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| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5777 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 25 of 27 01 September 2012 at 10:23am | IP Logged | ||
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I used the word "texts" in reference to the following, from Prof Arguelles and quoted above by Frenkeld:
"The second step is to use "readers," i.e., books that contain annotated excerpts of literature with explanatory notes and, most importantly, vocabulary and an index that is specially keyed to these texts so that finding the meaning of unknown words is much easier than it is by using a regular dictionary. I usually make enlarged photocopies of the text first and then write the meaning of all new words directly in the space underneath them. I then read and reread these texts many times." 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ZombieKing Bilingual Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4322 days ago 247 posts - 324 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin* | Message 26 of 27 01 September 2012 at 10:36am | IP Logged | ||
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Ahhhh, okay, I misread that bit. That makes sense. So he only does active revision in the beginning/intermediate stages, and then after that he relies on extensive reading. If only I could find more German readers ：S
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| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6738 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 27 of 27 01 September 2012 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | ||
A. Arguelles' method was quoted as an illustration that not everyone uses SRS. Otherwise, his method involves plenty of work, including, when necessary, review. Studying the methods of different polyglots would probably lead to the law of conservation of elbow grease. Where one of them seems to use an easier method in one respect, a closer look may show it to be more laborious in another - free lunch is in short supply in language learning. Still, if someone dislikes SRS, there are alternatives. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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