Struggling to move on from a textbook chapter until I have mastered its material 100%. How do you approach language learning by thrusting you'll learn some things naturally and by exposure?
Hey all,
My native language is Bulgarian and I live in an English speaking country. I have just started trying to learn French (TL) through English as that's what I'm more comfortable with. Bulgarian and some background in learning German are helping with a lot of the french grammar concepts though.
Tldr: My issue is, I am really struggling finding a good approach/routine. I struggle with spending too much time trying to learn every single detail of a chapter before moving to the next.
For some context which explains my approach to language learning:
I remember in high school we had a foundation year during which 80% of our classes were spent learning German. During the first couple of months we would learn 20+ new words a day. In order to memorise them, each of the words we had to write down 20 times and use to form a sentence with. Then we would be quizzed on them the next day and do loads of speaking/ writing/ listening/ fill in the blanks exercises in class using 3-4 different exercise books.
This made me get used to a very detailed and intense way of learning a language.
Now, with French I have the following issue.
I picked up Easy French step by Step and the McGraw-Hill Education Easy French Reader to start with. I feel like if I just read the texts and do the exercises, i will not learn anything. Instead I end up writing down each new word and all of its variations into an Anki deck with audio, I write my own sentences (by translating from English), then I practice the vocabulary of that chapter until I remember and pronounce well about 60% of it. Then I do the exercises and if I can do them without looking up too many of the words/grammar then I move onto the next chapter.
Unfortunately this means it could take me about a week to do just 1 chapter.
In terms of listening and speaking, I am currently listening to coffee break french podcast and the Paul Noble Audiobook - about 30min a day - practicing speaking with the audio.
As I'm still a complete beginner, I can't write my own texts and am struggling to say anything more than just simple phrases. This feels super frustrating and makes me focus even more on the details of each chapter I read from the above-mentioned books.
I know this is not practical, but I am struggling figuring out a better approach. Do you guys have any advice? How do you trust the process if seeing results is so slow? What worked for you? How do you deal with learning new material without spending 90% of the time drilling vocabulary?
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