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Amongst the activities which students have regarded as being enjoyable and beneficial over the last few years, in terms of improving their knowledge of the language, include: - Emphasis on the development of spoken skills by inviting students to verbally construct full sentences, particularly by translating isolated sentence elements (e.g. 'his mother' / 'is not coming' / 'until' / 'eight o'clock') and asking them to translate questions or statements of increasing length from the spoken source from and into both languages (e.g. 'he is' > 'he is not' > 'he is not here' > 'your uncle is not here' > 'why is your uncle not here?')
- Use of colour-coding to draw attention to the sentence structure of phrases used in general conversation, as well as rules of pronunciation and identical endings to set word combinations (e.g. 'estas personas')
- Focus on predictable Spanish rules of pronunciation, by drawing comparisons with the ways in which certain combinations of letters are pronounced in English
- Stressing the requirement for intonation as an equally important means of developing confidence with the spoken language.
- Inclusion of listening exercises featuring dialogues between native speakers which embrace a number of comprehension tasks dealing with, amongst other things, sentence breakdown and the development of grammatically accurate forms of language. These also include a cohesive amalgation between examples of spoken language and their written counterparts.
- Use of specific memory aids, such as acronyms, abbreviations, intonation, examples of language in context, cognates, synonyms and frequently heard word combinations, as a means of enabling students to absorb and recall specific vocabulary and phrases. These could either be short verbal interchanges or entail the enactment of free-flowing and spontaneous role-plays which take place in a number of different circumstances
- Invitation to students to speak freely about any hobbies, activities, recent life episodes, personal opinions or issues which are meaningful to them, with available instant feedback from the course tutor on the criteria of intonation, pronunciation and grammatical accuracy
Lingua Genesis released onto YouTube between 50 and 100 videos in the summer of 2009 which meticulously explain and give advice on a number of strategies for improving one's foreign linguistic abilities.
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