Comments on: Three Month Report http://mattgirod.com/2010/01/three-month-report/ Korean Language Learning Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:42:16 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: admin http://mattgirod.com/2010/01/three-month-report/comment-page-1/#comment-92 admin Tue, 19 Jan 2010 08:49:37 +0000 http://mattgirod.com/?p=1170#comment-92 Thanks for sharing your comments here. If you haven't already, check out a few blogs with similar language learning methods. http://acquiringkorean.wordpress.com/ http://koreanasitis.wordpress.com/ http://www.spanish-only.com Thanks for sharing your comments here. If you haven’t already, check out a few blogs with similar language learning methods.
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]]> By: thang http://mattgirod.com/2010/01/three-month-report/comment-page-1/#comment-91 thang Tue, 19 Jan 2010 02:41:07 +0000 http://mattgirod.com/?p=1170#comment-91 Obviously you have your justification for slowing down the audio, and you are ahead of me, so I trust that you are doing it for a good reason. I don't have any experience at that level and I am just parroting what I have read on AJATT and other sites ie - native speed - all the time! I will probably try doing what you are doing when I get to that level. I just had an idea though... by reducing it by 15% aren't you capping your listening ability at 85% of native speed? Whereas if you left it at full speed, while it may be difficult, eventually your brain will adjust and drag you up to 100% ? Just a thought :S I had a blog, a kind of language learning log, but I gave it up because it was a bit time consuming and at this stage I didn't have much to say that wasn't already being said better by other people eg. you, ajatt etc. Obviously you have your justification for slowing down the audio, and you are ahead of me, so I trust that you are doing it for a good reason. I don’t have any experience at that level and I am just parroting what I have read on AJATT and other sites ie - native speed - all the time! I will probably try doing what you are doing when I get to that level.

I just had an idea though… by reducing it by 15% aren’t you capping your listening ability at 85% of native speed? Whereas if you left it at full speed, while it may be difficult, eventually your brain will adjust and drag you up to 100% ? Just a thought :S

I had a blog, a kind of language learning log, but I gave it up because it was a bit time consuming and at this stage I didn’t have much to say that wasn’t already being said better by other people eg. you, ajatt etc.

]]> By: admin http://mattgirod.com/2010/01/three-month-report/comment-page-1/#comment-89 admin Mon, 18 Jan 2010 06:41:07 +0000 http://mattgirod.com/?p=1170#comment-89 @Thang Thanks for your comments. I wish you luck with your studies as well. I think we might agree about the slowing down audio. I slow down the audio about 15%. In the advanced audio blog, to me, its still at or near native speed when the KClass hosts are speaking. (It's a bit slow when the guest reads her blog entry.) The reason is so that I can hear a bit more of the subtleties in pronunciation and at the same time get used to the fast rate of words flying at me. I'm guessing you probably find the low speed audio annoying as I did, in the beginner KClass lessons. Chopping up audio. The actual chopping is maybe the easiest part of the process. I'm really glad i'm doing it this way. I find I like focusing on small parts at a time. I master each piece. Then, little by little I have the whole (or 90%), of the lesson figured out. Knocking out an audio clip in Anki feels as good as knocking out a readsentence too. Do you have a blog yourself? @Thang
Thanks for your comments. I wish you luck with your studies as well.
I think we might agree about the slowing down audio. I slow down the audio about 15%. In the advanced audio blog, to me, its still at or near native speed when the KClass hosts are speaking. (It’s a bit slow when the guest reads her blog entry.) The reason is so that I can hear a bit more of the subtleties in pronunciation and at the same time get used to the fast rate of words flying at me. I’m guessing you probably find the low speed audio annoying as I did, in the beginner KClass lessons.
Chopping up audio. The actual chopping is maybe the easiest part of the process. I’m really glad i’m doing it this way. I find I like focusing on small parts at a time. I master each piece. Then, little by little I have the whole (or 90%), of the lesson figured out. Knocking out an audio clip in Anki feels as good as knocking out a readsentence too.

Do you have a blog yourself?

]]> By: thang http://mattgirod.com/2010/01/three-month-report/comment-page-1/#comment-88 thang Sun, 17 Jan 2010 03:12:12 +0000 http://mattgirod.com/?p=1170#comment-88 Hi, I have been following a similar method for about a month and a half now. I have been going through the beginner lessons on KPOD101, taking the sentences from their transcription and pasting them into Anki. I have just over 1300 sentences. I also take the dialogue only mp3 and paste that into the same deck with the entire transcription as the "answer". So some of that 1300 are audio... maybe 50-100... I plan to go through all the beginner and intermediate lessons like this. Chopping up the advanced blog like that seems like a lot of trouble... Not sure what I will do when I get there. Also, just a matter of opinion, but I think lowering the tempo of the audio is a mistake! Anyway, your blog is really interesting, good luck with your studies! Hi,

I have been following a similar method for about a month and a half now. I have been going through the beginner lessons on KPOD101, taking the sentences from their transcription and pasting them into Anki. I have just over 1300 sentences. I also take the dialogue only mp3 and paste that into the same deck with the entire transcription as the “answer”. So some of that 1300 are audio… maybe 50-100…

I plan to go through all the beginner and intermediate lessons like this. Chopping up the advanced blog like that seems like a lot of trouble… Not sure what I will do when I get there.

Also, just a matter of opinion, but I think lowering the tempo of the audio is a mistake!

Anyway, your blog is really interesting, good luck with your studies!

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