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| Rob Tickner Senior Member New Zealand Joined 4299 days ago 126 posts - 158 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: GermanB1, French, Swedish | Message 9 of 13 21 October 2012 at 11:53pm | IP Logged |
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You said that you were fairly proficient in writing and reading, but your conversational skills were
frustrating you. I'm not sure a lot of reading will help you to develop these skills. I would recommend that you work first on your listening comprehension. Your Assimil studies may help with this, or you may benefit from listening to the news or audio books with a transcript. Once you can process listening to a native speaker in real time, you could then start focusing on speaking, ideally through conversation with native speakers. If you don't feel confident pronouncing the words, you could try shadowing, or some variation of it. Best of luck with your studies! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Bbcatcher 08 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4229 days ago 130 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian | Message 10 of 13 22 October 2012 at 3:41am | IP Logged |
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Thank you, Rob. I would like to correct myself. I am fairly decent in reading, however
not constructing sentences on my own. I do not have the vocabulary memorized, however, since I have background in Latin, and being an English speaker, I can recognize most words. I will continue to do all things to try to get familiar with the language, I also am going to pick up the Pimsleur Dutch program tomorrow to get into a more "advanced" level in the language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bushwick Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 6055 days ago 407 posts - 443 votes Speaks: German, Croatian*, English, Dutch Studies: French, Japanese | Message 11 of 13 28 October 2012 at 1:29pm | IP Logged |
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I suggest doing the whole Michel Thomas course, beginner and advanced. It worked like a charm for me in that it
gave me the proper shell to later simply put vocabulary in. It's pretty marvelous. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bbcatcher 08 Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4229 days ago 130 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English*, Latin Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Serbo-Croatian, Hungarian | Message 12 of 13 30 October 2012 at 2:25am | IP Logged |
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I will look around for it. Right now, don't have the money to spend on the program, so
I'll wait until it comes around for cheap enough :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4639 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 13 of 13 30 October 2012 at 11:48am | IP Logged |
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Just to add that for pop-up dictionaries with Chrome, TransOver is pretty good, and seems to handle sentences or paragraphs (anything you highlight basically) as well as words.
And Franker is quite interesting - creates a mini parallel text on the fly. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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