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Sh’Naya’s TAC’14 log: Triomphe and 旅立ち | ||
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| Sh'Naya Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6767 days ago 48 posts - 65 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French | Message 1 of 9 02 January 2014 at 9:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello everyone and especially teammates. This is my first year participating in TAC and
I try to see the challenge through. My main focus this year is French. I chose it over Latin in seventh grade, but failed miserably. Well, I did not like the methods of the teachers and the texts we had to read were completely boring. After I quit school I started countless times to really learn the language. Up to now I have not - but I have learnt Spanish instead. This year I really want to learn enough French to be able to read books and understand films. My method so far: Using Assimil 1 and playing Skyrim in French. Assimil I started about 2 years ago - Skryim only last week. Japanese is a language I learn for fun. So far I have successfully taken the JLPT N5 and sit the JLPT N4 last december. Teams: Triomphe/French 旅立ち/Japanese 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sh'Naya Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6767 days ago 48 posts - 65 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French | Message 2 of 9 06 January 2014 at 12:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Triomphe
Today I am doing Assimil lesson 109 in French. I could have finished Assimil ages ago and when I decided to continue with it, I did not remember, why I have not done so already. Now I know (again). The last lessons are absolutely boring. I do not need the vocabulary they offer - and will not need it in the next say 10 years or even more. However, I do not want to stop again. Only 5 lessons are left, which means I should be done with it on Friday, but I give myself time for it until Sunday. After that, I want to continue with the second volume, which I already bought while still in school (ages ago...). I have never used it. Additionally, I will continue with audiobooks. I have listented to some on my way to work in November, but then I got ill and afterwards I had only to go to work for two days before my christmas holidays started. As today is public holiday in the Bundesland I work in, work starts tomorrow, which means about one hour time for listening to audiobooks on each work day. I cannot do it at home, because my boyfriend hates the sound of french and is already annoyed by my playing Skyrim in French. He rather had me play it in English like him or in Spanish (which he, just like French, does not understand). 旅立ち I still have a bad feeling learning Japanese. That started one week before I went to take the JLPT N4. I did not receive my test voucher and had to write e-mails and arrange for me to participate without the test voucher (it arrived one day after the test - it was send to me more than two weeks before the test day! It still have no clue why the deutsche Post did not deliver it on time.) I also got really ill two days before the test. As I already had paid the fee and had to spent some time and nerves to arrange to sit the test without the voucher, I decided to take it anyway. Bad decision. I only wished to be at home in my bed and could not concentrate at all. I am sure I failed - miserably. Since then I feel like I wasted my time preparing for the test and regard learning the language as a waste of time. I know it is silly, but I just cannot stop this feeling. I think I have to search for something in Japanese I can enjoy. Problem is, I am not good enough to enjoy a book or film yet. Anyhow, I get myself to at least start a Assimil lesson each day since the TAC started. I am now on lesson 52. Later, when I am more motivated, I want to continue with Genki 2. I have already finished half of it or something like that. I also get regularly annoyed when I encounter a word I did not know before, tell my boyfriend about it and he DOES know what it means - just because he heard it ages ago in an anime. He acquired quite some Japanese vocabulary simply by watching anime - way more than I did and I watched more than he. Well, he has a talent for languages (his English is awesome, his German writing skills as well) whereas I am more talented in maths and stuff like that. Enough babbling, time to "work": - Assimil lesson 109, French - Assimil lesson 52, Japanese Edited by Sh'Naya on 06 January 2014 at 12:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sizen Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4348 days ago 165 posts - 347 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Catalan, Spanish, Japanese, Ukrainian, German | Message 4 of 9 07 January 2014 at 3:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey there.
I have to say that the last lessons of Assimil also got to me. When I did Spanish with Ease I stopped somewhere around lesson 75. I don't feel that it really hurt my learning though. In fact, by that point I was able to start looking at LR and watching dubbed TV of a series I've already watched twice before (I barely understood anything, but 60 episodes later things had improved). I feel that I got a lot more accomplished that way, but there's a part of me that wonders what would have happened if I finished Assimil. Anyway, I'll be following your log! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sh'Naya Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6767 days ago 48 posts - 65 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French | Message 5 of 9 13 January 2014 at 9:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello you two!
Triomphe I am really surprised that I indeed finished Assimil book 1 on Saturday. I did not learn much, but I nevertheless think it was worth the time. I took me about 15 to 20 minutes to complete a lesson. I am quite sure that I will forget or have already forgotten most of the new vocab in those lessons. I cannot get my brain to retain that stuff, because I am to sure that I won't have a job interview in French during the next couple of years. However, it is always a good thing to see words you already know used in different sentences. I also stopped Spanish with Ease around lesson 75 and switched to other materials. Back then I chose to read a monthly journal for Spanish learners with lots of texts for several levels and lots of vocabulary translations. That was way more efficient than Assimil and my reading comprehension increased by leaps and bounds. After a few months I watched Charmed in Spanish. It took me about two episodes until I could unterstand it really good. But - I also wondered would could have happened, if I finished Assimil and that is why I continued and some time later finished book 1. Amazingly, there was still lots of stuff I did not know back then. I have not heard of Duolingo before. I will have a look at it. Thank you for your recommendation. 旅立ち Everyday I took out my Assimil Japanese book and had a look at a lesson, listened to the dialogue and read some grammar explanations. I am no longer so depressed. I really feel like learning Japanese again. I will not make any plans for this week. Rather I will just do whatever comes to my mind. Maybe next week I will approach it more seriously. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sh'Naya Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6767 days ago 48 posts - 65 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Spanish, Japanese, French | Message 6 of 9 21 January 2014 at 11:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Triomphe
Today I finished lesson 7 of the second Assimil volume. More importantly: I am trying to read my first french book. It is not written for language leaners. Right at the first few passages I encountered a lot - really a lot! - of unkown words. Well, I read the book (it is "Les Rivières pourpres" by the way) on a kindle so I can look up unkown words quite fast. I am not sure that it is the right decision to start reading a normal book at this point, but I will give it a try anyhow. Is there a right time for reading one's first book in a foreign language? I really doubt it. 旅立ち I did some Assimil lessons and that is basically it. I also checked the JLPT website. Results from the December JLPT may be available on January 30th. I will post my results here as soon as I get them. (However, I am still sure that I failed due to illnes.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 4016 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 7 of 9 22 January 2014 at 12:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Sh'Naya, Congrats on finishing Assimil, and starting to read your first book in French! I am really looking
forward to finishing the passive wave in Assimil (French without Toil) in about 30 days -- can't wait! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Eagle32 Groupie New Zealand Joined 6510 days ago 56 posts - 83 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 8 of 9 27 January 2014 at 12:16am | IP Logged | ||
I wouldn't worry about a "right" or "wrong" time/way to do things. Whatever works for you is the right way. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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