Re: Zelda's French Log (+ Modern Greek)
Posted: Sat Dec 15, 2018 10:49 pm
Okay, as promised in the previous post, here's my current plan for Greek, subject to change:
I am going back to lesson 10, which is the first lesson where I started to struggle (they introduced a medio-passive verb, new random vocabulary, and the speakers started speaking more quickly). Here is my current plan:
1. Listen to the previous day's lesson and decide whether or not I am comfortably familiar with the content. Am I ready to move on?
If YES:
2. Proceed to next lesson.
3. Complete a regular Assimil lesson with lots of audio-looping and repeating back. Understand all important grammar concepts in the lesson, using English resources if necessary.
4. Translate the whole lesson from English to Greek by speaking aloud (yes, I plan on doing the active wave from the beginning).
If NO:
2. Work on previous lesson using a variety of CREATIVE resources like drilling, drawing pictures of what's happening, visualizing the scene as the audio plays, getting clear on specific grammar points, playing the parts of characters, translating from L1 to L2, creating new sentences etc.
3. Request help on the WordReference Greek forum if needed.
The reason for creative exercises is because I can only do so much drilling until my mind goes numb. But if I'm standing up in the living room with a phone to my ear and pretending I'm Nikos chatting to Kostas, it becomes a lot more realistic. I also like drawing cute little stick figure diagrams, so I want to use that to my advantage whenever I have the energy. My husband doesn't seem to mind all my craziness.
Disclaimer: I cannot draw 3d ports or quais... or boats apparently.
I am going back to lesson 10, which is the first lesson where I started to struggle (they introduced a medio-passive verb, new random vocabulary, and the speakers started speaking more quickly). Here is my current plan:
1. Listen to the previous day's lesson and decide whether or not I am comfortably familiar with the content. Am I ready to move on?
If YES:
2. Proceed to next lesson.
3. Complete a regular Assimil lesson with lots of audio-looping and repeating back. Understand all important grammar concepts in the lesson, using English resources if necessary.
4. Translate the whole lesson from English to Greek by speaking aloud (yes, I plan on doing the active wave from the beginning).
If NO:
2. Work on previous lesson using a variety of CREATIVE resources like drilling, drawing pictures of what's happening, visualizing the scene as the audio plays, getting clear on specific grammar points, playing the parts of characters, translating from L1 to L2, creating new sentences etc.
3. Request help on the WordReference Greek forum if needed.
The reason for creative exercises is because I can only do so much drilling until my mind goes numb. But if I'm standing up in the living room with a phone to my ear and pretending I'm Nikos chatting to Kostas, it becomes a lot more realistic. I also like drawing cute little stick figure diagrams, so I want to use that to my advantage whenever I have the energy. My husband doesn't seem to mind all my craziness.
Disclaimer: I cannot draw 3d ports or quais... or boats apparently.