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| shadowzoid Groupie United States Joined 5685 days ago 76 posts - 85 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian | Message 1 of 10 12 May 2009 at 2:39am | IP Logged |
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I'm asking this question here because I want to know it from someone who has already gone through the German learning process.
I'm getting discouraged, mostly because I feel like I'm not progressing as fast as I want to, and really, I don't know how except to be learning more vocab. I'm kinda going slow in my Living Language German because I don't want to learn vocab. However, my pimsleur is continuing at a one unit per day. Anyyywwaaayyy. My question is, after about 11 days, how much should I know? I know I should be at a very basic level, but how much should I know? And, at what point will, well, should I start be seeing significant improvements? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jaguar8311 Groupie Canada Joined 6658 days ago 84 posts - 96 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 2 of 10 12 May 2009 at 4:36am | IP Logged |
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Skip Pimsleur and do Michel Thomas, I was discouraged too with my Language learning until I got Michel Thomas and after the first lesson. I really felt like I was learning something.
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| formiko Nonaglot Senior Member United States Joined 6213 days ago 848 posts - 855 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Esperanto, Indonesian, Yoruba, Cherokee, Russian, German, French Studies: Mandarin, Ancient Greek | Message 3 of 10 12 May 2009 at 5:20am | IP Logged |
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PM me your email address and I can send you my list of "must know" words. The above poster was 100% correct about MT.It seems like 5 lessons is like an entire year of college German.
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 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6438 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 10 12 May 2009 at 12:27pm | IP Logged |
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shadowzoid.. I'm not progressing as fast as I'd like to either... don't be put off. :)
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| TheBiscuit Tetraglot Senior Member Mexico Joined 5925 days ago 532 posts - 619 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish, Italian Studies: German, Croatian | Message 5 of 10 12 May 2009 at 6:25pm | IP Logged |
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I'm currently going over the MT German language builder and progress is good. I'm just starting to listen to real German and some German music. What I've learnt so far I hear and even get the gist of some things. I've been studying for 3 months or so but half an hour maximum a week-day. Pimsleur is like pulling teeth.
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| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6554 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 6 of 10 12 May 2009 at 9:18pm | IP Logged |
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MT is excellent. A very good discovery. I'm not that much a fan of Living Language until you start hitting about lesson 10, so stick with it.
2.5 years later I'm B2+ level. So work on it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rout Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5714 days ago 326 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish Studies: Hindi | Message 7 of 10 13 May 2009 at 1:52am | IP Logged |
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I must be the only one who enjoys Pimsleur.. If you enjoy then it CERTAINLY doesn't do any harm to add it.
I like MT at the beginning but if you're really advanced then it's hard to get into. I'd say if you're going to do MT then don't wait! Start ASAP You actually sound a lot like me; if they're not daily lessons then I don't have anything to push me. That's why I like Assimil, Pimsleur, etc. I HAVE to finish 1 a day, and after about a month I just look back and think "Wow, I didn't even know how to say thank you or hello and now.. " =) Edited by Rout on 13 May 2009 at 1:53am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6554 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 8 of 10 13 May 2009 at 6:13am | IP Logged |
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I agree Rout; I meant that MT is for the biginning to get a foundation.
And, yes, I'm a fan of Assimil, but less so of Pimsleur because of the language switching. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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