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Theme 5 : Algorithm of selfstudying
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The speech apparatus as a go-between organ for producing the morphological organ - foreign languages
I. The speech apparatus and its employment when working with a handbook.
1. All exercises and texts shall be read aloud with a maximum discharge of phonetic, somatic and
psychic barriers (using the method of comprehending movements and their phases).
2. Growth of fluency with repetitions.
3. Every repetition is made with an accentuated delight.
4. Pursuit of the phrasal rhyme and intoning.
5. Being aware of the simultaneous understanding of a phrase.
6. Attempts shall be made to pronounce all exercises easily, naturally and quite fluently.
7. Focusing in the barriers, which shall be erased by continual repeating (using the method of
movement comprehension).
8. Reading the text from the next unit with due focus in the gaps.
9. Finding out the meanings of the words forgotten.
10. Practicing exercises, etc. Moving ahead the next circuit.
- Before studying the essential handbooks it is most advisable to cover phonetic courses.
- Mastering of zonal pronunciation and practicing the "layings" from all handbooks available.
II. The speech apparatus and its employment without a handbook.
1. Practice speech patterns with energetic pronouncing and simultaneous implementation of the
speech production rule.
2. Fancy aloud - try to produce metaphors; explain word combinations made at random; develop
observation; practice an exercise: "The outlet from a deadlock" (try to make up a word
combination at random and then invent an explanation to justify it).
3. Read a newspaper trying to understand its contents.
4. Linguistic reading of fiction with the attempts made to guess from the context
5. When pronouncing a word listen to how does it sound.
6. When reading or pronouncing a word, pay primary attention to the consonants.
7. Comparative reading of dictionaries in different languages (English-German or French-English
ones, for examples).
8. Repeated pronouncing of certain difficult sound combinations helps to erase barriers, gain ease
and develop the essential muscles of speech apparatus.
9. Fancy a supposed gesture, pantomime or mimics of a native speaker.
10. Analyze rhythmics and articulation both in the native and foreign languages.
11. Try to train someone of your friends in correct pronouncing.
12. Learn a short verse in every language.
13. Learn three folk songs in three languages.
14. Read proverbs and sayings, try to memorize those you like most with your muscles.
15. Address yourself with a small monologue.
16. Try to speak to your friend in a foreign language.
17. Re-read "War and Peace", trying to read it in the original at last.
18. Think with the employment of the speech apparatus ("inner speaking" in foreign languages).
III. Daily work principles.
1. Use the rule of continual work: try to make it possible in any circumstances to move your
speech apparatus with the aim of developing it for mastering the languages chosen.
2. Try to cover as much material as possible (1-2 units every day).
3. Focus in maximum studying at maximum through movements as by-the-way work.
4. Give preferences to solitude with the material being studied.
5. Remember that only the optimum number of divings into work, discovered individually, may
give positive results.
6. Drown any occurring irritation in studies.
7. Don't watch TV straight - only with your eye's corner.
8. Speed up looking through newspaper both in the native and foreign languages.
9. Always bear in mind that a second saved for studying makes your life a minute longer.
* * *It is time to be old
Ralph Waldo Emerson
The suns of all my sunny days, unrivaled,
swim in the pond, already almost full.
The waves, that only dreams contain, are cool
so paradoxically. There is an island
of consciousness, and it hot stars arrived
congeals. And such a fury is a rule.
It orders everything and our time's pool
becomes a dirty puddle where you had lived
so happy, thinking by mistake: my lake
or even a sea, an ocean, never blake
because of our internal lustrous suns.
But it is so because of outside gloomy view,
where there is no eternity in you,
and upper thought to the others never runs.
Regards,
Valery Kourinsky
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