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Learn languages while you sleep?
By: Aliph Date: July 25, 2019, 6:03 pm
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Learn languages while sleeping? That’s what YouTube suggested to
me. Good night!
Spanish for Susan, SuKi and me
HTML https://youtu.be/fcG8VPjvNSU
French for SuKi and Alharacas
HTML https://youtu.be/TEEC1mkGDEw
Italian for Nikola and Neal
HTML https://youtu.be/Dn4_9V64fWM
Arabic for me
HTML https://youtu.be/FbEghmGbPCE
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Re: Learn languages while you sleep?
By: Aliph Date: July 26, 2019, 12:57 am
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Of course I dozed away after ten minutes.
I used another video from the same series on YouTube with
earplugs. The video itself is fairly good, with space repetition
and to rehearse some basic sentences.
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Re: Learn languages while you sleep?
By: Alharacas Date: July 26, 2019, 3:16 am
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Sofia, I love how you're thinking of me/us! :-*
But would you please do me a favour and listen to the first few
sentences in French? Don't you find the pronunciation a bit
strange? I don't know whether it's a particular regional accent
(not good at identifying those in French), or maybe a robot...?
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Re: Learn languages while you sleep?
By: Nikola Date: July 26, 2019, 4:21 am
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Wouldn't it be hilarious if you fell asleep and woke up with a
strange accent? :)
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Re: Learn languages while you sleep?
By: Aliph Date: July 26, 2019, 7:09 am
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[quote author=Alharacas link=topic=1277.msg18657#msg18657
date=1564128987]
Sofia, I love how you're thinking of me/us! :-*
But would you please do me a favour and listen to the first few
sentences in French? Don't you find the pronunciation a bit
strange? I don't know whether it's a particular regional accent
(not good at identifying those in French), or maybe a robot...?
[/quote]
The pronunciation is Ok. Standard. Maybe a synthetic voice,
resembles to the one on my car GPS. The translation isn’t
literal. I found a first error “avez-vous des chambres de
disponibles” should be “avez-vous des chambres disponibles”
But the whole recording isn’t bad to listen while awake and “cum
grano salis “.
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Re: Learn languages while you sleep?
By: Alharacas Date: July 26, 2019, 7:51 am
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Oh. Well, if you say so, Sofia. It's just that I'd thought, if
you were enunciating slowly and clearly, you were supposed to
pronounce the "je" in "pourrais-je".
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Re: Learn languages while you sleep?
By: Susan Date: July 26, 2019, 12:07 pm
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It is very nice to have something to sleep by. I think I will
try them for the review. However, right now I am really
enjoying going to sleep and waking at times, listening to the
free audiobook ¨Veinte mil leguas de viaje subarino¨ (20000
leagues beneath the sea) en español. I think I will post to the
Librovox thread the link so those of you who speak Spanish can
listen to the talent of the reader of that book. Usually,
people from Argentina are a little hard for me to understand,
but this man articulates so well and is so good at changing his
voice for the different characters. I also bought the book for
my Kindle (for less than a dollar) so I am reading it when
fully awake and then playing it while a sleep to review bits
here and there. Not as scientific as those videos purport to
be, but it feels like I am learning a lot. (The book is free
online, but to me having the Kindle version so I can easily
highlight workds check the translation dictionary is worth more
than that little price.)
Have you ever read that book in any language? I always thought
it was an English classic, but now I think the original was
French.
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Re: Learn languages while you sleep?
By: Aliph Date: July 26, 2019, 2:24 pm
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[quote author=Susan link=topic=1277.msg18714#msg18714
date=1564160855]
Have you ever read that book in any language? I always thought
it was an English classic, but now I think the original was
French.
[/quote]
As a kid I read most of the books of Jules Verne first
translated to Italian and later on in the original French
version. I loved them all.
In Spanish I never read translated books. I tried once to
re-read Russian classics in Spanish, but I found them awquard
since they translated to Spanish all the first names. So Piotr
was Pedro. I found that weird. They don’t do that in Italian.
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