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smallwhite
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 Message 89 of 94
01 July 2015 at 8:42am | IP Logged 
robarb wrote:
And if you believe that all your beliefs are correct, you are guaranteed to have at least one bull belief.


I thought bull refers to things said, and the thread title "Bull that people told you and that you believed starting out"? Well, that's what I meant anyway when I said I couldn't think of even 1, simply because no one told me anything at all.
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DaraghM
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 Message 90 of 94
01 July 2015 at 2:50pm | IP Logged 
-     Michel Thomas was French and had a perfect accent.

-     That a lot listening, reading and writing would lead to a speaking ability.

-     Classroom study doesn’t work.

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AlexTG
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 Message 91 of 94
01 July 2015 at 10:30pm | IP Logged 
I believed that there existed activities which could damage my language learning. I now realise that everything contributes positively, some activities are simply
slightly less efficient (and low efficiency isn't a reason not to do something if you enjoy doing it!).

Edited by AlexTG on 01 July 2015 at 10:33pm

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tastyonions
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 Message 92 of 94
02 July 2015 at 12:02am | IP Logged 
DaraghM wrote:
- Michel Thomas was French and had a perfect accent.

Hahaha.

That reminds me of something that happens to me from time to time: I have been studying French for a few years now and I will sometimes (online) run into L2 French speakers that I spoke with when I first started learning the language but have not seen for a year or two. These are people that already had an advanced level when I was just starting out, and back then they were (to my beginner's ears) indistinguishable from native speakers. But now I can clearly hear the difference.

Edited by tastyonions on 02 July 2015 at 12:03am

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beano
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 Message 93 of 94
02 July 2015 at 3:28pm | IP Logged 
Moving to (or spending a lot of time in) the country where the language is spoken means you just pick it up, as if by magic.

That people in certain northern European nations are simply "good at languages"


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Darklight1216
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 Message 94 of 94
02 July 2015 at 10:21pm | IP Logged 
I thought that classrooms were necessary when I was a kid.

More recently, I thought that adding another language would be nearly as "easy" as
learning French by itself.


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