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| loïc Tetraglot Newbie Joined 6951 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, German Studies: Portuguese | Message 1 of 7 14 May 2005 at 3:52am | IP Logged |
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I have just came across the web page http://www.sil.org/LinguaLinks/LanguageLearning/LanguageLear ning.htm which has a wealth of documents related to language learning and especially a downloadable book "success with Foreign Languages: Seven who achieved it and what worked for them" (http://www.sil.org/LinguaLinks/LanguageLearning/BooksBackIn Print/SuccessWithForeignLanguages/SuccessWithForeignLanguage s.htm) which seems to be quite interesting.
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| fanatic Octoglot Senior Member Australia speedmathematics.com Joined 6940 days ago 1152 posts - 1818 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French, Afrikaans, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Dutch Studies: Swedish, Norwegian, Polish, Modern Hebrew, Malay, Mandarin, Esperanto | Message 2 of 7 15 May 2005 at 5:28am | IP Logged |
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I have downloaded the book and I am enjoying it. It makes the point that we don't all learn the same way. I am intrigued by the methods the subjects used though.
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| czech Senior Member United States Joined 6988 days ago 395 posts - 378 votes Studies: English* | Message 3 of 7 16 May 2005 at 7:15pm | IP Logged |
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Can someone tell me how to access this page from the homepage, pasting the link does not work.
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| pentatonic Senior Member United States Joined 7041 days ago 221 posts - 245 votes | Message 4 of 7 16 May 2005 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
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You have to remove the spaces in the URL. Here they are:
Language Learning Bookshelf Success with Foreign Languages: Seven who achieved it and what worked for them 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| czech Senior Member United States Joined 6988 days ago 395 posts - 378 votes Studies: English* | Message 5 of 7 16 May 2005 at 8:32pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks alot, I am looking forward to reading it.
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| loïc Tetraglot Newbie Joined 6951 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, German Studies: Portuguese | Message 6 of 7 17 May 2005 at 5:03am | IP Logged |
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Thanks also for the direct link, Pentatonic. I'm totally hopeless at informatics...
Globally the book points out the fact that each language learner has to find and use his own strategy to tackle his target language. Nothing revolutionary but I think it's worth reading. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6999 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 7 of 7 22 May 2005 at 8:16am | IP Logged |
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In addition to the point that different people learn
better with different methods, I noted these specific ideas: Flash cards with a word on one side, and a phrase or sentence using the word on the other. Rather than translate an article, TV dialog, or radio program from the foreign tongue into your native tongue, paraphrase the article in the foreign tongue. Workbooks may be helpful. Focus on meaning and context, rather than words. Trust your intuition. Knowing your mother tongue's grammar may help. Learning the foreign grammar helps some students. Be able to produce dialogs orally or written at will. Some students are helped by dictation exercises. Journalling in general may be helpful. Speaking to yourself in an acoustically hard room makes it easier to hear yourself. Reading lessons that are primarily audio (FSI drills) may be help visual learners. Transition phrases can help with apparent fluency. I.E. Al Corriente book for Spanish. Several learners mentioned shadowing. Edited by luke on 22 May 2005 at 2:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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