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| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6058 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes  2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 9 of 73 09 August 2008 at 11:29pm | IP Logged | ||
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Finished Unit 15 (finally), on to 16.
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| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6058 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 10 of 73 12 August 2008 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Finished Unit 16. Easy unit, only covered one topic that happened to be easy as well, the redundant construction with clitics. I'm so excited to move to Unit 17 because I finally get to learn the past tense, which Pimsleur taught horribly.
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| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6058 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 11 of 73 15 August 2008 at 2:58am | IP Logged | ||
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Finished Unit 17, on to Unit 18 and Level 3. Spent a little bit longer than normal because I really wanted to make sure I had the PAST 1 regular verbs down pat.
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| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6058 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 12 of 73 18 August 2008 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Finished Unit 18 yesterday, going to 19 today.
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| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6058 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 13 of 73 21 August 2008 at 5:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Finished 19 going to Unit 20. Ended up not studying much for a day. Almost the first day without studying 1 to 2 hours in a long time. Edited by irrationale on 21 August 2008 at 5:48am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6058 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 14 of 73 22 August 2008 at 5:25am | IP Logged | ||
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In the middle of Unit 20, studying combinations of clictics and definite pronouns.
I have to admit, its sometimes difficult for me to translate phrases such as; "the professor has already given them to us" in approx 3 seconds without making a mistake. I have always had trouble with these constructions for some reason, and I really need to overcome this and do them instantly. On the brightside, I feel like I have hit a milestone. I have been having tons of conversations on livemocha. I have a fluent (more or less depending on topic) Spanish convo almost everyday that lasts about 30min to 1 hour. Also, I have realized that I have become a fluent spoken basic conversationalist as long as the topic isn't complicated or philosophical. I think of have broken some type of barrier there, probably moved from the Mid High to Advanced level, and is probably due to the fact that FSI has really hammered PAST I and PAST II into my head and given me that whole span of time to work with now. Also, the substitution drills and replacement drills have really improved my subconcious feel of Spanish grammar. So, I have decided to say that I speak Spanish now on my profile. For anyone reading this, this is only because I work around Spanish speakers everyday, have a Spanish speaking friend, and constantly communicate with them in any way I can. I try to conversate as much as possible...I really don't see how you can converse without practicing real conversation! Almost 4 long (very long) months later, I have finally become comfortable conversing and feel like I own the language (at a basic level at least). Edited by irrationale on 23 August 2008 at 2:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| irrationale Tetraglot Senior Member China Joined 6058 days ago 669 posts - 1023 votes 2 sounds Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Tagalog Studies: Ancient Greek, Japanese | Message 15 of 73 24 August 2008 at 1:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Starting Unit 21.
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| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 6002 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 16 of 73 24 August 2008 at 5:40am | IP Logged | ||
Well then, let me be the first, here anyway, to congratulate you. It is a nice feeling. I reached it a little while ago with my french. Was quite happy with myself. Then I realised how much more I still have to learn. Good luck, keep going, and keep up your journal. Thom. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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