The German textbook he refers to is De Agostini (I remember that he's named it in a video). It's really outdated now, but it was excellent at that time because it contained a lot of cultural information and pictures, interesting things that made you curious and motivated. I don't know which languages it existed in beside German, but I remember seeing French and Russian.
I like Luca because he's honest. He's talked a lot about how he really learnt his core languages: native speaker girlfriend, living in the country for a long time. I don't know anything about his current situation, but in the last video I saw he said that he was living with several foreigners, all from different countries. He was learning Hungarian with two online tutors. Obviously, this is not a method you can advocate and build your own company on.
I think he created this translation method for 'public use', so for people (mainly monolingual beginners) who are a bit lost and can't really improve without help. I've never considered myself his target audience. He had to choose something that's attainable, general (not language-specific), user-friendly, safe and easy to follow. That's Assimil. Evidently, if you choose a specific language there are various better or more enjoyable ways to learn it.
Lampariello with some details on how he found his BDT method
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Re: Lampariello with some details on how he found his BDT method
The method is of course older than Lampariello.
Here are forerunners:
De Quincey ( 1785- 1859 )
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 14&t=18331
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Methode Toussaint-Langenscheidt
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methode_T ... genscheidt
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Die 4 Schritte der Birkenbihl-Methode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa8l-5Ut3uE
Wie bereiten Sie die Texte auf?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyZ3bJdSnzg
Here are forerunners:
De Quincey ( 1785- 1859 )
https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... 14&t=18331
The best method, with those who have advanced to some degree of proficiency, he considers that of double translations—i. e. a translation first of all into the mother tongue of the learner, and a re-translation of this translation back into the language of the original.
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Methode Toussaint-Langenscheidt
https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methode_T ... genscheidt
Die Interlinearübersetzung erfolgte typischerweise in der Reihenfolge:
erste Zeile: Originaltext (Fremdsprache),
zweite Zeile: Aussprache (Fremdsprache),
dritte Zeile: Wort-für-Wort-Übersetzung (Deutsch).
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Die 4 Schritte der Birkenbihl-Methode
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qa8l-5Ut3uE
Wie bereiten Sie die Texte auf?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cyZ3bJdSnzg
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Re: Lampariello with some details on how he found his BDT method
Olly also promotes this method. Buuuut... in a video explaining why this method is so great, in a twist of irony he actually shows why the method is... not great. He marks as wrong something that is actually right: (It starts at 7:00)
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Re: Lampariello with some details on how he found his BDT method
Shakespeare learned Latin this way. Read a bit of Latin, translate it into English, then after a bit back into Latin. I got no source for this, unfortunately.Kraut wrote:The method is of course older than Lampariello.
And perhaps not so helpful for learning to speak the language?
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Re: Lampariello with some details on how he found his BDT method
MorkTheFiddle wrote:Kraut wrote:And perhaps not so helpful for learning to speak the language?
It depends on how you do the repitition. You could listen to the sentence in L1 and use it as a prompt for a spoken consecutive translation.
Or if the text is not so long, has a coherent plot, a compelling little drama ... learn the minitext by heart and recite it loud wherever you are.
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