What do you think about this language learnig technique?
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Repetitive listening
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Re: Repetitive listening
I listen to everything repeatedly. For example I'll read through the transcript for some challenging dialog and listen to it on my way to work each morning for a few days. Then I'll give it a break and some week(s) later I'll listen again.
Occasionally I re-listen to things I haven't listened to in months.
I kind of assumed this is how all language learners were doing it :/
Occasionally I re-listen to things I haven't listened to in months.
I kind of assumed this is how all language learners were doing it :/
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Re: Repetitive listening
qeadz wrote:I listen to everything repeatedly. For example I'll read through the transcript for some challenging dialog and listen to it on my way to work each morning for a few days. Then I'll give it a break and some week(s) later I'll listen again.
Occasionally I re-listen to things I haven't listened to in months.
I kind of assumed this is how all language learners were doing it :/
Actually, I never heard about this method and I have found it quite appealing that is why I asked about this. Thanks for your reply.
I wonder if there is any sense to add this method to a daily routine when you are at the intermediate levels and beyond.
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Re: Repetitive listening
I often go back to things a couple weeks or months after I last listened to them, for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they were simply very entertaining, while in other cases I want to see if my comprehension has improved. It definitely helps. Since you already know how the content goes more or less, it lets you focus on recognizing and harvesting details and interesting expressions more efficiently.
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Re: Repetitive listening
What I'll do is listen to, say, an Assimil leçon, a few times so I can pick up the cadence, and either shadow it or repeat it aloud without a prompt.
I would think that spaced-exposure to anything would be helpful. I might not remember it the first or second time I see something, but on the third time, "hey, this looks familiar".
I would think that spaced-exposure to anything would be helpful. I might not remember it the first or second time I see something, but on the third time, "hey, this looks familiar".
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Re: Repetitive listening
I do this with youtube videos. I rip the sound off a booktuber that I like and listen to those audio tracks over and over for a while. Then I get bored. Then I come back to them later. I listen to the old ones and add new files to loop for a while.
It isn't really a well thought out strategy though. It is just part of what I do because I'd like to pick up this girl's accent and I don't have the dedication to work any harder at it
It isn't really a well thought out strategy though. It is just part of what I do because I'd like to pick up this girl's accent and I don't have the dedication to work any harder at it
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Re: Repetitive listening
I'm a big fan of listening to the same material multiple times. I found it especially helpful for developing listening comprehension as a beginner. My experience, in some ways, seems to agree with the author's in that it helps with internalizing intonation and improving accent. I have playlists of podcasts, music and random videos that I would do this with and I found it very useful for the same reasons noted by the author of the article.
I'm not so sure about leaving it to 'bake' for 10 months but I'm willing to believe that one would be in a good position to remember something they've listened to multiple times, even after a few months of not reviewing it depending on how well it originally sank in.
I'm not so sure about leaving it to 'bake' for 10 months but I'm willing to believe that one would be in a good position to remember something they've listened to multiple times, even after a few months of not reviewing it depending on how well it originally sank in.
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Re: Repetitive listening
It sounds like Steve's trolling for a reaction. "Repetitive" generally implies "boring" to a native speaker -- I'd describe what he's talking about as repeated listening.
I used to have a few spoken texts on my MP3 player that I listened to repeatedly. In Scottish Gaelic it was files from a podcast that had grown out of a long-running radio show for beginners (called "letter to learners", it was originally run as a printed letter in a newspaper accompanied by a weekly broadcast of the letter read out on the radio -- it's still on the radio, but a lot of people use the online version now); in Spanish it was an audio-guide of the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela that I was given on a summer course; and in Catalan it was the audio from Assimil.
But one thing I made sure was that it was never "repetitive", because as soon as it's repetitive, you zone out. I wouldn't listen to exactly the same tracks every time. With the Gaelic, I'd just start where I left off, and let the collection loop, so I wouldn't hear every text every day. With the Catalan, I tended to overlap sessions, starting later and later through the course over time, so there would be 1-3 tracks that would drop off from the beginning of my session and 1-3 new tracks that would come in at the end.
I used to have a few spoken texts on my MP3 player that I listened to repeatedly. In Scottish Gaelic it was files from a podcast that had grown out of a long-running radio show for beginners (called "letter to learners", it was originally run as a printed letter in a newspaper accompanied by a weekly broadcast of the letter read out on the radio -- it's still on the radio, but a lot of people use the online version now); in Spanish it was an audio-guide of the cathedral in Santiago de Compostela that I was given on a summer course; and in Catalan it was the audio from Assimil.
But one thing I made sure was that it was never "repetitive", because as soon as it's repetitive, you zone out. I wouldn't listen to exactly the same tracks every time. With the Gaelic, I'd just start where I left off, and let the collection loop, so I wouldn't hear every text every day. With the Catalan, I tended to overlap sessions, starting later and later through the course over time, so there would be 1-3 tracks that would drop off from the beginning of my session and 1-3 new tracks that would come in at the end.
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Re: Repetitive listening
See:
Rereading texts in language learning (LLorg) about repeated reading
Ari’s Chinesepod method (HTLAL) about repeated listening
Rereading texts in language learning (LLorg) about repeated reading
Ari’s Chinesepod method (HTLAL) about repeated listening
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Same principle as watching 7 sessions of 23 episodes each of Star Trek.
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