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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6392 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 9 of 13 11 February 2014 at 8:30am | IP Logged | ||
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You don't have to do it by hand, you could type them. Or just repeat without writing down. Be sure to choose something that's genuinely fun.
It's also a useful test - if after enough repeats you're capable of that, you need to focus on understanding more without the rewinding, subtitles etc. oh and try lyricstraining.com =) Edited by Serpent on 11 February 2014 at 8:33am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| cod2 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4349 days ago 48 posts - 69 votes | Message 10 of 13 11 February 2014 at 10:34am | IP Logged | ||
I like the idea of repeating. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerisa Newbie United Kingdom xuexichinese.com/ Joined 3754 days ago 5 posts - 5 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 11 of 13 12 February 2014 at 7:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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When I started learning Chinese I used to watch films/TV with subtitles, infact I wouldn't watch one without them. I found that to be damaging in regards to my listening comprehension. I would simply read the subtitles, finish the moive and pay no attention to what was being said. I stopped using subtitles and started trying to figure out what they were saying on my own. Everytime I came across unfamiliar words that were vital to understanding the storyline I would look them up in the dictionary, others I'd let go by until I heard them again. I would write down interesting idioms/phrases/words etc, ask my friends about them and write down the information in my jorunal.
I used to use Byki for this purpose, it is full of words I have heard in movies or words people have used in conversation. I am now using memrise, I think I might like planting my vocabulary. Do you make flashcards with your vocabulary or just write them down in a list? What I did and still do now is immerse myself in the language, I rarely watch English TV nowadays. Even if I do not understand all the words in a program, I watch so many of them that I am bound to come across those words again, and by that time I would probably have learnt it by other means(if not then I look it up). Regards 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| DinaAlia Pentaglot Newbie Norway Joined 3727 days ago 24 posts - 49 votes Speaks: Swedish, Danish, Norwegian*, English, French Studies: Greek, Latin, Arabic (Egyptian), German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Icelandic Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 12 of 13 24 February 2014 at 4:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I learned Pitman's Shorthand specifically in order to make myself pay more attention to the sound of words.
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4961 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 13 of 13 24 February 2014 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I employ different techniques according to my level at that language.
1. I watch my first film or episode with subtitles in English (or in a language i master). 2. Then I start with subtitles in the target language, but I copy/paste them at Google Translator so I can check the meaning of obscure words in real time. I did this a lot with Norwegian: I'd get the subtitles in the left and their GT translation in the right, with a small player window playing the episode with no subtitles. After some hours I notice I need the translation less and less. 3. Next step is to use the subtitles in the video screen itself. I pause for some essential words and look them up (sometimes I have to type in a sentence for the sake of context). This is the stage when unfortunately I tend to focus too much on text and less on speech for the sake of spotting unknown words, so I have to reminded myself I'm doing a listening activity. 4. When it starts to get too repetitive, I just decide not to look words up or to do it even less often. Then it's time to drop subtitles. 5. I like my first materials with subtitles to be dubbed ones, and series. That's what I did with French. After a few episodes I was familiarized with the speech, the tone, the speed of the main characters. Since it was dubbed, it was also clearer than normal native speech. 6. When the dubbing material starts to get too easy, it's time to proceed to native material without subtitles (I mean, as the main source. You can always alternate one native material alongside your setting of dubbed series). You may find it much harder than the dubbed series and you'll feel that you've been delluded and overestimating yourself before, but don't give up. After some hours the totally native material will start to get transparent, too. You'll see a noticeable, traceable progress and that can be pretty much motivating. I just went through this in French. At my first native films I had to resort to subtitles when I really wanted to get it all, but now I can understand even comedies and laugh altogether (when it's actually funny, should I say). 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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