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Coach’s Corner & #ask-idahosa

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Through 1:1 calls, self-recording videos and our conversations in campfire, I get a better sense of what people are struggling with and come up with more ideas on how to help people through those struggles. From time-to-time, I’ll put these ideas into videos and drop them here in the “Coach’s Corner.”

Coach’s Corner

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1/24 Cleaning up 4 Tongue Corners Drill
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1/24 How to Use this Course without being Overwhelmed
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2/4 These are not assigments, they’re tools
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2/11 How to apply the “Flow Channel” concept to Lyrics Training

#ask-idahosa

Batch #1

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Does it matter which accent of the language I train these techniques with?

I am currently in Mexico. Does it matter if I learn from content on youtube made by Spaniards vs Mexicans? I assume the accent is a little different and how the sentences are structures but I don't know if it's a big difference or not.

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What is your opinion on practicing multiple languages at once?

“What is your opinion about studying and/or practicing more than one foreign language at once? I am doing Flow School 3 for French, in preparation for at trip to France at the end of May. I am going to Puerto Rico for 4 days at the end of this month (last few days of January). My Spanish is more advanced than my French—I used to be fluent when I studied abroad in Argentina, but it's been years since then, and I am rusty, so I have been listening to some Spanish language podcasts to brush up on my Spanish. Will this interfere with my study of French for Flow School 3? In the past, when I tried studying French and Spanish simultaneously, I would slip into Spanish when trying to speak French because my Spanish was stronger. How do you personally maintain your fluency in multiple languages without mixing them up?”

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What if my native language isn’t English?

Can I use this course if my native language is not English, but I am using the vowel chart, phonology system of my native language when I compare it to my target language's sounds?

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Should we put a time frame on our practice sessions?

This feels like TM. I feel like I am in the same area of the brain as when I am meditating. Transcendental meditation. With TM I only go for 20 minutes a set. Should we set a time frame for this?

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Is it a good idea to use Audacity while studying this program?

I sometime us Audacity to listen to the recordings. It helps me to focus on problem area’s and get each syllable. Is that a good strategy when following your programme?

Batch #2

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What do you mean by “Hyperlexia”?
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Is it better to practice listening to kids shows vs natural speech in adult shows?
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Is the visual waveform in Audacity useful mechanism for feedback on pronunciation?
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Will there be “Minimal Pair” practice materials?

Batch #3

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Does the Mimic Method incorporate the concept of “collocations”?
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When can we incorporate written input and output into our foreign language learning?