Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
| Message 97 of 117 27 August 2014 at 11:35pm | IP Logged |
talk to someone: not today. I had to cancel my Tagalog lesson due to spotty Wi-Fi.
listen to something: 55 minutes of very intensive listening today! I transcribed a 4 minute cartoon. It was *a
lot* of work. My husband went over it with me when I was done, and I was pretty close for the most part. Most of
the words that I got stuck on were verbs that I haven't seen yet.
reading: read several stories in my book bin
write something: worked with -um- verbs today (see previous post. But don't read it unless you're studying
Tagalog - because it's really, really boring)
vocabulary: anki and memrise
other: Pimsleur lesson 15. FINISHED! Overall, I'm happy with the experience. If I had the next 15 lessons, I'd
do them.
TOTAL TIME FOR TODAY: 134 minutes
Edited by Stelle on 27 August 2014 at 11:36pm
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Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
| Message 98 of 117 28 August 2014 at 3:40pm | IP Logged |
I mentioned in my log that yesterday I spent an hour transcribing a short Tagalog cartoon. I put the transcript and
translation in a PDF, which is here:
Pixie Can Share - transcript
The video is here:
Pixie Can Share - video
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Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
| Message 99 of 117 29 August 2014 at 9:30pm | IP Logged |
Yesterday...
talk to someone: good 30 minute Skype lesson with my italki tutor.
listen to something: Pixie Can Share twice, once while reading along with the transcript and once while just
listening
reading: reading comprehension exercise from Elementary Tagalog lesson 9
vocabulary: anki and memrise
TOTAL TIME FOR YESTERDAY: 70 minutes
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Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
| Message 100 of 117 30 August 2014 at 8:24pm | IP Logged |
Yesterday:
listen to something: transcribing listening exercise from Elementary Tagalog
reading: read several stories in my book bin
write something: worked on grammar exercises in Elementary Tagalog workbook
vocabulary: anki and memrise
TOTAL TIME FOR YESTERDAY: 62 minutes
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Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
| Message 101 of 117 31 August 2014 at 2:13am | IP Logged |
Today, like yesterday, I mostly did course work. I promised myself that I'd finished lesson 9 of Elementary Tagalog
before the end of the month, so I have to focus on it right now. I do find that my stamina is much higher when I
mix course work with other stuff, like book bin reading, songs, or cartoons. When I do mainly course work and
anki, I tend to put in only an hour. When I use a wider variety of resources, it's much easier to put in an hour and
a half or even two.
listen to something: dictation exercise from Elementary Tagalog lesson 9
reading: reviewed old texts from Elementary Tagalog
write something: worked on exercises in Elementary Tagalog workbook
vocabulary: anki and memrise
TOTAL TIME FOR YESTERDAY: 58 minutes
Edited by Stelle on 31 August 2014 at 2:13am
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Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
| Message 102 of 117 01 September 2014 at 2:43am | IP Logged |
My goals for August were:
- finish lessons 7 and 8 in Teach Yourself - DONE
- finish lessons 8 and 9 in Elementary Tagalog - DONE
- learn to sing a Tagalog song - DONE (Bumitaw - Let It Go)
- find a children's show - DONE (lots of short cartoons on YouTube)
My goals for September are:
- finish lessons 9 and 10 in Teach Yourself
- finish lessons 10 and 11 in Elementary Tagalog
- learn to sing two new Tagalog songs
- transcribe two more short Tagalog cartoons
- translate four more Napoleon easy readers
Not a big day for Tagalog today. But we did watch several episodes of the Walking Dead season four! Naglalakad
ang mga patay! I've also been listening passively to a lot of Tagalog music over the past few days.
listen to something: transcribing last listening exercise from Elementary Tagalog lesson 9
write something: hand-writing all listening exercises from Elementary Tagalog lesson 9
vocabulary: anki and memrise
TOTAL TIME FOR TODAY: 42 minutes
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Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
| Message 103 of 117 03 September 2014 at 2:14am | IP Logged |
I'm getting tired of these procedural updates. Just a few weeks left for the six-week challenge, and then I can do
more general updates - the kind that I much prefer both writing and reading
I didn't do any Tagalog at all yesterday - not a minute! I paid for it today, though, with double the anki and memrise
words to review. Aside from vocabulary study with anki and memrise, all that I did today was a 30 minute
conversational class on Skype.
total time for today: 69 minutes
Edited by Stelle on 03 September 2014 at 2:15am
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Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog
| Message 104 of 117 04 September 2014 at 2:22am | IP Logged |
Fact: living with a native speaker can be frustrating! When I ask my husband how to say something *simple*, he
rattles off a long sentence using structures that I've never seen. Then he tells me it's easy when I ask if there's a
simpler way to say it. Argh!
Today I worked a bit on both my courses:
Elementary Tagalog lesson 10 - entered new vocab into anki deck, did reading comprehension activity,
quickly read through grammar explanations for this lesson (the Tagalog equivalent of prepositions)
Teach Yourself Filipino unit 9 - first dialogue: listened several times, alternating reading in Tagalog and in
English, and then copied the dialogue into my notebook
I also...
- watched two short cartoons on YouTube
- read Prinsipe Malungkot (bilingual picture book)
- wrote a paragraph describing my work
- ran through my anki and memrise decks
total time for today: 90 minutes
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