Re: A chessplayer learns languages (German for now)
Posted: Mon Dec 18, 2017 2:34 pm
I finally managed to finish Glossika Fluency 123 German course using 5-Month "Relaxed" schedule . From what I see it took me 251 days insted of the planned 147... No prizes for that. As I mentioned in the first post of this log I made the mistake of following it too religiously, namely doing it only when I had the opportunity to speak along with the recordings. I also took the GMS C files up to sentence 2018 as dictation. This sometimes amounted to about 1,5 hours just doing Glossika and nothing else. Sometimes it was just hard to find so much time for that.(And Glossika is supposed to be a supplementary course...) On top of that there were some personal issues that prevented me from following it for 1-2 weeks. Couple of such situations and I'm at day 251
But all in all I think that it helped me to start speaking at a basic fluency level. By that I mean speaking without stopping every 2 words looking for the right word. Now it's every 3 words On a serious note, it's a good start. Too bad it lasted so long.
I made the most progress while going through the first 2 books, well especially the end of the first was a milestone. Second also gave me opportunity to practice common structures (passive for example). But the third one was not especially good in my opinion. Maybe i was just tired and wanted to just get over with it and that affects my opinion. But some sentences in it are just way too long and for some groups of sentences I didn't see any pattern. They just seem to be there for no particular reason. But it's just an opinion.
Anyway this post will be a reminder for me, how should I tackle Glossika if I ever want to go through this again (maybe with another language). Then i think I would go with one of two totally different strategies:
Strategy 1: Just go through all the GSR files 1 per day and it would take 300 days.
Strategy 2: Go through some "Hyper-relaxed" schedule lasting 4 months or less. And then if I can't speak during listening, so be it. Listened, checked and I'm going further. I think it's better then to waste time and doing everything by the book. This time can be better spend listening to native materials.
But all in all I think that it helped me to start speaking at a basic fluency level. By that I mean speaking without stopping every 2 words looking for the right word. Now it's every 3 words On a serious note, it's a good start. Too bad it lasted so long.
I made the most progress while going through the first 2 books, well especially the end of the first was a milestone. Second also gave me opportunity to practice common structures (passive for example). But the third one was not especially good in my opinion. Maybe i was just tired and wanted to just get over with it and that affects my opinion. But some sentences in it are just way too long and for some groups of sentences I didn't see any pattern. They just seem to be there for no particular reason. But it's just an opinion.
Anyway this post will be a reminder for me, how should I tackle Glossika if I ever want to go through this again (maybe with another language). Then i think I would go with one of two totally different strategies:
Strategy 1: Just go through all the GSR files 1 per day and it would take 300 days.
Strategy 2: Go through some "Hyper-relaxed" schedule lasting 4 months or less. And then if I can't speak during listening, so be it. Listened, checked and I'm going further. I think it's better then to waste time and doing everything by the book. This time can be better spend listening to native materials.