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| Sennin Senior Member Bulgaria Joined 5845 days ago 1457 posts - 1759 votes  5 sounds | Message 9 of 73 14 February 2009 at 7:39am | IP Logged | |||||
Yep. The trick is to find the right type of listening material. Someone mentioned Pimsleur ... This is a terrible choice because Pimsleur is designed keep you alert. Generally speaking, online radio stations are best suited for the task because they provide you with an inexhaustible supply of audio. You don't have to worry about finding and downloading listening material, you just stream it. Find some calm and relaxing radio station; Boring will also do. Edited by Sennin on 14 February 2009 at 7:47am 1 person has 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 10 of 73 14 February 2009 at 7:49am | IP Logged | |||||
I use native materials. I am usually using radio interviews. At the beginning, maybe something like Assimil makes sense. It's possible to listen it two or three times every night. Edited by slucido on 14 February 2009 at 7:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Satoshi Diglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5634 days ago 215 posts - 224 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Japanese | Message 11 of 73 16 February 2009 at 3:27am | IP Logged | |||||
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I like to use audio-only news reports. They will keep a very monotonal talking.
I once tried downloading some podcasts from a Japanese blog: I'd wake up every 10 minutes with that damn high pitched laughing Japanese girl voices. I don't know if it works. The thing is: if it doesn't work, it won't make a difference, since it isn't bothering me and is actually quite nice (I like going to sleep with some kind of noise going around), so I might as well try it and bet on the chance that it DOES help. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| William Camden Hexaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6083 days ago 1936 posts - 2333 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish, Russian, Turkish, French | Message 12 of 73 16 February 2009 at 6:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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I was under the impression that learning a language while sleeping had been discredited.
Even if it has not been, I am skeptical. To learn something, (not just languages) I need my brain present and standing to attention. So that rules out sleep. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bao Diglot Senior Member Germany tinyurl.com/pe4kqe5 Joined 5577 days ago 2256 posts - 4046 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Japanese, Mandarin | Message 13 of 73 16 February 2009 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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The only effect I noticed was having really weird dreams.
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| tommus Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5677 days ago 979 posts - 1688 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish | Message 14 of 73 16 February 2009 at 4:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am also having dreams that seem to be weirder than normal. I had occurred to me that it might be related to falling asleep listening to continuously playing second language material. I'll try a few tests, with and without, to see if there seems to be any difference. Possibly the audio somehow makes the dreams more easy to remember, perhaps because you are not so deeply asleep. I've been doing this "going to sleep with the audio on" for quite some time but I doubt if it is helping my second language ability.
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| 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 15 of 73 16 February 2009 at 4:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I am not sure how it works, but it works. I only have a few hypotheses, but the goal is facilitation, reinforcement and speed up the process. It's something like the passive and incomprehensible input techniques that we discussed in other thread. By the way, if you cannot sleep or you have nightmares or you wake up feeling shitty, I recommend to give up this strategy. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| icing_death Senior Member United States Joined 5672 days ago 296 posts - 302 votes Speaks: English* | Message 16 of 73 17 February 2009 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
You forgot to say "for me". All it does for me is make my sleep less refreshing. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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