It doesn’t become less effective for me, as much as I don’t need it anymore as my language ability progresses, then rely on it again if my ability regresses. I’m a nonnative German teacher in Germany and while I don’t have to jog my memory for standard conjugations, if I learn a new verb that has a short i in present tense and a long a in preterite, I’ll still chant “singe, sang, gesungen” in my head. It’s just different learning styles.
Yeah, it’s sort of like a base. I just know for me learning Latin, I was super anxious and would just drill on the tables over and over again and that was ultimately not a good use of my time–as I’m sure you’d agree.
I still try to have little recitations, especially for irregular conjugations to remind myself that they’re irregular. If I conjugate them in isolation, I’m more likely to construct it regularly instead of irregularly.
It doesn’t become less effective for me, as much as I don’t need it anymore as my language ability progresses, then rely on it again if my ability regresses. I’m a nonnative German teacher in Germany and while I don’t have to jog my memory for standard conjugations, if I learn a new verb that has a short i in present tense and a long a in preterite, I’ll still chant “singe, sang, gesungen” in my head. It’s just different learning styles.
Yeah, it’s sort of like a base. I just know for me learning Latin, I was super anxious and would just drill on the tables over and over again and that was ultimately not a good use of my time–as I’m sure you’d agree.
I still try to have little recitations, especially for irregular conjugations to remind myself that they’re irregular. If I conjugate them in isolation, I’m more likely to construct it regularly instead of irregularly.