![]() Here was their secret: daily testing and assessment. I studied German at DLI in the late Eighties. Nonetheless, they seem to work to some extent, and they might be the state-of-the-art of what’s currently available! (There’s one thing I’m sure of: the Common European Framework of Reference for Screwing the Teaching of Languages is a failure as big as Putin’s vileness.)īut please allow me to paste here some selected comments from YouTube they might be relevant in evaluating the method told about in the aforementioned video: So I’m pretty sure the DLIFC methods, no matter how smart they are, cannot make miracles. (As one of my many interests is Law, I’ve even read a lot of legislation on Légifrance, including many parts of the Code pénal and of the Code civil but when it comes to the US, in their case there were times when I used to read many SCOTUS Opinions in their entirety! No need to behave like I did.) That’s by no means intensive, quite the contrary, but it’s meaningful. I’m confident that some French cultural aspects known to me are unknown to most French people under 30 or even 40, and some cultural references are probably missed by many language translators that have never lived in France (I have never lived there either, but it’s as if I did). In my case, when I say “I know French,” it’s not just the language, for I am not a linguist! It’s the mix of about 40 years of reading books, comic strips, magazines and newspapers in French, of watching movies with the original French soundtrack, of listening to French music while paying attention to the lyrics (and sometimes specifically for the text, not for the music!), and also more than 30 years of closely following the French politics through the written press, the radio, the TV, the Internet. Is it that effective, though? I’m a bit skeptical, because with all their attempts at adding cultural references through videos and all, one just cannot grasp in 26 to 64 weeks the so many civilizational specifics needed to really UNDERSTAND those foreign people! The DLIFC insists on using the traditional approaches improved with modern concepts (such as the Spaced Repetition System), but beyond that, it’s just hard work and repetition. Oh, you missed a language lesson? Bad luck, the textbook cannot be used it’s a “modern” method, based on “discovery” during the class interaction! No problem, the notions are all in the textbook. Say you’re sick, and you miss a math or a chemistry lesson. This is a complete U-turn from the traditional methods which, in many cases, could have been used when needed even without a teacher. conjugation or declension tables that aren’t completely filled in!), and the textbooks are incomplete and unusable unless used in class. The Common European Framework of Reference for Languages (CEFR) is designed by morons and it’s designed to fail: unlike the language methods used since forever but only until the late 1980s, the CEFR-inspired language methods don’t use enough repetition, don’t introduce the grammar issues properly and thoroughly, and the methods seem to be designed for the complete retards! Oftentimes the student has to “discover” what a word means (it’s not defined in any language in the textbook), they have to “discover” what a grammar rule is (the rules are presented, if at all, after they’re used in the text, and they’re presented in e.g. The above video proves exactly my assertions: intensive language learning methods cannot discard the “traditional” ways of learning a language, unless they really want to fail. by hearing the same words and phrases MILLIONS OF TIMES before automagically discovering what they mean and how they’re used! There is no time to acquire a language like babies do it, i.e. As adults, and even as teens, the only method includes grammar, spelling, and more. One can learn a language with absolutely zero grammar and zero knowledge about how words are spelled only when they’re babies. And no, all those idiots who say “Screw the grammar, because babies do not learn a language, they acquire a language” are just that: idiots. There is no way to learn a language really fast, despite the so many learning methods and apps.
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