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| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 49 of 75 08 January 2010 at 5:12am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I completed Michel Thomas Advanced Disk 2 yesterday
I did Pimsleur 2 lesson 26 and 27. I'm not sure if i skipped some. I might go back and do over the lessons previous to those. Today I completed up to page 27 of Schaum's Grammar Outline. I think I might skip some exercises in the section of Schaum's I am in and do them later in order to do other sections. It goes deep in each area (articles, nouns, etc.) and I'd rather get an overview then go back over several times deepening my knowledge in each section. I would rather study this way than become an expert on nouns first then go on to verbs. I've definitely answered many questions I had about grammar patterns I had noticed. I'm going to try and read my Easy Italian Reader. I keep falling asleep reading it in bed. I fall asleep reading anything in bed at a late hour. I can be on the computer until 3:00 am but fall asleep reading in bed at 11:00 pm. Edited by ChiaBrain on 08 January 2010 at 5:26am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 50 of 75 11 January 2010 at 5:40am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I finished up to and including chapter 11 in the Easy Italian Reader. At first it was a little dull describing the two main characters families and residences but the last couple of chapters have been more interesting. I scanned ahead and saw that it describes tours they take of several Italian cities which sounds interesting. I'm really eager to get to the second part as it tells the history of Italy. I also started reading a grammar exercise book I picked up: Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Italian Grammar. I figure I will scan it doing the exercises in my head to get a quick overview. Later I will go back and write and check my answers or do that in the Shaum's book. I put my first journal entry in Italian on Lang-8.com. I hope someone looks at it and makes corrections if needed. I plan on posting on LiveMocha.com as well. I would rather focus my output efforts on writing for now as it is easier to see and correct. I plan to go back to doing Assimil as well. Assimil's value is without doubt in my mind but I personally need more explicit grammar instruction from another source. I imagine someone with a strong linguistic background could easily infer grammar rules from the text but before this effort I hadn't studied a language in some 20 years. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 51 of 75 11 January 2010 at 6:27pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I did Assimil lesson 51 this morning including the second wave part which was going
back and translating lesson 1. I messed up the conjugations. I really need more practice generating Italian. On the plus side I can understand what I am reading quite well. I listened to Italian radio on the internet at work. I need to focus on what is being said to really understand it, but I find I can understand it very well. If I miss a word I can figure it out by context or by continuing to listen which fills in more of the puzzle. If I listen passively I catch a lot of words and phrases and have an idea of what is being talked about but not as complete as when I focus, but I have to work. Edited by ChiaBrain on 12 January 2010 at 4:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Dripdrip Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5528 days ago 58 posts - 62 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Italian | Message 52 of 75 11 January 2010 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm also using the Easy Italian Reader. I'm happy to hear that it gets more interesting later.
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| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 53 of 75 12 January 2010 at 4:29am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Hi Drip. Thanks for dropping by and posting. I bought it because, in addition to having great reviews on Amazon, when I skimmed through it I found that about half of it was all about the history of Italy, from the founding of the Roman Republic to post-world-war two modern day Italy. It started slow but has picked up. In the last lesson the kids were recalling the past and using past and imperfect tenses. In the lesson prior to that they were discussing prepositions. I'm looking forward to hearing more about Italy. Edited by ChiaBrain on 12 January 2010 at 4:30am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| densou Senior Member Italy foto.webalice.it/denRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6136 days ago 120 posts - 121 votes Speaks: Italian* | Message 54 of 75 13 January 2010 at 12:54am | IP Logged | ||||||||
o_O maaaan, I should shut up then. =P 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5851 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 55 of 75 13 January 2010 at 8:28pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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My question is: Which Easy Italian Reader are you reading? Could you quote me the title? I have got - still unread - several Easy Readers for Italian, level A. I will want to read them, so any experience of another reader would be useful to know.
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| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 56 of 75 14 January 2010 at 4:17am | IP Logged | ||||||||
"Easy Italian Reader" Amazon.com Amazon.co.uk ISBN-10: 0071603344 ISBN-13: 978-0071603348
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