|
 |
Doviende’s Swedish Log (TAC2010 - Team J) | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Language Learning Log |  | |
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5986 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 33 of 65 24 January 2010 at 9:41am | IP Logged |
|
Ok, I worked through the "A" section of that alphabetical list of vocab. I didn't take everything, but I read through and understood each sentence and added the ones I wanted into Anki. I think I need a little project to work on, so I'm going to try to work through this file letter by letter and see if that keeps me on-track. Goal for tonight: the Bs!
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5986 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 34 of 65 24 January 2010 at 4:00pm | IP Logged |
|
wow! Olle Kjellin just replied on my blog! I'm so happy :)
1 person has voted this message useful | |
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6909 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 35 of 65 25 January 2010 at 6:47pm | IP Logged |
|
Now, that's cool! He gave a very good reply, too.
1 person has voted this message useful | |
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5986 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 36 of 65 30 January 2010 at 10:12am | IP Logged |
|
I've been working a lot lately, and my laptop also decided to break, so I've been spending more time fixing computers lately than working on languages. The laptop is working again now (with a fresh install of Ubuntu 9.10 :), so I'm back on languages again.
I've been trying to do a few hours of listening to Hobbiten every day. This has been good, in combination with working on vocabulary from the 2000-word list. The basic vocab work has really paid off, and I can understand a bit more of Hobbiten now. It's starting to sound a bit more familiar, and I get more little moments of understanding, although there's still a lot that's mysterious. The nice part is that as I learn more Swedish words, it becomes easier to guess some of the ones I don't know, especially if they're similar to the German equivalent. This reaffirms my confidence, and reminds me that just plugging away at one word at a time can lead straight to reading, which leads to winning :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5986 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 37 of 65 23 February 2010 at 9:07am | IP Logged |
|
Here's a quick update just to show that I'm still alive ;)
Over the past few weeks, I've been averaging maybe half an hour per day. Some days I do more, some days I do nothing. I've been working long hours lately, so that's interfered with my normal schedule, but I've been trying to do a bit of listening at work and during my commute. I've found that if I just keep going with some minimal work, then I still make progress. It's slower than I'd like, but it's still happening. Each week I notice new things that I can understand that I didn't understand before. I've been listening to "Pojken i randig pyjamas" because it's very simple and is the easiest audiobook that I have. I'm also listening to Hobbiten a lot, and trying to work through sentence by sentence in one of the chapters. And lastly, I've been making Anki cards from the example sentences in the 2000-word list. Basically, I'm continuing with my previous efforts, just bringing myself into contact with swedish as much as I can, and trying hard to understand what I read and hear. Sometimes I just try to read more, other times I try to understand every word by looking a bunch of things up. Generally I seem to be making progress. I'm starting to plan my trip to Europe more now. I'll probably be leaving around the middle or end of May, and doing a bicycle trip around several countries until late August or early September. Starting in northwestern Germany, I'll go down to Austria then across to Slovakia for the Esperanto event there, then back up the east side of Germany and over to Denmark. I'm interested in seeing Copenhagen, and then I'll continue on my way to Stockholm and probably stop there for about a month. After that I'll ride back to Berlin and stay there for a bit. It'll probably be about 4000km over several months. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5556 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 38 of 65 12 March 2010 at 12:18pm | IP Logged |
|
Best of luck with your European bike trip through Germany later this year, 4000km will certainly leave your fitness levels in ship shape and Bristol fashion by the end. Let me recommend the Bergstraße, a strikingly beautiful part of Germany with many sights and traditional or natural points of interest, absolutely ideal for cycling and sampling the local Riesling along the way ;) Edited by Teango on 12 March 2010 at 12:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5986 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 39 of 65 19 March 2010 at 3:46pm | IP Logged |
|
I've managed to reboot my Swedish efforts lately. I had dropped my previous practice of tracking my time in a spreadsheet, hoping that leaving my time more "free form" would inspire more creativity, but really it just made me slack off. Now that I'm tracking my time again, I've accomplished more in the last few days than I have in the last week or two.
I'm focusing on Listening/Reading, with audiobooks and text for 2 harry potter books, and The Hobbit. I've scheduled myself to read all 3 books before the end of April, which works out to maybe 2 hours of reading per day. I might be able to do more, but we'll see. After only a few days of drastically increased Listening and Reading, I've already noticed improvement in my listening skills when I listen to Pojken i Randig Pyjamas, which is an audiobook for which I don't have the transcribed text. This L-R project will be 45 days long, which will be my last push with Swedish before I head off to Europe. Once I hit Sweden in around August then I'll probably spend about 45 more days there, so I'm trying to make the best of these 90 days of concentrated effort. The rest of this year will probably mostly concentrate on German, with a lot of Esperanto in July. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5986 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 40 of 65 21 March 2010 at 12:06pm | IP Logged |
|
I added a bunch of cards to Anki today. I'm up to the end of page 7 from the alphabetic wordlist (43 pages in total), which means I'm done all the words starting in A to D. I'm trying to accelerate this lately, since I think the extra vocab work will really help with my reading project. 533 Swedish Anki cards so far.
So far I'm on track with the L-R project, having read 43000 words already, of the intended ~400000 over 45 days. 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
