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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1 of 85 01 December 2009 at 7:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here I shall keep track of what I want to achieve and what I have achieved over the
year of 2010. Mandarin: Current level: I will have finished my cramming of Chinese characters by the beginning of 2010. I have also already read one easy reader and started on another. My speaking was adequate so far because of my stay in Beijing, but now it is falling rather far behind my reading ability, my listening comprehension needs work and my grammar in longer sentences sucks, especially the word order and the use of prepositions. Goal: My goals for the year 2010 shall be to become able to read "A Dictionary of MaQiao" in the original Chinese, to hold a 45-minute spoken conversation in Chinese without switching to another language and to have worked through at least 5000 Chinese sentences in the 10,000 sentences menthod. I expect the usefulness of the method to decrease after that amount but I shall study more sentences if that proves beneficial. Materials: * this easy reader (to be read without the help of a dictionary) * 小王子 - The Little Prince, in a French-Chinese parallel text with matching audio * Some parallel English-Chinese traditional stories * Wenlin for materials with more unknown words, such as Harry Potter, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and news articles * Videos of the Romance of the Three Kingdoms TV series with Chinese and English subtitles * 20,000 Chinese sentences grouped by HSK level and entered into Anki, which I will use to improve my vocabulary, reading speed and feel for the language * All volumes of the NPCR, if I need more formal grammar study * the book "Learn Chinese from Modern Writers", to be used after I'm done with the easy reader * "A dictionary of MaQiao" as an English book and a Chinese one. French Current level: I can speak it fluently (without searching for words more often than I might in German) but it doesn't come to me nearly as effortlessly as English and I'm always aware of the fact I'm speaking French. Writing skills are lagging behind a bit. Goals: Reaching a similar effortless level of speaking as in English, which I will need during my oral exam. Read at least one classics of French literature each month for the purpose of being able to talk about them at my exam. Write about each book I read and hopefully also other things to have my French corrected on Lang8. Materials: French books, more French books, a "Littérature progressive du Francais" to help with background knowledge and a "DALF C1/C2" that might or might not help me with speaking abilities. Need to find a tandem partner from Quebec for accent improvement and speaking practise. Italian Current level: Somewhat better than last year, I managed to re-awaken my Italian but not as much as I wanted to. I still sometimes find myself search for the future tense form of some basic verbs for example and I can't maintain a conversation for long. Goals: Achieve a decent reading speed so that I can enjoy Italian novels more; re-acquire the ability to have a 45-minute conversation in Italian without switching to another language or asking for the easiest vocabulary items. Materials: Lots of Italian books thanks to Volte; I plan to write about each of them on Lang8 when I've finished it; urgently need to find a tandem partner for speaking Italian though. Greek Current level: B1, and I've read 4 easy readers of increasing difficulty in succession. Goals: As I am no longer motivated to do much about Greek, I'll be happy with B2 and the ability to read the book "Τα ταξίδια του Σώκρατη" by the end of the year. Materials: Buying the next level of easy reader whenever I've finished one. I also work with the Little Prince as a parallel text and I have a Modern Greek Reader with excerpts of literature that I haven't touched. Need a source for audio input though, maybe I shall listen to Greek radio. I have access to an awesome tutor for conversation & grammar. Arabic Current level: Wavering. I have studied the grammar basics several times over, but I still forget easy words after a few weeks of doing nothing. It doesn't help that I switched from MSA to Egyptian and back. Goal: B1 and being able to make sense of my non-vowellized Arabic/English parallel books. Materials: Lots. I will probably use Langenscheidt's Praktischer Sprachlehrgang, Anki and a grammar exercise book. If that isn't enough to start working with any of the parallel books, I will hang around Ultimate Arabic and Assimil. Swahili Current level: Lesson 20 of Assimil Goal: Complete Assimil and the University of Georgia's course. It has been very hard to find time to work on this every day or even every other day, so that shall be my goal. Other languages If the language bug bites me, you might find me getting a reading knowledge of Russian, or activating my Dutch, developping my written Spanish, delving into Toki Pona or Maori for fun, maybe some spoken Japanese... These are not my goals though. Edited by Sprachprofi on 15 April 2010 at 9:56pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| FVerschoor Bilingual Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6353 days ago 44 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch* Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 2 of 85 01 December 2009 at 10:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Man, I am jealous of all that you manage to fit into your schedule. Maybe I'll be able to study like that by the end of the year. ;)
Best of luck, I'll be sure to check back often. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jondesousa Tetraglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/Zgg3nRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6268 days ago 227 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Mandarin, Spanish | Message 3 of 85 02 December 2009 at 1:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thats all? HAHAHA
I wish I had so much discipline. I struggle to get 3-4 hours of study each day consistently! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 4 of 85 02 December 2009 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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It's not discipline, it's wanderlust! ;-)
I am totally not sure I can do it all. However, if I decide now that I only want to work on 3 languages or so, I would feel bad about working on the other goals, which are at least as important to me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5797 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 5 of 85 02 December 2009 at 4:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wanderlust is my problem too, I want to work on several languages and the time I spent for each of them is not enough to feel progressing...
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| jondesousa Tetraglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/Zgg3nRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6268 days ago 227 posts - 297 votes Speaks: English*, Portuguese, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Mandarin, Spanish | Message 6 of 85 02 December 2009 at 7:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm in the same club. I started with Japanese and then Italian and then Portuguese and now Latin; although they are all at the intermediate level, I would like to get them to a sincerely advanced level. I want to play with German so bad, but I need to keep focused on what I have in the sandbox already :(
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| -Kupo- Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6071 days ago 84 posts - 84 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian | Message 7 of 85 03 December 2009 at 2:18am | IP Logged | ||
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You seem to have a pretty well set-out schedule for learning and I will be reading your blog. Just to let you know! I also have the wanderlust bug, it just seems to stick and stay forever.
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6913 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 85 09 December 2009 at 6:36pm | IP Logged | ||
Have you got the sentences from this site? (If so, how have you converted the .xml file into something that Anki can handle?) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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