Rotating Podcast Conversations
This is more of a suggestion and me thinking how I personally learn and retain the information better. People (As well as Sonia in the YouTube Channel) have always said that you really don't to understand and master and language until you actually go there and live amongst the locals who speak it every day. I found that to be true last summer when I went to live in Italy for 3 months to study the architecture of cities like Roma, Firenze, Venezia, Vicenza and other in the Veneto region. At that point I was about 10 sessions into Fluenz Italian 3. I knew a lot of individual things but it was absolutely amazing how much things really came together once I had to interact with the locals to function! I would find a spot in a piazza and begin to draw and locals would come up to me and ask questions about what I was doing. It would spark conversations that forced me search for structures and put things together. Also, even hearing how the locals spoke to each others was helpful. But the end of the trip I had someone mastered a few part of the language I had been studying at that point and my ability to hear was increased exponetially
So I had a suggestion that might have some merit to it. I was think about how the podcasts or even the youtube videos could be improved. I love the monologue conversation that the podcasts have. But I think the issue with them is that once you listen to them for a while they become more predictable. Constantly listening to the same monolouge after mastery is enforcing your memory of that particular podcast and not necessarily strengthening to retention of information. But what if somehow the monologues were on a rotation of sorts. Where ever week (or bi-weekly) the conversation would change. It would stay within the realm of that particular level's content, but it would take a way the predictibilty of listening to the same conversation over and over again. I think it becomes more dynamic that way and begins to simulate the spontaneity of random Italians striking up a conversation with you in a piazza. As a student, you never know what conversation will hit that particular week, The abiluty to publish things on Youtube could prevent having to re make or issue a new volume of podcasts. Possibile you could create a sub-section on the Fluenz YouTube page broken up by language and post the interchanging conversation there further complimenting the information learned in the podasts and lessons
Again, just a thought. I have been a Fluenz user since 2011 and I have enjoyed it ever since. Keep up the fantastic work.
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Open Jun 08, 2014 - 03:13 PM
Italian, Italian > Culture