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Expug’s All at On(c)e Log - TAC14 | ||
Tags: Papiamento | Estonian | Georgian | Native Materials | Norwegian | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Mandarin | Russian | German | French | ||
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| 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 113 of 415 09 February 2014 at 11:47pm | IP Logged | ||
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The resource I forgot for Georgian is the Culture Talk gently provided by Chung. The one
I feel like reviewing is probably Aronson's grammar. There's also the ice.ge course ( prz_ should have a look at it). I don't know if it's worth reviewing it and slowing down at other languages, though. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4624 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 114 of 415 10 February 2014 at 12:39am | IP Logged | ||
Oh right! I actually had the page in my favorite but truth be told, I don't think it's well organised. It'll certainly be good to review basics later but for now not so much. The course in Japanese is SO good, it'd be a shame not to use it, but the thing is just that I wanted to see sth new. But I think new and ainu don't got together unfortunately! 1 person has 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 115 of 415 10 February 2014 at 1:30am | IP Logged | ||
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They are just a little bit more organized here Edited by Expugnator on 10 February 2014 at 1:30am 1 person has 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 116 of 415 10 February 2014 at 9:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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Last night I dreamed in Georgian! It wasn't the first time, but it was interesting. The
person I was talking to tried to correct my pronunciation on ejectives x aspirated. I bet it's hard to get this natural, even if it's not that complicated to distinguish them in speech. At today's Basic Georgian, I was impressed at how I could render complex sentences that involved totally difference phrasing. Accomplished one more lesson, 3 to go. Today's lesson was about passive/medial verbs, a subject where the usefulness is directly proportional to its level of boredom. I noticed I spend too much time on FB, especially on Mondays, when I'm reading updates from the weekend. There's interesting stuff going on, I know, but today it was hard to catch up. I'm finishing schedule only 20 min before going and there's still Duolingo left, not to mention Memrise. I started L'Allemand. Skimmed first 7 lessons, did 7 more. It is a whole different content, of course, but it also seems updated, more like today's learning style. It has important tips on pronunciation, and they go on consistenly after the initial lessons. As for word choice, it's also appropriate so far, and since it's different from NASP, it's not a bad idea to do both, as I'm doing. Getting fed up with XiYangYang. Need to find a new cartoon, or better, a new series. I tried the series I mentioned here about a chef, but it's too hard and too fast. I don't have time to understand anything, even though I could theoretically understand a bit. Videos from Telecuraçao keep crashing. I wonder if this is an internal issue, a restriction from this network. I tried at the tablet and could play less than half a 5 min video, after much struggle. Maybe I'll have to download them at home. I don't really like to spend that much time at preparing for studying. That is discouraging because I no longer have the option to leave tasks from the main schedule to do after work. I'd be too busy and tired for that. Not much on Russian, just working on the old TY. Why do numbers have to be so hard? I should stick to writing down the digits, even by doing so with paper and pen while talking =D 1 person has 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 117 of 415 11 February 2014 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today I was busy in the morning again, but managed to do Memrise and listen to the
Papiamento news video before 上班. I got there later than usual but I could still keep consistency, and finished almost 4 hours in advance. Good news for my Georgian studies. Early this year I started a Georgian study group at FB, for Brazilians, with low expectations. The group is growing, and the guy who teaches Georgian at Brazil's largest university just joined it! He's been studying for 10 years, he's been to Georgia and he knows the author of the book I'm currently using in person! Maybe there will be good outcomes from that. Chinese - At Chinesepod (I can write the name safely since most lessons are for free anyway) I've just finished Upper Beginner and will start elementary level tomorrow. Lessons are more complex at that level, so i'm very excited about that. I start to believe I may not need an additional textbook after I'm done with Everyday Chinese, since now the podcast lessons are fulfilling this task. I just need to study them more carefully then. I'm at this strange stage with regards to Chinese: I want to study more resources than I'm doing now, but I'm afraid this may lead to burnout. I have several interesting resources I could use but I'd also enjoy just watching media in the language. I'm now progressing more with characters, as I'm starting to become aware of radicals. Conversation is a bit behind, that is to say, I progressed at it first and now the other skills start to catch up. I really want to speak Chinese in real life. Maybe it's time I visit my old teacher's school for a placement test, but now I have time but not money. Everything is smoothly with other languages. I'm really enjoying L'Allemand. It's by no means in terms of vocabulary, and with regards to grammar I can just skim what I'm familiarized with. Even TY Russian lessons start to make more sense. At this pace, the lessons will end unolticedly and I won't even have decided what to do next. I don't know what I can use after having been through the three Assimil texts, Nina Potapova's course and Living Language. Not sure if I would benefit from another beginner's textbook. OTOH, it may be still to early to try Colloquial Russian 2 or Living Language Beginner-Advanced, both of which seem quite appealing. I'll have to browse through my resources in a moment. I'm starting to consider what to do about the Super Challenge. The idea is to bring up a language from B1 to B2 or C1 through (mostly) extensive reading and listening. Super Challenge Well, I've realized that my 20 pages a day in French would be enough for achieving a Super Challenge. On the other hand, I have been doing this routine of 20 French pages a day (mostly intensive but lately rather extensive) over a year ago and I don't think my French saw that huge gap. On the contrary: after dropping the textbook stage, I think what I learned came more from videos than from reading. So, I don't know if this challenge or my routine itself will be effective for this transition. I don't even know my French level for sure. I believe I'm B2 with some gaps, because I really can talk about almost everything despite making mistakes, and I can also understand almost everything at spoken fiction French, including some word eat-ups and slang. I haven't calculated how it would work with videos. I take 20 minutes a day with Norwegian video, plus 15-20 min of listening/reading. Maybe Norwegian is elligible for a video challenge and for a half reading challenge (what I read are 10 pages which I happen to L-R because I have audio). So, in theory Norwegian is the ideal language for a Super Challenge because I'm at a B1 level. Considering my current routine, though, I could do a full French reading and a half French A/V challenge + a half Norwegian reading and a full Norwegian A/V challenge without making any changes to my already intensive routine. In calmer days, I could also add 10 more pages (from a different source) in Norwegian and 10-30 more minutes in French, and that would allow me for a full challenge in both. I wouldn't stick these to my main routine though, as it is already intense enough. I'm only replacing activities instead of adding new ones, the exception being apps (Anki, Duolingo, Memrise) which can be worked on in a more relaxed way. Maybe I could read 5 pages a day in Georgian if I started with easy, translated novels (Paulo Coelho, anyone?); more than that would mean a daily Georgian burnout. I already read 2 pages in a mirrored (Georgian- English) reader and 2 more in a mirrored novel. As for Papiamento, I listen to no more than 5 minutes a day and that's just background, thus not elligible. There isn't enough interesting audio/video out there for me to spend a challenge on that. In the case of books, there's just not enough material at all in Papiamento, I'm afraid! That is to say, if we pile up all the books currently available for purchase in Papiamento, it may not be enough to accomplish a super challenge :/ EDIT: I almost forgot to analize Chinese! The situation is similar to Norwegian, though the level surely isn't (I believe I'm at a higher A2 for active skills but listening is far from transparent, not to mention reading). I could accomplish an A/V challenge with 20 minutes a day of Chinese videos. No reading, though. Edited by Expugnator on 11 February 2014 at 9:40pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4851 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 118 of 415 11 February 2014 at 10:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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While reading your log, I always want to quote a title of one song - "The winner takes it all".
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| 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 119 of 415 12 February 2014 at 8:31am | IP Logged | ||
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What a motivating log you have!
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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4851 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 120 of 415 12 February 2014 at 3:22pm | IP Logged | ||
Link please? Edited by prz_ on 12 February 2014 at 3:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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