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| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6470 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes  Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 81 of 128 12 May 2010 at 9:09am | IP Logged |
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Thank you, again! I think, such a deck will be of help. And you are right about exposure. I feel I'll be more comfortable about declensions when I dive into real stuff such as books and audio. But for that I need more vocab, so I'll learn it!
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| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6470 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 82 of 128 15 May 2010 at 4:17pm | IP Logged |
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- Assimil 73, 74 Mandarin: - Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese III - 16-20; - story 4 from the reader Italian: - Assimil 3-8 - Pimsleur Italian I 4-8 Spanish: He visto la peli biografica "Frida", muy triste y tragica, que se trata de la vida de una pintora famosa mexicana. En la juventud ella habia sufrido un accidente del autobus y despues tenia que vivir con el dolor incesante. Tenia relaciones dificiles con el marido-pintor que nunca era leal y el estilo de vida no soludo. Siempre reflejaba su vida en sus cuadros. So, I did much Italian and not much of anything else. Everything I did about Italian was oral, but from now on I'm going to write out the new words and sentences from the Assimil course into a notebook as I feel that the comprehension and retention are incomplete and that makes me feel uneasy. Edited by dragonfly on 15 May 2010 at 6:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6470 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 83 of 128 20 May 2010 at 8:50pm | IP Logged |
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Mandarin: - Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese III - 21-24; - story 4 finished Italian: - Assimil 9-12 - Pimsleur Italian I 9-14 Spanish: - He visto una pelicula demasiado divertida "El Pequenio Nikolas". Se trata de un ninio de 8 o 9 anios que sospecha que sus padres va a tener un hijo. En la escuela conoce algunas historias terribles de hermanos pequenios y de hijos mayores abandonados. Empieza a buscar metodos de deshacerse del hermanito. Por fin llega a saber de uno de sus companieros que no es tan malo tener un hermano menor. Sus padres son muy sorprendidos de conocer que Nikolas quiere tener un hermanito, y por fin el bebe resulta ser una ninia... Mi hijo mayor tenia celos terribles cuando llego el pequenio. Hasta ahora no qiere perderme de vista, me parece, que tiene miedo de ser abandonado. Por la otra parte, siempre defenda a su hermano menor y no deja que la gente desconocida le acerque. - he escuchado a la audionovela "La Fortaleza Dijital" por Dan Brown - 35 min. - un poco de radio 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6470 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 84 of 128 27 May 2010 at 2:03pm | IP Logged |
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Italian:
- Assimil 13-17 - Pimsleur Italian I 15 Spanish: - "La Firtaleza Digital" por Dan Brown - audiolibro hasta el fin - mas que 7,5 horas! German: - Assimil 75-78 Mandarin: - Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese III - 25, 26; - Anki - Now that summer has come I spend a lot of time outdoors with the children and therefore I can't spend so much time at the computer entering new vocab into Anki. So I took up the ready deck (20000+ Mandarin HSK Sentences). At first I was very excited, but then I noticed there are mistakes in some cards. Can anyone tell me if it is worth studying? Instead of Anki, I began writing out new vocab with example sentences into a separate notebook. I'll revise from it whenever the opportunity comes. - listened to Chinesepod Elementary podcasts. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6461 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 85 of 128 27 May 2010 at 4:14pm | IP Logged |
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I was studying that deck myself, and the mistakes mostly seem to stem from faulty
automated generation of the Pinyin. There are quite a few of those, but I believe the sentences are fine. I stopped studying these sentences for the time being because 1) there are too many sentences that are not applicable to me in any way 2) there are a lot of sentences trying to explain a HSK 2 word by using several HSK 4/5 words 3) a lot of entries are simply too long to be considered one bit of information and those are also demotivating for study, if it takes me a minute to read a sentence before I can decide if it was easily understandable or the like. The original 10,000 sentences method insisted on extracting the sentences yourself from what you encounter and I am starting to think that they were right. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6470 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 86 of 128 27 May 2010 at 8:45pm | IP Logged |
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They were definitely right, but it is rather time-consuming. So, I'll give the deck a try, and if nothing comes out of it, I won't be stressed and disappointed, I'll just turn back to my own deck.
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| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6470 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 87 of 128 04 June 2010 at 12:11pm | IP Logged |
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Update:
Mandarin: - Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese III finished! Mandarin basics have been firmly drummed into my head! - began story 5 from the reader - listened to Chinesepod Elementary podcasts and did the scriptorium and characters of "The Monks and the Temple on the Mountain", "The Man and the Dog" - scriptorium and characters of 3 Assimil dialogues. Italian: - Assimil 18-22 - Pimsleur Italian I 16-22 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dragonfly Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 6470 days ago 204 posts - 233 votes Speaks: Russian*, EnglishC2, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, Mandarin | Message 88 of 128 06 June 2010 at 11:54am | IP Logged |
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English:
Recently I've been listening to a programme called "Verbal Advantage". I would definitely recommend it to advanced English learners. It provides the listeners with the information about the use of the words which are not so widely used in everyday communication, but without which you will never sound educated. I learned about this series from syzygy's books about poliglots. This book is worth mentioning, too. For me, it was a very interesting read. I like biographies, and language learning biographies are twice as absorbing. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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