Best way of seeing if you are learning?
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Posted By: Tyrion101
Subject: Best way of seeing if you are learning?
Date Posted: 25 February 2016 at 12:30am
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When I started French I basically grabbed any French thing I could listen to or watch, even if I couldn't understand it, just to have it to hear or see, but I want to be more focused now, and am dabbling in Chinese and want to see how far I've progressed in some way, what do you guys do to test yourselves? I don't have a vocabulary that I could talk to anyone, or even read a short news story yet, but there must be some way of testing myself?
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Try posting on www.forum.language-learners.org as
you might get a few more answers. Of course this
site is still in use but due to various technical
issues an alternative forum was set up and is a lot
more active than this one.
Rhian on 25 February 2016
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I bookmark an online test and do it every once in a while. I note down my score and the date, but I don't check my answers, so I can redo the same test later. I try not to remember the questions, and I don't look anything up afterwards, all to allow me to redo the same test later.
smallwhite on 25 February 2016
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For Japanese, I take the JLPT every year. It's not perfect, but I feel like if I do any better that's progress. (Though maybe by this measure, I'm kind of stalled.)
cathrynm on 29 February 2016
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You can watch different TV shows online and on DVDs with English subtitles. After the first few minutes turn off the subtitles if possible and try to follow the dialog. A lot of words in between you don't know you can look them up phonetically (in the case of Chinese using Pinyin).
1 show that is easy to follow is "America's Got Talent" or "Britain's Got Talent". The show has half-dozen versions in different countries. The format is basically the same except you hear people speaking foreign languages like the Chinese version ä¸å›½è¾¾äººç§€.
shk00design on 29 February 2016
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