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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5869 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 1 of 120 20 November 2008 at 3:46am | IP Logged | ||
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So far, I have done:
For German: -three years of high school courses -fragmented self-studying For Spanish: -read through the "Everything Learning Spanish" book and took a lot of notes -spent a solid month trying to figure out how to do an alveolar trill, though I still can't put it into words very well and the single 'r' gives me a LOT of trouble when paired with d's and t's -Pimsleur I twice (though doing 2 or 3 lessons a day both times) and now on lesson 11 of Pimsleur II -Michel Thomas Foundation through Advanced CD 3 (I will start CD 4 tomorrow) -Rosetta Stone Spanish Level I and half of Level II (my computer got a virus and it hasn't been fixed yet, but I think I will drop the RS anyway) For Russian: -some university studies and e-mails with Russian friends For French: -nothing :P EDIT: I have decided to modify this into a "TAC" log. I guess I'll rate my current standing (as of the 25th of November, 2008) in my intended languages of study: German and Spanish: mid-upper beginner Russian and French: nil! Edited by Crush on 05 October 2009 at 10:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5869 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 2 of 120 21 November 2008 at 2:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Today I finished the final CD of MT Advanced and did lesson 12 of Pimsleur twice. I think I'm going to go through MT Advanced one more time to try to get the verb tenses embedded in my memory a bit better and see if I can find any of the other MT courses at the library.
EDIT: I forgot to mention that I decided to start doing Mnemosyne SRS stuff to see if that helps me out any. Over the course of a few sessions I went through all 750 entries in one of the Spanish sets I downloaded off the Mnemosyne website to put them into rotation. A lot of them were familiar to me and even more were cognates. I do have a question about SRS, right now I have each entry entered as Spanish Question/English Answer and English Question/Spanish Answer, so each Spanish word is in there twice, once as the question and once as the answer. Is this a good way to go about it or is this wasting more time than it is worth? Edited by Crush on 21 November 2008 at 5:56am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5869 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 3 of 120 23 November 2008 at 8:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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21 Nov.: -lesson 13 of Pimsleur twice -MT Advanced CD1 -SRS reviews 22 Nov.: -lesson 14 of Pimsleur -about 2/3 of MT Advanced CD2 -found a book at the library called "A Frequency Dictionary of Spanish" so I wrote down the words up to #500 that I didn't already know (like el/la/a/de and some common verbs/nouns that all beginning Spanish courses use pretty extensively). I typed the first 70 or so into Mnemosyne (giving me about 970 entries, or about 485 words/phrases since each is in there twice). -SRS reviews 23 Nov.: -finished MT Advanced CD2 -reviewed MT Advanced CD3 -Pimsleur lesson 15 twice -SRS reviews Edited by Crush on 24 November 2008 at 1:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5869 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 4 of 120 25 November 2008 at 3:47am | IP Logged | ||
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24 Nov.:
-finished MT Advanced -- 1 hr -Pimsleur lesson 16 twice -- 1 hr -picked up the MT Builder from the library, but I'm not really sure if it is going to be very effective for me. Did half of CD 1 -- approx. 40 minutes -SRS reviews, there were about 180 to do and I was able to recall about 90% of them, although I am still not sure what the most effective way to do them is. I've read mixed reviews about going from Target language to Native language and vice versa, currently I am using both. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5869 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 5 of 120 26 November 2008 at 7:43am | IP Logged | ||
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25 Nov.:
-finished CD1 of the MT Builder -- approx 40 minutes Towards the end I think I was dozing off and responding automatically instead of actually thinking about what I was saying. I'm going to try to just finish CD2 in one sitting tomorrow, it is pretty boring though. -Pimsleur lesson 17 twice -- 1 hr By contrast, this lesson seemed to go by really quickly. -SRS reviews -- about 400 I added the rest of the words on the list I took from the frequency dictionary, maybe 246 words. I should head back tomorrow and write down some more because I really feel like this is having quick tangible effects on my reading comprehension. Oh, and I decided that I am just going to do Spanish->English cards from now on. After I finish all the Michel Thomas things, I think I may start on the FSI courses. I may decide to finish Pimsleur level II first, but I do want to jump into FSI while all the grammar from MT is still really fresh (I have a feeling that MT covers more grammar than Pimsleur). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TheElvenLord Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6084 days ago 915 posts - 927 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Cornish, English* Studies: Spanish, French, German Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 6 of 120 26 November 2008 at 10:21am | IP Logged | ||
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[quoteI do have a question about SRS, right now I have each entry entered as Spanish Question/English Answer and English Question/Spanish Answer, so each Spanish word is in there twice, once as the question and once as the answer. Is this a good way to go about it or is this wasting more time than it is worth?
[/quote] I believe it's fine. I've never really done it en masse with just one way. But, I can suspect that doing it one way will increase only active or only passive and not both. Well done so far - and best of luck to you TEL 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Othar Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6213 days ago 185 posts - 205 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Norwegian, Turkish | Message 7 of 120 26 November 2008 at 10:36am | IP Logged | ||
You don't have to input your words twice. There is a checkbox "Add vice versa too" in the window for adding cards. The window for editing the deck has this option too when you right click entries. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5869 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 8 of 120 27 November 2008 at 5:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks, TEL :)
And tja, that's what I've been doing (for adding new cards) but I didn't know about the option when editing the deck, which might be really convenient if I change my mind again later on, so thanks! And today I finished the MT Builder course. I ended up enjoying the second CD more than the first for some reason, I guess because it was less of a review and more of a "builder". All in all, I'm glad I went through the whole thing. I also did Pimsleur lesson 18 once, I would've liked to have done it again, but I've just finished the builder course now and it's pretty late. Also did my SRS reviews for the day and was a little disappointed that I didn't retain a lot of the words I put in yesterday. Oh well, I did add a lot of words and I'm pretty sure that after a few days they'll start to fall in line. So today: MT Builder -- approx 80 minutes Pimsleur -- 30 minutes 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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