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| seldnar Senior Member United States Joined 6943 days ago 189 posts - 287 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, French, Greek | Message 1 of 1 09 October 2012 at 8:30am | IP Logged |
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My second week was a bust. It started out fine but for the first time since I've had
it, I misplaced my iPod and lost and day and a half. After that, it seemed impossible to catch up. I'm beginning my second week over again starting today. I'm rather fascinated by the way grammar is introduced. It does seem to be an assimilation method except...The first dialog describes Yorgos and Maria as being sympathique or not. So, masculine and feminine endings are introduced as the names are preceded by articles and modified by συμπαθιτικοσ or συμπαθιτικη. The next to last entry introduces the neuter. By going through the dialog, the observant student might begin to see patterns (e.g., that the word ending for the adjective describing Yorgos, a man, is different from that for Maria). The odd thing and this is where the assimilation method breaks down is that the last line of the dialog is a capsule of grammar (and essential vocabulary). Here's the last line of dialog 1: Ναι, οχι, ειναι, ο, η, το, σyμπαθιτικοσ, συμπαθιτικη, συμπαθιτικο. (Sorry there are no diacritics, I haven't figured out how to type them yet). In other words the line is: Yes, no, (3rd p sing) be, masculine article, feminine article, neuter article, then the masculine, feminine and neuter forms of an ajective. The last line in dialog two is simply the conjugation of ειναι (to be). So it seems that it gives you enough material to formulate rules on your own (in lesson 2 for example it introduces in conversation all of the forms of ειναι) but then concludes the dialog by recapping just those forms in case you didn't figure it out. I don't remember seeing this in the German With Ease. I wonder if other Assimil courses do it--that's a good question: how much uniformity is there between courses or is the design of each course up to the writer. In other words, I guess, what are the guidelines that the author is given. That's about it. I'm restarting week two and will update after I've finished it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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