8/12/2019 Segment by Andrew Gillies

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3.5Learn by heart, and practise reciting, 5-10 lines of well written text in your Blanguage every day. Each day check that you still know all the previous days' texts eachday. This may sound ambitious but it won't actually take more than 10 minutes and aftera week you will find yourself using the new structures and expressions when you speakyour B language.

This exercise will contribute very quickly and effectively to expanding the activevocabulary of your B language by moving not only words but also entire structuresinstantaneously from your passive to your active knowledge of a language.[1]In a shorttime you will have large body of good quality language that can be recalledinstantaneously.

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3.7Learn off-by-heart and mimic 2 minute extracts from, interviews, speeches andstand-up comedians in your B language. Copy the speakers sentence intonation as

well as pronunciation. Learn one per day and each day check that you still know all theprevious days' texts.

This exercise will help you develop the correct sentence intonation and rhythm whenspeaking your B language. Both are very difficult to learn and often give away foreignspeakers of English who otherwise have a very good cammand of the language.

In addition learning extracts by heart will function as in 3.5, moving words, structuresand here also intonation patterns directly from passive to active language knowledge.

(Comedians are mentioned here because to sound really authentic you will have to feel

like you are exaggerating the accent when you speak....but in fact it will not be as overthe top as you think.)