Hello everyone, I recently discovered Nature Method books and plan to use them as part of my learning. Specifically I want to use the French one and the Portuguese one (this one is shorter and is "An invitation to Portuguese") and I want to take a peek at the Italian one too in case I haven't over leveled out of the later portions of it. My plan is to only use the audio versions on YouTube so I can hear the intonation and proper pronunciation.
I was curious about a few things, first off what pacing do you guys go through these books? A chapter a day? And do you repeat a chapter before moving on or always move forward? If any of you have started from zero or near zero using these books, I would be very curious to hear from you how much it helped comprehension. For example when I was a beginner at Italian I was doing a recorded video course (in English) and was learning the grammar that way and did many months of watching and listening to learner content for multiple hours a day (on one of my days off according to Spotify wrapped I spent a whopping 13 hours of listening to podcasts. Obviously not all 13 was with laser focus because that's impossible, but still you get my point that I go pretty hard on listening) and then from there I started lessons with teachers who taught only in Italian. Obviously my speaking was absolute beginner level but my comprehension was already very high which was huge.
I want to essentially repeat this process but skip the recorded course aspect (there's one user on here who always says he only spends $15 a month on recorded courses and I must say I'm very curious which ones because the most inexpensive I've seen is Semantica which is $30 a month and every other one I've seen is hundreds of dollars) to save on money and also to avoid the translation difficulties that I had with Italian and just learn the language in the language.
Luckily French wise there's a lot of CI available between Dreaming French, Immersion Co, Alice Ayel and multiple sources on YouTube whereas Portuguese is a lot less generous in content (so many CI channels for BR Portuguese are created but are abandoned after only a few videos...) and on top of that its equivalent of the nature method book is much shorter. Plus CI videos as much as I appreciate them, they tend to be a bit random and these nature method books seem to have more gradual progression and provide more structure.
I'm essentially hoping using these can get my comprehension high enough to dive into monolingual textbooks and lessons to get some structure but ease the front loading difficulty of comprehension. (Especially since I've discovered it's actually pretty difficult to find a teacher who stays in TL only with beginners)
Anyway please share strategies or how you felt your language learning got after using them etc. From preliminary research it seems like the French and Italian ones get you up to B2 grammar and B1 vocab which would be an amazing baseline to jump into lessons. No idea about the Portuguese one, I'm hoping up to at least A2 grammar. Please also share even if you didn't use any of these three specifically and used one of a different language. I'm sure the strategy would be the same 😊 thanks and happy learning everyone
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