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 Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes  Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 185 of 248 19 May 2009 at 5:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Day 98 - Tier 1
4 hour committed => (Tier 1 – 2 ½ hrs to vocabulary expansion, 1 ½ hrs to active listening) (Tier 2 - 0 hrs to Grammar Study) (6 hr quota not reached - People disturbing me) ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Declan's Russian Flashcards ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- 1000 Most Common Russian Nouns -Successful verbal identification: Consolidation in progress - (8 groups of 50 words completed @ 90%+ => 12 to go) -Successful visual identification: Consolidation in progress - (8 groups of 50 words completed @ 90%+ => 12 to go) 600 Most Common Russian Adjectives -Successful spoken identification: Under Review -Successful visual identification: Under Review 500 Most Common Russian Verbs -Successful spoken identification: Pending -Successful visual identification: Pending 200 Most Common Russian Adverbs -Successful spoken identification: Pending -Successful visual identification: Pending ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Tier 1 - Focused Listening Hours Completed - (+1 ½ hr) (9:15 of 250) Edited by Brian_N on 20 May 2009 at 4:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 186 of 248 20 May 2009 at 4:47am | IP Logged | ||
Well I had hoped to have atleast 2 weeks of doing nothing but Russian, but alas...there’s always something. The mayor called me up today to tell me that a construction company just rolled into town and they were looking for a worker. So I went to go check them out. Took me 1 minute to get a job. The conversation went like this, Me – “I’m looking for John” John – “You found him” Me- “I hear your looking for a worker” *pass John resume John - takes resume...glances at it for about 20 seconds and then looks at me “How does $17 an hour sound?” Brian – “It sounds pretty nice” John-“ Good, we start at 7 a.m., see you tomorrow” *pass resume back and turns around and walks away. 1 minute, wow... I’m sooo slipping...that’s twice as long as it took me to get hired on my last job. Must be a recession or something..... So yeah, I’m back on the job again. This company looks like it’ll be doing 12 hr days...so that means time and a half will add up pretty quickly. I can probably rake these suckers for $200 a day lol. It’ll pay for University...but it’s going to make finding time for Russian complicated. I’ll find a way though...I’m not yet ready to eat my words on “not enough hours in one day”. Russian will have its day yet. I figure for next time, I’ll actually knock on wood instead of just typing it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 187 of 248 20 May 2009 at 7:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Random Thoughts...
I was reading an article on how the last 5 out of 12 American presidents were left-handed, which is unusual considering lefties make up only about 10% of the American population. SAT scores too, in the top group 20% were lefties. I wonder if this would hold true for language learners because in lefties are usually better represented in societies more intellectual groups? But at the same time aren’t lefties the one who tend to have more language problems then righties? Wouldn’t that mean that there’d be less lefties learning languages then, even though its a more intellectual activity? Random thoughts. Lol, in my reading I find “lefties normally do less well on the phonology of a language” amusing considering I’m a leftie and the bulk of my efforts is going to the ‘sound’ of Russian. I have my excuse though, were I took my elementary violin (as well as chess and typing) were fully integrated into our grade school curriculum. Violin started at grade 2 and continued till grade 8. But we were taught violin abit differently. After the basics most people are taught to teach themselves through ‘reading music’...not us, we were taught to teach ourselves through ‘hearing music’. As our instructor used to say, don’t read the notes, hear them...and play them. With all that time I spent teaching myself songs through ‘listening’ it’s only natural that the ‘sounds’ of Russian are what I’d focus on. Anyways though yeah...another question to contemplate. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 188 of 248 21 May 2009 at 4:35am | IP Logged | ||
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Day 99 - Tier 1
2 hour committed => (Tier 1 – 1 hrs to vocabulary expansion, 1 hrs to active listening) (Tier 2 - 0 hrs to Grammar Study) (6 hr quota not reached – Job came up) ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Declan's Russian Flashcards ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- 1000 Most Common Russian Nouns -Successful verbal identification: Consolidation in progress - (8 groups of 50 words completed @ 90%+ => 12 to go) -Successful visual identification: Consolidation in progress - (8 groups of 50 words completed @ 90%+ => 12 to go) 600 Most Common Russian Adjectives -Successful spoken identification: Under Review -Successful visual identification: Under Review 500 Most Common Russian Verbs -Successful spoken identification: Pending -Successful visual identification: Pending 200 Most Common Russian Adverbs -Successful spoken identification: Pending -Successful visual identification: Pending ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Tier 1 - Focused Listening Hours Completed - (+1 hr) (10:15 of 250) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 189 of 248 21 May 2009 at 4:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Well I was pretty close about the hours, 91 hours a week...and time and a half after 40 : ) sweet. There was actually quite a few people who wanted that job too, many a people are swearing my name right now...soo business as usual I guess lol. Meh whatever though, there are over 6 billion people on this planet and if anyone time if I’m only pissing off a few hundred...I’d have to say I’m doing pretty damn good.
It'll be interesting finding time to fit Russian into my work schedule, once you take away working and sleeping...I’ll have three hours left. If I can carve 45 minutes of out that I’ll be quite pleased. Anyways though I should head off to sleep, morning comes early...and hopefully with abit of luck tomorrow we won’t knock out water to half the town again. Water spraying 10 meters into the air is cool...having to fix it is not. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 190 of 248 22 May 2009 at 5:10am | IP Logged | ||
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Day 100 - Tier 1
Day 100 and I'm still here lol. 1 hour committed => (Tier 1 – 0 hrs to vocabulary expansion, 1 hrs to active listening) (Tier 2 - 0 hrs to Grammar Study) (6 hr quota not reached – Work, work, work, and more work) ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Declan's Russian Flashcards ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- 1000 Most Common Russian Nouns -Successful verbal identification: Consolidation in progress - (8 groups of 50 words completed @ 90%+ => 12 to go) -Successful visual identification: Consolidation in progress - (8 groups of 50 words completed @ 90%+ => 12 to go) 600 Most Common Russian Adjectives -Successful spoken identification: Under Review -Successful visual identification: Under Review 500 Most Common Russian Verbs -Successful spoken identification: Pending -Successful visual identification: Pending 200 Most Common Russian Adverbs -Successful spoken identification: Pending -Successful visual identification: Pending ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Tier 1 - Focused Listening Hours Completed - (+1 hr) (11:15 of 250) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 191 of 248 22 May 2009 at 5:13am | IP Logged | ||
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With my knew schedule, the best I can manage is about an hour of listening...word drill is just not going to happening lol. I feel like such a slacker, not doing any actually study. I know i’m not, listening is part of learning Russian...it just seems too easy. It’s this new job though, my free time is kinda gone.
And how’s that going? Meh, it’s my normal job. 2nd day of work the boss is already picking me up in the mornings and driving me home after work, been offered a full time job in Winnipeg and the construction crew loves me...they all told the ‘big boss’ today that “Brian doesn’t know it yet, but we’re taking him back to Winnipeg with us”....yeah, it’s my normal job. Becoming a little annoyed though with one of my co-workers. This guy from Portugal, just got his Canadian citizenship a few years back... doesn’t really care for Canada. In his mind Portugal is soooo much better. Damn near told him to go back to his Portugal if it’s so great. Held my tongue though...2nd day on the job. Usually I don’t get too bothered by people who have strong feelings for their native country, it’s human...this is different though. Too many of MY people have lost their jobs lately...and too see this ‘individual’ getting paid $250 a day for ‘construction labor’...it’s bullshit. He doesn’t even identify as Canadian, 100% Portuguese. As far as I’m concerned he should be put on the next flight back to Portugal...he’s nothing but a foreigner who’s taking the job of a native born Canadian. I guess there is a silver lining though, this is his second day with this company...he was hired on through a friend of a friend as a favor for another friend...and they already want to fire him lol. One small step from useless this guy is. So its just a matter of time before he does get canned and is replaced by someone who was actually born in this country. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brian_N Pro Member Canada Joined 5769 days ago 200 posts - 202 votes Studies: English*, Russian Personal Language Map | Message 192 of 248 23 May 2009 at 1:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Day 101 - Tier 1
1 hour committed => (Tier 1 – 0 hrs to vocabulary expansion, 1 hrs to active listening) (Tier 2 - 0 hrs to Grammar Study) (6 hr quota not reached – Work, work, work, and more work) ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- Declan's Russian Flashcards ------------------------------------------------------------ ----------- 1000 Most Common Russian Nouns -Successful verbal identification: Consolidation in progress - (8 groups of 50 words completed @ 90%+ => 12 to go) -Successful visual identification: Consolidation in progress - (8 groups of 50 words completed @ 90%+ => 12 to go) 600 Most Common Russian Adjectives -Successful spoken identification: Under Review -Successful visual identification: Under Review 500 Most Common Russian Verbs -Successful spoken identification: Pending -Successful visual identification: Pending 200 Most Common Russian Adverbs -Successful spoken identification: Pending -Successful visual identification: Pending ------------------------------------------------------------ ---------- Tier 1 - Focused Listening Hours Completed - (+1 hr) (12:15 of 250) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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