I would think the native speakers are trying to be helpful. On lang-8, I will provide notes like "use a space after a comma" or "no space before a...
The last paragraph is also encouraging as far as using FSI style drills for developing automaticity in recognizing and speaking. It also downplays...
Thank you for posting that. It seems there's a lot of applicability to language learning. The points that stood out to me. 1) There's a...
This is interesting. Does the training involve studying and replaying various chess matches? I can imagine a true upper limit on any skill. It's...
That was pretty much my first thought, but here I am again. I missed all the drama. I was out of town and pretty much just studied and didn't watch...
Bien, I am watching a video right now. I've just really started using the program seriously. I've had it for a long time. I've been feeling I...
French in Action is the cat's pajamas and FSI is cat's meow.
I find testing and difficulty to be very interesting. I'm a fan of the FSI drills in the Basic French and Spanish courses. When I move a set of...
Did you mean "pretty old gays"?
Good point. Mr. Anki tilts the frequency of "words to learn" in favor of an SRS, but like the fine Dr. and linguamor, I find it easer to read a book...
By "experts", I meant aficionados of explicit vocabulary study like you and Iversen. In mulling my question over in my head for a day or so, I'm...
I've never been one to think a 3000 word vocabulary is adequate, although it's a great start if it's backed up with spoken fluency and correctness...
I just took a quick glance at the Routledge French Frequency dictionary. The frequency of words in each 1000 word band drops by about 50% in each...
I listen/read most stuff several times over the course of days, weeks, months and years. That's were my primary vocabulary acquisition comes from....
Your profile says you are native French. Where did you grow up? I'm imagining French Canadians are more forgiving that the French when it comes to...
You are the true teenage Anki whore. I just used that phrase because I liked it. I'm astonished that you can put that many words into an SRS...
I watched Gabe Wyner's videos and read most of the stuff on his fluentforever website a few weeks ago. Part of the idea behind the 625 of 1000 words...
I find various forms of listen/reading (L/R) to be helpful and I do some of it most days. I call things L/R when use both a text and audio....
It depends on the context. From a politician, I'd prefer more precision than calling the United State, "America".
Assimil's New French with Ease is a good starting point. It has about 2 hours and 15 minutes of pure French and covers a core of about 1500 words....
Separate names with a comma.