Alexander Arguelles | Teach Yourself a Language in 15 Minute Sessions: Intermediate Level Demonstration @ProfASAr | Uploaded January 2022 | Updated October 2024, 1 week ago.
How can you bring yourself up to the intermediate level by studying in 15-minute time blocks? A sample step-by-step lesson using Assimil's Using French. Time stamps: 00:00 Introduction
01:33 Levels attainable, hours of study, efficient study
04:50 CEFR scales and factors affecting learning
06:50 Overview of Using French textbook - how it differs from New French With Ease
08:00 Need for two 15-minute time blocks per day, other modifications at intermediate level
09:00 Different blocks for shadowing and reading; "peeling an onion" cyclical tactic
11:45 Division of text into sections for cyclical review in turn
13:45 SAMPLE REVIEW LESSON begins
17:45 Alternate / optional grammatical exercise
21:15 How to handle longer lessons
22:27 SAMPLE NEW LESSON begins
27:05 Supplementary grammatical information, exercises, verbal pattern practice
30:41 Continuation of NEW LESSON with eye on newly learned specific features
33:30 Concluding Considerations
35:32 CAT JOKE
If you might like to participate in my reading and discussion circles for French, German, Spanish, or Latin literature, or in seminars for Great Books of both Western and Eastern civilizations beginning in May of 2022, please fill out the application at alexanderarguelles.com/academy
If you would like to write to me, you may do so at alexanderarguelles.com
I am well aware that the audio quality of my videos is less than it should be, and if people could recommend what equipment to get and contribute or donate to that cause, I would be happy to purchase it so that I can better continue sharing knowledge in this fashion:
ko-fi.com/alexanderarguelles
How can you bring yourself up to the intermediate level by studying in 15-minute time blocks? A sample step-by-step lesson using Assimil's Using French. Time stamps: 00:00 Introduction
01:33 Levels attainable, hours of study, efficient study
04:50 CEFR scales and factors affecting learning
06:50 Overview of Using French textbook - how it differs from New French With Ease
08:00 Need for two 15-minute time blocks per day, other modifications at intermediate level
09:00 Different blocks for shadowing and reading; "peeling an onion" cyclical tactic
11:45 Division of text into sections for cyclical review in turn
13:45 SAMPLE REVIEW LESSON begins
17:45 Alternate / optional grammatical exercise
21:15 How to handle longer lessons
22:27 SAMPLE NEW LESSON begins
27:05 Supplementary grammatical information, exercises, verbal pattern practice
30:41 Continuation of NEW LESSON with eye on newly learned specific features
33:30 Concluding Considerations
35:32 CAT JOKE
If you might like to participate in my reading and discussion circles for French, German, Spanish, or Latin literature, or in seminars for Great Books of both Western and Eastern civilizations beginning in May of 2022, please fill out the application at alexanderarguelles.com/academy
If you would like to write to me, you may do so at alexanderarguelles.com
I am well aware that the audio quality of my videos is less than it should be, and if people could recommend what equipment to get and contribute or donate to that cause, I would be happy to purchase it so that I can better continue sharing knowledge in this fashion:
ko-fi.com/alexanderarguelles
