, I used a lot of different strategies, including: 1. Just listening, and hoping things would make sense. This worked a little bit at first, but quickly stopped working, because I didn't yet understand enough to help puzzle out the unknown bits. 2. Listening while reading along with a transcript. Very useful. 3. Making Anki cards with hard-to-understand sound recordings on the front (perhaps a sentence or two, copied from the MP3 using Audacity and pasted directly into Anki), and transcripts on the back, with any necessary definitions. This was a very effective way to improve my comprehension of difficult material. When working with movies, subs2srs and Anki can automate much of this in a really helpful fashion. 4. Listening to short sections over and over again, while trying to copy down an accurate transcript. Useful, but I didn't do it much, because it was time consuming. 5. Once I understood a large enough fraction of the material, I'd just listen to a lot of it, without subtitles or transcripts, and rewind occasionally to try a difficult section a few times. But this works much better with a season or two of an easy TV series on DVD than it does with the news. Basically, any activity which allows you to understand audio that would otherwise be too difficult will help. Edited by emk on 10 November 2013 at 7:57pm 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| srh9592 Newbie United States Joined 5705 days ago 14 posts - 15 votes Studies: French, Spanish | Message 3 of 3 14 November 2013 at 3:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks EMK... great ideas. Question: the one thing you don't mention are vocal flash cards.
For each weekly NISF news cast, there is a PDF with approximately 300 vocab words in French/English. I'm trying to decide if it would be helpful to drop all 300 words into a Mental Case (software like Anki), or just pick about 30 words per lesson to make physical flash cards, or no flashcards at all. By the way, this is why I like NISF over 'RFI Francais Facile'. When you read online, tough words or phrases are in blue; you can hover the cursor over the blue text to see an English translation. These blue words/expressions are what are provided on the PDF. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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