Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4861 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 25 of 88 06 March 2012 at 8:55am | IP Logged |
German
I have finished B2 course on Busuu
French
I have a problem, can't find the Assimil French book :-)
I have made ebooks out of Green Ray by Jules Verne, both English and French edition.
First I will read Green Ray in English, so I know what it is about.
Bye for now.
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4861 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 26 of 88 08 March 2012 at 7:48am | IP Logged |
German
In Mars I will only do reviews of flashcards and Busuu.
I got 93 per cent on a Busuu-test, I want 100 per cent.
And maybe some shadowing.
French
I found the Assimil Easy French :-)
I have made double column of chapter one of The green Ray. French on the left side and English on the right side.
I took me some time. I don't like word processors. I made it in Page and exported it as a pdf-file.
It seems that pdf format is the only option for double column with L2 on the left side and L1 on the right side. Epub format don't support this. So an ebook reader is useless for this kind of text.
I'm trying out a pdf reader and a note-taker for Mac that is called Skim, looks good
Skim
Ok, time for some LR now.
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4861 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 27 of 88 14 March 2012 at 1:31pm | IP Logged |
I feel I need a secretary to organize things for me:-)
That is is not going to happen, so I have bought two new bookshelf so I can put all the books in one place. Don't want to search for my books again. It took me two days to find Assimil Easy New French With Ease.
Reading this log you will observe that I have been inconsistent. But that is because I'm not always sure which methods is best to use.
German
Reviewing Busuu.
Trying to be up to date with Babbel Flashcards.
I said I only be reviewing German in Mars, but I have been looking at some grammar books.
To see which one I will use for grammar.
The big news is that next week I will have Skype-exchange with a German who want to learn Norwegian.
I hope it will work ok.
Started up with shadowing using Assimil German With Ease.
French
Completed A1 course on Busuu. And have done 20 per cent of A2 course.
This is hard work, my French knowledge is limited.
Restarted Assimil New French With Ease.
I was up to lesson 36 last year before I quit.
Will be using Assimil method, I think :-)
I have done LR on chapter 1 of The green Ray, using parallel texts, it took me about 1 hour, first reading the English text and then LR 3 times. Not sure how helpful this is for me at the level I'm at. But I will continue and take the book chapter by chapter.
Trying to be up to date with Babbel Flashcards.
Dabbling Vietnamese
Had my second lesson, interesting, good teacher but difficult language.
Dabling English
Preparing mp3-files so I can start blind shadowing British English
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4861 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 28 of 88 20 March 2012 at 6:42pm | IP Logged |
I think I need some sort of time management, it sounds crazy, after all it is only a hobby. But it seems that I might need it. I'm a bit single minded, need some time to tune in to a language. Lately I'm doing mostly French and it's easy to forget the other languages.
Another problem is that I find busuu.com quite addictive. I can do it for hours on end.
Must be the Busuu berries and the diploma you get after finishing a course.
Childish, I know :-)
German
Reviewing Busuu and Babbel flashcards
Some shadowing using Assimil Berman With Ease
Had my first Skype exchange, went well.
French
Finished Bussu A2 course and done 15 per cent of B1 course.
I have done LR on chapter 2 of The green Ray
Dabbling Vietnamese
difficult, difficult, difficult
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4861 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 29 of 88 26 March 2012 at 4:48pm | IP Logged |
Busy last week, not much studying.
French
Finished 48 % of B1 course at Busuu.
This week I will concentrate on LR'ing La Rayon vert.
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Adrean TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member France adrean83.wordpress.c Joined 6161 days ago 348 posts - 411 votes Speaks: FrenchC1
| Message 30 of 88 29 March 2012 at 11:40am | IP Logged |
How has your week of concentrating on LR'ing Le Rayon Vert going? I hope you can finish
it before the end of this month.
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4861 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 31 of 88 29 March 2012 at 6:56pm | IP Logged |
Puh... Have finished one round with LR L2/L2.
I took me over 4 hours to finish rest of the book, 14 chapters. Had already done 9 chapters.
I hope I have some time to do a chapter or two with LR L2/L1.
I have guests this weekend.
I dropped parallel texts after chapter 2, to time consuming to make. I was short of time.
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4861 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 32 of 88 03 April 2012 at 11:58am | IP Logged |
The project LRing Le Rayon Vert is finished.
Back to normal now :-)
Dabbling Vietnamese
Trip to Vietnam is cancelled.
I thought last session would be a disaster, but it ended quite good, so I will continue with Vietnamese.
I need to find some time on top of German and French.
German
Practise speaking. And I think it is time for some grammar now.
French
Continue Busuu
Restart Assimil French
Hours Mars 2012
French 54 hours
German 32 hours
Vietnamese 3 hours
Also listened to Luke's British podcast.
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