Self study – best practice
You can use Learn Greenlandic with Per Langgård for free but you will not get into the language without a motivated network. Therefore, make sure to join forces with at least one other study pal and create a work group that will meet in situ or online at least once a week and every week.
Stick very tight to the progression suggested by the system – even if you get tons of pieces of “good advice” suggesting you to behave differently or use other test books or a different methology. Learn Greenlandic with Per Langgård bases on many more years of scientific study in the field of Greenlandic second language acquisition than any other system can match. So trust it that there is a solid reason for every step suggested and for every piece of text used in the primers – even if you from time to time will find it hard to follow the system’s logic in details. If you are looking for detailed information about my system’s theoretical background you will find a compressed introduction to methodology here.
- Start from the beginning. Module 1 and 2 contain cover study materials and exercises enough for 3-500 hours of work with structured progression and module 3 contains literally thousands of hours or work for the most advanced students.
- Hang on and give priority 2-3 hours weekly for individual studies and a similar amount of study time with your network. Walk through every sentence in the intro chapters together with you network to make sure that you get a proper understanding of EVERYTHING in the intros. This includes unfamiliar terminology. All terminology will pop up again and again in chapters to follow so that it at some point will backfire if not properly taken in in the first place. And make sure that you hang on to the exerceises long enough for you to master ALL stems, morphemes and inflectional endings. You must get all lexical and grammatical material in the early chapters under your skin before proceeding to the next chapters. Greenlandic is as you know polysynthetic so that every piece of language you meet in chapter one will return in chapter two intertwined with new words and grammar. So NEVER proceed before the actual lesson is a piece of cake for you.
- After a year of so when you have worked with acquisition of Greenlandic about 300 or more hours and has a small lexicon and the basic rules for word formation under your skin you will more and more experience small successes when in a Greenlandic speaking environment whenever you understand so many pieces of real Greenlandic in the real world outside the L2 classroom that you have the scaffold to isolate and take in words and grammar unknown to you at the moment. Then you will have made it to the point where your acquisition will start to explode and you will after another year or so find yourself in the very tiny per mille of non-Greenlanders who can communicate in meaningsful Greenlandic.
Best of luck
Per
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