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| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5796 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 9 of 10 24 January 2011 at 5:52am | IP Logged |
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They're inseparable for me. When I start a new language and I start gathering resources, I first look for unabridged audiobooks, and then I look to see if any of those have both an English ebook and an L2 ebook. Anything that has all 3 becomes one of the resources I use, and I drop anything that doesn't have all 3 (or at least wait until I have much more experience with the language).
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| ChristopherB Triglot Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6126 days ago 851 posts - 1074 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, German, French | Message 10 of 10 24 January 2011 at 8:18am | IP Logged |
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I suppose one of the issues I had in making this thread was whether reading, at an advanced level, is enough on its own to keep a language alive and to maintain listening comprehension. This is where I thought audio books would come in: one could expand one's vocabulary indefinitely by means of literature, all the while improving and maintaining aural contact with the language. This is based on the assumption that listening comprehension is harder, or at least takes longer, to build and maintain than mere reading abilities (with the important exception of such languages as Chinese and Japanese). At least that has been the case with me. If I can read French literature reasonably well, my listening comprehension is almost certainly a notch below. This is why I've considered "ditching" (at least for the time being) the written word and engaging with the spoken word to keep the language alive in my head.
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