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| Thunter Triglot Newbie Germany Joined 3334 days ago 2 posts - 5 votes Speaks: German*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, French, Modern Hebrew | Message 1 of 7 29 March 2015 at 12:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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How do you repeat a language on longterm?
Personally,I rehear Assimil once in two month. I saw how useful it was when i reheared a lesson that I accidently deleted. Additionally, i reread my "own" grammar, which is about 10 to 25 pages long. After using Assimil it often was difficult for me to converse but i could understand quite well. That caused me to learn another course with more grammar and exercices. However i don't know what to do with the vocabularylists on long term. I see a great need to know whether a verb in Hindi is transtive/intransitive in russian UA or VA and so forth. For me it is important to not spend too mutch time on repeating but i don't want to forget a language either. It'n not worth learning a language and forget it a few years later like a lot of people do What are your stategies to efficiently repeat a language. Edited by Thunter on 29 March 2015 at 12:28pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| guiguixx1 Octoglot Senior Member Belgium guillaumelp.wordpres Joined 3894 days ago 163 posts - 207 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Dutch, Portuguese, Esperanto, German, Italian, Spanish Studies: Polish, Mandarin | Message 2 of 7 29 March 2015 at 12:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I usually simply try to use it a lot for a couple of hours/day. a couple of months ago,
after a long period of non use of Spanish, I used it fora couple of hours, and could speak it again after. But it of course depends on your level, and on how you learnt the language. For advanced languages, you'll barely need an hour or 2 (depending also on the time you spent without using it), while for a high beginner/low intermediate, it will be different, and you may need more time. I hope this answered your question! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ezy Ryder Diglot Senior Member Poland youtube.com/user/Kat Joined 4151 days ago 284 posts - 387 votes Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, Japanese | Message 3 of 7 29 March 2015 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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For a language I'm still learning, I use SRS (Spaced Repetition Software) like Anki.
It can optimize your reviews. For a (or rather the) foreign language I've learnt already, I simply use it on a daily basis (mainly input). Edited by Ezy Ryder on 29 March 2015 at 3:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| chaotic_thought Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 3344 days ago 129 posts - 274 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Dutch, French | Message 4 of 7 29 March 2015 at 10:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Take the time you have (1 hour per day, 2 hours per day, etc.) and make this your "study/review budget" for that language. You can divide this budgeted time into short segments of activities (e.g. 15 min listening to the news, 15 min reading/listening, etc.)
When you review programs like Assimil, I recommend only allocating 30min tops to this activity per day. The rest of the time should be in fresh material that you find interesting. When you study flashcards or do SRS drills using something like Anki, use the timeboxing option and do this for a VERY SHORT AMOUNT OF TIME (e.g. 2-3 minutes) in one sitting. When the time is up you close the program for at least one hour. You can do it a few times per day at most (e.g. if you're waiting in the train or at the bus stop or something, you can also do this). Important though - this review time on flashcards does not count toward your time budget. You have to do it "off the clock". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4323 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 5 of 7 29 March 2015 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Assimil ... course ... grammar ... vocabulary lists ...
I'm missing extensive reading and listening here. It lets you discover new things to learn, consolidates and automates knowledge you already have and provides you with a great amount of review (even grammar points like transitive/intransitive verbs). 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4509 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 6 of 7 30 March 2015 at 5:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Repeat? Do you mean review?
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| smallwhite Pentaglot Senior Member Australia Joined 5110 days ago 537 posts - 1045 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin, French, Spanish | Message 7 of 7 30 March 2015 at 7:25am | IP Logged | ||
I used to regularly repeat/revise/review the languages that I wasn't actively learning, until I realised that it wasn't necessarily to do so. I found it much more efficient (and less boring) to revise only when I needed the language, or just maybe once a year together with other New Year's Resolutions. That was possible because I found out what worked well for me as revision: - listening to the radio (faster than I could read, and handsfree, yay!) - doing flashcards (even doing only some of them would magically bring back the rest of them, eg. at first, could only answer 10%, then after struggling for an hour, suddenly could answer 90% or whatever close to the previous ability) It only takes a few days to get back to previous B1-B2-ish levels. Edited by smallwhite on 30 March 2015 at 2:12pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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