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| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5480 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes  Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 26 27 November 2010 at 11:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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Over the past few months, I have received an increasing number of requests to explain
my personal method of learning languages. As a result, I have started a series of videos explaining my approach. So far, there are two videos in the series (with more to come): The Spiral Method - Part 1 The Spiral Method - Part 2 The Spiral Method - Part 3 Please understand that I am not claiming this is the greatest method in the world, nor even that there is anything revolutionary there. It is intended to be nothing more than a description of the core of my own system, as requested by a few interested subscribers to my channel and a few members of this forum. I will update this thread as more videos in the series come out in the coming weeks. Edited by Splog on 04 December 2010 at 7:00am 21 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| slymie Tetraglot Groupie China Joined 5039 days ago 81 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English, Macedonian Studies: French, Mandarin, Greek Studies: Shanghainese, Uyghur, Russian | Message 2 of 26 29 November 2010 at 3:15pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I hate living in a country that has banned youtube... :(
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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 3 of 26 30 November 2010 at 8:26am | IP Logged | |||||
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I think you are into something really good. It would be useful if you write your method. I would like to understand it well.
As far as I understand, your main approach is: 1-Follow your curiosity and ask "why questions" about the language. Look for answers and take notes. 2-Play with those notes and record yourself with Audacity playing with your notes. Something like a diglot weave using elaborative interrogation (why questions)and your notes. 3-Listen several times your own audio. 4-Use Anki to avoid forgetting your notes. I used something similar, but talking aloud to myself in L1 (only), but I didn't record this. Sometimes I did this spontaneously and sometimes using a phrasebook as a prompter. Edited by slucido on 30 November 2010 at 9:12am 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 4 of 26 30 November 2010 at 2:52pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for asking about this. I will write it up as soon as I can, but I want to make the remaining videos first. There will probably only be a couple more of them, so within the next couple of weeks I should be able to get around to the written description. Unfortunately, my time is quite pressed at the moment, so I can't do this as quickly as I would hope to. 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 5 of 26 30 November 2010 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thank you. I am looking forward to see your new videos. When you have the written description, post it here, please. It will be useful to clarify, develop and interchange experiences using your approach. Edited by slucido on 30 November 2010 at 3:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| translator2 Senior Member United States Joined 6730 days ago 848 posts - 1862 votes Speaks: English* | Message 6 of 26 30 November 2010 at 3:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Great videos!
I do something similar. Each day I pick a language that I am going to think in (and sometimes speak aloud in when I am alone). I may even do some role play (interpret the news in the language and see where I stumble, imagine myself giving a talk about a given subject, etc.). When I come to something that I cannot express in my chosen language (either because I do not know the word or expression or because I've forgotten it), I will stop and look it up and write it down in a notebook. Then come the questions, I wonder how you say that in language B, C, etc. I find that Linguee.com is a great help with this because it provides a lot of context. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| staf250 Pentaglot Senior Member Belgium emmerick.be Joined 5508 days ago 352 posts - 414 votes Speaks: French, Dutch*, Italian, English, German Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 7 of 26 30 November 2010 at 8:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I do remember your approach to learning Czech with the sentences to avoid pauses.
Your video on spiral learning is interesting and useful. Thank you and go on please ! Edited by staf250 on 01 December 2010 at 8:36pm 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 8 of 26 04 December 2010 at 7:06am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have now uploaded The Spiral Method - Part 3
This is a question and answer video. I have received a great many questions both here and elsewhere since making the first two videos. Many people asked very similar questions, so a video seemed a good way of addressing the common questions. I hope that at least some of the answers in the video will be helpful to others. Please forgive me if I have not yet answered your own questions, I will get to them as soon as I can. The next video (part 4) will be back to describing the method in more detail. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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