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| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 17 of 34 19 March 2009 at 7:46am | IP Logged |
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March 9th - March 18th
Been awhile since an update, and I've changed how I am studying (again). After a week or two of solely using a dual-language book, I've learned I don't do well without a game plan. I think I did fine and learned/reinforced from the dual-language book, but I only spent maybe half of the days actually putting a lot of effort into it. I got lazy. Again. I'm aiming to spend 2 hours a day on it now, and I am going to use a few different things each day. For one, I still have Pimsleur German II and III. I'll listen to a lesson each day (~30 minutes). It's 60 lessons, so it should take 2 months to get through them. I really coasted through Michel Thomas Advanced German. I rarely used the pause button and was just trying to get through it quickly. So I am going to redo Advanced German with Michel Thomas, and spend ~30 minutes on it a day. It should take maybe 2 weeks to really work my way through them. It's only 4 CDs (not counting the review), so take about 1 hour each CD, but add an hour or two for total time I have it paused. I also bought a few Grammar workbooks. German Grammar Drills, Practice Makes Perfect Vocabulary and Practive Makes Perfect Pronouns and Prepositions. I'm starting with German Grammar Drills. Each day, I will do the exercises for 1 chapter, and look forward to the next chapter. I'll spend time reading up (1001 Pitfalls of German and Hammer's Grammar and Usage) about the topic. Also, if I do poorly on the drills, I will make sure to review what I got wrong. I've also stopped using flash cards each day for vocabulary and will use them, for now, on grammar rules or notes. So the plan is 1) 1 Pimsleur Lesson (~30 minutes) 2) Michel Thomas Advanced German (~30 minutes) 3) Grammar Drills and Reading (30-60 minutes) 4) If time left over, dual-language book. When I am done with the Michel Thomas Advanced German, I will either go back to Linguaphone and restart that (probably at a much earlier point from where I left off) or move on to his Vocabulary CDs. I am going to try to update this daily again, even if it's just a line or two of what I did. March 18th 1) Pimsleur German II - Lesson 1 (30 minutes) 2) Michel Thomas Advanced German Disc 1 (30 minuites) 3) German Grammar Drills Chapter 1: Determining Gender. - Tomorrow's Topic: Plurals. Spent about 10 minutes on the drills, and about 30 minutes reading about plurals, writing up a few flash cards for work tomorrow. 4) Read 2 pages of the short story "Story In Reverse" by Ilse Aichinger (dual-language book) (~20 minutes). With dual-language books, I like to read aloud, and usually read each line twice as I first try to determine what it means on my own, and then the second time, I compare it to the English side. Total Time: 2 hours 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 18 of 34 20 March 2009 at 6:44am | IP Logged |
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March 19th
1) Pimsleur German II - Unit 2 (30 Minutes) 2) Michel Thomas Advanced German - Lessons 6-11 (30 minutes) 3) German Grammar Drills Chapter 2: Plurals. Did pretty well on these drills. The few I got wrong were words I was unfamiliar with. I also read about Pronouns, which will be tomorrow's drills (20 minutes) 4) Read 1 1/2 pages of "Story In Reverse". I read "Pale Anna" last week and found it to be a pretty easy read. "Story In Reverse" is a more difficult read for me and it's taking longer to work through (~20 minutes) Total Time: 1 hour, 40 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 19 of 34 22 March 2009 at 8:00am | IP Logged |
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March 20th
1) Pimsleur German II - Unit 3 (30 minutes) 2) Michel Thomas Advanced German - Lessons 12-16 (30 minutes) Total Time: 1 hour March 21st 1) German Grammar Drills: Pronouns. Read about Nominative Case (20 minutes) 2) Pimsleur German II - Unit 4 (30 minutes) 3) Michel Thomas Advanced German - Lessons 17-23 (30 minutes) 4) German Grammar Drills: Nominative Case Drills, Read about Accusative Case (40 minutes) Did #1 early in the day and #4 late. Total Time: 2 hours Edited by sabotai on 22 March 2009 at 8:01am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 20 of 34 27 March 2009 at 5:09am | IP Logged |
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2-3 days a month, I have to get up extra early for work. Unfortunately this month, it's 4 days and all 4 are this week. Mon-Wed and tomorrow, Friday, were/will be very long days for me so it didn't leave much time for anything. Managed to get some work in tonight. Good news is I have a few days off next week, so I'll spend a lot of time catching up.
March 26th 1) Pimsleur German II - Unit 5 (30 minutes) 2) Michel Thomas Advanced German - Disc 2, Lessons 1-7 (25 minutes) 3) German Grammar Drills: Accusative Case (20 minutes) Total Time: 1 hour, 15 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 21 of 34 29 March 2009 at 7:26am | IP Logged |
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March 27th
1) Pimsleur German II - Unit 6 (30 minutes) 2) Michel Thomas Advanced German - Disc 2, Lessons 8-13 (30 minutes) Total Time: 1 hour March 28th 1) Spent a long time reading about the accusative and dative cases in Hammer's. Also did some exercises from German Grammar Drills on the dative case (60 minutes) 2) Pimsleur German II - Unit 7 (30 minutes) 3) Read a few more pages of "Story in Reverse" (30 minutes) Total Time: 2 hours 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 22 of 34 30 March 2009 at 7:09am | IP Logged |
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March 29th
1) Pimsleur German II - Unit 8 (30 minutes) 2) Michel Thomas Advanced German - Disc 2 Lessons 14-18 (30 minutes) 3) Read up on the gentative case and did some drills (30 minutes) Total Time: 1 hour, 30 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 23 of 34 31 March 2009 at 7:43am | IP Logged |
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March 30th
1) Pimsleur German II - Unit 9 (30 minutes) 2) Michel Thomas Advanced German - Disc 2 Lessons 19-20 (15 minutes) 3) Read up a bit on prepositions (15 minutes) Total Time: 1 hour 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5813 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 24 of 34 04 April 2009 at 7:46am | IP Logged |
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Got caught up in other things the last few days. I did occasionally pick up a grammar book but didn't really get much time in.
I also got a few more things tot help with my German. I bought Der Kleine Prinz (and the English version "The Little Prince"). It's a book meant for 4-8 year olds so I think it'll be a good book to use a dual-language "book". I also bought Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen, but not the English version. After I'm done with all the "systems" that I'm using, I'll use this as my first real test. Just the book and possibly an online dictionary that's German (IOW, try to read through it without any help in English). April 3rd 1) Pimsluer German II - Unit 10 (30 minutes) 2) Read about prepositions in the accusative and dative in Hammer's (45 minutes) Total Time: 1 hour 15 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful |
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