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My approach: be in country, do the Pimsleur audio course, obsessively bang out vocab flash cards in the native script, study grammar every morning for 2-3 hours
by kaiwen1 8y ago
My approach: be in country, do the Pimsleur audio course, obsessively bang out vocab flash cards in the native script, study grammar every morning for 2-3 hours, and (the secret sauce) live with a s.o. who speaks the target language exclusively. Six months is enough to be comfortably conversational. I did it three times, and the last was so successful that the next would require a divorce!
- telesilla 8y agoWhat's good about Pimsleur? I'm about to start learning a new language so I'm looking for the most efficient resources to supplement classes with a teacher.
- atr_gz 8y agoPimsleur is nice because it asks you to actively and quickly respond to the recordings. It's a little over-priced, though. There's so much free content out there for most languages.
- shawabawa3 8y agoI can't recommend highly enough the michel thomas method: https://www.michelthomas.com/ https://www.michelthomas.com/ I listened to about 20 hours of lessons, which is very easy to do as part of the method is "don't write anything down, don't try to remember anything", and my French improved massively. It only got me so far, and I switched to private lessons afterwards, but it was incredibly efficient while it lasted.
- telesilla 8y agoMichael Thomas really helped me with my french but he doesn't do the language I am learning right now. A pity as I love the sound of his voice, so calm yet authoritative.