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| InsanePenguin Senior Member Wales Joined 6681 days ago 248 posts - 248 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 24 04 March 2006 at 8:53am | IP Logged | ||
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I just wanted to check how to use it, I've just had a look at lesson one, I repeated aloud after the speakers and read the Spanish, then I did the same and read along in English is this the right way to go about it?
I did this twice, should I learn each dialogue by heart or keep moving on after a few repeats of the audio and filling in the book exercise? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| omicron Senior Member United States Joined 6931 days ago 125 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English* | Message 2 of 24 04 March 2006 at 7:47pm | IP Logged | ||
Different people use it different ways. You might want to go through this thread "Assimil versus US language programs" - Fanatic has a very practical approach. You might also want to read through Ardaschir's thread Assimil and read about his 'shadowing' approach. I think it might be beneficial to memorize the dialogs, but I never bothered. Too much work. You end up reviewing the dialogs after 50 lessons when you hit the 'active phase'. When I had trouble translating from English to French, I'd just note what I got wrong, and review the entire lesson again - it only takes about five minutes. And I'd redo the translations the next day as well as the 'new' active phase lesson. Some lessons I'd end up doing three or four days in a row before I finally nailed them. Given my own particular psychology, this was essentially painless. Had I thought it was necessary to memorize everything, I doubt I would have stuck it out. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 6825 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 24 05 March 2006 at 3:37am | IP Logged | ||
I don't think that it's necessary since you'll be going over everything again in the active phase (as omicron mentioned above). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tuffy Triglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6844 days ago 1394 posts - 1412 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 24 05 March 2006 at 8:36am | IP Logged | ||
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In the intro of the book it even says that it's not necessary to learn every sentence by heart.
If you do remember a sentence here and there though it can be handy when you're conversing with someone. For me I liked the sentence "Tenía ganas de verte". A simple sentence you can use if you visit someone. Edited by tuffy on 05 March 2006 at 8:37am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anavidi Newbie United States Joined 6516 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Persian | Message 5 of 24 04 October 2006 at 8:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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This is a general Spanish with ease question. I have been trying to follow the instructions "When you have finished reading each sentence, see if you can repoeat it without looking at it."
In order to do this I pretty much have to memorize (for the short term) the whole thing. Now that I am on lesson 66 it is getting harder and harder to do this. For those of you who use this technique with assimil, do you repeat a sentence or do you repeat the entire numbered section? Which can be quite lengthy and contain more than one sentence. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AML Senior Member United States Joined 6635 days ago 323 posts - 426 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: Modern Hebrew, German, Spanish | Message 6 of 24 05 October 2006 at 12:39am | IP Logged | ||
Are you referring to the active phase only or the whole book? I don't do what you're talking about. At least not at first. I just try to understand what the sentence means. Basically, I just want to be able to hear "No quiero guacamole" and recognize that it mean "I don't want guacamole". I don't worry about memorizing anything - just know what it means if someone said it to you. You don't need to worry about reproducing anything until the active phase, which you are on, but I still don't think that involves memorization. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6913 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 7 of 24 05 October 2006 at 1:18am | IP Logged | ||
You repeat what you can comfortably do. If you find that a single numbered section is too long, break it down into smaller segments and then gradually build it back up again into the larger whole. Andy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| InsanePenguin Senior Member Wales Joined 6681 days ago 248 posts - 248 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 8 of 24 05 October 2006 at 3:01am | IP Logged | ||
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I try to repeat each sentence out loud, sometimes I have to break it down also until I can repeat it without looking at the text.
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