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I've read a lot of TPR(S) and also Krashen, whose research I believe the system is based on. It is somewhat difficult to use some of this theory over video, but we often discuss what we can take from ideas like this to help beginning speakers when they don't have a wide vocabulary they can access. I'm curious if using TPR(S) helped you learn a language? I own a few books on it, but I haven't seen it actually widely implemented.

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I learned French, (some) Arabic, and (some) Chinese with TPR and TPRS. It was a lot of fun, actually, and I had previously found language learning hard. I also took French in college, with the Rassias Method, so it was a second go round for me.

I learned from a French professor friend who trains all her second language acquisition grad students in TPR and TPRS. One of her students has had great success teaching elementary, middle, and high school students French using these methods.

I've seen a few non-teachers who have learned TPR/TPRS to teach their languages in the US; languages like Tamil.

Yeah, it definitely helped. I taught this method to a language tutor when we first started working together, and he later told me that I learned vocabulary far faster than any of his other students, and he wound up switching to using TPR with all of his other students because of it.

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