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by jodrellblank
1569 days ago
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Learning Morse Code it's tempting to start slow. The problem is you get skilled at "slow Morse" and it's hard to speed up, since the sounds and feel change. An alternative is to learn with fast Morse characters or words from the beginning but with long gaps between them for thinking time. Then as you need less thinking time you can shrink the gaps and be fast. I haven't seen online discussions of this idea for language learning, but I wonder if the same technique could be used? Hear snippets of fast French, words or short phrases, with long gaps for you to think what they said. Then as you understand quicker, need less thinking time, shrink the gaps. ? Maybe even as simple as a "press space for next sentence when ready, or R to repeat". [It's also an interesting thing about language comprehension / artificial intelligence. After hearing a thing in English I have awareness of whether or not I understand it, and can correct small misunderstandings without further input, only time and imagination, e.g. "it makes no sense in context, maybe they said this instead" or "I just realised that someword said in their accent would sound like that. It might be someword they said"]. |
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Which is my pet peeve with French: when I feel particularly bad at talking English (I'm German), it feels natural to fall back to a sequence of separate words that isn't a sentence but gets some message to the receiver (while making me sound like the imbecile that I might be, but it does the job and sometimes that's worth this cost). For French, I feel like there's no alternative to trying to form a sentence. And on my level, that works worse than the English "words no sentence" fallback would (and if it does not work it will certainly also fail to make me seem anywhere close to competent in the language)