Silvance Diglot Groupie United States Joined 5293 days ago 57 posts - 81 votes Speaks: English*, Pashto Studies: Dari
| Message 1 of 4 30 March 2015 at 3:16am | IP Logged |
I have the New French with Ease book and audio which is 113 lessons, so realistically if
I finished the passive wave all the way through I'd be around lesson 64 in the active
wave. Would I be able to (or rather is there a reason to) just go straight into Using
French while continuing the active wave of New French with Ease all the way up to lesson
113, or is there an active wave from the beginning of Using French that would make
finishing the first book pointless?
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sillygoose1 Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 4435 days ago 566 posts - 814 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: German, Latin
| Message 2 of 4 30 March 2015 at 3:43am | IP Logged |
From what I remember, the first two weeks or so worth of lessons in Using French is at a slower or even rate than those at the end of NFWE.
With your Spanish knowledge, I'd say just continue up to 113 while also using Using French.
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kanewai Triglot Senior Member United States justpaste.it/kanewai Joined 4688 days ago 1386 posts - 3054 votes Speaks: English*, French, Marshallese Studies: Italian, Spanish
| Message 3 of 4 30 March 2015 at 9:27pm | IP Logged |
I was going to overlap the two by doing the active wave from French with Ease at
the same time as the passive wave as Using French, but found it much more useful
to slow down and take my time with the active wave of the first book.
It took me a lot more time than the "five minutes per lesson" that Assimil recommends.
I started Using French] when I was almost finished.
I never did an active wave with Using French. It uses a lot more idiomatic and
literary language, and I wasn't sure it would be useful to try and recreate, say, a
passage from Hugo. I enjoyed the course, for the most part, but one passive wave was
enough.
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Elexi Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5364 days ago 938 posts - 1839 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, German, Latin
| Message 4 of 4 30 March 2015 at 10:53pm | IP Logged |
I agree with kanewai - Using French is too idiomatic for an active wave to be
particularly useful. When I did it, I just intensively studied it.
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