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| Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4503 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech | Message 41 of 60 31 January 2013 at 7:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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@renaissancemedi, you're welcome to copy and improve the system as much as you want ;). And sure, my English has got an additional boost in here, as well as it does when I'm reading any blog or website in English. I performed my German study similarly, whereby I'm not blue because of the poor results in some areas. Edited by Dagane on 01 February 2013 at 2:13pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4503 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech | Message 42 of 60 01 February 2013 at 3:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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FEBRUARY
Summing up, I expect February to be an interesting and curious month. If everything goes OK, I'll be living in the Netherlands in two weeks. Consequently, I guess I'll have no much time to study before settling, so the base for February calculus is just 15 days instead of 28. Apart from that, I'm about to tackle Dutch. However, I won't record my Galician studies this time. Actually, I don't know if I'll do so with English since March. So these are the goals for February: Dutch I don't want to fix specific goals for Dutch yet. I'm going to browse here and there to get the basis on the language. I think I'm going to start with a free e-book which explains the basic grammar points. It's translated in several languages. This is the link to where you can choose the book between 10 free versions: A Practical Dutch Grammar German Listening: 0/2 FSI lessons done. Calculus: 1 lesson a week x 2 weeks = 2 lessons. Reading: 7/8 short articles from Wikipedia read. Calculus: 0.5 articles x 15 days = 7.5 ~ 8 articles. Vocabulary & grammar: 89/150 words learnt. Calculus: 10 words x 15 days = 150 words. Writing: 0/2 Lang-8 entries. Calculus: 1 writing a week x 2 weeks = 2 writings. English Listening: 165/300 minutes watched. Calculus: 20 minutes a day of any TV series, movie or radio podcast x 15 days = 300 minutes. Reading: 234/150 pages read. Calculus: 10 pages x 15 days = 150 pages. Vocabulary: 44/45 words-expressions learnt. Calculus: 3 words x 15 days = 45 words. Writing: 0/1 articles for my blog. Calculus: 0.5 articles a week x 2 weeks = 1 articles. Further study As always, I'm not counting on many things I do and actually are essential in my learning. I prefer to keep them freer. Nonetheless, here they are:
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| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4614 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 43 of 60 03 February 2013 at 8:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Congratulations on a great job in January. You made a lot of progress toward your goals, and your system allows you to really see where the gaps (if any) are. I'm curious how you define when you determine that you have "learned" a word: passive recognition, active production, other?
February should be quite interesting for you with such a big change in your life. I hope all goes well in preparing for and making the transition. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4503 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech | Message 44 of 60 04 February 2013 at 3:53pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks, BAnna. Actually, I realise I scarcely read any German, and I think that's pointless because the study of the language in and of itself gets harder. Because of it I started to read articles from Wikipedia in German. I only read articles about countries and cities, so the vocabulary range is not as wide as it could be if I read any kind of article. There are many words I don't understand. However, I grasp what they say and many of the unknown words are understandable due to the context. Regarding the number of words which are recorded as already learned, they are those which I write down in my notebook. I learn them for the first time immediately afterwards. But I review them several times observing the dates I explained somewhere above. So I never count on words I just learned once. And yes! I'm excited about the future as well as a bit afraid. Don't know how much time I'll have to update my log during the second half of the month. Don't know even whether I will have internet. And finally, Dutch. It seems so similar to German that I don't know how much German is going to help me. It could be I get confused with such related languages in my head. But I think it'll be fun. It worths a try :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4350 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 45 of 60 04 February 2013 at 4:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Why wouldn't you have internet? I hope you will!
As for languages that are similar, I know what you mean. I am lucky that all my projects are anything but similar, otherwise... I still don't understand how people can learn so many languages at the same time. I admire it though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4503 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech | Message 46 of 60 05 February 2013 at 6:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I was a fool. I should have read a lot more last month instead of doing other things. Now that I am reading 1-3 articles from Wikipedia each day, just about geography, I find the same vocabulary every time. So though I spot new words every time, I now see how much easier is to develop passive skills by reading. Also, it doesn't matter if a word doesn't sticks well in my mind, because I will read it again soon. Dutch It's certainly similar. So far, just reading some about grammar and learning useful and simple expressions such as greetings. I use Youtube, there're plenty of videos to learn Dutch, and they are very useful. English Apart from all my stuff, I'm going on with my recording of already learned vocabulary in Anki, so I will be able to review it without carrying my notebooks with me. So far almost 1,000 words/expressions and just less than half a notebook. It seems I learned many words last year, though I hardly recall many of them. Incidentally, I've 'polished' my vocab by forgetting many weird or extremely rare words, but I still need them so that being capable of having an outstanding passive skills. Or simply so that enjoying my readings :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4503 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech | Message 47 of 60 11 February 2013 at 4:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't studied anything since last Thursday. It's not I'm doing too much things, but that I'm getting excited because of my departure to the Netherlands! There're still many ends loose and I'll have to deal with them once there.
The first consequence of my trip is that English is about to turn into the main language of my daily life. I therefore hope it improves a lot, at least regarding comprehension. Anyway, I finished Umberto Eco's The Prague Cemetery (in English). It was quite fun. Aside from non-language-learning aspects, I noted the translator(?) used a lot of latin-rooted words, probably in passages with a poetic language in the original book. Hence, it was a book easy to understand, far away from the idiomatic complexity of Deadhouse Gates, which was my previous reading. So it was a very nice reading. And there's no more to report, uh... I hope to have more to log soon! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6077 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 48 of 60 11 February 2013 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | ||
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Will you have Internet access when you get there? It would be great to read about your experiences there!
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