Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4457 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech
| Message 17 of 43 14 September 2015 at 8:16pm | IP Logged |
Weeks 11th and 12th are gone by. I had a great time and was happily busy so I do not regret to report that my study was limited to 3 miserable minutes. Yes, it was that fun! Anyway, I adjusted my schedule a little bit and there we go with...
13th week results
- Menschen A1.1 textbook: 10/12 lessons studied
- Menschen A1.1 book of exercises: 9/12 lessons studied
- Grammatik Intensivtrainer A1 8/37 lessons studied
- Das Idealpaar: 8/15 stories read
- New vocabulary in Anki: TBC flashcards this week (852 in total)
- Time of study: 1h 49min this week (33h 14min in total)
I am cheating a little bit with my time of study. I should regard it as 'regular training' since I occasionally hold written and face-to-face conversations.
Incidentally, not only was difficult to retrieve my former study schedule because of having broken the routine, but also because things I already sticked into my head blurred. I think I'll need more time to fully achieve my goal and have hence decided to extent this log. There is no need of rushing things providing that we enjoy them, isn´t it? My new benchmark will be December 31st 2015.
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Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4457 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech
| Message 18 of 43 23 September 2015 at 8:45pm | IP Logged |
14th week results
- Menschen A1.1 textbook: 10/12 lessons studied
- Menschen A1.1 book of exercises: 9/12 lessons studied
- Grammatik Intensivtrainer A1 8/37 lessons studied
- Das Idealpaar: 8/15 stories read
- New vocabulary in Anki: 15 flashcards this week (867 in total)
- Time of study: 9min this week (33h 23min in total)
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Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4457 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech
| Message 19 of 43 28 September 2015 at 8:07pm | IP Logged |
15th week results
- Menschen A1.1 textbook: 10/12 lessons studied
- Menschen A1.1 book of exercises: 10/12 lessons studied
- Grammatik Intensivtrainer A1 8/37 lessons studied
- Das Idealpaar: 9/15 stories read
- New vocabulary in Anki: 11 flashcards this week (878 in total)
- Time of study: 1h 33min this week (34h 56min in total)
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Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4457 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech
| Message 20 of 43 11 October 2015 at 8:57pm | IP Logged |
Two facts are to be pointed out at this stage. Firstly, my time of study is significantly shorter than expected. Secondly, I have kept hitting the books nearly every week during the last few months. Although I improve at a snail pace, I nonetheless keep improving and feel more confident, albeit this happens slowly.
Next week I'll finsh Menschen A1.1 (both textbook and exercises book). A friend of mine may join an A2 level Goethe Institute course in 2016. If I manage to finish Menschen A1.2 on my own by then I will probably join the same course.
16th & 17th week results
- Menschen A1.1 textbook: 11/12 lessons studied
- Menschen A1.1 book of exercises: 11/12 lessons studied
- Grammatik Intensivtrainer A1 8/37 lessons studied
- Das Idealpaar: 9/15 stories read
- New vocabulary in Anki: 45 flashcards this week (923 in total)
- Time of study: 1h 37min this week (36h 33min in total)
Edited by Dagane on 18 October 2015 at 10:46pm
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Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4457 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech
| Message 21 of 43 18 October 2015 at 10:41pm | IP Logged |
I sped up this week! Although I have studied less than 4 hours this week, this is my best recorded time in eleven weeks. Menschen A1.1 books are finished and I will now get Menschen A1.2 books. In the meantime my focus will be on vocabulary, my grammar book and my grammar A1 exercises book.
18th week results
- Menschen A1.1 textbook: 12/12 lessons studied
- Menschen A1.1 book of exercises: 12/12 lessons studied
- Grammatik Intensivtrainer A1 8/37 lessons studied
- Das Idealpaar: 11/15 stories read
- New vocabulary in Anki: 79 flashcards this week (1002 in total)
- Time of study: 3h 50min this week (40h 23min in total)
Edited by Dagane on 18 October 2015 at 10:47pm
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Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4457 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech
| Message 22 of 43 25 October 2015 at 7:16pm | IP Logged |
This week has been a good one as well. I already have Menschen A1.2 books and aim to tackle them next week. I also got one book and one audio book. I feel I need to practise my listening and output skills since I start to cope well with simple grammar and even A2 level reading. I got two B1 audiobooks, although I suspect they will still be out of my understanding. Worths a try though.
19th week results
- Menschen A1.1 textbook: 12/12 lessons studied
- Menschen A1.1 book of exercises: 12/12 lessons studied
- Grammatik Intensivtrainer A1 8/37 lessons studied
- Das Idealpaar: 14/15 stories read
- New vocabulary in Anki: 75 flashcards this week (1077 in total)
- Time of study: 3h 39min this week (44h 02min in total)
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Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4457 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech
| Message 23 of 43 02 November 2015 at 5:18pm | IP Logged |
I often study quite a lot on Sunday. Yesterday I was ill and spent the day lying in bed so I couldn´t hit the books. Apart from that, I adquired new books this week, namely Hueber's "Präpositionen (15 Deutsch Üben)" and two short stories compilations: "Das Wunshaus" and "Veronikas Geheimnis". This is because I already finished "Das Idealpaar", which I recommend to everybody trying to learn German. Both new short stories books are probably too difficult for me to tackle at this stage. I will take it easy!
I realised my listening skill is falling behind my other skills, so I started watching "Deutsch lernen Extra auf Deutsch Abshnitt", a Friends-like TV series available in Youtube.
20th week results
- Menschen A1.1 textbook: 12/12 lessons studied
- Menschen A1.1 book of exercises: 12/12 lessons studied
- Das Idealpaar: 15/15 stories read
- Menschen A1.1 textbook: 13/24 lessons studied
- Grammatik Intensivtrainer A1 8/37 lessons studied
- Deutsch lernen Extra auf Deutsch Abshnitt 1/13 watched
- New vocabulary in Anki: 39 flashcards this week (1116 in total)
- Time of study: 2h 01min this week (46h 03min in total)
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Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4457 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech
| Message 24 of 43 08 November 2015 at 5:01pm | IP Logged |
This week I've focused on listening, vocabulary and writing. I'm watching "Extra" on Youtube as for the first one. Of course I'm listening to music in German as well, although I never count on it as study time. Regarding my vocabulary, I adjusted Anki to review more words rather than learning new ones, since I felt my passive vocabulary is good but the working one was shrinking. As for the latter, I'm writing some small texts I submit to Lang-8 afterwards. Although writing isn´t easy, I do feel I can now compose reasonably good sentences and put them together to shape small texts.
21st week results
- Menschen A1.1 textbook: 12/12 lessons studied
- Menschen A1.1 book of exercises: 12/12 lessons studied
- Das Idealpaar: 15/15 stories read
- Menschen A1.1 textbook: 15/24 lessons studied
- Grammatik Intensivtrainer A1 8/37 lessons studied
- Deutsch lernen Extra auf Deutsch Abshnitt 3/13 watched
- New vocabulary in Anki: 22 flashcards this week (1138 in total)
- Time of study: 4h 05min this week (50h 08min in total)
Edited by Dagane on 08 November 2015 at 5:02pm
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