|
 |
Linguistic flight | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Language Learning Log |  | |
| 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 89 of 128 06 June 2010 at 12:17pm | IP Logged |
|
Thanks for the recommendation.
Have you worked on your German lately? 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 90 of 128 08 June 2010 at 8:39am | IP Logged |
|
I did so little about German I didn't find it necessary to write about it: just listened to some stuff on Deutsche Welle and watched some videos on YouTube. I think this month German will be only passive with me, as I want to concentrate on Mandarin and on my thesis.
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 91 of 128 14 June 2010 at 8:27pm | IP Logged |
|
Update:
Mandarin: - continued story 5 from the reader - listened to Chinesepod Elementary podcasts and did the scriptorium and characters of "Whatever", "Praparing for the Heat", "Help with Housework", Consoling the Bereaved", "The Tortoise and the Hare Race" Italian: - Pimsleur Italian I 23-28 English: - continue listening to "Verbal Advantage" and continue liking it - listened to some ESLTeacherTalk Pocasts. Rather interesting. The hosts are native English speakers teaching English in Japan and Taiwan. They discuss different approaches and how to implement them, come up with some teaching tricks and interesting games. Edited by dragonfly on 15 June 2010 at 8:41am 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 92 of 128 19 June 2010 at 7:59pm | IP Logged |
|
Update:
Mandarin: - listened to Chinesepod Elementary podcasts and did the scriptorium and characters of "Not on Purpose", "Country Standings", "Tomb Sweeping Day", "Art Museum". Now elementary podcasts are beginning to seem too easy. Italian: - Pimsleur Italian I 29,30 - Assimil up to 27. - forgot to mention that I began to listen to ItalianPod Newbie podcasts. I didn't like the hosts as I did with the ChinesePod, but the structure is the same, so I find them useful. Edited by dragonfly on 19 June 2010 at 8:15pm 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 93 of 128 28 June 2010 at 9:14pm | IP Logged |
|
I'm back from my holiday on the Volga, and along with swimming ang walking and resting I managed to squeeze in a bit of study:
Mandarin - story 5 from the reader. It's so strange, but Chinese fairy tales differ from Russian fairy tales (and European, I would say) drastically. In our fairy tales there are always bad ones and good ones (the last always win). There is unearthly love and heroism. Chinese fairy tales are about life, they are not always FAIRY tales. The one I've just covered renders about a couple of deer, so devoted to each other, that when the male got trapped the female didn't want to leave her spouse and implored the hunter to take her life with her dearest's, because 心连心，是一对生死夫妻，要活一起活，要死 一起死. The hunter thought that human couples so often have contention and lack love they should respect such a strong devotion and let the deer free. Italian - Assimil 28-30 - ItalianPod - listened to 15 ItalianPod Newbie podcasts. The dialogues are so short and primitive there (compared with Assimil), that I feel I'll cover the Newbie section soon and switch to elementary. 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 94 of 128 05 July 2010 at 1:29pm | IP Logged |
|
It's so hot here I have only the desire to jump into the pool and live there. But as a Russian proverb says, dedicate your time to work, and only an hour to pleasure.
Mandarin - only revision this time. Now that I don't use Anki, I try to revise more from the notebook. Italian - Pimsleur Italian II 1-5 - Assimil 28-34 Spanish - watched a movie "Eclipse" (of course, a screener, so the quality was not so good). I won't describe the plot, as it almost completely matches the book. I've been wondering why the story is so popular among females. Maybe because the love it describes is really unreal, but dreamt for? I've listened to an old interview with the author, Stephanie Meyer, recently, and was surprised to learn that she has three little boys and managed to compose all the four books in a very short period of time! 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 95 of 128 05 July 2010 at 1:50pm | IP Logged |
|
Half a year of the challenge is behind, so let's look at what I've achieved.
My goals for Mandarin were: - Pimsleur Mandarin Chinese II and III - have it done till March - finished, but much later; - study volume II of my textbook the title of which can be roughly translated as "Chinese for beginners" and begin volume III (if I don't choose to take up another textbook for further study) - at a halt; - the book of Chinese tales - study 1 or 2 tales a month and cover the whole book in a year - working at it; - Chinesepod Elementary podcasts - listen to them regularly, work thoroughly at one podcast a week - I don't study one podcast a week, but I do it regularly and can cover everal in a week and then neglect them for a couple; - the book named "Everyday Chinese" (the Russian version of Assimil)- finish it by summer - not finished yet. It looks like I've preplanned too much and won't win the first prize, but I work at Mandarin regularly and I'm quite satisfied with the progress. 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 96 of 128 05 July 2010 at 2:22pm | IP Logged |
|
Spanish
1. Watched 20 movies in Spanish 2. Read 3 books and listened to 3 audiobooks. 3. Listen to ssl4you podcast - very little. 4. Study the book "Practicas de lengua espanola - niveles medio y superior" (it's about grammar) - not done yet. German 1. Assimil 70odd lessons, now at a halt (was not planned). 2. Listen to "Wieso nicht?" podcasts from Deutsche Welle and study the pdf files that accompany them - did only one. 3. Audiobooks - I feel I lack the vocab to dive into plot, and I don't like superficial listening. Italian - started a new language and as it goes rather smoothly devote much time to it and enjoy it (at the cost of other languages, naturally). 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
