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| Amoore Senior Member Denmark Joined 5581 days ago 177 posts - 218 votes  Speaks: Danish* | Message 1 of 73 13 February 2009 at 5:06pm | IP Logged |
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Can someone recommended it, or is it a waste of time? :)
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| delta910 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5686 days ago 267 posts - 313 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Dutch, German | Message 2 of 73 13 February 2009 at 8:11pm | IP Logged |
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I do it all the time, but I dont know if it works or not. I have never came across any studies or anything that says it helps.
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| Maestro Groupie Chile Joined 5682 days ago 40 posts - 40 votes | Message 3 of 73 13 February 2009 at 11:20pm | IP Logged |
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I don't know either but it is great fo motivational purposes. During the few minutes it takes me to fall asleep while I lay in bed I'm listening to my target language, if I ever wake up in the middle of the night my L2 is there, the first thing I hear in the morning when I wake up is my target language. The next day I just want to get up and go to study.
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| ANK47 Triglot Senior Member United States thearabicstudent.blo Joined 6908 days ago 188 posts - 259 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Written), Arabic (classical) | Message 4 of 73 14 February 2009 at 12:15am | IP Logged |
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I like to think that it helps. Maybe your subconscious mind works on the language while you're sleeping, but I really don't know. I think your mind puts things together that you heard during the day, but I don't know if it takes anything in while you're sleeping. Falling asleep to the language might help though. I personally can't having the language going the entire night. I'll wake up soon after I fall asleep and turn it off because it starts to annoy me. I usually do fall asleep listening to an Arabic podcast though. I've heard that listing to the target language while you sleep might hurt since you'll start to associate it with sleeping. You might start feeling sleepy every time you hear the language. I don't know how much truth there is to that though. Does anyone feel like it helps?
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| Gummieshk Triglot Newbie Hong Kong inkoasis.orgRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5578 days ago 7 posts - 10 votes Speaks: Mandarin, Cantonese*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Arabic (Written) | Message 5 of 73 14 February 2009 at 1:47am | IP Logged |
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hmmm... I've tried it with French, and it ended up giving me restless nights. I would
always wake up randomly in the middle of the night and hear French voices in my head, and would get irritated and turn it off... I don't know if it works for others but usually I find thinking/ talking to myself before sleep works. (it also works for other subjects too. haha:P) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Yinon Diglot Newbie Israel Joined 5664 days ago 24 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English, Modern Hebrew* Studies: German | Message 6 of 73 14 February 2009 at 5:24am | IP Logged |
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I actually did a little study on this. I tried listening to a Pimsleur lesson while
sleeping, or at least trying to. I couldn't fall asleep at all, but somehow I woke up in bed the next morning. My MP3 player's batteries were dead, and I had black marks beneath the eyes. I wouldn't consider the experience as life-threatening, but neither beneficial. I suggest you do it, and see for yourself. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Hollow Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United States luelinks.netRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6350 days ago 179 posts - 186 votes Speaks: French*, English*, SpanishB2 Studies: Korean | Message 7 of 73 14 February 2009 at 5:24am | IP Logged |
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I'm saying this with no prfessional qualification or anything but:
Sleep is the time when your brain works on assimilating what's happened in the day. 'rest' as it were, a very active rest. I'm not sure that interrupting your brain's important work to make it listen to some recording is the best idea in the world. It might help more to just, you know... get a full, pure night's sleep. Having said this, I like listening to stuff right before sleeping, and right after I wake up. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| slucido Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Spain https://goo.gl/126Yv Joined 6486 days ago 1296 posts - 1781 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Spanish*, Catalan* Studies: English | Message 8 of 73 14 February 2009 at 6:45am | IP Logged |
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If you can sleep, it works. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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