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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7000 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 1 of 16 23 July 2014 at 6:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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How do you go about learning vocabulary from an Assimil course?
Note 1: The 80/20 rule says you get 80% of the benefit from 20% of the effort. Here it Note 2: if you can mention the language you're talking about, that would be helpful. Mandarin is tougher than French for native English speakers. Edited by luke on 23 July 2014 at 7:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3702 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 2 of 16 23 July 2014 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I do a combination of some of these (German). I listen and read through the lesson, making note of words I don't know. Then I look at the English and the notes. Then I read through it a bunch of times, mentally picturing what's going on with the new words. Then I write it out, sentence by sentence, then listen again a bunch of times. After I'm done, I pop the new words into my evergrowing Quizlet Assimil list and study the whole list periodically.
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 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5327 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 3 of 16 23 July 2014 at 6:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Normally, my inclination is to go with the 80/20 rule, because Assimil throws in a fair amount of low-frequency vocabulary, just like you'd find in native materials, and much of it can be put off until later.
For Egyptian, however, I'm putting everything in Anki, because I'm learning the language very slowly, and I expect that it will be hard to maintain without external tools. And so far, that works fine, too—just treat Assimil like any other kind of extensive reading + plus Anki capture of interesting bits, and it works like you might expect. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4704 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 4 of 16 23 July 2014 at 7:33pm | IP Logged | ||
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There's no option for passive wave only. >.<
I suppose the nearest option is th 80/20 rule. Edited by Jeffers on 23 July 2014 at 7:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 5 of 16 23 July 2014 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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I actually do an active wave only.
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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7000 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 6 of 16 23 July 2014 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | ||
That's what I often do as well. I'm looking for new techniques :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7000 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 7 of 16 23 July 2014 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | ||
That is very interesting. Can you expound on that Expugnator? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5360 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin | Message 8 of 16 23 July 2014 at 11:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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I used to just do the passive wave and then the active wave. But now I use Quizlet and
I find the tests help fix the vocabulary. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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