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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5337 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 113 of 162 03 January 2013 at 9:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Good to see you back, Woodsei, I was starting to wonder whether we had lost you in outer space, and am relieved to see that you are back at the space ship!
I look forward to another active year, and to your always interesting posts! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| aloysius Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6243 days ago 226 posts - 291 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: French, Greek, Italian, Russian | Message 114 of 162 03 January 2013 at 10:56pm | IP Logged | ||
What a wonderful post that was, Woodsei! You've been such a fantastic asset on Sputnik and I'm so glad you're with us this year as well on Mir. I'm sure you'll lead the way when we take on new 6wc's. If I could manage just a fraction of your work capacity I'd be more than happy. Well done in 2012 and good luck in 2013! //aloysius 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4800 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 115 of 162 03 January 2013 at 11:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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@SolfridChristin: Yes, I was lost in outer space, until I heard my fellow MIR cosmonauts
calling me in for another inspiring and exciting TAC. I missed the forum so much, and it hit me, you guys are an awesome source of motivation! I tend to really sleep on things and visiting HTLAL is like an adrenaline rush. Thank you so much for your post, I'm so looking forward to being with all my fellow Mir teammates :) @Aloysius: Thank you! It's so great to be with everone on the team again this year, too, and I'm really looking forward to following everyone's progress. I think you are doing great, too, in fact, my inspiration to joining HTLAL was reading your past logs along with several other veterans, Christina included :) So keep inspiring :) Edited by Woodsei on 03 January 2013 at 11:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4800 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 116 of 162 06 January 2013 at 3:49am | IP Logged | ||
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あけおめ、皆！
Happy New Year! I can't believe it's already been a year since my first TAC. I learned a lot, not just language-wise, and made a lot of friends. I'm really grateful for the community here at the forum, because the support and the motivation have played a huge part in my language learning process. I wish everyone a great new year, and hope we are all able to more or less achieve our goals for this coming year. So, since I'm using the same log I had for the 2012 TAC, I'll skip a lengthy introduction for myself, which you'll find in the first post of this log, and just go on and lay out my plan for this upcoming year. If you don't feel like reading the log from the start, here's a summary: I live in the States, I'm a graduate student, and I'm passionate about everything and anything that has to do with languages, culture, travel, history and geography, etc. I also love outdoor sports (and indoor ones, too :) ), photography, education, reading, psychology, and arts (animations, etc). I started learning languages on my own for the first time ever this past year, and committed myself to it by joining the TAC. Nothing like a little accountability to get up and running, ね？ :D Anyway, I'll try in my coming posts to rite a little about what I did, but you can read it in the previous posts here. 1. Japanese This is my first main focus language for this year. I love Japan, it's culture, and of course, it's beautiful language. I love the importance and respect the Japanese give to life, and you can see it in various media, such as books, films, even serious shows discussing such topics. I watched a show once on NHK Education TV where an earthquake specialist visited a grade and junior high school, and held a very serious and active discussion on the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan back in March of 2011, and about how disasters impact family and the importance of preserving one's own life. It was both eye-opening and heartbreaking. And watching fourth-graders actually discussing such heavy topics was very impressive. But I digress. I guess that to me, Japan will always hold a special place in my heart. And I can't get over how beautiful the language is, both the written and the spoken. And I want to get awesome at Japanese. I want to be able to speak, read, write, and listen to it as well as English and Arabic, my native languages. Anyway, most of my learning has been immersing myself almost all day everyday in native content. Anime, Jdorama,variety shows, listening and reading, manga and light novels, songs and lyrics, you name it. I finished Heisig early on. I can understand most of what I listen to or read, not just the gist, but actual meaning. I haven't done any active production yet, though, in terms of speaking and writing. And I haven't been giving much attention to news. Variety shos still go over my head. Well, not as bad as before. So, my plans for Japanese this year are pretty simple. Input, input, input! That means lots of listening and reading, and TV, radio, podcast, news, etc. I'm a big fan of Krashen, and LR, and natural language acquisition in general, and from my experience last year, it's been working beautifully, for me at least. This will also work great for the Super Challenge that I participated in with Japanese, namely reading 100 books and watching 100 movies by the end of December 2013. 楽しい！I have been keeping a list of books/manga I read and drama/movies/anime I watch, but have been slacking off on my Twitter and uper Challenge thread updates, so hopefully I'll get around to updating more reliably, and keeping all the things I covered in a main place, like a blog, or a Word file, or something. We'll see. I'm so excited! :) I also have been slacking off on my kanji reviews, so I want to get back to those, as well as focus on the readings. I haven't been SRSing any sentences, although I attempted to last year. SRSing sentences on Anki has been effective, but I kept falling off the wagon, and well, it got pretty boring and I just wanted to read more, or listen/watch to media. But for the small amount I did it really pushed my Japanese to the next level. I still remember those sentences as if I'd just written them out a few minutes ago, and can effortlessly speak them, even though I haven't looked at them again. I guess focusing on sentences as part of your immersion does really aid in faster and more efficient language learning acquisition, but I just hated the time I spent on Anki making cards, even though the physical act of reading words/sentences and writing them out by hand, saying them, and SRSing them is really effective. I came to a compromise where I'll write out some sentences I come across from my reading and listening/TV in a notebook or Word file if I ever feel like avoiding Anki. A little exercise is better than nothing. But even then, most of my learning will be through reading and listening/tv/podcasts/etc. 2. Russian I looked at my goals for Russian last year, and boy, they were embarrassing T_T :) I started out with Assimil, due to the lack of resources I had, then gradually started skipping days with no Russian at all. I intend to change that. Russian is my second focus language for this year, again like Japanese, but I really want to level it up with where I am in Japanese. I managed to collect several readers, movies, and audiobooks thankfully, so along with Assimil, I plan on working through them and simulating what I did for Japanese. I plan on purchasing a grammar reference, just to look up vague points that I can't infer from context as I go, same as I did with Japanese. I'm looking forward to sharing thoughts and opinions, and bouncing ideas off of each other on board the glorious MIR spaceship, and really looking forward to following my fellow cosmonauts progress :) 3. Hungarian Hungarian was a relative latecomer last year, and I initially started dabbling in it, but it quickly became a more serious pursuit and now I want to actively study it. That said, most of my time will be given to Japanese and Russian, so Hungarian will be kept to a minimum, as I can't focus on too many languages at the same time. But even if it's kept to a minimum, it will be constant, so I hope to achive some sort of noticeable progress by the end of the year. It's heard to gauge, really, given the obscure goal, but time will tell how it all turns out. That's basically it. I want to start Korean and Mandarin Chinese, so much, but until my Japanese and Russian ships firmly anchor in the aforementioned shores, I don't anticipate working seriously on them this year. But dabbling is always fine, and fun! That's basically my initial take on things. I write long posts and sleep on them for weeks, so I'm hoping that this year I start popping in more frequently to post short updates, and of course visit my team mates logs :) Oh, over at Team Sakura we agreed to post introductions to ourselves in Japanese with an accompanying translation on the team thread, so here's my first attempt at writing posted on my log too! I hope it's okay and understandable :) みなさん、元気? はじめまして、そして、 あけましておめで とう！TAC 2013と、私の 語学 習 の 日誌へ ようこそ！それでは、はじめましょ！ あたしはウヅセイです、日本と日本語が大好 きだから、今、日本語をがり勉している. 早く上手になりたいから。しかも、 時間を掛けずにね！でも、最近、全然勉強が 手 てにつかないだけど、私は、きっとそれを変 えてみせます、きっと！み んな、楽しみにしておいてね！ And the loose translation: Everyone, doing well? Greetings, and happy new year! Welcome to the TAC 2013, and my log. Well then, here I go! I'm Woodsei, I love Japan and Japanese, so I'm studying like crazy, because I really want to get awesome at Japanese quickly. Recently, I haven't been studying at all, but I'll change that, surely! I'm looking forward to it :) Hope that sounded ok! And, speaking of writing, I plan to seriously head over to Lang-8 and start writing something frequently to work on improving my production. That's another point I was planning and forgot to mention above. It'll be interesting to see how it all turns out! また今度！ Edited by Woodsei on 06 January 2013 at 4:06am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4800 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 117 of 162 06 January 2013 at 4:07am | IP Logged | ||
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I hate, hate, HATE the diamonds :( Well, the above word in diamonds is missing a
character. This is it: 語学学習 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6623 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 118 of 162 06 January 2013 at 8:47am | IP Logged | ||
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See my post about diamonds on the team thread.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5337 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 119 of 162 06 January 2013 at 8:51am | IP Logged | ||
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An impressive post, as always, Woodsei!
You have been a wonderful inspiration with your hard work and discipline. I am amazed at what you have done with your Japanese, and it will be fantastic seeing you do the same thing with Russian. Three cheers for a record breaking 2013! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 120 of 162 06 January 2013 at 10:39am | IP Logged | ||
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You know when a language just clicks, much in the same way as when you first meet a stranger and know you'll become good friends, or live in a new part of the world and have an uncanny feeling that this place will become a life-long "home from home". Japan has always just clicked for me in this way (everything from the language, arts, people and culture just feels exciting and awe-inspiring), and I'm particularly looking forward to sharing a little of that journey in Japanese with you this year (as well as Russian again). If your incredible progress and hard work from last year are anything to go by, you'll be bound to hit light speed in 2013 and bedazzle us all in your wake. I can't wait to read those logs and watch your Japanese migrate from "Studies" to "Speaks"! :) Edited by Teango on 06 January 2013 at 10:40am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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