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| dbag Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4833 days ago 605 posts - 1046 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 12 25 August 2011 at 12:33am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have had to do large parts of the Spanish course several times over. If I hadnt done so, I would have got hardly any benefit out of the course at all.
I really think this whole "dont bother with memorising" busisness is mostly marketing, designed to apeal to peoples desire to be able to learn a language in only a few hours. Dont get sucked in by it. The course is really good though, but I dont think many people will be "speaking the language" after a single listening. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cainntear Pentaglot Senior Member Scotland linguafrankly.blogsp Joined 5822 days ago 4399 posts - 7687 votes Speaks: Lowland Scots, English*, French, Spanish, Scottish Gaelic Studies: Catalan, Italian, German, Irish, Welsh | Message 10 of 12 25 August 2011 at 1:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
In my experience, you're better "overlapping" sessions -- ie start with the last track or two of the previous session, then listen to some new tracks. This way, all the "old" material is fresh in your memory when you're asked to combine it with something new. Something like this: 1,2,3; 3,4,5; 5,6,7; 7,8,9 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4720 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 11 of 12 25 August 2011 at 6:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
The woman had worse pronunciation than the man in my judgement. She was the one who always said "nickt" not the man. He was slower to learn, but I think Michel was more likely to correct his mistakes, and let the woman's mistakes slide. My general method, when I used MT German, was to listen to it by half CD. I'd listen to a half CD twice, then the whole CD again before moving on. Wenever I began to feel it was getting difficult, I would go back to an earlier CD. Around CD 5 I began to get very stuck (on the use of weil... the students got stuck as well), so I went back to the beginning for another run-through, and then the rest of the course went smoothly using my triple method. After finishing I started the whole set again, but didn't repeat as much on the first 3 CD's. I'm sure I've been through the whole beginner set a dozen times or more. I also went through the whole beginner set again before starting the advanced set. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emerald Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom languagedabbler.blog Joined 6056 days ago 316 posts - 340 votes Speaks: Hindi, Gujarati*, English Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 12 27 August 2011 at 6:44pm | IP Logged | |||||
I have just finished first 2 discs, so I'll try this overlapping method from Disc 3. It makes sense to do it that way - though so far, because my sessions have been done quite fast, I haven't really had change to forget the material. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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