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| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5766 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 9 of 11 23 May 2009 at 5:38pm | IP Logged |
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I ... use dictionaries. :o
(Some friends and I spent whole afternoons leafing through dictionaries, coming up with the funniest words and expressions. Oddly enough, my Swedish dictionary fell open on the word "snopp" from day one.) Anytram one gave me an old dictionary that used L1 sound combinations for a phonetic script of L2. That served for hours of amusement. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zack Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 7209 days ago 122 posts - 127 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin | Message 10 of 11 23 May 2009 at 8:46pm | IP Logged |
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Years ago, when I (re)started learning French seriously, I picked up an audio program, Berlitz Rush Hour French, from the library. The idea is to teach you basic French by setting it to "earworm" music which supposedly helps you remember the phrases more easily. It was one of the most hilarious (and worst!) language programs I've ever listened to: Young anglophone man with little and strongly-accented French meets French woman in the gym and they start singing basic French phrases at each other.
"Je, ... je m'appelle ... John ... enchantee - it's nice to meet you ... enchante - it's nice to meet you too!" (imagine this set to cheesy music). Maybe, since some of these lyrics did get stuck in my mind, the program wasn't so bad after all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ribas Pentaglot Newbie Brazil blogmarceloribas.blo Joined 5860 days ago 37 posts - 48 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English, Spanish, French, German Studies: Italian, Mandarin | Message 11 of 11 28 May 2009 at 1:51pm | IP Logged |
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At school we had German and the method we used featured a certain Familie Schaudi, which had some hilarious scenes. I still remember one of them, in which Opa (grandpa) asks poor Uli a hundred times: Uli, wie spät ist es? uli, what time is it?.
They also had strange names (for Brazilian ears), like Uli himself, Lieselotte... AFter twenty years I sometimes joke with a friend from school about this. By the way, does anyone knows of this method? I believe it was used in the french speaking parts of Switzerland, but I don't remember its name. I would really like to see it again, since I lost my German books a long time ago (my mom must have given them away). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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