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| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 25 of 86 20 January 2011 at 9:57pm | IP Logged |
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Day 18
100 minutes of Michel Thomas 8.1 minutes of Anki Cards in Anki deck: 176 Hours Studied Today: 1.80 Total Hours: 25.71 I am a third of the way to what is claimed as the time needed for A1 level in Arabic. Truthfully though, I feel that I am already at that level, especially at the spoken level. I feel that my reading and writing skills are at a far lower level than my speaking skills, if for no other reason than that my current text is nearly half over and I have not yet touched on any verbs. This coming week I am planning on beginning some FLR work with my TY text to see if I can move along my reading and writing skills. I will still also use the Mastering Arabic text as I have been, the FLR work will be in supplement to what I already do. On another note, I have finished the Michel Thomas beginner course and now need to move on to the Advanced. I am running into a snag however, because I cannot obtain the Advanced course through inter-library loan. This means that I will probably have to break down and buy the course outright on half.com. I hate spending money. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 26 of 86 23 January 2011 at 11:38pm | IP Logged |
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Day 19-22
Completed about half of Chapter 10 of 20 in Mastering Arabic Cards in Anki deck: 176 Hours Studied Today: 0.50 Total Hours: 26.21 Weekly Average: 0.74 Total Average: 1.25 Blast! I have been horrible about this thing lately! Anywho I have been terribly unproductive this week. On the plus side I just bought an Arabic phrasebook with which I am going to begin the FLR process. Edited by JPike1028 on 23 January 2011 at 11:48pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 27 of 86 25 January 2011 at 10:20am | IP Logged |
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Day 23 & 24
Completed Chapter 10 of 20 in Mastering Arabic 10.7 minutes of Anki - added 47 new cards Cards in Anki deck: 223 Hours Studied Today: 1.01 Total Hours: 27.22 I wanted to begin FLR today, but was severely lacking in motivation. I seem to be in a rough patch currently. Hopefully I can pull myself out of it and get back to week 1 study hour totals soon. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 28 of 86 26 January 2011 at 11:09am | IP Logged |
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Day 25
Completed ~63% of Chapter 11 of 20 in Mastering Arabic 17.6 minutes of Anki Cards in Anki deck: 223 Hours Studied Today: 1.38 Total Hours: 28.60 I anticipate getting to the one-fifth point of my hours necessary to reach A2 according to the chart at the beginning of this log tomorrow (30 hours). I am a bit behind where I would like to be time-wise this month; my goal was to be at 50 hours by day 30. It seems as though that is not going to happen, barring some massive studying over the next few days (i.e. 4.28 hrs./day) which I do not really have time for. On day 30 I will conduct an assessment of how far I have come this month and what I should focus on next month. Edited by JPike1028 on 26 January 2011 at 11:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 29 of 86 27 January 2011 at 11:07am | IP Logged |
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Day 26
12.2 minutes of Anki Cards in Anki deck: 223 Hours Studied Today: 0.20 Total Hours Studied: 28.80 I intend to finish Chapter 11 once I get home from work, but I currently am feeling sick to my stomach and thusly not up for studying at the moment. I had two funny/interesting/encouraging things happen to me today dealing with Arabic however. The first is that in the course of my dreams today some Arabic crept in; I could not tell you what was being said, but it was definitely Arabic. Secondly, I was reading through US Weekly tonight at work (caveat: I do not normally read said magazine) and I found myself continually reading the magazine articles from right to left, although still flipping through the proper way I always started with the article farthest to the right and worked my way left. Edited by JPike1028 on 27 January 2011 at 11:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5496 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 30 of 86 28 January 2011 at 2:20am | IP Logged |
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Good job on all the hard work lately. I hope you feel better soon!
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| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 31 of 86 28 January 2011 at 8:01am | IP Logged |
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Day 27
Completed Chapter 11 of 20 in Mastering Arabic 14.3 minutes of Anki - 27 cards added Total cards in Anki deck: 250 Hours Studied Today: 1.16 Total Hours: 29.96 Really?!?! 0.04 hours away from 30 hours total? That's obnoxious. Today I was introduced to the final of the cases in Arabic and in the next chapter I am finally going to get to attack verbs. I started taking notes on the things I read instead of just reading and trying to internalize; I often forget that the kinetic aspect of learning is terribly helpful to me retaining things. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JPike1028 Triglot Senior Member United States piketransitions Joined 5398 days ago 297 posts - 337 votes Speaks: English*, French, Italian Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Portuguese, Czech | Message 32 of 86 02 February 2011 at 10:04am | IP Logged |
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Day 28 - 32
Completed 33.33% of Chapter 12 of 20 in Mastering Arabic 44.8 minutes of Anki Total cards in Anki deck: 250 Hours Studied Today: 1.76 Total Hours: 31.72 Weekly Average: 0.86 Total Average: 0.99 It has been a frustrating time of late with this language. I feel as though I am not nearly as close to where I want to be at this point. My self-assessment revealed that I have accomplished seemingly little this month. While I know this is not true, it shows that this language is going to take me a little longer than anticipated to get to where I want it to be. I feel like I am lacking most in input in almost all its forms. I am finally beginning to be fed some verbs through my text, but I would like to start reading some things to help build my vocabulary and understanding. There are some bilingual children's books out there that I have seen that I am contemplating purchasing and starting with them, moving up in difficulty once I can understand at least 95% of a book at this level. Wanderlust confession: For the last couple of weeks I have been struggling with the urge to pick up Korean. This is odd because up to this point in my life I have had little to no urge to learn an asiatic language, but for whatever reason lately it has been appearing to be a good and logical choice to my brain. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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