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.
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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.
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Re: Reviewing assimil's active wave
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.Razdey wrote: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 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.)
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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.
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Thanks for the input. First time learning a language here, so just a bit confused haha.
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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.
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.
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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.
And you're right. It depends on the error.
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Re: Reviewing assimil's active wave
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.
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