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| watupboy101 Diglot Groupie United States Joined 4696 days ago 65 posts - 81 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 9 of 19 02 June 2013 at 5:57am | IP Logged | ||
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For Assimil I don't "try" to grind the material in my head. This is my personal run through.
1. Listen no looking at text. 2. Listen looking at text, pause, look at translation read notes (for each sentence) 3. Listen, pause, repeat out loud, sentence by sentence. 4. Some form of "Shadowing" 5. Listen with book, looking for missing points. 6. Close book and listen by the 6th listen, I don't want to keep going over the same thing, even if I don't understand it perfectly. How do I combat this lack of perfect comprehension? Throughout the day like at school during down time, I'll listen to past Assimil lessons, with or without the book (preferably with) It seems to be working well so far. I wouldn't stress to much about perfect comprehension because you're going to be reviewing multiple times.... Hopefully. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Vestis2 Newbie United States Joined 4600 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 19 02 June 2013 at 7:47am | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for all the responses.
This is exactly what I needed to hear, Thanks alot just completed leccion trece and it's muy tarde para mi aqui. I'm headin to bed. Buenas Noches 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Vestis2 Newbie United States Joined 4600 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 19 03 June 2013 at 5:32am | IP Logged | ||
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Leccion decimo quatro finished
I know I'm still at the beginning of the course but thus far, I'm happy with it. I reviewed leccion seis - trece prior to the leccion and understood practically all of it. Pretty cool stuff. It is also a humbling experience. I know in my OP I stated I was seriously lacking in Spanish after years of being around it but wow, This course has highlighted some definite deficiencies I have within what i thought I knew. It's no big deal though, I know now and "what you know, you won't forget" to quote Michel Thomas. I guess that's about it, thanks to everyone who has commented with tips and suggestions, I really appreciate it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Vestis2 Newbie United States Joined 4600 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 19 10 June 2013 at 6:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Ok, Leccion Veintiuna complete.
I've had a pretty rough week. I missed a few lessons due to me just feeling to sick to get out of bed and study so I ended up doing Leccion diecinueve - veintiuna all today to catch up. It's becoming more and more apparent that I might need to brush up on my English in order to learn Spanish. As this is my first foreign language to study, and since I've been out of school for quite some time now, when I get to the notes in Assimil and they start talking about the infinitive, imperative, gerund, etc. I'm pretty much lost. I no longer know what these things mean in English. I just speak and write what I think "sounds" right. Going back and re-learning these things will probably push my completion time back but if I need to, I need to. I'm also having a time, fitting in review lessons. I'm not exactly sure how your supposed to actually review. Is listening to the audio enough. Or should you re-read the material? Both?? Do the whole lesson over? I don't know. I recently read a review where it says to review lessons seven times but again, It doesn't say how to review. Thus far, I've been reading the lesson in Spanish and making sure i still knew the meaning and If not, looking at the English side. Well, I guess that's about it, Til next time 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Aguacero Diglot Newbie United States Joined 3996 days ago 10 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French | Message 13 of 19 14 June 2013 at 9:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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Vestis2,
My perspective is to not worry about the review. If you are consistent with your lessons, and you comprehend what you're listening to and reading, then you are getting what you need out of the lessons. If you retain 80% of the lesson a week later, then you are doing well. I do not worry if I dont remember something because, if it is important, I will see it again and again. You will learn through relaxed exposure over time. Stay consistent, the goal is to establish a base knowledge. But Assimil will only take you so far so do not expect perfection in your retention. I expect Assimil to take me to an A2 level at completion. If you make it through Assimil with 80% retention great job! Move on to something more meaningful in the language that is more rewarding (books, movies, chats, speaking etc.) The grammar you do not know, do not worry so much about it. Just stick with Assimil and be consistent to the end. Grammar is great at explaining what is obvious to a native speaker. Review the grammar when you are finished and it will make much more sense because you will have a feel for Spanish by then. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5658 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 14 of 19 16 June 2013 at 6:38am | IP Logged | ||
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A quick review:
infinitive: -in English this is the form of the verb when it's preceded by "to": to run, to jump, to study, etc. In Spanish this is the unconjugated form (ending in -ar, -er, or -ir): hablar, correr, sentir. gerund: -this is the -ing form in English: running, sitting, eating, baking. In Spanish it ends en -ando or -iendo: cocinando, partiendo, corriendo. imperative: -this is just a command: Hurry! Duck! Eat quickly! In English it's just the infinitive form without the "to". In Spanish, it's a little more complicated. ¡Corre! (tú), ¡Hablad! (vosotros), ¡Duerma! (usted), ¡Coman! (ustedes). All it is is a command telling the person/people you're talking to to do something. past participle: -the verb type used in the "have" tenses. I think in Spanish they tend to be a bit more regular than in English. Generally these are words that end in -ed: (have) jumped, (has) kissed, (have) played. In Spanish they generally end in -ado or -ido: (he) hablado, (has) sentido, (hemos) tenido. There are irregular forms in both languages, though. And what do you mean for the review lessons? You mean every seventh lesson? If you want to review you can just listen to the audio if that's easier, though it may help to read through them from time to time as i've found that i don't always listen as closely as i read. If you have trouble understanding a lesson when listening you can always go back and read through it later. But if review gets in the way of moving on to a new lesson, i'd put it aside for later. The most important part i think is feeling that you're making actual progress :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Vestis2 Newbie United States Joined 4600 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 15 of 19 17 June 2013 at 10:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the review Crush! and the much needed advice from you and Aguacero. I was talking about reviewing the lessons that I had previously done, not every seventh lesson. I think I'll just do a mixture of listening to the lessons over again on some days and reading them on others. As an update, I'm up to leccion veintinueve now in Assimil. I'm actually starting to catch alot more Spanish when I hear it from people talking to each other. I've also started watching Destinos, which I had previously tried to get into but didn't stick with. I'm happy to report that so far (episode 3), I understand alot more then I did before (which was close to nil) and I'm happy with my progress so far. I guess that's it for now. I'm gonna go hit the books. And thanks for all of the awesome help so far guys, I really appreciate it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Vestis2 Newbie United States Joined 4600 days ago 13 posts - 13 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 16 of 19 18 November 2013 at 12:33am | IP Logged | ||
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So I fell off the wagon. I haven't touched Assimil since June. The most I've done to
learn Spanish since then was listen to a few lessons of Pimsleur. I DID do some 30 minute "sessions" with my wife where we would speak in Spanish over the phone, or rather she would speak and I would stumble along trying to figure out what the conversation I was in was about. So long story short, I have re-committed myself to Assimil and I have spent today reviewing the lessons starting over from lesson 1. I have currently reviewed up to lesson 16 and I'll just keep on going until I feel like I've had enough of reviewing. I last left off at lesson 29 so once I get back to that lesson, i'll keep pushing on with the new material. I just wanted to drop a line to say I'm back. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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