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J-Learner
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Studies: Yiddish, English*
Studies: Dutch

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12 November 2008 at 6:46am | IP Logged

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Lemanensis
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Studies: Modern Hebrew

Message 130 of 153

12 November 2008 at 11:56am | IP Logged

J-Learner wrote:

I notice how many language courses lack any real comprehensive teaching method and rarely delve deeply into the language. We must work with what we have.

Thanks for the feedback on that. Your bewilderment with the load of vocabulary is how I feel about Assimil quite a bit of the time. The method actually suggests you do one lesson a day but there's no way I could do that unless I was studying full time. The grammar side isn't bad but just memorizing the vocab is doing my head in.
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Lemanensis
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12 November 2008 at 11:59am | IP Logged

J-Learner wrote:

Due to a feeling that the language courses all lacked any real depth, I have decided to give FSi a go and hope that any archaisms will only help me understand older material and my learning and conversation will bring my speech up to the the standard. I have also decided to do each unit 10 times to make sure I over-over-learn it :) I am still getting used to how it works. I am going to do a search on the forum to check any threads discussing method and results of the program.

I started with FSI and it didn't work for me. It's intended for use in a classroom with a teacher drilling you. I don't know how archaic the language can be - language can't have evolved that much since the 1960s, but some of the phrases are odd because of the people the course was intended for (he works as an advisor at the American embassy!).
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J-Learner
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J-Learner
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J-Learner
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deepspacekitty
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17 November 2008 at 11:15pm | IP Logged

You have done so well and deserve a day off indeed, glad to see everything working for you.:)Keep up the great work and look forward to all your post's.

"Deepspace out"

Edited by deepspacekitty on 17 November 2008 at 11:18pm
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