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| marrubizko Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5528 days ago 21 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Italian | Message 17 of 26 21 January 2011 at 1:00am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm updating again! This is the second time I've posted on my own without having to be convinced or reminded! I
know that's really pathetic, but it's actually pretty exciting for me. Even more exciting is the fact that I'm continuing to make project and be excited and motivated. As depressing as it is to admit, by this point I've usually lost interest and motivation and given up. For the time being, though, I'm still interested, motivated, and excited. In fact, I think it's making me in a better mood. I feel like I am actually doing something worthwhile with my time, and I've found that I enjoy doing it. Hopefully this will last. Now that I'm finished rambling, here is what I've done in my language studies since the last time I posted: Dutch Unfortunately, I still have not done very much with Dutch. I think the fact that I don't have an actual hard copy of a Dutch book, despite the fact that I have several on the computer, has caused me to put off studying it. So, my goals for this weekend are to send all the books that I have on my computer to my Kindle and to put the audio that I have on my iPod. This way, I can't use the excuse of not wanting to do it off the computer, and I will also be able to work on it when I have free time at school, on the bus, or other places. I would also like to start a new Anki deck, because I got annoyed with the one I had and deleted it today. Italian I've been studying the vocabulary on Anki, but I haven't actually done any lessons or grammar or anything. I seem to have misplaced my Italian book, which made doing lessons a little difficult... Yesterday, a friend lent me two books (Easy Italian Reader and Ultimate Italian), though, so I hope to start actually studying this weekend. I've also been looking for a good Italian book for the Kindle, because I've found with French that that works very well for me. I've had trouble finding one, though, so for now I will stick to the two I'm borrowing. French I saved this for last because it's the only one I've actually put significant work into. My friend and I finally went and talked to the teacher who wanted to start a study group for students considering taking the AP exam yesterday, and she lent us the books that the AP class is using (AP French: Preparing for the Language Examination and Une Fois Pour Toutes). I worked on a couple lessons of Une Fois Pour Toutes during my off period today and have been continuing to work on Complete French Grammar. I also added a bunch of vocabulary from AP French into Anki and have been continuing to work on that. Also, this morning I told my mom we needed to start speaking in French, so we didn't speak English all morning. I'm hoping we will keep speaking French as much as possible, because it's very good practice. ~Megan 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| marrubizko Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5528 days ago 21 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Italian | Message 18 of 26 24 January 2011 at 3:55am | IP Logged | ||
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All right, it was originally suggested to me by my friend (Ellasevia) that I choose one day a week to update this.
That was my original plan, because I thought that I wouldn't be motivated enough to post more than that. However, that changed, and I found myself actually updating more than once a week. After taking a look at his log, though, I've found that I really like that setup. So, I've decided that, as today marks one week from when I really started studying, I will try to update on Sunday nights. I might still post during the week if I see a reason to, but Sunday will be the day when I update and share the progress I've made over the week. Also, I started an Excel spreadsheet that keeps track of the time I've spent studying each language. It's sort of my own version of the one that Ellasevia sent me, because that one for some reason won't work on my computer, so I just made my own. Surprisingly, I've actually studied a lot more since creating it (yesterday), simply because I enjoy watching the graphs change when I add in more study time. I guess I'm easily amused. So... Here is my overall progress for the week. French
The total time I've spent this week, this month, and this year on French is 3.1 hours. This constitutes 43% of my studying so far. Italian
The total time I've spent this week, this month, and this year on Italian is 2.1 hours. This constitutes 29% of my studying so far. Dutch
The total time I've spent this week, this month, and this year on Dutch is 2 hours. This constitutes 28% of my studying. Also, I've decided that I think I am probably going to keep studying Dutch after the end of this month. I originally was just going to do it during January for the Dutch challenge, but I got a late start, and I'm enjoying learning it, so, as long as everything continues to go as smoothly as it has been, I will keep studying it, potentially all year. ~Megan 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| marrubizko Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5528 days ago 21 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Italian | Message 19 of 26 30 January 2011 at 7:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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I would normally wait until this evening to write this so that I could include today's study time; however, I've
already done all my Anki for today, and I don't foresee much time for more studying the rest of the day. I still have one final college application to do today, and I also have a fair amount of homework. I did, however, get my first college acceptance letter on Friday to a college with an amazing study abroad program, so I'm very excited about that! Unfortunately that's about the only good thing I can say about this past week. I've had a lot of family stuff going on, which has resulted in very few accomplishments when it comes to languages. I only did about 4 hours of studying. I did do my Anki reviews every day, though, and I did do some other studying when I had the time, so I'm still doing better than I have during my past language learning attempts. FRENCH
My total study time for this week was 2.45 hours. My total study time for this month (and year) is now 5.53 hours. My goals for this coming week are to try and practice speaking with my mom as much as possible and to actually get around to doing some of the stuff my teacher from last year gave me. Perhaps next week I will attempt to write something in French on here. It makes me really nervous though, so I don't know... ITALIAN
My total study time for Italian this week was 1.25 hours. My total study time for this month (and year) is now 3.3 hours. I really didn't do much for Italian this week. I hope to start doing some actual lessons this coming week, though. Of course, this depends on how much school work I have and how much family stuff is going on... We'll see. DUTCH
My extremely unimpressive total study time for Dutch this week is .37 hours. My total study time for this month (and year) is now 2.37 hours. This is pretty disappointing, considering I'm supposedly participating in this January Dutch challenge. I'm not TOO concerned, though, because I am going to continue studying Dutch after the challenge is over, and I will hopefully have a lot more time and a lot less stress in the coming months. My main goal for this week is to finish the next CD of Michel Thomas Dutch. ~Megan 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| marrubizko Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5528 days ago 21 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Italian | Message 20 of 26 06 February 2011 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am once again writing this post a bit earlier than planned, because I have already done my Anki reviews for the
day but still need to do all of my homework for tomorrow, so I probably won't have time to do a lot more work on languages today. This week was slightly more productive than last week, with 4.45 hours of study compared to last week's 4.1. This is still not nearly as much time as I should be spending, but I did actually attempt to break last week's habit of only doing Anki reviews and no other studying for most of the week. I must admit that for Italian, I was completely unsuccessful and only did Anki and nothing else. One or two days I didn't even do Anki. For French and Dutch, however, I had a bit more success. I was actually doing pretty well until Friday. I finally finished my last college application and had a pretty good week until a bunch of stuff sort of went crazy on Friday. I am hoping to get back on track starting tomorrow, though. FRENCH
My total study time for French this week was 3.15 hours. My total study time for this month is 2.98 hours. My total study time for this year is 8.68 hours. My goal for this coming week is to actually start doing some of the stuff my French teacher from last year gave me to work on and, if possible, to start speaking French with my mom on a regular basis. I would also like to start getting a significant amount of my news from French websites like TF1. I'm a bit of a CNN addict, so English will have to suffice for at least some of it. ITALIAN
My total study time for Italian this week was .38 hours. My total study time this month is also .33 hours. My total study time this year is 3.72 hours. This was a very disappointing week for Italian. For next week, my goal (like last week) is to start actually doing some lessons. DUTCH
My total study time for Dutch this week was .91 hours. My total study time for Dutch this month is .88 hours. My total study time for Dutch this year is 3.28 hours. While I did not meet my goal of finishing the second CD of Michel Thomas Dutch this week, I did at least do some of it, which I'm happy about. My goal for this coming week is to finish that CD and do at least part (hopefully all) of the next. ~Megan 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| marrubizko Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5528 days ago 21 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Italian | Message 21 of 26 14 February 2011 at 1:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Hello!
This has actually been quite a productive week for me, which is interesting considering the amount of anxiety I've been having. I didn't have a lot of homework, though, so that helped a lot. I did a little over seven total hours of studying. I still haven't managed to get very involved in Italian, but I did make a lot of progress in French and a decent amount in Dutch. FRENCH
My total study time this week was 5.57 hours. My total study time this month is 8.55 hours. My total study time this year is 14.25 hours. My goal for this week, again, is to start actually using the materials my French teacher from last year gave me. ITALIAN
The total study time this week was .6 hours. The total study time this month is .93 hours. The total study time this year is 4.3 hours. My goal, once again, for the coming week, is to start actually doing some Italian and not just doing Anki reviews. DUTCH
My total study time this week was .95 hours. My total study time this month is 1.83 hours. My total study time this year is 4.23 hours. I finally managed to get around to finishing that second CD, which I'm happy about. My goal for next week is to finish the next one. ~Megan 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6146 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 22 of 26 14 March 2011 at 6:37am | IP Logged | ||
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Megan, comment ça va? Est-ce que tu étudies toujours tes langues? Ça fait un mois que tu n'as rien écrit ici. J'espère que tout va bien avec toi et tes études. Si tu reviendras, crois-tu que tu pourrais nous écrire quelque chose en français, ou même en néerlandais ou italien?
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| marrubizko Diglot Newbie United States Joined 5528 days ago 21 posts - 26 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Italian | Message 23 of 26 19 March 2011 at 3:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Okay, so it's been a really long time since I've posted. I'm really sorry about that. My life has been pretty much
insane the past few weeks, and I've fallen way behind. I don't have a lot to report, but as it's been so long I thought I would update anyways. I haven't really done any Dutch or Italian, besides Anki reviews. In fact, I've sort of stopped my Italian reviews for the moment, as well. For some reason, no matter how many times I start studying Italian, I never follow through, even though I really like the language. I'm thinking I'll try to pick it up again when things calm down. Right now, as I am finishing my last couple months of high school, is just not a great time. I am continuing to do my Dutch and French reviews, though. For French I have also been reading Harry Potter 4. I am actually really enjoying this and am pleasantly surprised by how much I understand. It always excites and encourages me when I am able to get through several sentences in a row with complete comprehension of both the vocabulary and the grammar. I haven't been recording the time I've spent on languages at all. I sort of got bored of it and lost interest. Maybe I'll try starting that again next week. I don't know. Next week is spring break, and I was originally planning on trying to get caught up with language studies then, but I found out today that I am leaving tomorrow to go visit colleges. I'm actually extremely excited about this, but it will cut out a lot of the time I could have been using for languages. I will attempt to take some materials with me and study in the car, but I don't know how much time I'll actually end up spending on it. We'll see, though. I think that's everything I needed to update on. I will try really hard to get back into the habit of posting each week. ~Megan 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6089 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 24 of 26 19 March 2011 at 8:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi there megan,
wow, the last year of HS is really a busy year to be tackling all those languages :)
I can't keep accurate account of the hours studied-- I'm one of those people that could really get into it, too. I'd have pie charts and line graphs going, so it's probably a good thing that I don't have time to do it. Does it benefit your studies to keep track of the hours? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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