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| lloydkirk Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6416 days ago 429 posts - 452 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 1 of 14 18 July 2007 at 4:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Is it possible to do this via self-study? What would be a good way to accomplish this? I would like reach this level within a year and am wondering how I should go about this. Danke.
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| cadomniel Groupie Canada senseandsanity.com Joined 7198 days ago 88 posts - 90 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Esperanto, French, Italian | Message 2 of 14 18 July 2007 at 9:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think its quite possible with Assimil German/ and FSI German and its possible within a year as I completed both courses within about a year. Now my German has regressed quite a bit because I'm working on my French and Spanish more. But I really want to get all my languages up to C1 level and I'm finding that is just as time consumming to get from B2 to C1 as all the other levels before it :P
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| lloydkirk Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6416 days ago 429 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 3 of 14 18 July 2007 at 10:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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My main program right now is assimil and it appears to be a real solid course. I'm not too keen on FSI, but I might go over it after completing assimil. What other sources would help me reach B2? I'm looking for some good grammar books, complete dictionary,etc... Edited by lloydkirk on 19 July 2007 at 1:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FSI Senior Member United States Joined 6362 days ago 550 posts - 590 votes Speaks: English* | Message 4 of 14 19 July 2007 at 5:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Beyond any introductory course, what helps most in achieving proficiency in a language is likely the use of native materials. For example, to achieve proficiency in reading and writing, one will go far with novels and newspapers.
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| Cage Diglot aka a.ardaschira, Athena, Michael Thomas Senior Member United States Joined 6627 days ago 382 posts - 393 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 5 of 14 20 July 2007 at 12:13am | IP Logged | ||
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I have a question. I have heard about B1, C1 levels of proficiency in language ability. Could someone explain the entire scale to me or give me a website to go to that describes the abilities associated with each level like FSI does which goes from 0 to 5 which is native fluency? Thanks
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6912 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 6 of 14 20 July 2007 at 9:51am | IP Logged | ||
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EUROPEAN LEVELS - SELF ASSESSMENT GRID A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2
FSI proficiency scale Language Proficiency Scales and Platiquemos Levels Government levels ACTFL Proficiency Guidelines Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 20 July 2007 at 9:55am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cage Diglot aka a.ardaschira, Athena, Michael Thomas Senior Member United States Joined 6627 days ago 382 posts - 393 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 7 of 14 20 July 2007 at 11:29am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks Jeff!
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| lloydkirk Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6416 days ago 429 posts - 452 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Russian | Message 8 of 14 20 July 2007 at 12:50pm | IP Logged | ||
I've been listening to German radio on deutsch welle, but I'm probably not advanced enough to benefit from it yet. German movies like Das Leben der Anderen has been helpful, but I'm only understand 10-15%. I'm looking for a good grammar book. I was considering "German: How to Speak and Write It" by Joseph Rosenburg and German Quickly: A Grammar for Reading German by April Wilson. Any recommendations? On a side note, has any one contacted Assimil and asked them what level their introductory German course takes you? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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