More Spaced Repetition
I've been going through Assimil Breton again lately and wanted a better way because going through the lessons once a day or twice a day wasn't doing it for me. Then I fell on this formula:
1) Work through the lesson earlier in the day.
2) Listen to the lesson first while reading, then without reading, at night.
3) Note the dialog in a journal.
4) Re-read the dialog the next morning.
5) Read aloud and copy the dialog before doing the next lesson.
That's five encounters with each dialog, which is nice. But what's most important is the time between lessons - time to mull and time to forget so that when I next come back it won't be "this again!" but instead will be something that I'm re-working in my mind. They always say that ten minutes twice a day is better than 3 hours twice a week. The difference is whether you're cramming and relearning or getting into the groove with your learning. So try, as best you can, to make your new language something that pops up in your everyday life, not something you set aside time for as though it's a distraction from what you would normally do.
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Or, if you have the time and patience, try out The Yellow Experiment.
1) Work through the lesson earlier in the day.
2) Listen to the lesson first while reading, then without reading, at night.
3) Note the dialog in a journal.
4) Re-read the dialog the next morning.
5) Read aloud and copy the dialog before doing the next lesson.
That's five encounters with each dialog, which is nice. But what's most important is the time between lessons - time to mull and time to forget so that when I next come back it won't be "this again!" but instead will be something that I'm re-working in my mind. They always say that ten minutes twice a day is better than 3 hours twice a week. The difference is whether you're cramming and relearning or getting into the groove with your learning. So try, as best you can, to make your new language something that pops up in your everyday life, not something you set aside time for as though it's a distraction from what you would normally do.
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Or, if you have the time and patience, try out The Yellow Experiment.
1 Comments:
"They always say that ten minutes twice a day is better than 3 hours twice a week."
I agree with this wholeheartedly. You can't cram a language like you can for a test. It has to be a continual process. Every day do a little something in the language and you will get much better results than if you only do study on the weekend for example.
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