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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 41 of 384 24 August 2013 at 1:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yesterday I hit a bit of a wall. I worked a bit in the morning, but I just couldn't stomach it in the evening. I ended
up watching 3 episodes of Law & Order back to back instead. I think a goal of 75 hours (doing purely self-study) was a bit ambitious for August! I can still make it - but it will be tricky. Total for yesterday: 112 minutes talk to someone: 65 minutes - Skype session listen to something: nope read something: nope write something: 30 minutes - practice makes perfect (Honestly, the irregular verbs are exhausting me!) practice vocabulary: 16 minutes - anki 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 42 of 384 25 August 2013 at 2:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Today was much better than yesterday! Even though I didn't talk to anyone on Skype, I easily put in three hours
(spread throughout the day in 20-40 minute blocks). No frustration, no boredom - if anything I had to stop myself, because I figured the 3 hours was enough for today. I am LOVING the intensive reading of Despereaux. I read a chapter 5 times today, and I'm still surprised that I find it so interesting to re-read the same text multiple times. first read: general understanding - there were lots of hard words in this chapter second read: look up words/expressions, add most useful ones to anki third read: re-read for understanding (since there was lots of new vocab that I didn't quite catch on the first read, and the second read was constantly interrupted to look up words) fourth read: recording myself fifth read: reading along with my recording I still haven't received Harry Potter in the mail yet. I'm looking forward to adding in more extensive reading to complement the intensive reading. I'm thinking that I'll keep doing a chapter of Despereaux intensively most days (20-40 minutes, depending on the chapter), and then read Harry Potter for pleasure for 15 or 20 minutes in the evening. I love that I can actually READ in Spanish! total for today: 180 minutes talk to someone: nope (although I am reading aloud during my intensive reading) listen to something: 25 minutes - Destinos episode 28 read something: 48 minutes - Despereaux (intensive reading) write something: 53 minutes - practice makes perfect verbs - more irregular verbs today. Still hard! - practice makes perfect pronouns practice vocabulary: 54 minutes - anki - duolingo 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 43 of 384 26 August 2013 at 2:14am | IP Logged | ||
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I spent some time today doing the following diagnostic test from cervantes, for a new Skype teacher that I'll be
working with: http://ave.cervantes.es/prueba_nivel/default.htm It put me at a level B2.3 - B2.4. I'm very pleased with that result, since I expected to be somewhere around a high A2 or a low B1. That said, I do have decent test-taking strategies. I've spent the past few years preparing students for French tests, so I'm well-versed in the process of elimination in multiple choice questions. But still, I'm really happy with my progress. It makes my goal - C1 by summertime - seem a little more realistic! I struggled with the listening part of the test - I'll definitely need to work in more native materials soon. Total for today (day 23 of six-week challenge): 202 minutes Talk to someone: no, not today. I do a ton of self-talk throughout the day - both in my head and out loud - but I don't log that. Listen to something: 92 minutes - Destinos episode 29 - Notes in Spanish: 4 intermediate podcasts - Youtube playlist Read something: 33 minutes - Despereaux (intensive reading) Write something: 61 minutes - practice makes perfect verbs - practice test (although some of this was reading, and some was listening) practice vocabulary: 16 minutes - anki 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nicozerpa Triglot Senior Member Argentina Joined 4319 days ago 182 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Spanish*, Portuguese, English Studies: Italian, German | Message 44 of 384 26 August 2013 at 6:18pm | IP Logged | ||
It seems that you've been working really hard and it's paying off. Congratulations! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 45 of 384 26 August 2013 at 8:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today marks the three-month point of learning Spanish! I've made another entry in my video learning log:
video learning log - month 3 It's far (FAR!) from perfect, but I'm happy with my progress! I feel that I'm able to express myself a little bit more comfortably every week.
Thanks! I'm enjoying the process immensely! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 46 of 384 27 August 2013 at 1:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Lots and lots of speaking today. Too much, almost! I'm not even going to touch my book tonight.
day 23 of six-week challenge: 185 minutes talk to someone: 155 minutes - 2.5 hours of Spanish over Skype + a very short video (the learning log video that I linked to in my last message) listen to something: 20 minutes - Notes in Spanish: 2 intermediate podcasts read something: nope write something: nope practice vocabulary: 10 minutes - anki I'm currently at 60.4 hours for the month of August, which means that I need to log at least 172 minutes every day if I want to hit my goal of 75 hours for the month. I'm pretty sure I can make it! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 47 of 384 28 August 2013 at 4:48am | IP Logged | ||
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Total for today: 182 minutes
talk to someone: 90 minutes - Skype tutoring session - Skype chat with my dad listen to something: 32 minutes - Notes in Spanish: 1 intermediate podcast - Destinos episode 30 read something: not today. I miss my reading! write something: 41 minutes - text in past tense (posted to italki for corrections) - practice makes perfect (verbs) practice vocabulary: 19 minutes - anki 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Lorren Senior Member United States brookelorren.com/blo Joined 4244 days ago 286 posts - 324 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Danish, Irish Studies: Russian | Message 48 of 384 28 August 2013 at 10:52am | IP Logged | ||
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Looks like you're doing very well! I'm sure that you'll be speaking quite well by the time you get to Spain!
Are your Skype partners from Spain? I've noticed that there is a huge difference between the Spanish of Latin America and the Spanish of Spain. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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