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| anavidi Newbie United States Joined 6516 days ago 24 posts - 24 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Persian | Message 9 of 24 05 October 2006 at 7:52am | IP Logged | |||||
This process is what seems to be taking me a lot of time. Maybe my auditory memory is weak or something, but it takes a lot of breaking the sentence down and lots of repititions before I can repeat the WHOLE numbered section. As the lessons have been getting longer it is taking me longer and longer to finish them. I am losing the 'ease' from the Spanish with ease. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| InsanePenguin Senior Member Wales Joined 6681 days ago 248 posts - 248 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 24 05 October 2006 at 7:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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Are you trying to repeat each sentence or the entire text? if it's the latter no wonder it's taking you a long time, you are just meant to repeat a sentence at a time, even this can take some doing as you move further in.
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| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6913 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 11 of 24 05 October 2006 at 8:51am | IP Logged | |||||
Well, if there's one thing you don't want to lose it's the "ease"... :-) I suggest, therefore, that you concentrate on whole sentences rather than whole numbered sections. Most people here appear to have adapted Assimil somewhat to their own learning style and requirements. Andy. 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 12 of 24 05 October 2006 at 10:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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Yea, I was trying to repeat the entire text of the numbered section. Repeating just a sentence will be much more digestable.
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| pentatonic Senior Member United States Joined 7057 days ago 221 posts - 245 votes | Message 13 of 24 05 October 2006 at 12:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
Probably doesn't matter if you do a sentence or the section, so I wouldn't worry about it. Do what you can handle. EDIT: Removed some nonsense. Edited by pentatonic on 06 October 2006 at 5:45am 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 14 of 24 06 October 2006 at 2:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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I don't think this is an Active Wave issue. This is something I do on the Passive Wave...
Listen to the Audio <Hit Pause button> Repeat the phrase looking at the book Repeat the phrase without looking at the book <Repeat as necessary> - I find the last helps "fix" the words in my memory. For "phrase" you can substitute "sentence" "numbered section", "clause" etc... Andy. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| SimonSanook Newbie United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5077 days ago 4 posts - 5 votes | Message 15 of 24 30 August 2010 at 10:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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i have to confess ..im finding assimil so dam boring ..
im on lesson 66 now and whilst i can look back through the book and realise that i have increased my passive understanding, i can barely create a sentance thanks to assimil. Any Spanish sentances i am able to formulate are thanks to pimsluer or Michel Thomas. Perhaps its just me but listening to 20-30 minutes of assimil is mindnumbingly boring and i can only just about manage that. I dont think my vocab is increasing at all and im pretty close to packing it in but im hesitent to do this because the last 2 months will havebeen waste. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| TerryW Senior Member United States Joined 6167 days ago 370 posts - 783 votes Speaks: English* | Message 16 of 24 31 August 2010 at 10:40am | IP Logged | |||||
I'm confused. If you're not increasing your vocab after 66 Assimil lessons, then you must have taken more than just Pimsleur and Michel Thomas, both of which use pretty limited vocabularies?
So, I guess the cartoons don't help? ;-) If you're bored by Assimil, please stay far away from FSI! What material would you not find boring? Maybe it's time to get a copy of Harry Potter y La Piedra Filosofal and its audio book? If you mean you aren't able to *use* the new vocabulary and/or grammatical structures in actively speaking, than that should settle out as you progress in the active phase. If not, maybe you should repeat Pimsleur & M.T. as a refresher. Or maybe you just need a break from forcing yourself to plod through an increasingly difficult lesson per day. Maybe you should try stopping the passive part, and just do the active phase until you get to Lesson 66 actively. Then start 67 as both passive & active. Maybe the one lesson a day is pushing you too hard. Don't be afraid to give a lesson 2 or 3 days, it's better than bagging the whole thing. Edited by TerryW on 31 August 2010 at 10:49am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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