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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 105 of 117 05 September 2014 at 2:54am | IP Logged | ||
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I had a very good one-hour session with my italki teacher today! We discussed extreme weather conditions - a
challenging topic for me, but the time flew by. She also helped me work through a paragraph that I wrote about teaching adults. I finished unit 9 of Teach Yourself Filipino. I'm starting to find the dialogues annoyingly slow. While they introduce decent expressions and sentence structure, I wish that they'd speed up a bit. Today's lesson was all about getting diarrhoea pills from the pharmacy - important stuff! I also read from my book bin for 10 minutes and ran through my anki and memrise decks. total time for today: 132 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 106 of 117 05 September 2014 at 2:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I posted this in my Spanish log, but I thought that it might be useful to post it here as well.
I've been working lately on compiling ideas for doing language exchanges or working with tutors. Conversation cards These are for absolute beginners. If you like to speak right from the beginning, it can sometimes be a bit frustrating. Repetition is necessary, but it can get tedious for both parties. I use conversation cards, both as a teacher (with my French students) and as a student (with my Tagalog teachers). Each card has a very simple question to ask, answer and expand upon. I've included copies of the question cards in English, French, Spanish and Tagalog. I relied heavily on these cards for the first month or six weeks of tutoring in Tagalog. Language exchange topics This one is for people who are a bit more advanced, and able to carry on a conversation - even if it's just a simple conversation. I've listed 32 themes/topics, along with a half-dozen or so related questions. I've used these topics myself either as a student, a teacher or a language partner. The themes are only shared in English, so you'd have to translate them yourself (or with the help of your partner). I'm not yet quite at a conversational level high enough to use all of these topics in Tagalog. But I'm hoping to start using one per week relatively soon. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 107 of 117 06 September 2014 at 3:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Today, my dog ran full-tilt after a squirrel in the backyard before stopping suddenly with a yelp. We took him to
the vet, and it looks like he has a torn ACL. He's a big boy - 120 pounds - and very stoic, but he's panting and whining non-stop, holding his back leg out at an odd angle and refusing to put any weight on it. Doc gave him pain meds, and we'll reevaluate on Monday. If he's even a bit better, then chances are that it's a partial tear, and can heal on its own. If he still can't put weight on it, then we'll have to go in for sedation and x- rays, and discuss surgery options. Poor boy dog. :( It's a struggle getting him down the front stairs so that he can go to the bathroom. It really hurts when an animal that you love is in pain. I did manage to get through my anki and memrise decks while in the vet waiting room. And I also spent a bit of time with my Elementary Tagalog workbook - but that was after 2 (large) glasses of wine, and it was too boring to contemplate continuing after 15 minutes. Ha! I'm going to pet my dog now and go to bed. total time for today: 30 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 108 of 117 06 September 2014 at 8:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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I spent most of the day on the couch, since the dog can't walk, he's in quite a lot of pain, and he gets stressed if
we're too far away from him. Couch time = language time! Today I... ...started learning a new song. This week, I'd like to learn to sing Anak by Freddie Aguilar. It's one of the most successful songs to ever come out of the Philippines, and it has a nice melody. I sang it three times today, picking out a few new words each time. I have yet to read a full English translation; I'll do that tomorrow. ...ran through my anki and memrise decks. Anki's getting a bit tricky right now because I entered a bunch of body parts from Teach Yourself and a bunch of prepositions from Elementary Tagalog. There are lots of new words, many of them difficult to remember. I've also increased my new card limit from 5 to 10, because there's a backlog of 80+ new cards that I still haven't seen, and I think I'll be moving on to a new lesson within the next few days - which means another big vocabulary set. I generally work from L1 -> L2 in my anki decks. But I'm finding that I'm struggling with L2 words that I "know" when listening or reading. So I'll see the word "earlier" in anki and know at a glance that it's "kanina". But then I'll read a sentence with the word "kanina" a bit later and - even though I know that I've seen the word before - it takes me a while to clue in that it means earlier. I think that working from L1>L2 AND L2>L1 in anki would be beneficial, but then my backlog of new cards would be twice as large. I think some cloze cards might be beneficial. I just have to think about how I want to do them. ...wrote a short paragraph about my experiences teaching children. I'll work through the paragraph with my italki tutor on Monday, so that she can help me make it sound more natural. ...read from my book bin for 10 minutes. ...kept working on lesson 10 of Elementary Tagalog. I did a reading comprehension exercise, where I had to draw a sketch from a description of a room. It was a good review of all of the different prepositions! I also transcribed a listening comprehension activity - another description of a different room. Tomorrow I'm going to try my hand at writing a description of my living room. I also reread the grammar explanation, since I was struggling a bit with prepositions, and then did a few more grammar exercises from the workbook - much more successfully than yesterday, I might add. total time for today: 76 minutes Notes on grammar and sentence structure: Prepositions in Tagalog are preceded by “sa” or “nasa”. On top of: sa ibabaw, nasa ibabaw Behind: sa likod, nasa likod Inside: sa loob, nasa loob Use “nasa” when there is no action word: Nasa loob ng kabinet ang mga kumot. (The blankets are in the cabinet.) Use “sa” when there is an action word: Naglagay ako ng mga kumot sa loob ng kabinet. (I put the blankets in the cabinet.) Use “sa” with pseudo-verbs (may, wala, gusto, ayaw...): Wala sa loob ng kabinet ang mga kumot. (The blankets aren't in the cabinet. / There are no blankets in the cabinet.) May mga kumot sa loob ng kabinet. (There are blankets in the cabinet.) Edited by Stelle on 06 September 2014 at 8:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| joe22999 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 3723 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 109 of 117 08 September 2014 at 11:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Heyyy I know that Teach Yourself Tagalog book, the mum drops into the pharmacy to get
diarhoea (pagtatae?) medicine for poor Roy. Probably cos he ate so much in the chapter before. I finished it a little while ago, it was useful. It has a slightly funny way of explaining about the 'ang' and 'ng' form, active, passive distinction, I didn't really get that until I read more about it online (Wikipedia has a very very good page on Tagalog grammar) Keep it up! It sounds like you have the right attitude - I hope you are still having fun learning. I found a good website with a load of useful stuff on it, will post a link to it next time 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 110 of 117 08 September 2014 at 3:14pm | IP Logged | ||
Hahaha! YES! That woman's voice drives me CRAZY. I've been getting all of my grammar explanations from Elementary Tagalog (Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo). I don't find that the explanations are clear enough in Teach Yourself. I'm just using TY as a secondary resource, mainly for the dialogues. Please do share your link! Have you been learning Tagalog for long? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| joe22999 Newbie United Kingdom Joined 3723 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes | Message 111 of 117 09 September 2014 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Stelle
This is the site I mentioned: http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/tagalog_mainpage.htm I have found it quite useful The intermediate lesson readings have audio too and seem to be authentic texts. Kinda interesting too, with plenty of good vocab. Also the songs: http://www.seasite.niu.edu/Tagalog/Tagalog_Default_files/Tag alog%20Songs/tagalog_love_s ongs2.htm click on the little loudspeaker icon by the song title to get the audio You gotta love 'dito ba' My girlfriend says its what people always sing when they're drunk! Ive been learning it for about 4 months now, finally got around to it. I'm enjoying it. There's alot to like about Tagalog What's that book tara mag-tagalog like? Im going to get another book but not sure which one to go for 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4137 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 112 of 117 14 September 2014 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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I finished the six-week challenge in 13th place, with 51 hours and 19 minutes of study. I'm really happy with my
final standing! ...and then I promptly did *nothing* for the next five days. I've been running through my anki decks every day or two, but that's it. I think I got a bit tired. I want to get back into Tagalog today, not using any courses, but maybe transcribing a cartoon. In general, though, I'm going to scale back my Tagalog study. During the 6wc, I was spending about 2 hours most days, and - while I was seeing progress - I want to have more time to dedicate to Spanish (my "primary" foreign language). So I'm going to scale back to an hour per day for Tagalog. Now that the six-week challenge is over, I'm going to aim for weekly rather than daily updates.
Thanks for the links! I'll definitely check them out! I think that Elementary Tagalog (Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo) is an excellent resource - especially if you have access to a native speaker for some of the speaking activities. I find the grammar explanations very good. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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