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sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5816 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French
| Message 9 of 34 04 February 2009 at 11:42pm | IP Logged |
February 4th
Linguaphone Deutsch - Did Section 5 today. So far, what I like most about Linguaphone is the listening part. My listening comprehension is still pretty bad, but I feel like this is really helping. I'm going to get through the whole program, but this will definitely be my last "commercial system". I tried out a lot of systems to see what works for me and what I like, and I've found my answers. Michel Thomas and Linguahone are the two I'll look into for when I learn other languages.
Vocab
Linguaphone
schiken - to send
der Schalter - counter. switch, ticket window
erklären - to explain
das Vergnügen - delight, pleasure
First German Reader
ausbreiten - to spread out
bedenklich - dubious
die Demut - humility
emsig - eager, zealous
erregen - excite, agitate
frech - insolent
getrost - confidently
die Hinsicht - respect
die Krawatte - necktie, cravat
merklich - audible, noticable
die Pracht - splendor
schleppen - to drag
seicht - shallow
streben - to strive
ungeduldig - impatient
verbreitet - widespread
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| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5816 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French
| Message 10 of 34 06 February 2009 at 1:49am | IP Logged |
February 5th
Linguaphone Duetsch - Did section 6 today.
Vocab - back to the vocab book
Linguaphone
die Wohnung - flat, apartment
möbliert - furnished
schlimm - bad
Mastering German Vocabulary
der Topf - pot, saucepan
rühren - to stir
braten - to fry
die Pfanne - frying pan
gar - done
schlälen - to peel
ausdrücken - to squeeze the juice out of
würzen - to season
anbrennen - to burn
das Hähnchen - chicken
der Knödel - dumpling
die Pommes frites - french fries
die Soße - sauce, gravy
das Spiegelei - fried egg
der Eintopf - stew
zart - tender
zäh - tough
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| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5816 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French
| Message 11 of 34 08 February 2009 at 11:27pm | IP Logged |
Didn't do anything except sleep on Friday night (the 6th).
February 7th and 8th
Linguaphone - Completed Section 7 and Section 8.
Vocab
Linguaphone
die Verlobung - engagement
das Tuch - scarf
seiden - silk
sich entschließen - to make up one's mind
die Kollegmappe - briefcase
Mastering German Vocabulary
das Matjesfilet - young herring
die Forelle - trout
der Pfannkuchen - pancake
der Kellner - waitor
bedienen - to serve
bestellen - to order
aussuchen - to choose
das Gericht - dish
die Vorspeise - appetizer
empfehlen - recommend
lecker - tasty
probieren - try, have a taste
die Kneipe - bar
die Beilage - side dish
der Gasthof - inn
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| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5816 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French
| Message 12 of 34 13 February 2009 at 1:10am | IP Logged |
Didn't feel well for most of the week, and on top of that, it's been a bad week at work so I didn't do much. Finally got back to it tonight.
February 12
Linguaphone - Did Section 9 tonight. I'm starting to see a lot of words I do not recognize.
Vocab - Here's tomorrow's list. Have 12 from Linguaphone, and finished it out with 8 from Mastering German Vocab. These 8 finish out Chapter 4: Eating. Chapter 5 is next, and it's on Clothing.
Linguaphone
begrussen - to welcome, to greet
während - during
Schwenswürdigkeit - sight (tourism)
berühmt - well-known, famous
überhaupt nicht - not at all
noch lange nicht - far from, not by a long shot
schwierig - difficult
die Geduld - patience
einladen - to invite
anderhalb - one and a half (used with time)
wählen - to dial (telephone)
Das heißt - that is, that means
Mastering German Vocabulary
reichlich - ample
die Bedienung - service, waitor or waitress
der Nachtisch - dessert
die Scheibe - slice
der Wirt[-in] - innkeeper, rest. manager
das Kännchen - pot
die Theke - bar
vorbestellen - order in advance
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| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5816 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French
| Message 13 of 34 21 February 2009 at 3:45am | IP Logged |
Update (Feb 13th-20th)
I didn't do a good job at keeping up with this during the week. I completed Sections 10, 11 and 12 of Linguaphone, but I dropped the ball on the vocab. I'm going to get this back on track over the weekend. I think I need to find one or two other things to do to keep me focused and motivated. Doing the same thing every day wears me down a bit and can get boring. Each Section of Linguaphone has 3 phases, and I can do 1 or two phases one a day, and the remainder the next, but it's still not enough. I need to throw something else into the mix to keep things interesting and fun for me.
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| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5816 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French
| Message 14 of 34 23 February 2009 at 2:45am | IP Logged |
February 21st and 22nd
Compeleted Section 13 of Linguaphone Deutsch.. Did phase 1 on Saturday and phases 2 and 3 on Sunday. I also sat down with one of my Dual-Language books (First German Reader). I didn't worry about taking down vocab or anything, I simply read the German side, and then the English side 2 or 3 times. To start off, there's some poems and some paragraph or 2 long short stories.
Tomorrow's Vocab, taken from the last several Linguaphone lessons
tätig sein - to work
versorgen - to provide
sich gedulden - to wait patiently
sich lohnen - to be worth it
die Überraschung - surprise
sich verarbschieden - to say good-bye, to take one's leave
drankommen - to have one's turn
gespannt sein - to wonder, be anxious to know
sich zanken - to quarrel
sich versöhnen - to patch up a quarrel
sich ärgern - to be annoyed, angry
zukünftig - future
sich erinnen - to remember
drehen - to curl
reinigen - to clean
anschließend - afterwards
wahrscheinlich - probably
beschäftigen - to occupy
eifersüchtig - jealous
entgegennehmen - to take an order
Edited by sabotai on 23 February 2009 at 3:10am
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| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5816 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French
| Message 15 of 34 01 March 2009 at 5:32am | IP Logged |
February 23rd - 28th
I completed a few more Linguaphone lessons. I am now half done with it, but I have been slowly transitioning away from it and more to spending time with a dual-language book, so I'm not sure I will actually finish it completely. Still helpful with working on my listening ability, but I feel I get a bit more out of dual-language books, as well as other methods, now. Linguaphone being the 4th or 5th system I have worked through by now, I think doing things that are more active help me out more.
The problem I have now with doing a system is that I know some, or in most cases most, of what is intended to be taught by the lesson. So it makes me lazy. I quickly go through the stuff I know and my thinking and work-ethic are just not fully committed.
So, I have spent more time with books and I also listen to the videos on spiegel.de (even though I still don't understand much of it).
Another thing I have started to try to do is to take movie scripts and translate them into German. I wanted to start with something simple, something aimed at kids as well, so I picked The Incredibles. Still working on the first scene now. It's pretty slow going since I have to look things up (sometimes because I don't know something, sometimes to reassure my pessimistic mind). It's helped me practice sentence structure, but sometimes the characters talk in sentence fragments and trip me up a bit.
Edited by sabotai on 01 March 2009 at 5:34am
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| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5816 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French
| Message 16 of 34 09 March 2009 at 4:16am | IP Logged |
March 1st - March 8th
Not much to report here. I've spent about 30-60 minutes each night with a dual-language book. I am putting First German Reader to the side for now, though. It's supposed to be a "beginner's" book, but it's far from. The entries are all short, but still have a lot of vocab that a beginner wouldn't know and the writing is pretty complex. I think they call it "beginner" just because of the short entries (1-2 paragraph long stories at first).
I moved on to Parallel Text: German Short Stories 1. It's no more "beginner" than the previous book, but the stories are longer (typical short story length), and will keep my attention and interest far better than what was in First German Reader. Right now I am reading "Die Blasse Anna" by Heinrich Böll.
For this week's vocab, I am going to take words from 501 German Verbs.
Edited by sabotai on 09 March 2009 at 4:17am
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