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| Abdalan Triglot Senior Member Brazil abdalan.wordpress.co Joined 5037 days ago 120 posts - 194 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English Studies: German | Message 41 of 59 12 February 2011 at 12:31am | IP Logged | ||
Oi tudo [todos]! (everything X everybody] Eu sei que sou [estou] um dia tarde [atrasado] e ... [me] desculpo por isso. Esta [Na] semana passada tenho começado [comecei] ... [a estudar] portugês [português] e gosto [gostei] muito. A idioma é muito similar á [ao] espanhol e é divertido para me [mim]. Tenho começado [comecei] com Pimsleur e FSI para vocábulario e com o livro "Essential Portuguese Grammar" para construção de a [do] idioma. Meu vocabulário é mais grande [maior] que pensaria [pensava]! Esta [Na] semana próxima [próxima semana] planeo [planejo] començar [começar] L- R [ouvir e ler ou LO] a Bíblia e rezo o rosário em portugês [portugu ês] também! Para a meu [minha] voz, esta semana estava muito excitante (double, sexual meaning)! A quinta-feira cantava [cantei] "De' miei bollenti spiriti" e não esfoçava [me esforcei] em nada. Também, cantava um C#5 (I would prefer read "Dó sustenido 5") em escalas! Sou muito excitante (only sexual sense here) para esta [a] semana próxima [próxima semana] e as descobertas! Good luck! Edited by Abdalan on 12 February 2011 at 12:32am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Abdalan Triglot Senior Member Brazil abdalan.wordpress.co Joined 5037 days ago 120 posts - 194 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, English Studies: German | Message 42 of 59 12 February 2011 at 12:52am | IP Logged | ||
Esta [Na] semana passada não practicar [pratiquei - you gotta drop that spanish 'c' also] muito, mas eu sou muito cômodo [acomodado, desleixado] com a idioma português. Muito do vocabulário é similar a [ao] espanhol e a construção é muito fácil. Eu não començo [comecei] L-R [O-L] mas, si [se - the Spanish is always getting in] posso [puder] començar [começar - no 'n'] esta semana serei [ficarei] muito contente. Esta noite quero completar dois [duas] liçãos [lições] de [do] FSI e a manhã [amanhã] quero completar meu livro de gramática. Quando completo [completá-las], començarei [começarei] L-R [O-L] e falarei muito. Eu não practicava [pratiquei] muito esta [na] semana passada. No [Não - no Spanish, man] sei porque, mas ... [de] a manhã [amanhã] e ['em'] adiante [diante] practicarei [praticarei] pelo menos cinco dias por semana. Eu cantava [cantei] un [um] D5 [how about 'Ré 5'?] à [na] quinta-feira, embora [prefer 'entretanto' or 'não obstante' here]. ... [O] progesso é lento, mas bem ['vai que vai' - an useful expression here, moderately slang] ! Good luck Edited by Abdalan on 12 February 2011 at 12:53am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5388 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 43 of 59 21 February 2011 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||
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FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 2011 - العربية الأسبوع ٧
This week I have continued my FLR work and am pleased with what has come of it. I do not know how much I am necessarily retaining of my reading, I think that aspect of the work manifests itself most during my writing exercises at the end of the week. I do know however, that my listening and vocabulary seem to be becoming strong as the time progresses. With both, I add one unit's worth of exercises per week. While this leads to a smaller vocabulary, I find that the words I do add implant themselves better in my brain with the time allowed to focus specifically on them. I have decided to focus on small things vocally. By this, I mean that I am taking single exercises and continually doing them until I achieve a desired result and then moving on. Sometimes this only takes a couple of repetitions, other times it takes 5 or 10 minutes worth of work. The benefits of this however are noticeable even the next day. For example, since my lesson three weeks ago I have been working with the [ð] occlusive in my exercise regimen. I perform a 5-note scale beginning with [ð] and moving to ascending to the fifth and then descending back to the root. I tend to struggle with not cracking, or slipping, at around A above middle C. So, I will continue to do this scale starting on the D above middle, refining and honing in on the correct sound and sensation, until the note no longer slips. Upon achieving this I move up by half-steps until about C5, the tenor's high C. I am currently relatively consistent in this exercise on the A now and have moved on to B-flat and B as my main focus. I have also noticed the importance of rest in the voice building process. On average I vocalize about five days a week. During this time I make progress daily, however my largest progress always comes after those couple of days of rest. I think that this fact proves that training a voice is a muscular activity. When training any muscle, the growth does not come during the exercise itself, but during the rest period when the muscles can rebuild and adapt to the new standards being required of them. This is why and good exercise program should require rest periods. Even in running and other cardiovascular activities, at least one day of rest is prescribed. As the weeks go by, I continue to grow towards my ultimate goal of being the best singer possible. Knowing that this process is a muscular one enables me to find satisfaction in the gradualness, but consistency of growth. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5388 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 44 of 59 02 March 2011 at 6:20am | IP Logged | ||
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SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 2011 - العربي - الأسنوع ٨
I have made some good progress this week. The most notable accomplishment of the week has been my average study time. For a number of weeks I have been averaging just a little less than one hour a day of studying. This week I finally got back over the one hour average. I am learning quite a bit, however I have not seen results manifest themselves in my spoken language. I attribute this mostly to a lack of opportunities to speak with people in Arabic. The few natives I do know are surprised when I speak to them in Arabic, however they do not respond back in Arabic. I am hoping that I can wear them down and eventually they will engage me. Vocally, I am still just working away. This week has not been one of major discoveries or majors steps, however consistency and ease are coming in more and more every week. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5388 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 45 of 59 03 January 2012 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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For this year, I am going to be learning German. My goal is to comfortably fluent by Dec. 31 2012. My definition of
comfortably fluent is being able to easily converse, read and listen to material in German with a natural fluidity and have enough vocabulary to converse about a variety of topics easily. I will provide monthly updates here, and will be attempting to get back to updating my blog every two weeks. This will be my first completely self-taught language, so I am very excited! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5388 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 46 of 59 07 February 2012 at 6:31am | IP Logged | ||
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I have made decent progress so far in German. I had a rough week where I was to busy to study, but I am back into
it now and am happy with my progress. I am only at about 1000 words on LingQ, but as I learn more, that number will increase at a faster pace. At this point I am about a fifth of the way through the passive phase of Assimil and at about a quarter of the way through the MT program. For a better update, please take a look at the blog. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5388 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 47 of 59 11 March 2012 at 12:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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The past 2 or 3 weeks have been really rough on the language learning front. I have had a large uptick in the amount of shift work I've had per night and have not been able to study practically at all. I am happy to report though that I would put myself at a basic conversational level at this point. Mostly meaning that I can get around basic daily tasks and have your normal greeting and basic interaction with people. I am going to try and reschedule my life a little bit to see if I can get some more time in to study; if I can't, then I will have to modify slightly and only do MT right now and then do Assimil after I finish MT while keeping LingQ going as best I can simultaneously.
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| sgh78 Diglot Senior Member France Joined 4632 days ago 163 posts - 215 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Latin, Persian, Biblical Hebrew, Arabic (classical), German | Message 48 of 59 12 March 2012 at 9:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think that , your method of language learning is interesting.
I not saw a message about your tips to learn the foreign vocabulary. Do you can speak of your vocabulary learning ? Edited by sgh78 on 12 March 2012 at 9:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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