neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6105 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 49 of 206 17 December 2008 at 10:30am | IP Logged |
Re-did CD#2 of Michel Thomas. Redoing this is helpful, but so incredibly boring.
Fortunately, my middle name is boring. I can handle boring. I can sit through six more hours of boring. Neonqwerty pwns boring.
I have lots to do today, so I'm almost certainly going to limit my Italian to that.
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neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6105 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 50 of 206 19 December 2008 at 4:39pm | IP Logged |
Fantastico! Re-did MT 3, 4 and 5! :)
Today was really great; I spent the day walking around downtown and doing errands (read: Christmas shopping), and it ended up being the perfect environment for me to go over the CDs. Had I done either the shopping or the CDs, I would have been bored to tears... But together, they ended up being really fun.
Cool stuff!
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Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5807 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque
| Message 51 of 206 20 December 2008 at 2:40am | IP Logged |
I find that's true for me, too. I don't know how "boring + boring" can become fun, but somehow the time passes really quickly and after it's all done I can't believe I just did all that. A big pile of dishes and Pimsleur is really all I need to be happy :P
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neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6105 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 52 of 206 20 December 2008 at 11:27am | IP Logged |
Oh, yeah, dishes are really great for that! Good call.
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neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6105 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 53 of 206 22 December 2008 at 5:13pm | IP Logged |
Did MT 6 and 7. Suh-weet.
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ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5936 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German
| Message 54 of 206 23 December 2008 at 6:35am | IP Logged |
neonqwerty wrote:
Fantastico! Re-did MT 3, 4 and 5! :)
Today was really great; I spent the day walking around downtown and doing errands (read: Christmas shopping), and it ended up being the perfect environment for me to go over the CDs. Had I done either the shopping or the CDs, I would have been bored to tears... But together, they ended up being really fun.
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I find this to be true too. It has taken me hours to get through one cd of MT at home. But I can do it without any problem when walking around.
Geep up the good work,
Thom.
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neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6105 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 55 of 206 23 December 2008 at 4:58pm | IP Logged |
Finished MT8. Wooo!
Predictably, my plans "have not survived contact with the enemy". In other words, I'm going to change the way and order in which I do things.
As far as written work is concerned, the next step is to finish the reader.
As far as audio is concerned, I'm going to go ahead and start the Foundation Course pretty soon; until I go back to Chicago, I'm probably going to have lots of opportunities to talk around and run errands, and I'd rather not waste them.
Finally, my family and I do a stocking exchange every year, and as luck would have it, this year I have to buy stocking stuffers for... myself. With that in mind, I bought an interesting-looking Italian magazine, so I'll go through that when I want something light.
A domani.
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neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6105 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish
| Message 56 of 206 25 December 2008 at 12:39am | IP Logged |
So I did about 30 minutes of the MT language builder today... and WOW. It has more than surpassed my expectations. It is exactly at the correct level for me; I get most of the the answers right without pausing, but it's still slightly challenging. I'm very happy with it!
I also found my old textbook, so I'll go through that when I'm done with the reader... a task that I'm assiduously avoiding.
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