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| Antelope Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5457 days ago 49 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish, Greek | Message 1 of 4 18 June 2009 at 1:16am | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't like the way the actual Assimil course tries to teach for some reason. How about this?
Phase1: Learn to read the entire book in the TL only. Phase2: Learn to understand the audio of every lesson. Phase3: Shadow all of the lesson's audio. Will this be effective? Cheers! (Sorry, I'm new to all this) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Guido Super Polyglot Senior Member ArgentinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6339 days ago 286 posts - 582 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, French, English, German, Italian, Portuguese, Norwegian, Catalan, Dutch, Swedish, Danish Studies: Russian, Indonesian, Romanian, Polish, Icelandic | Message 2 of 4 18 June 2009 at 7:29am | IP Logged | |||||
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Mmm... I wouldn't recommend that.
I have always learned with Assimil, so I can give you advice, but you must tell me first which language you want to learn and through which (through English, French, or maybe German?). Have a nice day! Guido .- Edited by Guido on 18 June 2009 at 7:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5480 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 4 18 June 2009 at 9:18am | IP Logged | |||||
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I wouldn't like to use Assimil in distinct phases the way you describe. Maybe it is just a personal preference.
Anyway, I can tell you how I use Assimil, and I think I heard of others using the same approach. Maybe you might find it useful too: On the first day, I flick through the book for a few minutes, and then just read lessons 1 and 2 a few times. And then listen to just those two lesson repeatedly on the audio. This is to give me a "feel" for the course before diving in. The real work begins on day two, when I read lesson 1 to 10. Quite slowly. Then I listen to the audio of those same lessons while reading them again (now at the speed of the audio of course). Finally, I put the book down and "shadow" the audio of those ten lessons. On the third day, I do exactly the same but with lessons 2 to 11. On the fourth day, lessons 3 to 12, and so on. That is, the lessons are "staggered" and lessons are dropped one per day, with each lesson being reviewed several times over several days. This does mean that getting through an Assimil book will take about three months - but my earlier attempts to rush through an Assimil course faster than this proved (for me at least) less effective in the long run. Edited by Splog on 18 June 2009 at 9:19am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Antelope Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5457 days ago 49 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Italian, Spanish, Greek | Message 4 of 4 18 June 2009 at 4:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hi, I'm doing it for Italian through an English base. Any help appreciated.
This sounds like a really sound idea. It sounds rather intense, though. I very well may try this. Thanks! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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