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by stephen_g 1822 days ago
Language Transfer [1] is a little bit like that, (all audio, and you are meant to talk back and just listen, speak and think, not write anything down), but it’s more of a conversational style where the teacher is explaining things to a student and you are supposed to pause to answer before the student does. Actually saying it does make a difference!

I haven’t got all the way through a course yet (need to get back but I’ll have to go back to an earlier point because it’s been a few months) but I feel like I made ten times the process as I did trying to do a course Duolingo for the same language.

It does the same kind of thing with the repetition. “Now remember how we’d say [word]” and it really does stick better than just seeing the word and a picture.

And it’s all available free too (but you can support on Patreon if you want).

1: https://www.languagetransfer.org/

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I have gone through several courses with passive listening and learned so much. Would highly recommend.
Sounds like the Michael Thomas method