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    Avoiding translation

    There are definitely ways to use in-context flash cards with unrelated languages. They serve two purposes: tampering with the frequency of natural...
    Post by: emk, Aug 15, 2014 in forum: General Discussion
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    Avoiding translation

    I don't really believe in "damaging" a language, except maybe by doing massive amounts of speaking with a very bad accent and seriously incorrect...
    Post by: emk, Aug 14, 2014 in forum: General Discussion
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    Avoiding translation

    My answer to this question is complex and personal. Your mileage may vary. Making translations manually to learn the language (A levels). I've never...
    Post by: emk, Aug 13, 2014 in forum: General Discussion
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    Writing Correction - Does it Help?

    Corrections made a huge difference for me in French, as far as I can tell. I cannot reconcile my personal experience with all those studies. If I had...
    Post by: emk, Aug 7, 2014 in forum: Learning Techniques and Advice
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    in appreciation of translators

    There's a nice interview with the woman who translated Asterix into English: How long would it take you and Derek to do a typical album? There is...
    Post by: emk, Aug 3, 2014 in forum: General Discussion
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    Technique: Focus Logbook

    This undergraduate thesis actually has a pretty bibliography covering note-taking research: NOTE-TAKING, CONTEXT, AND MEMORY. There's a lot of...
    Post by: emk, Aug 2, 2014 in forum: Learning Techniques and Advice
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    Technique: Focus Logbook

    Thank you for an excellent post! Lots of great stuff here. Lots of people say this is true for them, and I believe them. But I've lived my life...
    Post by: emk, Aug 2, 2014 in forum: Learning Techniques and Advice
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    Do you have an exit plan for isolated vocabulary study?

    We actually have quite a lot of Middle Egyptian text. They spent thousands of years writing, and the desert is amazingly good at preserving things....
    Post by: emk, Jul 29, 2014 in forum: General Discussion
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    Do you have an exit plan for isolated vocabulary study?

    Note that I use a variation of my reading + SRS approach for Egyptian as well, and it works tolerably well there, too, despite the lack of cognates...
    Post by: emk, Jul 29, 2014 in forum: General Discussion
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    Do you have an exit plan for isolated vocabulary study?

    It's perfectly possible to learn a large amount of vocabulary without recall stress. Looking back at the last 30 months, here's a very rough estimate...
    Post by: emk, Jul 28, 2014 in forum: General Discussion
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    Do you have an exit plan for isolated vocabulary study?

    Using SRS as a "memory amplifier" improves my ability to remember these contexts considerably. Used well, the forgetting curve is really powerful....
    Post by: emk, Jul 28, 2014 in forum: General Discussion
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    Do you have an exit plan for isolated vocabulary study?

    Kind of… sort of… maybe? If I pull a sentence from a novel or a newspaper article (my two most common sources), I still remember much of the original...
    Post by: emk, Jul 25, 2014 in forum: General Discussion
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    Duolingo Launches Its Certification Program To Take On TOEFL

    One of the problems with breaking into the language exam market is that the student pays all the costs—the money, the time, the travel—but the...
    Post by: emk, Jul 24, 2014 in forum: General Discussion
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    Duolingo Launches Its Certification Program To Take On TOEFL

    Maybe I'm cynical, but technology startups make everything sound like a noble crusade to change the world. In Silicon Valley, you can't just say,...
    Post by: emk, Jul 24, 2014 in forum: General Discussion
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    Do you have an exit plan for isolated vocabulary study?

    Well, for some people, it's hard to find two good hours for studying every day, when they have their wits about them and they're ready for sustained...
    Post by: emk, Jul 23, 2014 in forum: General Discussion