Last night along with getting 25 things camera-ready for listing on Ebay, I dug into what I'll call the smartphone problem.
In the French book we're using in the class, Edito A1 + the Cahier de Activites, or workbook, you'll supposed to have a smart phone in your hand at all times, and not only use the QR code on each page, but actually "take a photo" of each page, the access that page's audio files.
I can see why they do this; it's to make sure people have bought the actual books. The "photo" of each page probably has to be in color, so you'd have to have a color printout of each page .... cheaper to buy the books!
This is all well and fine, since most people have a smart phone welded to one hand already. But I'm a holdout, and I looked around quite a bit for the 2nd edition audio files to no avail. But then I remembered something I'd noticed when I first got the books which is that there's a written transcript of each audio file, page by page, in the back of the book.
It's like having a math book with all the answers in the back. But of course in math the correct answer is almost coincidental, it's all about learning to apply the correct process. Likewise, the answers are all written out for me but since there's audio to learn the sound and pronunciation of French, this means I'll be doing things a bit differently.
Instead of just listening, I'll be first choosing the right answer (hopefully) and then referring to the transcript and reading it in my mind or even out loud, in the proper French accent/pronunciation. In a way, I'll learn those bits better than a student who just listens and guesses the right answer and moves on.
Plus there's a ton of material on YouTube, not on Edito 2nd Edition of course, but tons of stuff on each but on learning French. Plus tons of helpful stuff on avoiding "studentisms" like stop saying "je m'appelle" so damn much. "Je suis" is better most of the time, apparently.
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