u/singletrack-is-okay

I'm comparing these for A1/A2 learning. I've already compared this some but I really want to say that I wish more CI content followed Alice Ayel's method. For A1/A2, I need to build vocabulary. In the Alice Ayel baby/infant videos, comprehension is almost 100% because she is extremely good at introducing new vocabulary using drawings, gestures, related words, or brief definitions to help with the new word and then reinforces this new vocabulary in subsequent videos. So a 5 minute story takes her 25 minutes to tell (compare her videos with the supplied audio, which is just an oral reading of the story).

Many other sources at the beginner level (dreaming, immersion, easy french) just simply drop in new vocabulary with no resource to help understand. Dreaming will sometimes show an image of a noun, which works well, but will often show nothing. Morgane at Immersion does this some. Some immersion guides tend to say many of the sentences 2-3 times, very slowly, which may help with word parsing but doesn't help at all for comprehension if the issue is the vocabulary. At this speed, it's not the parsing (again, at this speed), its the vocabulary. FCI is a bit more like Alice Ayel. Easy French is probably the hardest because it will use unknown words but not explain them AND it tends to be fast (so it can be the parsing).

What I like about Dreaming/Immersion/FCI and especially easy french is the focus on the kinds of content that is more relevant to what we would need to understand typical adult conversations visiting quebec or for watching french Netflix TV series like Lupin. I just wish they someone would combine Alice Ayel's method with something like Easy French content.

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u/singletrack-is-okay — 13 days ago