@inouk
Est-ce que ce sont des questions au sujet de la langue espagnole? Je ne les ai pas vues. Où les avez-vous postées?
I have also found something out that made pure listening a lot easier. I try to do my listening away from my PC. It´s fine to watch videos, films, series on the PC and listen that way, but when I´m listening to lessons on LingQ on my PC, I tend to want to watch something or work on something else on the screen and it distracts me. I works fine when I take my phone, sit on my bed or couch and just let it play without watching the screen. Sometimes I´ll have headphones on when I do it. I can now get in several listening hours a week this way.
Bonjour Ftornay,
Ce sont des questions sur le cours d’anglais. Il y a tellement de matériel et peu d’explications en français. Je perds beaucoup de temps à faire des recherches…
Par exemple: où puis-je trouver le nombre de points acquis ?
Puis-je utiliser mes points pour autre chose que d’habiller mon avatar?
I don’t have questions related to what I am listening. It’s how to run over the course. Ex: where can I find how many points I have ? And, what can I buy with those points except rope for my avatar ?
I studying English and there are few explications in French.
" Puis-je utiliser mes points pour autre chose que d’habiller mon avatar? "
Il y a des “coins” (pièces) qui on peut seulment utiliser pour habiller son avatar, et il y a des “points” qui on peut acheter avec le vrai argent ou gagner pour enseigner les autres (tutoring) et qui on peut utiliser pour acheter les lecons (private tutoring)
Like I said, there are points, which you have to either buy with actual money or earn by tutoring others on LingQ. You can use them to buy guided course lessons and to buy tutoring lessons from others. I´m not sure where you see how many points you have, since I have never bought or earned any myself, but I know you buy points here: Login - LingQ or, since you´re a French speaker learning English, probably here: Connectez-vous - LingQ
Then there are coins, which you can only use to buy clothes and items for your Avatar (I think you can also use them to repair your streak). You earn coins in each language each time you increase the known status of a word. Mark a word as known, you´ll get 5 coins or more, if you mark it as something less, then less. You see your number of coins in the upper-right corner of the screen, right next to your activity apple icon. Coins are essentially useless, except as a motivational tool and if you enjoy upgrading your avatar.
I’ve found playing repetitive video games helps. Not anything that will really tax you intellectually, or draw you in, but something that occupies your hands while letting you focus on the audio. Usually I do Spore, but you could probably also do a simply mobile or flash game.
Thank you very much. That helps me a lot.
Thank you. That helps me a lot
there is nothing increase my English skills more than talking with partner about daily events.
Deepl is great for Japanese; thank you for the recommendation.
Chrishuber, I have done it by exactly the same method as you describe. In six months I’ve gone up several levels that way. I listen and read at the same time, stopping to check words I don’t know and put them in my vocab list for quizzing later. Next day I may go through it again with reading, and then a third time just listening. I find that my listening comprehension has just skyrocketed, along with my vocab.
rokkvi, I don’t know if this will be helpful, but I have discovered something interesting in my own journey in learning French. When I concentrate on just learning words I don’t make fast progress; rather, I have learned to learn a phrase at a time - an idiom, or just a common phrase found within sentences. Once I started learning phrases, and more importantly thinking in terms of phrases, I started understanding much better. I think it’s because it was easier for my brain to recognize individual phrases, and understand two or three strung together in a sentence, than it had been to pick out fifteen individual words in a sentence, and think about ALL of them. Does that make sense? The more I stop thinking in terms of each word, and think in terms of phrases, the better my listening gets.
That is interesting to know. It never hurts to know how other people learn and by which methods. I´m not sure it would work that way for me if I learned a new language, or even really apply to how I learn. I don´t really try to learn words on their own when I´m using LingQ anyway. I read and try to understand what I´m reading, to where the automatic translations are helpful, but I hardly ever review LingQs.
For French, I can already listen to pretty complicated texts with a near complete understanding, so I´m already past the level where that method could be useful. I just finished listening to the whole Count of Monte Cristo here on LingQ for example and before that I had watched the series from 1998 and then from 1979.