Reviewing assimil's active wave

[Razdey]

Hello, sometimes when I am going back to a previous lesson to review on assimil (let's say 1-2 weeks back), I make mistakes here and there. I sometimes forget the words, wrong conjungation, etc.

Do I have to get every sentence correct everytime, or is something passable okay (let's say about 80-90% correct) to reap the benefits of assimil?

Thanks.

[rdearman]

It is probably up to you, but I think with 90% correct you're doing OK. Besides you can also go back if you need to.

[Razdey]

Thanks for the feedback. Just got to keep pushing forward.

[DaveBee]

Hello, sometimes when I am going back to a previous lesson to review on assimil (let's say 1-2 weeks back), I make mistakes here and there. I sometimes forget the words, wrong conjungation, etc.

Do I have to get every sentence correct everytime, or is something passable okay (let's say about 80-90% correct) to reap the benefits of assimil?

Thanks.

I didn't worry about being correct in the 2nd wave. If I blanked on the specific vocabulary used, I just phrased the message with the words I knew.

I think the key thing is to do this every day. You get better over time. (Having said that, I've done next to zero L2 production since finishing Assimil!!! I need new habits.)

[Brun Ugle]

To me, trying to review the same material until I get it perfect seems like a waste of time and effort. It takes a lot of effort for little gain. Usually if I get it mostly right, I look over what I got wrong and move forward. The bits I got wrong eventually fall into place anyway, and do so much more easily than if I'd gone over them again and again.

[Razdey]

Thanks for the input. First time learning a language here, so just a bit confused haha.

[zenmonkey]

For me, it depends on the error.
Things like forgetting a word, gender errors, minor pronunciation errors, structure or order errors (except in German where order is everything.) - I don't worry about and move on.

If I'm getting major grammatical errors like tense or verb endings consistently wrong or forgetting pronouns then I'll do a set of drills on the issue.

I'll do the wave two dialogues a few times and then move on.

[Razdey]

Thanks. Yeah I realized some of the words in assimil is not used that frequently in our everyday lives.
And you're right. It depends on the error.

[David1917]

This is one of the reasons I don't really like Assimil as a first resource - I prefer to use it after I have a good grounding in the language, so as to get a lot of basically random but graded input. By the time I do the active wave, I would give myself a pass if I use a different word order/structure, so long as I can say for sure it is itself correct. Or, I can easily correct an error moving forward (e.g. direct/indirect article placement in French). If there's a random word that hasn't been repeated enough in the course for me to remember it, it goes in Anki. Then the book is done for me. I suppose someday I could go back and just listen through the dialogues in the background and see how much better I comprehend them, but so far I haven't done that with any of the langs I've used Assimil with.