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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5380 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 1 of 9 12 May 2010 at 3:50am | IP Logged |
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So I've worked my way up to 4 Assimil Courses, and numerous teach yourself courses (I think 8)
Assimil: Russian Without Toil German Without Toil French Without Toil Italian With Ease Teach Yourself Beginner's Russian Complete Russian Complete German Complete Arabic Complete French Improve Your Spanish Improve Your Italian (I'm forgetting one I think) I came up with the miraculous idea of one language a year, using both a teach yourself and an Assimil Course. 1 year for both seems like more than enough to build a basic fluency, especially in the easier languages like Italian and German. Any thoughts? I've read that Assimil takes around 6 months (complete) so I could do it twice to really reinforce it. Any opinions? EDIT: These will NOT be my only activities...Music, reading, etc is included. I have quite a language collection. Including a frequency dictionary of 20k words for each language (excluding Arabic) Edited by datsunking1 on 12 May 2010 at 3:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| maaku Senior Member United States Joined 5369 days ago 359 posts - 562 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 9 12 May 2010 at 5:06am | IP Logged |
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Well, IIRC it's been done by some people here before. My hat is off to you if you can pull it off. Good luck!
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| robsolete Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5180 days ago 191 posts - 428 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin | Message 3 of 9 12 May 2010 at 5:36am | IP Logged |
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Why repeat the Assimil? For the more popular languages there's usually a "Using X" program as well, which takes you from intermediate level to basic fluency. I'm working my way through "Using Spanish" at the moment. So you could do that for the final six months.
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| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6163 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 9 12 May 2010 at 6:27am | IP Logged |
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Agreed with robsolete. No need to repeat Assimil, especially for Spanish and French (and German and Italian after you learn French).
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| Smart Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5134 days ago 352 posts - 398 votes Speaks: Spanish, English*, Latin, French Studies: German | Message 5 of 9 12 May 2010 at 6:41am | IP Logged |
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Good luck in this endeavor. Sounds like a plan :)
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| Petitanne Triglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 5119 days ago 19 posts - 29 votes Speaks: French*, English, GermanC1 Studies: Spanish, Latin, Arabic (Written), Hindi | Message 6 of 9 12 May 2010 at 11:38am | IP Logged |
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Let us know about your progress! Sounds like a very good plan.
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| datsunking1 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5380 days ago 1014 posts - 1533 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Russian, Dutch, French | Message 7 of 9 12 May 2010 at 5:12pm | IP Logged |
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I already know Spanish pretty well :D It's the colloquial stuff that I have trouble with, and some advanced tenses seen in literature.
I was thinking about repeating Assimil because it's hard to learn and retain it all in one time through. I figured twice would really reinforce it :) Teach Yourself seems to go really quick though... Is one Unit a day good? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Darobat Diglot Senior Member Joined 6983 days ago 754 posts - 770 votes Speaks: English*, Russian Studies: Latin | Message 8 of 9 12 May 2010 at 5:34pm | IP Logged |
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I think the active phase is there for the express purpose of reinforcing what you've learned. I can't see doing the entire course twice being all that helpful. However, if you do decide to do the course twice I would recommend only doing the active phase twice, and I would definitely pick up the pace the second time round. Really though, I think a better idea would be to do Assimil once, and then move on to something else like LRing authentic literature. You may learn a few things by doing Assimil a second time, but I imagine you'd learn significantly more by doing something new.
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