Steve--

This will DEFINITELY help!  Thanks for taking the time to write this  
all out.

She is off to class now, I will give her your recommendations when  
she returns.  We shop together, at a local farm, and we talked last  
night about your knowledge of languages.  When I can't understand  
what she is saying I ask her to spell the word out loud, then I pick  
it up and tell her of more words that have the same pattern, ex:   
doubt, debt.

She also told me about Thai spirit houses, she is utterly comfortable  
in her own culture and knows little about western religion, so we  
have sharing information talks.

Andrea:)

On Sep 19, 2008, at 11:34 AM, Steve Kaufmann wrote:


> Andrea,

>

> My advice is the following.

>

> Try to get the audio and the transcript of the lectures, or any  

> other English language material that is of interest to her. Listen  

> over and over, and read the same material to make sure that it is  

> understood. Save key words and phrases that are either difficult to  

> understand, important concepts, useful phrases, or hard to  

> pronounce. She study those, and read them out loud many times to  

> herself.

>

> Make sure that she has an MP3 payer with here at all times,  

> listening every free moment or  while doing other chores.

>

> If there is content that she likes, where she likes the voice, she  

> should listen up to 50 times, just to get the rhythm and flow of  

> the language. I believe she will improve naturally. Only when she  

> is more confident and comfortable should she try to record her own  

> voice and compare, but not until she is well along and has had a  

> lot of exposure.

>

> If you are working with her, let her write a few paragraphs at a  

> time related to her studies, no more than 300 words or so. Correct  

> there paragraphs and then ask her to read them out loud to herself  

> 5-10 times, on her own.

>

> I hope this helps.

>

> Steve

>

>

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