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| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4699 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 417 of 706 24 January 2014 at 2:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
VK is basically my primary source of Russian. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5158 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 418 of 706 24 January 2014 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
You surely do! Every time you work on an island/dialogue, or answer a challenge at the Iberian Team :D you are working on active skills, but what I had in mind was working on translations of complex sentences from English that would focus on specific grammar skills. That is, besides making your own sentences, you should select a group of features you need to work more on. For example, the subjunctive, relative clauses. If you don't have Assimil or one of the Routledge grammars, you could do the following: a) Go to an international broadcasting site that has a Brazilian Portuguese edition (Deutsche Welle, I wonder if BBC, too). b) Find the article in both English and Portuguese, open each at one tab. c) Start trying to translate the English into Portuguese yourself, and then checking with the translation from the site.Pay attention to changes made in order to make the language more idiomatic - as well as to the excerpts where the translator overlooked that and the result was just a calque from English, that exists, too. d) Be sure to do one paragraph a day AT MOST. You don't have to "complete" a text, don't take yet another chore into your daily life. e) Proceed to fiction, like fairy tales or Aesop's fables, if you feel like. Actually, it may be better to start from an Aesop's fable. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4839 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 419 of 706 25 January 2014 at 6:21am | IP Logged | |||||
I guess that is a possibility. For what it's worth, the comic is now at home, and I've loaded other reading material on my Android Walkman for the time being (including news articles). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4839 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 420 of 706 25 January 2014 at 6:25am | IP Logged | |||||
I thought about that before. I'm a bit worried about taking on a third language, especially while learning Japanese, as Serpent alluded to. But if I, say, limited myself to travel language, or really basic conversation, that might be doable. We'll see. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4839 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 421 of 706 25 January 2014 at 6:26am | IP Logged | |||||
Another vote for VK... nice. tarvos, thanks for stopping by! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4839 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 422 of 706 25 January 2014 at 6:29am | IP Logged | |||||
That sounds like a nice plan! Thank you very much. I will try to do this and see how it goes. I think NHK and euronews also have news articles with English and Portuguese, although euronews has European Portuguese. Aesop sounds like a good idea as well. I sometimes read Aesop fables in Japanese. Short, sweet and interesting. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4839 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 423 of 706 28 January 2014 at 1:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I felt like I had no choice but to resign as co-captain of Team 旅立ち. I'm going through a busy stretch thanks to work, and I realized that a total of six months out of the year, I'm this busy. That makes it harder to maximize my language time if I'm having to do extra duties like captaining a TAC team. Computer time is more limited during these times. I can't be a co-captain just for half the year - it's not fair to my teammates - so I resigned.
In addition to that, I've been having some serious inconsistency problems the last few weeks. There have been several days where my study has only consisted of Anki and nothing else. That has to change. I might finally have to take up Serpent's offer to join the consistency thread. Hmmm... need to hunt down that link... it's in my log somewhere... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5254 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 424 of 706 28 January 2014 at 2:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
Consistency Thread.
"Showing up" is consistency. This applies to language learning as well. Edited by iguanamon on 28 January 2014 at 9:34pm 3 persons have voted this message useful |
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