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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 97 of 120 25 September 2009 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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More vocab review and one more wordlist. I'm about 30 words away from word 2,000 in "A Frequency Dictionary of French". Spanish: I went through Unit 54 four times today, and I am going to consider this unit finished. Tomorrow I start Unit 55. I'm going to try L-Ring Cien años de soledad for a couple hours then I plan to switch to Turkish. I want to make another Turkish wordlist and review the two I've made already. Edited by Crush on 25 September 2009 at 11:51pm 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 98 of 120 26 September 2009 at 10:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wow. Well I just went through Unit 55 for the first time. It's almost strange to think that after, what, almost 11 months?, that I'm finally finishing Platiquemos. It has definitely been a huge help and taught me a lot of things, but I think I relied on it too much thinking that by using it alone I would reach a decent level in Spanish, by which I mean: basic fluency. Well I'm not there, maybe it's because I had so many laps during these past 11 months. I do feel like a month or two immersion would open the language up for me, though. I guess until that opportunity arises I'll just have to keep plugging away (and stop writing so much on here).
On a side note:
To those keeping logs: you might enjoy looking back a few months in your logs from time to time, perhaps when you feel like you haven't been making much progress. Looking back and seeing how trivial all the things you struggled with then, well it's almost embarassing because it all makes perfect sense now :P 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 99 of 120 28 September 2009 at 2:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Finished Platiquemos. French: Reviewed vocab, did Mnemosyne reviews, and added 50 more words. I'm at 1126 words currently. I was adding 100 words a day, but I didn't feel like doing all those reviews. I'm hoping the deck will start to stabilize soon (I have 159 reviews planned tomorrow, today I had 180 something). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| J-Learner Senior Member Australia Joined 6034 days ago 556 posts - 636 votes Studies: Yiddish, English* Studies: Dutch | Message 100 of 120 28 September 2009 at 4:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Well done on the success that you've had lately Crush! I Hope to see many more. Also I hope to see some in my own log... :P
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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 102 of 120 29 September 2009 at 3:28am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks Buttons/J-Learner! And Buttons: yea, I am. Platiquemos left me with a really nice foundation in the language, now I just need to figure out a good way to fill it in! :/
Today I L-R'd another few hours (4.5) of Cien años de soledad. I'm going to try to get a couple hours of L-Ring a day, probably going through each book twice, once reading in English and the next time in Spanish. Right now it's pretty difficult to consentrate for too long, hopefully this will get easier over time. But only being able to spend a couple hours a day L-Ring, I don't feel like spending entire months reading one book. Anyone who has recommendations for Spanish books, please share them! For those interested, here are some authors that have been recommended to me so far: Adolfo Bioy Casares Ernesto Sabato Jorge Luis Borges Vargas Llosa Julio Cortazar Alejandro Casona Marco Denevi Juan Rulfo I also picked up two books from what I believe is a trilogy by Isabel Allende, though I haven't found any audiobooks for them quite yet. 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 103 of 120 01 October 2009 at 4:12am | IP Logged | ||
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I thought I had almost finished with Cien años de soledad, but it turns out the the file I downloaded is missing two "sides", which are probably entire cassettes seeing as each "lado" is about an hour and a half. So I am without 3 hours of audio. I guess I'll have to read (on my own!! gah.) up until I catch up to where the final cassette kicks in. It's a really incredible book, it's just a bummer that 1) the audiobook is in a realllly low bitrate, and 2) I can't find the full audiobook anywhere, not even to purchase! I have the paperback book and I think I'll try to read it again later when I can read it more slowly and enjoy it better. Edited by Crush on 01 October 2009 at 4:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5998 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 104 of 120 01 October 2009 at 9:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Bah, I can't believe I missed your completion of Platiquemos! Felicidades Crush.
Your most recent post also reminds me that I have some reading to do. Which Vargas Llosa book did you read? Thom. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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