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TAC 2010, Team K, Teango - GE SP SW RU | ||
Tags: Kanji | Turkish | Listening-Reading (L-R) | Swedish | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Russian | German | French | Spanish | ||
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6140 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 129 of 185 23 June 2010 at 12:30am | IP Logged | |||||
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Teango, is your next mission after you return from Barcelona to study Russian? Are you going to be using the same methods as you have just used with Spanish?
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 130 of 185 23 June 2010 at 2:21am | IP Logged | |||||
Everything's booked for the middle of next month, and I'm already getting giddy at the slightest thought of this little escape to the sun. I just need to buy some suitably garish holiday clothes in Frankfurt first and a tube of Factor 50...lol...only kidding, but I will need to replenish my cobweb adorned summer wardrobe with something light and stylish all the same. ;)
Absolutely to both questions (although I'll be replacing Yabla with extensive L&R this time), and it's going to be one helluva challenge, which is half the fun after all! I've dabbled in Russian from time to time as a beginner over the years, and my girlfriend is Russian too, which will definitely come in handy later during the conversation and writing stage. I feel bad that I've never made a serious attempt at learning this amazing language before, and now it's time to make amends for lost time. Many people find it a pretty tough language to crack, especially the grammar, so I reckon it will prove an excellent test of the methodology I established during my month of Spanish. I'm not sure what can be achieved in the same time-frame when it comes to Russian, but I'm willing to give it my best shot and find out. Edited by Teango on 23 June 2010 at 2:29am 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 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 131 of 185 27 June 2010 at 8:33pm | IP Logged | |||||
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PROGRESS IN Spanish, WEEK 25/52 OF THE 2010 TAC CHALLENGE
SUMMARY Active study this week: 5 hours (written exercises, newspaper, magazines, one tutorial) Additional immersion this week: 1.5 hours (music) ———————————————————— Total time actively studying Spanish so far: 185 hours Additional light immersion with music and TV: 46 hours Grand total of Spanish study and immersion: 231 hours WANDERLUST CONFESSION BOX Just keeping up with basic kanji reviews for the 180 cards studied so far this year. TEANGO’S WORD/PHRASE OF THE WEEK With England sadly now out of the World Cup, Germany go on to play the winners of the match tonight between Argentina and Mexico. Whatever the results, I thought it might be handy to have a few football terms in both Spanish and German at the ready for the quarterfinals next week. NOTES This has been a really busy week, so I was lucky to get any language study done at all. I had a tutorial on Monday evening, which was good fun, but my Tuesday meet-up was canceled (which turned out to be a blessing, as I had a full schedule of development work to get through that day, and therefore no time to prepare for the class). Next week will be much the same workwise, although it'll be spent on mountains of editing and proof-reading for another project this time round. All the same, I hope to squeeze in several hours more of listening and reading wherever possible. It would be great if I could devour all my Spanish books with accompanying audio between now and my holiday to Spain next month. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6355 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 132 of 185 28 June 2010 at 9:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Teango: A Russian girlfriend! Oh my, what a language learner's dream, you lucky boy.
Is she joining you in your LR Adventures? Oh, and give yourself a pat on the back, 6.5 hours of study in a week may feel vanishingly small. -But really, it's more time than most semi-serious language students spend per week. Pretty good "low level" in other words. :D Hope your upcoming weeks gets effective workwise. And that you can accumulate some extra inspiration to return stronger and mightier than ever. 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 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 133 of 185 01 July 2010 at 2:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
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How time doesn't fly anymore...
I think starting a personal language log this year was one of the best decisions I've made in a long time. I find it helps me remember where I've been and reminds me of where I'm going, including all the little sprints and stumbles along the way. Sometimes weeks, months and even years seem to pass by unnoticed and so very quickly at work, punctuated by lazier weekends chilling out with friends and occasional wilder getaways. It's incredible to note that it's already been six months since I started posting here, but not because I feel it flew by quickly this time... On the contrary, since I started jotting down just a few of my ideas about language learning, and began sharing my experiences along the way in the hope that they might help, encourage or support others on similar journeys, the days and hours have seemed much richer and fuller on the whole, and time, or at least my memory of time, seems to have slowed down a little on the wing to let me enjoy and savour the landscape more. :) 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 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 134 of 185 01 July 2010 at 2:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
Konechno - she said she's going to help me out with writing and discussions later, once I get to that stage after some good ol' L&R! ;) I get the feeling, however, that Russian's going to prove a little more uphill than Spanish. And it'll be really interesting to discover just how far I can push my listening and reading levels with a "hard" grammatically complex language in merely a few weeks. The words alone look twice as long and exotic on average (lol)... Edited by Teango on 01 July 2010 at 3:08pm 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 5554 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 135 of 185 04 July 2010 at 5:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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PROGRESS IN Spanish, WEEK 26/52 OF THE 2010 TAC CHALLENGE
SUMMARY No significant changes since last week. WANDERLUST CONFESSION BOX Sadly desk-bound and hands full. TEANGO’S WORD/PHRASE OF THE WEEK "Exterminieren!" - well, ok, probably not a real German word, but it did make me laugh out loud when I heard this in Doctor Who (Season 4, Episode 13) last week. :) NOTES Just a really busy week in the sweltering heat, so all I managed to fit in was a microscopic amount of Spanish radio in the background and a couple of "paletas" (fresh fruit ice lollies)... Edited by Teango on 04 July 2010 at 5:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6038 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 136 of 185 04 July 2010 at 6:21pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yeah that's true but you'll appreciate your Spanish ten times more :-) Russian does have more manageable verbs though than Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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