luke wrote:I hear these ideas for combatting the intermediate plateau.
Thank you for your summary! I'd love to see them for other videos as well.
luke wrote:I hear these ideas for combatting the intermediate plateau.
bolaobo wrote:In several videos, the professor has suggested using multiple beginner resources simultaneously, sometimes up to 5!
How many of you have really found this necessary? After an Assimil course, provided I did at least some outside work on the language, I don't find I need to go through a whole new textbook before moving on to more advanced material. Using a whole pile of beginner textbooks just seems excessive to me.
I suppose it depends on how often you thoroughly you review the material. I have a tendency to "overstudy" the Assimil books and I also do outside work or immersion via media.
Beli Tsar wrote:bolaobo wrote:In several videos, the professor has suggested using multiple beginner resources simultaneously, sometimes up to 5!
How many of you have really found this necessary? After an Assimil course, provided I did at least some outside work on the language, I don't find I need to go through a whole new textbook before moving on to more advanced material. Using a whole pile of beginner textbooks just seems excessive to me.
Just a reflection rather than an answer, but is this partly because he tends to study in order to read serious literature, often in classical languages, in which there is very little available at the Harry Potter level or lower (despite recent videos!)? If the jump to unadapted texts is harder, it might make more sense to do multiple courses?
einzelne wrote:I sincerely hope that I will never reach the Harry Potter stage in any of my languages...
Alexander Arguelles wrote:Certainly one can maintain multiple languages doing something similar to this, using any of the authors from the list that you mention, and if you cannot stand Harry Potter you should use these even for this transitional stage. However, for your first venture away from textbooks and into the territory of authentic native materials, this series does offer something unique in that it is progressive. The first book is aimed at a preteen audience and is about 250 pages long, while the 7th book is aimed at 17 year-olds and is 700 pages long. This increasing complexity should hopefully match your increasing mastery of the language so that when you are done with this, you can now read real native literature, not translations of popular English books. Speaking as the father of two teenagers whom I have seen go through the whole gamut of series for young readers, it really does seem to me that all other authors write pretty much all the books in their series at the same level, so you can only get this progression with HP.
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