Read the L2 text aloud (with the aid of the phonetic transcription if necessary). Listen to the recording a second time while looking at the English translation.3. You will gain a general impression of the sounds, hearing the pronunciation without being influenced by the spelling.2. It does not matter if you do not understand what is said. Listen to the text with the book closed. In the beginning, you mispronounce and make grammatical errors, but they’re eventually sorted out just by hearing adults speaking over and over.I replaced "Dutch" in that blog with L2 below.1.
At this point you should understand what is being said.7. Listen to the recording again with the book closed. Listen to the recording twice, once while looking at the English translation, and once while looking at the L2 text.6. Now read the L2 text again, but this time without looking at the translation.5.
The exercises review material from the current lesson and from preceding lessons. Repeat each sentence several times. These notes are very important.9. Examine the L2 sentences being explained. Carefully read the comments several times. Stop the machine after each sentence, and try to repeat it aloud.8.
I'm trying to keep an open mind.Help! Is it me? Or have I missed something? It could be me. They show how words and phrases are combined in L2, which is not always the same as in English.At this point I would add step 11: throw the book across the room and shoot yourself out of boredom.If I don't do steps 1-10, and just listen to the dialogue, read it and look at the notes I spend only 5 or so minutes on it, but everything I've read said people spend 20-30 minutes on each lesson and they love it. Examine the examples of sentence structure.
Assimil Language Review How To Cover 10
The lesson you've done 10 times now you may be shadowing and it's easy.The lesson you've done 5 times you may be reading the notes.The lesson 3 days ago you may be reading the Target Language.Today's lesson you may only be reading the translation.That's how to cover 10 lessons in 10 days. Start the recording back 10 lessons. Say the new lesson today is 21. (depending on length of lesson, etc).3) Each day, move forward one lesson per day.For instance, French Without Toil had lessons about 90 seconds long. Now there's less time for boredom.2) Do the current lesson and several before or after. This is somewhat like Professor Arguelles talks about.1) Use Audacity to "Truncate Silence" in the recordings.
".Wave B: More conventional wave, repeatedly listen, read everything. You can say, "I've been through. Less than 4 hours).Goals: Understand the structure of the course.
I'm definitely going to play around with it some because I do think it has a lot of potential, it's just figuring out how to make it work for me. Later, when you want to get more out of the course, you do a variation.Thanks all, for the ideas. Some are more suitable for just banging it out quickly. Notice things you might want to know more about later, etc.The idea with distinct waves is you can do a particular wave and you're done. Do you understand everything? Could you spell it?Goal: Listen with ease.
I then shadow this tape repeatedly until I begin to grow familiar with the pronunciation and intonation, and until I have figured out as much as I can of what is being said on my own. How do I do this? First and foremost, I edit the tapes by getting rid of all the gaps so that I obtain at least two hours of solid and continuous narrative in the target language only. But then somewhere else he says the new Russian Assimil is a travesty and he gave it away or maybe threw it away."The instructions provided at the beginning of each book are adequate, but you need to tailor them to suit you. I may not have the level of sophistication to use the power drill as a power drill and get the full benefit from the tool, but I can still use it as a hammer substitute to drive the nail in. My brain is simply not wired the way his is. Fortunately I got past the first one of the Professor's I happened to read (see excerpt below), which almost turned me off completely with the comments I highlighted in bold.
When I have done them all, I then write or type out the target language lessons in their entirety, sometimes several times. Each day I go through the notes of several lessons to catch the fine points. Slowly I switch to shadowing while reading the target language so that I learn to read it.
With 'easy' languages, I can then generally cope fully with both texts and all sorts of conversation, with 'difficult' languages I then go through systematic grammatical exercises and begin reading primers."My strategy for Assimil's New French with Ease was relatively straightforward: However, by taking a chunk of the language like this and peeling it layer by layer like an onion so that you come to ever greater understanding of how it works, this rarely grows boring, and when it does, I am advanced enough to move on. Depending on the difficulty of the lesson, I might have to listen to the tapes hundreds of times, and likewise repeatedly review the book. I know that I am 'done' when I can successfully 'play' the advanced lessons through my brain while I am taking a shower.
Re-read the L2 text, and try again, in short sections, etc.This got me to a week A2 in about 6 months, mostly because of the way that steady exposure to comprehensible input adds up over time.I'm currently using Assimil for a non-Indo-European language, L'Égyptien hiéroglyphique. During the active wave, try to reproduce the L2 text, and generally fail. Do the exercises in lazy and inconsistent fashion. When I could understand 95% of the L2 text without looking at the L1 text, and at least 80% of the audio with my eyes closed, move on.
Arguelles who often decries the dumbing down of courses in the past two or three decades. And the current company's catering to CEFR considerations, perhaps out of a sense of competitive necessity, seems to have detracted from the brand in the opinion of many reviewers, including Dr. Also it is supposed to be pleasant and stress-free, which I don't think I have ever heard the highly intense method of L-R described as.Plus he seemed to actually get the L1 translations and notes right, while later editions of Assimil, especially for English bases, seem to be plagued by bad translations. The same for the use of a passive and active wave.
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