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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7016 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 9 of 13 03 September 2012 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | |||||
I've been doing 7 different lessons each day. E.G., 35-42 on Monday, 43-50 on Tuesday, 51-58 on Wednesday, etc. I also listen back to earlier lessons at other parts of the day. So, here are two multi-lesson approaches I've used and I think they are both helpful: 1) Listen to lesson after lesson after lesson (just the dialogs). This may cover 30, 40, 50 or more lessons in a single day. Rip through the entire course in a 2-3 days. 2) Listen to 7 lessons on one day. Repeat each lesson while reading the lesson, notes, exercises, and repeat listen to the lesson again. Rip through the entire course in 2-3 weeks. I may do multiple waves like this. Eventually, the plan is to circle back and do a more traditional 1 lesson per day approach focusing on pronunciation, translating, writing, etc. The approach I'm using is the quick start method. I'm not doing it because I'm an advanced student and the material is easy. I'm doing it to get an overview of the entire course and get a lot of words in my head. This is a global approach to be followed up later my a more systematic and intensive approach. Edited by luke on 03 September 2012 at 11:28pm 8 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kronos Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5072 days ago 186 posts - 452 votes Speaks: German*, English | Message 10 of 13 04 September 2012 at 8:39am | IP Logged | |||||
Assimil after all have conceived these courses, they are the ones who have written or produced them, and therefore I first want to see what they themselves have to say. And indeed, if one looks closely, they don't necessarily advise against doing more than one lesson a day if one feels up to it. Reading about Assimil you often get the feeling that there is some sort of secret mechanism behind doing so-and-so much and not deviate, but I believe these are more general suggestions to hit a common denominator. Particularly if you already have some knowledge of the target language they'd probably be the first ones to suggest that you do more than one lesson a day in this case. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6250 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 11 of 13 04 September 2012 at 11:57am | IP Logged | |||||
Why not just do LR? The strength of Assimil is that, at its best, it's a fairly gentle graded introduction into a language. I find rushing it works poorly. What is good about it is that you can make progress with a small amount of time regularly. Edited by Volte on 04 September 2012 at 11:58am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| numerodix Trilingual Hexaglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6594 days ago 856 posts - 1226 votes Speaks: EnglishC2*, Norwegian*, Polish*, Italian, Dutch, French Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 12 of 13 04 September 2012 at 3:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
Essentially because LR tends to bore me and I zone out. I much prefer to read by myself. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Icaria909 Senior Member United States Joined 5402 days ago 201 posts - 346 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 13 05 October 2012 at 6:13am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have no idea how one could go through an Assimil course very quickly and
comprehensively. I'm currently working through Assimil Spanish and by the time I hit lesson 40 it will take me around 20 minutes just to thoroughly go through one lesson, and that's not including any type of review and I'm not even on the active phase yet. If you review your lessons and hit the active phase, I don't see how you would have trouble spending an hour to an hour and a half a day just with Assimil. Unless you choose a method like the one prescribed by Luke, which sounds great to become rapidly acquainted with the language in short period of time, I really cannot see the utility in doing multiple lessons a day. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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