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FSI drills

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Category: Learning Languages
Forum Name: French
Forum Discription: Discussion about studying French using the FSI course.
URL: http://fsi-language-courses.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=364
Printed Date: 16 January 2009 at 3:32am


Topic: FSI drills
Posted By: mouse
Subject: FSI drills
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 12:00pm

The french course doesn't have an introduction like many of the other courses. the introductions of other courses say that the drills are designed to be easy, and answers should come rapidly and without hesitation.

Should such a fluency come up the first time you do a drill? It seems quite demanding for a beginner, but after all, no diplomat would want to be caught in a situation where they have to hear a question twice every single time.
 
I find that a lot of drills are very hard for me the first time through, and the second time they are nothing (probably I've memorized the questions anyway). Is this normal?



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Posted By: TheBigZaboon
Date Posted: 16 April 2007 at 10:53pm
mouse,
 
Drills are meant to be done over and over again until the correct response is automatic, and then be done periodically, as a review, to retain that automatic response. That's why they call them drills.
 
If you are able to do them "automatically" the second time, you are far more talented than I am, and you should count yourself lucky. Go on to the next segment, but do the earlier drills again after a week or so, and see if they are still "nothing." If they are, then you've mastered that point and can feel confident as you go on to the next point, and the next, and the one after that....
 
TBZ


Posted By: mouse
Date Posted: 19 April 2007 at 9:14pm
Thanks TheBigZaboon,
 
Now I feel a little more confident about repeating drills.



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