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| AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4631 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 17 of 21 05 September 2014 at 9:44am | IP Logged |
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"Weh mir oh wehhhhhh und die Vögel singen nicht mehr"
A tragedy has occurred. Deastore have stopped selling books outside of the Italian and English languages. When you live on the ass-end of the world "free worldwide shipping" is a sacred phrase :(. Japanese Assimil: Lesson 36 Death Note: Chapter 5 (131 pages in) German German Made Simple: Chapter 40 Parlons Allemand: Page 122 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4631 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 18 of 21 11 September 2014 at 10:53am | IP Logged |
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German
I've started watching Deustch Plus since people kept saying nice things about it in a recent thread. I'm still on the fence after the fifth episode. German Made Simple: ch 42 Parlons Allemand: pg 175 Japanese I've finished the first volume of Death Note. I stupidly delayed ordering the second volume in English, but it's coming. But I want to continue reading nowwwwww... but I don't want to use a dictionary... :( Assimil: Lesson 43 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4631 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 19 of 21 27 September 2014 at 6:00am | IP Logged |
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German
I finished German Made Simple and Parlons Allemand and am now halfway through the short book Briefe an einen jungen Dichter by Rilke. I've been listening to a lot of Die Ärtze and Farin Urlaub lately. I also watched a German movie for the first time since I started learning, Der Himmel Über Berlin, it was pretty good, maybe a taaadddd over rated though...? On the books I finished: German Made Simple gave me plenty of reading practice, but it wasn't particularly interesting. I'm not sure what the Prof was thinking when he said in a video that this is the sort of thing he doesn't mind going through lots of times. The grammatical explanations were so and so. If I had my time again I'd use something else. Parlons Allemand was a great book about German and the German people. I was always engaged and the author seemed very erudite. The book is broken into four sections. The first section compares German to related languages and to French, and briefly looks at the cultural differences between the French and Germans. The second section is a short grammar, of the "what would linguists find interesting" type rather than the "here are the most useful facts about this language" type. The third is a collection of 10 simple German dialogues interspersed with commentary from the author on peculiarities of the Germans relevant to the dialogue (eg. the lack of rote memorization compared to Gallic schools, the state of womens rights). The fourth section ranges over all of German civilization, including high literature, philosophy, politics and a lengthy detour into the contributions of Germans to the field of comparative linguistics. I would recommend this book to anyone interested in languages and Germany. Japanese Assimil:61 Edited by AlexTG on 11 October 2014 at 2:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4631 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 20 of 21 09 October 2014 at 1:43pm | IP Logged |
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German
Still reading Briefe an einen jungen Dichter. I watched Aguirre, der Zorn Gottes, which was very good, and Lola Rennt, which was one of the best movies I've ever seen. I also watched Kenneth Branagh's Much Ado About Nothing in German dub. Japanese Assimil:68, so I went less than 1 a day. It wasn't that I missed any days, but rather would read just the dialog one day and just the exercises the next day) The translation of Death Note volume 2 arrived and I'm up to page 51. I fell in love with the rock band "The Pillows" and in particular this song. After discovering they did the music for an anime called, "FLCL", I watched the first three episodes. It is not a good show for learners, it's weird, the plot is something between confusing and non-existent, they speak crazy fast and the things they say are often non-sequiturs. I think I like it? Gotta make sure I have a cup of sake with me while watching to loosen up the 'ol noggin. Edited by AlexTG on 09 October 2014 at 1:51pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| AlexTG Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 4631 days ago 178 posts - 354 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 21 of 21 29 October 2014 at 11:10am | IP Logged |
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German
Watched a bunch of dubbed stuff: Six episodes of Scrubs. Two episodes of South Park. One episode of Parks and Rec. One episode of Community(Remedial Chaos Theory, repetition FTW) The Princess Bride (my favourite movie since I was a kid, knew literally every line in English before it came, and thus had a very high comprehension of the German, loved it, sadly I haven't internalised any other movies to this extent. Maybe Star Wars actually...) The Lion King. Rewatched Der Blaue Engel, and watched for the first time Das Leben der Anderen, which was great. Japanese Assimil: 78 Death Note: Page 80 Two episodes of Full Metal Alchemist, and the movie Akira. I've been having a learning slump the last week or so. Don't feel much like reading anything other than familiar poetry. Edited by AlexTG on 29 October 2014 at 11:16am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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