Hey,
I’m no expert, but I’d say if you can mostly catch 70-80% of what you hear when you read along with a single piece, then don’t worry about remembering every single bit. Move on to the next, and some of the words you can’t remember will be in the next part. You’ll hear them in a new context and start to recall them more.
Can I ask, if you are an English native, learning German, then this period of getting used to the new language won’t be so steep.
Listen to the lesson once. You may only understand a little if you are a complete beginner.
You may even want to listen while reading the English translation.
Then read the lesson, saving any words that you do not know. You should now have a better sense of what it is about.
Download the lesson and listen a few times.
Review the vocab items and read the lesson again.
Listen a few more times and then go on to the next lesson and do the same again.
Do this for at least 10 or 20 lessons or more before you consider writing or talking to a tutor.
You first need to let the language penetrate your brain. You need time to let your brain get used to the language. Be motivated mostly to understand what you are listening to, but don’t get frustrated if you do not understand everything. It does not matter.
In a month or two you will understand a lot more and you will be ready to talk with a tutor.
i’m gonna upgrade tomorrow to the $10 per month thing. but basically don’t you just click on blued words in the script and so on and then they go to the vocab list?
and then they become flash cards. or do i have the process down wrong?
You do not need to upgrade until you have saved at last 100 words to your data base. If you click on one of the User Hints, or create your own Hint from the dictionary, these words go to your database and become flash cards. In looking at your profile, you have not done this yet, or so it appears.
@bhayes30 - Actually, you have created 100 LingQs and that is why you are seeing that limit notice. Your statistics are not showing up in your profile because you have “No Knowledge” selected as your level. Your statistics don’t show up until you have selected a level different than No Knowledge and, in fact, you are not at the No Knowledge level anymore! You can change your level in the Library or on your Profile page.
yeah. i think in time with more exposure and $$$ this site could become sleeker and if somehow you dudes could get in a magazine of some sort it could help.