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Old 07-15-2009, 05:21 AM   #5 (permalink)
Adrienne
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Originally Posted by gbarv View Post
I taught myself French to be able to understand movies and books and to speak in two years. I would recommend leaving language learning material (textbooks, Rosetta Stone, pimsleur, etc) and start using real content intended for native spearkers. One useful tecnique for building listening comprehension quickly is to use parallel texts, here you can see some information about this:
Language Learning Forum: Listening-Reading system
good luck
interesting, i have not seen many of these parallel texts, i will give it a look at and see. Thanks for the link!
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