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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 49 of 63 01 January 2010 at 2:24am | IP Logged | |||||
Спосибo :). Now I understand. The genitive case has been confusing me for a while in both German and Russian so I just needed to clarify. Thank you so much for explaining :D!!!! Edited by ruskivyetr on 01 January 2010 at 2:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 50 of 63 01 January 2010 at 2:43am | IP Logged | |||||
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Update:
German: 14 hours(+4 hours) Swedish: 6 hours(no improvement) Russian: 17 hours(+3 hours) Czech: 12 hours(+2 hours) This week has been a little slow, but today I did some Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen and I used my new iPod touch German dictionary :). It's WAY faster than a physical dictionary. I am surprised that I have only come across a few words and constructions that I do not know. But, the better I get at German, the more of which I realize I still have yet to learn. It seems like as my accomplishments grow, so do the things I have not accomplished. Hopefully this will change once I get the chance to travel to Germany :). I have actually been thinking a lot about the place I want to do my immersions (if I ever get around to them in the near future, money is really tight). I was thinking about maybe going to Austria instead of Germany, but I decided I wanted a more standard accent. With Russian however, I am less likely to pick up an accent as it is very standardized across the whole continuum of speakers. I think I might like to go to Belarus instead of Russia because of the visa situation, but the Ukraine is also an option. Hopefully I can go to a language school or something there that will allow me to get a student visa and stay there if I decide on Russia instead of the other two. Edited by ruskivyetr on 01 January 2010 at 2:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 51 of 63 03 January 2010 at 8:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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Ok, so I haven't studied a lot, but I think that I'm going to get some hardcore study in. I want to FINISH the prepositional case once and for all. I'm going to get some irregularities by just drilling them over and over in my head and getting my mind used to it. I need to learn the pronouns once and for all. I'm going to take it head on by just plain boring repetition. Then after that, maybe a little German or Finnish to settle my mind. I don't have a whole bunch of books, so I can't go on a whole study rampage right now (I'm traveling). I've been looking at a few of Professor Arguelles' videos on YouTube (I've seen them all I just look at them from time to time), and I was looking at reviews. He complimented the Living Language series (the Ultimate series, which I am using), and I also watched the Cortina method again. I was quite happy to check and see the book available for quite a cheap price on Amazon, so I may buy it in the future for some drilling. I'm going to go study now, before I get anymore distracted :).
ONE MORE THING!: I have been posting on Lang 8 which is a place where you write compositions (journal entries of daily, mundane things), and native speakers also on the site correct you. It really is quite an exchange, but you must correct in return as well so as not to "mooch" off of the website. Gonna go study... До свидания! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 52 of 63 03 January 2010 at 9:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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Ok so I was going to just read it aloud and say it over and over again, but I'm going to give a summary so you have a general idea of what I am doing.
First let's finish up with "to have". Just to finally say "DONE WITH THAT!" Nouns to use: книга, собака, чемодан, журнал, обед I'm going to do some pre-sleep drilling with prepositional pronouns and verbs. Vocabulary too :). I just studied for about 30 minutes just to get a few things cleaned up. I updated my Anki, and did some practice. Now I'm going to settle down and do some pre-sleep drilling because I'm too tired to start another language. Anyway, до свидания! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 53 of 63 06 January 2010 at 6:37pm | IP Logged | |||||
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So I have pretty much finished the prepositional case. I'm just focusing on thinking about the pronouns, and It's not that hard. I want to start with the net lesson in my book. I think the accusative case is next :)!!! I hope to finish learning how to say numbers after the end of today. I'm in school right now so it is kind of difficult but I think I could manage.
As for Czech, I haven't done much except speak to my friend, but I hope to be doing some more, and maybe learn the plurals and start my own course of learning. I'd imagine it would be very similar to the way Russian forms it's plurals, and that the ы sound corresponds with the Czech y and the letter и corresponds with the Czech i. I'm hoping this is the case as I would then be able to learn to form plurals very easily, just applying the softness rules from Russian to Czech. I guess this is one of the useful things about studying two Slavic languages at once :)... As for Swedish, I did a little poem reading. For German, I've been thinking auf Deutsch much more. Ein bisschen auf Deutsch: Gestern habe ich auf Deutsch gedacht. Ich war in Biologie, so wann die Lehrin mir etwas gefragt hat, habe ich auf Deutsch geantwortet. Das war nicht so gut, das weiß ich, aber jetzt muss ich gehen. Tschüss! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 54 of 63 08 January 2010 at 11:30am | IP Logged | |||||
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Ok so I haven't gone on to the next lesson, but I have been doing Anki, to which I have added A LOT of words. I'm going to go through my phrasebook right now to get some more practical and interesting words. I am using a text to speech program for Russian so I know how it sounds. The words I am adding are:
неудачник...loser медсестра...nurse врач...doctor бухгалтер...accountant друг...friend ужин...dinner волк...wolf пить...to drink ложка...spoon вилка...fork нож...knife тарелка...plate So yeah, just a little vocab that I thought was necessary :). I just add words randomly. Any words that look good I will add so that's what's going on with this list :D! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5990 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 55 of 63 08 January 2010 at 11:54am | IP Logged | |||||
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Somehow the words never stick for me if I just add them singly. I need to add them in a sentence that I've read from somewhere in context for it to really stick. But I guess your method would help me gain at least an impression of some of those words, even if I don't remember them perfectly. Then maybe I could guess them more easily when I encounter them in context for the first time.
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 56 of 63 08 January 2010 at 12:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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You're on my TAC team!!!!
YAY! Haha! I find that SRS works for me, but it could be something different for someone else, right? My mind is a bit more critical, in learning little things at a time and figuring out the puzzle from scratch. It just works for me. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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