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onefixedstar) wrote2006-05-27 02:34 pm
onefixedstar) wrote2006-05-27 02:34 pm
Fun with podcasts
I've discovered a new toy. Language lesson podcasts.
Despite a penchant for remembering details from some social conversation at a level that occasionally astonishes friends, I've always been a very visual learner. This was particularly evident in language classes, where I excelled at reading and writing and cowed in terror when it came time to do oral work. Speaking and listening were so difficult for me that I dropped French after grade 10 with a huge sigh of relief. However, I've always felt a certain amount of guilt about it because I think, as a good Canadian, I ought to be able to speak French. Consequently, I've borrowed and purchased various French grammar books and from time to time, I sit down and work at it. Unfortunately, grammar books don't really help much with my weak point: learning to listen. So it was with a great deal of pleasure that I discovered language podcasts. I've been spending downloading a bunch of French and Japanese lessons, and I'm going to see if I can use them to learn to listen. I don't think they'll be enough on their own to learn a language, but they might inspire me to pull out my textbooks again.
Despite a penchant for remembering details from some social conversation at a level that occasionally astonishes friends, I've always been a very visual learner. This was particularly evident in language classes, where I excelled at reading and writing and cowed in terror when it came time to do oral work. Speaking and listening were so difficult for me that I dropped French after grade 10 with a huge sigh of relief. However, I've always felt a certain amount of guilt about it because I think, as a good Canadian, I ought to be able to speak French. Consequently, I've borrowed and purchased various French grammar books and from time to time, I sit down and work at it. Unfortunately, grammar books don't really help much with my weak point: learning to listen. So it was with a great deal of pleasure that I discovered language podcasts. I've been spending downloading a bunch of French and Japanese lessons, and I'm going to see if I can use them to learn to listen. I don't think they'll be enough on their own to learn a language, but they might inspire me to pull out my textbooks again.