Re: language trainer - kind of thing

From: Herb Martin (news_at_LearnQuick.com)
Date: 02/13/05 

Date: Sun, 13 Feb 2005 14:09:03 GMT

"Alexei A. Frounze" <alexfru@chat.ru> wrote in message
news:378kvjF58bsu1U2@individual.net...
> "Herb Martin" <news@LearnQuick.com> wrote in message
> news:HLwPd.45006$sr1.1361@fe2.texas.rr.com...
> > Ok, here's what I am using (for Spanish and Arabic
> > from English):
> ...
> > Don't overlook that verbs tenses (etc) can be placed into
> > Pauker with a bit of thought about the format.
>
> Too much typing.

Although I have typed some large lists myself (several over
2000 words) the trick is to find friends with lists or use
such as are found on the FlashCardExchange.com site.

> Yet pauker is rather slow if the lesson is over a few
> hundreds of entries.

Pauker works fine on my lists which average about 2000
words each.

> > Skype -- free voice chat program with the ability to search
> > for other Skype users by native and other languages (only
> > those who wish to be found of course). You can probably
> > find a Spanish->Russian or Spanish->English student to
> > speak with. www.Skype.com
>
> I have no good inet connection.

That is a shame. You were on usenet, so it seemed likely
that (today) you could access the Internet reliably.

> ...
> > I studied French for 4 years in high school, Russian for 3
> > years, and lived in Germany for 2 years (and studied German
> > quite a bit there) and already I am fair more fluent in
> > understanding (at least) Spanish in only 6 1/2 months.
>
> Great if you only study the languages :) I've been studying English since
> around '91, w/o much of success (due to lousy teachers) till '98-2000. A
> year in the USA helped like a hell lot. When I just came, I was asked
about
> the duration of my languages studies at the interview. And I had to lie
> because nobody would believe in such a sluggish progress :)

This is the POINT of my explanation -- my new method/techniques/tools
are the reason that it is going so much faster.

Even in Arabic (a must harder language) my progress
was must better than with the serious effort I expended
in the past.

> > I can pretty much read the Harry Potter books straight away
> > although a bit slowly and sometime (not always) translating
> > to English. 

-- 
Herb Martin

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