farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese
| Message 17 of 40 18 May 2008 at 12:28am | IP Logged |
Day Fifteen
Didn't study much today, since I was busy finishing my essay.
Had a 2 hour Russian class.
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farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese
| Message 18 of 40 18 May 2008 at 4:44am | IP Logged |
Day Sixteen
Having computer problems (I now have no USB), hence the late update.
Watched an episode of Naruto - still can't understand a lot of the Japanese.
Studied 8 Esperanto sentences (new) and 10 Russian sentences (these are mostly short dialogs) - not much, but it's something.
Listened to radio Svoboda for an hour 15.
Read some of A Japanese Reader - lessons 1 - 8, I think.
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farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese
| Message 19 of 40 18 May 2008 at 4:56am | IP Logged |
Day Seventeen
Learnt 53 new Japanese words - mostly memorized.
Studied 5 new Esperanto and 10 Russian sentences.
Studied 72 kanji and did 2 pages of writing practice (with fude, as usual).
Learnt 10 new kanji - good progress with these.
Did lessons 7 - 10 of A Japanese Reader - I've made good progress with katakana; I can read it a lot more fluently now.
Edited by farrioth on 18 May 2008 at 5:10am
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farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese
| Message 20 of 40 18 May 2008 at 5:10am | IP Logged |
Day Eighteen
Flash cards: 239 repetitions - catching up here, but I still need to sort things out a bit.
Russian Pimsleur 21.
Did most of Ruslan workbook Lesson 8 - probably at least 2 hours on this.
Spent perhaps 10 minutes reading in Esperanto from the Esperanto Wikipedia - I could understand most of this pretty well.
Off to read some more of A Japanese Reader soon if I'm not too tired.
Tomorrow I intend to finish Ruslan Lesson 8 and do some katakana writing practice.
Edit: I've been doing Ruslan lesson 8, not 7.
Edited by farrioth on 21 May 2008 at 5:05am
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farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese
| Message 21 of 40 19 May 2008 at 5:49am | IP Logged |
Day Nineteen
Flash cards: 70 repetitions, including 13 new Esperanto sentences.
Did the rest of Lesson 8 from the Ruslan workbook.
Did half a page of Japanese writing (short translations).
Did a page of katakana writing practice - not with fude this time.
Finished lesson 3 of the Lernu lessons - will move on to lesson 4 tomorrow.
Wrote a post to the Lernu forums in Esperanto.
Started studying the dative case in Russian - after this, I only have the instrumental to go.
Had a two hour Russian Class
Edited by farrioth on 21 May 2008 at 5:05am
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farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese
| Message 22 of 40 20 May 2008 at 5:42am | IP Logged |
Day Twenty
Flash cards - 164 repetitions + 183 new - I've caught up with these now, but I've got some new words still to add in.
Half a page of Japanese writing - short translations
Read part of a book about kanji - mostly about their origins and so on.
One hour Japanese class
I have a Russian test on Thursday, so I'll have to put in some more effort studying tomorrow. I hope to get Lesson 9 of the Rusaln workbook done by Thursday.
Edited by farrioth on 21 May 2008 at 5:05am
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farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese
| Message 23 of 40 21 May 2008 at 5:10am | IP Logged |
Day Twenty-one
Big Russian day today, since I have my test tomorrow.
Flash cards: 123 repetitions + 71 new Russian words. Everything memorized now (well, for now).
Did two pages of Japanese writing - short translations.
Reviewed Russian case endings - I'm pretty comfortable with these (at least singular inanimate), but a bit scratchy on some neuter endings and the dative, which I've just learnt.
Read over NPRC Lesson 6, but didn't do the exercises.
Did Ruslan lesson 9 computer exercises.
Did the listening exercises for Ruslan lesson 9 and about half the written work - I'll finish this tomorrow.
Had a one hour Japanese class.
Edited by farrioth on 21 May 2008 at 5:48am
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farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese
| Message 24 of 40 22 May 2008 at 4:23am | IP Logged |
Day Twenty-two
Well, my Russian test was harder than expected - I think everyone felt that - but I got through it all okay. I could remember all the grammar points pretty well, but the reading section in the test had some words that I hadn't learnt.
Almost all of Ruslan lesson 9 workbook
One page of Japanese short translations
A short piece of writing in Japanese
A small amount of kanji writing practice - more to do here
Did another short review of Russian grammar
Had a one hour Japanese class
Had a two hour Russian class
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