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| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4601 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 9 of 15 24 May 2014 at 4:45pm | IP Logged |
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This discussion reminds me of the series of books in Spanish called "Cuentos breves para leer en ..."
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| shk00design Triglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4435 days ago 747 posts - 1123 votes Speaks: Cantonese*, English, Mandarin Studies: French | Message 10 of 15 25 May 2014 at 8:41pm | IP Logged |
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There are certain radio programs I'd listen to. Some portable devices have access to the Internet or a
portable DVD player so sometime I'd be watching a foreign film / video with subtitles / captions. All the shaking is bad for your eyes so I'd stick to listening to a radio program. The problems with listening to songs is that some of the time the lyrics gets faded with the tune so you don't always hear every word pronounced clearly. Edited by shk00design on 25 May 2014 at 8:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5157 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 11 of 15 26 May 2014 at 11:04pm | IP Logged |
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@Luso: the situation mentioned is typically Brazilian...
For shorter/unexpected breaks SRS is a good choice: Anki or Memrise at your smartphone. Take a physical book or maybe printed excerpts for the commutes, since carrying on a tablet is too risky. If you're going to work on your weaker languages, you'll need a smaller amount of text each day. You can, for example, print 4 A4-pages, two with text in the language your studying and 2 in Portuguese (or English, or Spanish) and read the texts intensively, word per word then sentence per sentence then paragraph per paragraph. That will replace the texbook study you don't have time for. You can pick wikipedia articles, international news from sites that have news in several languages (BBC, Deutsche Welle, Radio Free Europe, NHK) or short tales/excerpts from novels. You read the original first then the translation (or the other way round, what works better for you) and you pay attention to which words cause doubt. It will be difficult to mark or take notes on a crowded bus, but maybe once you're home you can list what caused raised the most doubts - the different phrasings, why something was said differently. Podcast lessons are also an option for commuting. You can alternate lessons that are probably given in English, like the beginner-intermediate ones from languageclass101/languagepod101 and podcasts for natives, with 10, 15 minutes of audio entirely in the target language. That will help you get used to the sound of the language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Tomohiro Octoglot Newbie Japan Joined 4334 days ago 20 posts - 41 votes Speaks: Japanese*, Korean, Galician, GermanC2, SpanishC2, Portuguese, Mandarin, English Studies: Russian, Old English, Armenian | Message 12 of 15 27 May 2014 at 9:57pm | IP Logged |
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Thank you everybody for your advices. :D
+ Serpent I am happy to read the thread you suggested me because now I feel like I am less “weirdo” than I thought. + Bao I will try to find a better ear plugs somewhere in the downtown. + rdearman I actually do this kind of stuff in the gym. It is a good way to keep trying think quick and indeed it would be useful for speaking. + james 29 I basically do bodybuilding focusing on strength balanced with resistance exercises for general body (legs, calves, chest, back, shoulders, biceps, traps, triceps, and torso). I can bring book which is not common, but who cares. I don’t care whether other people find me weird or not. My workout has 30 seconds to 1 minute of rest between each set, but still it is one minute that I can do something. +luso No, I don’t live in Japan. + stelle :D + embici I know this series. :D + shk00design I totally agree with you. All the shaking is so bad to my eyes that I would stick with some audio too. Indeed, some words are not clearly sung, but there is no problem because I can always check the lyrics later on. + expugnator I liked very much your idea. Today I read exactly the same article taken from DW in German and English. I like to read original and its translations (not necessarily in this order). I think I will download anki for my smartphone. The roads are like the image from the following page: https://www.google.com.br/search? q=ruas+esburacadas+no+Brasil&es_sm=122&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source =univ&sa=X&ei=dOyEU5OhH- fL8wHegoD4DA&ved=0CCkQsAQ&biw=1366&bih=643 And no, I am not exaggerating. I should have taken a photo today. :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 13 of 15 27 May 2014 at 11:28pm | IP Logged |
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haha familiar, about the roads :/
and you've just admitted that you use google/internet in your native language, perhaps more than necessary. that's a bigger time-waster than the 1-minute breaks at the gym. of course i know that sometimes you really find the best information in L1, but in general that's a habit of those who study a language for 3-7 hours a week and forget about it outside of these hours. Edited by Serpent on 27 May 2014 at 11:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Tomohiro Octoglot Newbie Japan Joined 4334 days ago 20 posts - 41 votes Speaks: Japanese*, Korean, Galician, GermanC2, SpanishC2, Portuguese, Mandarin, English Studies: Russian, Old English, Armenian | Message 14 of 15 28 May 2014 at 12:56am | IP Logged |
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Haha familiar about those kind of people who forget about using the language outside
those hours you said. Fortunately none of your statements apply for me. :D Edited by Tomohiro on 28 May 2014 at 12:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6588 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 15 of 15 28 May 2014 at 1:36pm | IP Logged |
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Yeah but when you use the Internet in your native language, always think whether you really need to :) aren't you curious whether other countries know about those roads in Brazil? ;)
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