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How's your language learning going this week? - Weekly thread (lemmy.world)
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Hope all you fine folks are doing well with your studies this week. Share your experience so we can all celebrate or commiserate with you!

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[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 4 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I've never done intensive but it sounds doable for a few months at a time. Obviously it depends on your specific program, but expect like 50+ words per day vocabulary and an intense grammar program with it.

It's pretty much the fastest you can possibly learn, which makes it a lot of work and quite difficult.

You learn so quickly that it will also go away quickly. So be sure to practice after the course if you want to "retain" it.

[–] zlatiah@lemmy.world 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Gotcha. So I work at a French-speaking university (yes I have my regrets of taking this job) where just about everything & anything is done in French... Which would explain why they would offer a course like that, since some international students might need some help, & I assume retaining the info won't be hard if you're forced to do everything in French afterwards

Thanks for the info btw. I'll contact my professeur and see if that's actually an option

[–] dragontamer@lemmy.world 3 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Intensive is like 4 hours of lecture per day btw. (And a fair bit of review/study after that, daily). Obviously there is good opportunity here, but be sure you have enough time for it before committing.

Or otherwise, be sure to ask for how many hours/day or hours/week would be expected of you.