{"id":6295,"date":"2013-01-21T15:00:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-21T20:00:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/?p=6295"},"modified":"2013-01-21T05:32:21","modified_gmt":"2013-01-21T10:32:21","slug":"learning-tip-the-power-of-repetition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/spanish\/learning-tip-the-power-of-repetition\/","title":{"rendered":"Learning tip: the power of repetition"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Hey, everybody, how’s it going?<\/p>\n

Repetition can help you learn a foreign language and it doesn’t have to be boring. Here’s my story!<\/p>\n

After meeting my friend Frank, from Germany, in the US last year I decided to start studying German again. I’d been studying it off and on since my teens (early 90s) and I decided to take another approach. I already knew how German grammar worked, sentence structure and what I needed was vocabulary and get used to listening to German again.<\/p>\n

I also decided not to buy any more books and use what I had in my library so I picked this book with 61 situational dialogues and I started working with them. I also decided to learn them thoroughly and I had in my mind that I would rather take longer and retain the information that I was studying than learn things half way.<\/p>\n

I got myself an old notebook with lots of blank pages and I wrote one of the twelve sentence of the dialogue in each page. I would write the whole dialogue down every single down every single day, even on weekends. As I am not used to writing anymore (I type a lot!) sometimes my hand hurt, but I kept on going. What I also did was to listen to the audio track, three times.<\/p>\n

At first I was frustrated that I couldn’t make out the words so I slowed it down, using Windows Media Player. Before trying to pronounce the sentences I listened to them a lot. Another thing: when I was halfway through the first dialogue (half page down), I would write another dialogue and study the same way.<\/p>\n

And here is what I have been noticing about this experience:<\/p>\n

– I don’t have to speak super fast. I need to make myself understood and get my point across.<\/em>
\n – I get better results when I focus on one thing for a shorter period of time. If I try to study more than 20 minutes a day I lose focus. (That’s just me, ok?)<\/em>
\n – When repeating the dialogue lines orally I chunk it down. If the sentence or word are too long (trust me, German has some very long words) I do a kind of backchain drilling exercise. I start at the end then go back to the beginning and I will not stop until I get it right.<\/em>
\n – If I make a mistake, I try not to overlook it (something I used to do in the past).<\/em>
\n – Learning another language takes time and a lot of effort, so reviewing and repeating play a major role in doing this.<\/em><\/p>\n

You can try and study Spanish this way too, it’s another option to make the most out of your coursebook or online courses.<\/p>\n

Do you have any more studying tips you would like to share with us? Leave your suggestions in the comment area! Have a great one!<\/p>\n

Want more free resources to\u00a0learn Spanish<\/a>? Check out the other goodies we offer to help make your language learning efforts a daily habit.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Hey, everybody, how’s it going? Repetition can help you learn a foreign language and it doesn’t have to be boring. Here’s my story! After meeting my friend Frank, from Germany, in the US last year I decided to start studying German again. I’d been studying it off and on since my teens (early 90s) and…<\/p>\n

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