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| ihoop Newbie United States Joined 4429 days ago 29 posts - 66 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 1 of 3 16 October 2012 at 3:27pm | IP Logged |
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Hey all,
I have a question about the drills in the FSI Chinese course and was wondering if any on this forum could give me any input. My method for using FSI has been the following 1. Listen to the comprehension tape until I can understand the dialog and all target sentences perfectly. 2. Create a "shadowing" tape from the C-1 tape and shadow frequently throughout the day. 3. Do the P-1 tape after shadowing a couple times. If I can give the correct responses for all questions at the end of the P-1 tape I will go onto the drill tape. 4. Do the drill tape around 2-3 times, once with the book open. I can usually execute most items on the drill tape quite well, but sometimes there is a drill that will really throw me off. I will repeat this drill, but I can never really do it perfectly. My question is this......Do I repeat the drill tape until I can execute every drill perfectly, or do I move on when I can do most of it right? I feel like to do the whole drill tape perfectly I would have to spend a couple days on each unit, which would slow down my progress. If anyone can provide any advice I would greatly appreciate it! I know there are many different opinions about learning something to perfection when it comes to languages.... Thanks in advance -Ian 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4526 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 2 of 3 16 October 2012 at 3:58pm | IP Logged |
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If it isn't sticking I move on. I have more things to do than nail one particular small
element of a language (which the drill is designed to reinforce). If it really is that important it will come up again later and if not it's either irrelevant or I can always go back later and correct it. 90% correct is still good enough most of the time, perfectionism is a paralytic. Get the Chinese ball rolling, and if there are some leftoever elements to clean up, do it when you know how Chinese works and understand/have the feeling how to construct sentences and can pinpoint those small errors more accurately. Wanting a 100% success rate initially is too perfectionistic for my tastes. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| pfn123 Senior Member Australia Joined 4902 days ago 171 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English* | Message 3 of 3 19 October 2012 at 1:55am | IP Logged |
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I think Tarvos is right. Move on.
To that I'd add: Mark the drill (whether it seems important or not, as Tarvos said), and come back to it down the road. It will be easier when you come back to it, just by having done other drills. I've gone back and revised things that, when I first studied them, were really challenging. But on going back, I find them easy, and wonder how I could have struggled. I find this to be a good motivator, as it reminds me how far I've come, as well as being useful revision. Best of luck. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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