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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 65 of 117 21 July 2014 at 12:02am | IP Logged | ||
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I put up a post on my blog about working with a tutor when you're brand-new to a language, using some examples
and photos from my current Tagalog study: working with a language tutor 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4840 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 66 of 117 22 July 2014 at 7:50am | IP Logged | ||
Stelle, just wanted to say that post is awesome! I went to it when you posted it on Twitter over the weekend. You gave me some great ideas for doing conversation cards; hope you don't mind me using them! I'll put the copyright if you want! :) And it's good to see your Tagalog coming along so well! 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 67 of 117 23 July 2014 at 11:36pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for the feedback! Of course you can create conversation cards - I'm glad you find the idea useful. I've used conversation cards in various ways (and at various levels) for years with my French students, but this is the first time that I've adapted them for use as a student. I really like using them! 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 68 of 117 24 July 2014 at 10:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've found a potentially interesting source of Tagalog fiction: Wattpad, a self-publishing platform. There are dozens
of free, ongoing stories being posted in lots of different languages. Wattpad - Filipino Potential advantages: lots of different stories, easily accessible, colloquial language Potential disadvantages: I wouldn't know if someone was a really crappy writer I haven't yet decided if the giant disadvantage is giant enough to keep me from trying. 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 69 of 117 01 August 2014 at 4:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've finished lesson 7 of Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo and lesson 6 of Teach Yourself Filipino. This month, instead of
doing both simultaneously, I alternated a lesson from TMTT (which took much longer) with a lesson from TY (one day per dialogue - so usually 2 or 3 days). This was much less stressful and flowed much better for me. I spent a week with my Tagalog-speaking inlaws. It wasn't *exactly* immersion, since they still mostly spoke English, but when they did speak Tagalog, I was able to pick out quite a lot of words. I was also able to make simple requests and statements: This is delicious! Do you want to go to the store? Where are the dogs? My Tagalog-speaking family was very easy to impress. Haha! They introduced me with the words "...and she speaks Tagalog" every time. Tagalog isn't an easy language. There are some things that are easy (loan words, spelling), but the grammar and a lot of the vocabulary can make your head spin. But Tagalog-speakers think that their language is easy and tell you right away that you sound like a Filipina even if you can only speak a few words - it's extremely encouraging. It's funny because a lot of people pride themselves on speaking "the world's hardest language". Filipinos seem to almost universally think that their language is the easiest one in the world to learn, despite the fact that it's rated a category 4 language by the FSI. Tagalog-speakers are a pretty cool and fun bunch. Notes on grammar and sentence structure I've *finally* learned some verbs. Yay! It makes simple communication much more attainable! I've only learned mag- verbs, and how to conjugate them as completed actions, incomplete actions and contemplated actions. to clean: maglinis completed: naglinis Naglinis siya ng bahay noong Martes. (He cleaned the house on Tuesday.) incomplete: naglilinis Naglilinis siya ng bahay tuwing Martes. (He cleans the house every Tuesday.) contemplated: maglilinis Maglilinis siya ng bahay sa Martes. (He will clean the house on Tuesday.) Six-Week Challenge So, despite the fact that last time I said I was done with the 6WC, I've decided to sign up again. I want to make quicker progress over the next month, since i'll be on holidays for most of August. I've decided that I'll only be logging Tagalog minutes. I won't log any Spanish minutes at all, since I was getting burned out with timing myself. My goal for the next six weeks is to use my plan for Spanish when I first started. Every single day, I will:
I'm hoping to make some serious progress! edited because typos hurt my eyes Edited by Stelle on 01 August 2014 at 4:46pm 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 70 of 117 02 August 2014 at 2:38am | IP Logged | ||
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For the rest of the six-week challenge, I'll be doing (near) daily updates with a breakdown of how I spent my
time. talk to someone not today listen to something (32 minutes) Teach Yourself Filipino, unit 7 dialogue 1 listened to 3 translated Frozen songs with subtitles read something (10 minutes) spent 10 minutes reading through my notebook write something (15 minutes) wrote a short text about Canada scriptorium: dialogue from TY, four (very short) dialogues from Kalye Speak practice vocabulary (17 minutes) anki memrise other listened to a Kalye Speak podcast (doesn't count for the six week challenge, since it's mostly in English) TOTAL TIME TODAY: 74 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 71 of 117 02 August 2014 at 11:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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talk to someone (10 minutes)
timed practice with JP - no English allowed! listen to something (17 minutes) listened to Tagalog version of Let It Go, once while reading English and once while singing along reviewed old dialogues from various courses read something (12 minutes) read dialogues in my notebook write something (22 minutes) worked through some of the grammar and writing exercises in unit 7 of Teach Yourself practice vocabulary (13 minutes) anki and memrise other (30 minutes) I did lesson 1 of Pimsleur. I know that I said that I wouldn't do Pimsleur, since "no one talks like that" - but I was able to get the first 15 lessons for free. Even if the language is a bit more formal, I figure it will still help me internalize sentence structure. It was challenging, but fun! TOTAL TIME TODAY: 104 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 72 of 117 04 August 2014 at 4:44am | IP Logged | ||
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We're finally home after a 17 hour road trip today! I still managed 33 minutes of Tagalog:
talk to someone: nope! listen to something: Bumitaw twice (once while reading bilingual text, once while singing along) write something: short text about the languages I speak/am learning read something: twice - bilingual text that I made from Why The Sky is High (on YouTube, by Evan's Nanay) practice vocabulary: memrise, anki 1 person has voted this message useful |
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