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I once did a university Spanish course that used Destinos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destinos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destinos), a 52 video episode cour
by 1331 16y ago
I once did a university Spanish course that used Destinos (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destinos http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Destinos), a 52 video episode course that uses techniques that you describe. A textbook and a few workbooks are also provided, as using what you learn is key to remembering it. I see that there are similar courses for English, French, and German linked to from that Wikipedia page.
I bet that the cost of producing high quality video is quite high, so that is indeed probably one of the primary reasons that such material is rare.
I recall there being some videos produced by language podcasts (including JapanesePod101, if I remember correctly), if you look for them.
- mattm 16y agoThanks for the suggestion. I will read up on their learning style more. As for JP101, they do have some videos but they are mainly teachers standing in front of the camera teaching some things - like it would be in a classroom. It's not really what I envision. Did you feel that you learned and retained things better when presented with video stimulation?
- 1331 16y agoIt sounds cliché, but I truly believe that each person learns in different ways. For people who are visual, video stimulation works quite well. A good language course combines many different styles of learning. The Destinos videos kept that Spanish course interesting for me, but I tend to learn better by doing than just observing. The most useful language course that I have ever taken was an advanced Spanish translation course that I took in a university in Japan. The course was conducted in Japanese, and every student translated a novel from Spanish to Japanese. The Spanish was easy for me, but that course advanced my Japanese more than any other.