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| luke Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 7007 days ago 3133 posts - 4351 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Esperanto, French | Message 1 of 19 09 March 2015 at 9:01pm | IP Logged |
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What have you found is the best approach?
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| robarb Nonaglot Senior Member United States languagenpluson Joined 4861 days ago 361 posts - 921 votes Speaks: Portuguese, English*, German, Italian, Spanish, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, French Studies: Mandarin, Danish, Russian, Norwegian, Cantonese, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Greek, Latin, Nepali, Modern Hebrew | Message 2 of 19 10 March 2015 at 12:14am | IP Logged |
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Zip through, then use native materials, then return much later to patch up things that didn't stick from input.
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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5064 days ago 2237 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 3 of 19 10 March 2015 at 1:09am | IP Logged |
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Neither option for me. A structured course serves to provide me with a foundation as I go along with a multi-track approach. So by using this approach, a course is one of the tools in my arsenal that is used more heavily at the start and less and less as I begin teaching myself through native materials as soon as possible, along with the course. The course becomes more of a way to explain what I am seeing, speaking and hearing in the real world and reinforces it. It then declines in importance in actually teaching me. It soon reaches the point of- "Oh! That's why they say it that way!". I rarely "finish" a course and don't go back to it, but my way isn't for everyone. Edited by iguanamon on 14 March 2015 at 7:12pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4246 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 4 of 19 10 March 2015 at 2:01am | IP Logged |
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I'd zip through the material and then repeat after. For me it gets rather boring to be repeating the exact same
things over and over. The way I learn to play a song on a piano is to find a sound recording and listen a few times. Then I'd play the piece through at least once so I know what is involved. Finally I'd work on different sections individually. When you are doing speed reading, you'd read a chapter through quickly to get the context instead of keeping your eyes on a word or phrase for too long. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Juаn Senior Member Colombia Joined 5147 days ago 727 posts - 1830 votes Speaks: Spanish* | Message 5 of 19 10 March 2015 at 4:04am | IP Logged |
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I read through each manual once, then proceed to another one. I never review completed courses. As a matter of fact, I don't review individual lessons either.
I read language learning manuals like I would any other type of book. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5110 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 6 of 19 10 March 2015 at 5:34am | IP Logged |
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I zip through one course after another, each course being more detailled that the previous. For example:
1. Teach Yourself Instant XXX (0.5cm thick) 2. Teach Yourself Beginners XXX (1cm thick) 3. Teach Yourself XXX (2cm thick) 4. Colloquial XXX (2cm thick) 5. XXX Grammar, 200 pages 6. XXX Grammar, 500 pages One or more chapters per day. I make sure I understand the grammar, but I don't do the excercises. THEN I get a 7. Schaum's Outlines XXX or similar workbook, and do all the exercises out loud. It'd be quite effortless at this point, because you'd have seen all the grammar so many times already, systematically presented and fully explained every time. In fact, some chapters would be too easy and I simply skip them. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4385 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 7 of 19 10 March 2015 at 10:13am | IP Logged |
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I work through each lesson one at a time until I feel I have mastered it, ie. until I have learned all the vocabulary, listened to all the dialogues multiple times and written out the exercises several times as well. I then move onto a new lesson, but often go back and revise the old ones (especially the audio).
If I just read a lesson once I don't think I would retain much of it and I certainly wouldn't know the vocab by heart. Does it partly depends on what language you are learning and how many available resources there are, though? When I was trying to learn French many years ago I had lots of different course books and if I got bored with one I could read another one. Now I'm learning Macedonian and I'm fairly sure there is only one English-language textbook for the language. So I need to work through that slowly and make sure I get the most out of it because all the wonderful things which smallwhite lists don't exist to move on to! 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6399 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 8 of 19 10 March 2015 at 9:45pm | IP Logged |
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As much or little as I need to be able to get comprehensible input.
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