Unfortunately I have to do review because the attrition rate is too high without review. Groan. So the first thing I do is review the previous day's lesson. I hate review but there's no getting around it. Just quickly go through it. Maybe focus on the hard sentences and look at the mnemonics.
So yep, have decided to do review. What about all the chapters where I didn't do review? I suppose I could look at them twice on different days, so it's like studying again .. groan ... as I said, I HATE review.
Anyway I will see how I go.
I went to John Fotheringham's website, and really liked his videos. I agree with most of what he says. I do think the traditional methods of teaching languages are not very good.
I really need to spend time listening and repeating. Use the Audacity to break things up into tracks.
And DO REVIEW. But then if I do review, it seems like boring classroom work. It's too much like STUDY. I hate review. But I need to do it. I like studying grammar but it wasn't helping me become fluent. Though I knew that when I was studying it. I was studying it because I couldn't understand what I was reading. I think grammar-study did help me with reading but not by much.
So there are the two sets of goals that are (slightly) in conflict with each other. There is speaking and there is reading.
I wonder about the chunk method. The chunk method is Glossika's method but streamlined. It is like spoonfeeding.
The ideal resource would have 10,000 sentences and audios for each of those sentences. There would be romanization for languages that require it and there is exact translation and colloquial translation.
I think if you learned from this sort of resource, you could become fluent in six months.
