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| Gunshy Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 3957 days ago 28 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French | Message 1 of 5 12 May 2014 at 1:58pm | IP Logged |
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It's about time I have a go at keeping a language log. I've never done this before, so
please be easy on me. :) I'm a linguistics university student with all the time in the world to learn languages so I'm on a mission to improve my time management and squeeze in more study. I will use this log to record both my goals and achievements, and hopefully make it interesting enough for people to read. I'm a native English speaker living in an English speaking country with monolingual family and friends, and a university life where I can't avoid using English. This is perhaps my biggest challenge of all, and one of my short to medium term goals is to use as little English as possible. I've written down on a piece of paper all the languages I'm genuinely interested in learning. Besides English and German, they are in no particular order: Hungarian, Italian, French, Turkish, Japanese, Russian, Maori, Finnish, Latin, Old English, Danish. Realistically I can't learn them all at once, so at the moment I'm keeping my focus on four: German, Hungarian, Italian and Turkish. I'm at various levels with all, and I have different goals for each. When I'm feeling confident in a routine, I might add in the odd study of another language or two. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Gunshy Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 3957 days ago 28 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French | Message 2 of 5 12 May 2014 at 2:19pm | IP Logged |
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I guess I'll start with my German. :)
German I'm pleased with my current level. I've only been learning the language for two to three years now in total (it's my first language. I'm a rather late comer to language learning). Most of my reading for pleasure is done so in German, and with an abundance of German TV online, it doesn't take me long to find something interesting to watch. I ought to take part in some of the reading challenges that are done here in this forum too. Where do I go wrong? I don't use my active skills an awful lot. I'm still at the stage of trying to soak up as much of the language as possible passively. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Gunshy Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 3957 days ago 28 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French | Message 3 of 5 12 May 2014 at 2:34pm | IP Logged |
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I'm an absolute beginner with Turkish, and I hope to get into some study using the FSI
course once I've gotten back into a healthy language learning routine (my lifestyle as a student has been very chaotic lately!). I decided to pick up Turkish due to its similarities with Hungarian, and the fact there's a lot of Turkish people in German speaking countries. No matter what other people say, I actually find the language quite pretty too. :) This morning I completed the 8th Assimil Italian lesson. I already know the language fairly well (years of Latin at school helped), but as I've taken a long break from Italian I thought redoing the Assimil course would do me some good. I'm doing the same with Hungarian too. At the moment I'm upto lesson 22, and although I find each lesson rather easy, it's helping me use my Hungarian elsewhere confidently (e.g. when reading the news). 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Gunshy Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 3957 days ago 28 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: French | Message 4 of 5 14 May 2014 at 2:10pm | IP Logged |
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I've decided to abandon Assimil Hungarian and just focus on diving into native materials
instead (reading e-books and watching various shows I find on the internet). My small vocabulary size is noticeable, and it's quite frustrating having to relearn words I used to know. I'm going to experiment with different vocabulary learning methods and see what works best. But it's also the niggly words (so many in Hungarian!) that I'm struggling with too. I guess if I continue to read everyday, they'll slowly come back to me (being optimistic as usual!). I'm becoming impatient though! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Penelope Diglot Senior Member Greece Joined 3709 days ago 110 posts - 155 votes  Speaks: English, French Studies: Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 5 of 5 14 May 2014 at 2:13pm | IP Logged |
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Many change methods in order to find what suits them. Good luck with your languages. I hope to read about your turkish methods for studying as well :)
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