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TAC 2011 (Team ÇÜ): The Continuing Saga | ||
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 129 of 135 07 December 2011 at 2:04pm | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 298* (29 October 2011)
GERMAN 120 minutes: conversation practice. German total: 120 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 120 minutes (2h00) --- *ENTRY 299* (30 October 2011) GERMAN 120 minutes: speaking practice. 100 minutes: watched "Tim und Struppi" (no subs). German total: 320 minutes CATALAN 60 minutes: worked on parla.cat course, Unit 1. Catalan total: 60 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 380 minutes (6h20) --- *ENTRY 300* (31 October 2011) GERMAN 30 minutes: speaking practice. German total: 30 minutes CATALAN 120 minutes: listened to lessons 1-57 of Assimil. Catalan total: 120 minutes MANDARIN 5 minutes: tried to read the back of my tea box. Mandarin total: 5 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 155 minutes (2h35) --- *ENTRY 301* (1 November 2011) GERMAN 60 minutes: read 25 pages of a book on philosophical questions. German total: 60 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 60 minutes (1h00) --- *ENTRY 302* (2 November 2011) GERMAN 90 minutes: lecture on translation techniques. 20 minutes: read Eichendorff poetry. German total: 110 minutes CATALAN 20 minutes: CT homework. Catalan total: 20 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 130 minutes (2h10) --- *ENTRY 303* (3 November 2011) GERMAN 90 minutes: lecture on translation technology. German total: 90 minutes FRENCH 60 minutes: read 60 pp. of HP 5. French total: 60 minutes CATALAN 90 minutes: CT class. 15 minutes: CT homework. Catalan total: 105 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 255 minutes (4h15) --- *ENTRY 304* (4 November 2011) GERMAN 30 minutes: spoke German with friends. German total: 30 minutes FRENCH 170 minutes: read 130 pp. of HP 5. French total: 170 minutes CATALAN 150 minutes: CT class. Catalan total: 150 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 350 minutes (5h50) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 130 of 135 07 December 2011 at 2:05pm | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 305* (5 November 2011)
GERMAN 30 minutes: spoke German with new friends. German total: 30 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 30 minutes (0h30) --- *ENTRY 306* (6 November 2011) GERMAN 140 minutes: watched "Verbotene Liebe" (EN subs). German total: 140 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 140 minutes (2h20) --- *ENTRY 307* (7 November 2011) GERMAN 180 minutes: lectures on various translation techniques. German total: 180 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 180 minutes (3h00) --- *ENTRY 308* (8 November 2011) GERMAN 80 minutes: read 60 pp. of Weihnachtskrimis ("Maria, Mord, & Mandelplätzchen"). German total: 80 minutes OTHER 45 minutes: watched the first episode of a Japanese TV show (EN subs). TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 125 minutes (2h05) --- *ENTRY 309* (9 November 2011) GERMAN 90 minutes: seminar on legal translation. German total: 90 minutes CATALAN 30 minutes: CT homework. Catalan total: 30 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 120 minutes (2h00) --- *ENTRY 310* (10 November 2011) GERMAN 90 minutes: lecture on translation technology. German total: 90 minutes CATALAN 90 minutes: CT class. 20 minutes: CT homework. Catalan total: 110 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 200 minutes (3h20) --- *ENTRY 311* (11 November 2011) GERMAN 50 minutes: read 38 pp. of MM&M. German total: 50 minutes CATALAN 150 minutes: CT class. Catalan total: 150 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 200 minutes (3h20) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 131 of 135 07 December 2011 at 2:07pm | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 312* (12 November 2011)
GERMAN 30 minutes: spoke German with friends. German total: 30 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 30 minutes (0h30) --- *ENTRY 313* (13 November 2011) GERMAN 30 minutes: read various things online. German total: 30 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 30 minutes (0h30) --- *ENTRY 314* (14 November 2011) GERMAN 8 minutes: watched more VL (EN subs). 40 minutes: finished MM&M (21 more pp.). German total: 48 minutes CATALAN 20 minutes: started "Colloquial Catalan" (reading & listening). Catalan total: 20 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 68 minutes (1h08) --- *ENTRY 315* (15 November 2011) GERMAN 180 minutes: spoke German with friends. German total: 180 minutes OTHER 30 minutes: crash course in Turkish. 30 minutes: crash course in Russian. 30 minutes: crash course in Armenian. TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 270 minutes (4h30) --- *ENTRY 316* (16 November 2011) GERMAN 60 minutes: read a short story by Gogol, "Der Mantel" (40 pp.). 100 minutes: started (78 pp.) a new Krimi ("Aussortiert" by Helmut Krausser). German total: 160 minutes CATALAN 30 minutes: CT homework. Catalan total: 30 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 190 minutes (3h10) --- *ENTRY 317* (17 November 2011) GERMAN 70 minutes: read 54 pp. of "Aussortiert". German total: 70 minutes CATALAN 90 minutes: CT class. 20 minutes: CT homework. Catalan total: 110 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 180 minutes (3h00) --- *ENTRY 318* (18 November 2011) CATALAN 150 minutes: CT class. 20 minutes: listened to radio talk show. Catalan total: 170 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 170 minutes (2h50) Edited by Jinx on 07 December 2011 at 2:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 132 of 135 07 December 2011 at 2:10pm | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 319* (19 November 2011)
GERMAN 40 minutes: read 30 more pp. of "Aussortiert". 60 minutes: read 30 more pp. of Eco's book on translation. German total: 100 minutes OTHER 15 minutes: read the lyrics to a Romanian song and tried to learn them and sing along. TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 115 minutes (1h55) --- *ENTRY 320* (20 November 2011) GERMAN 20 minutes: read 18 more pp. of "Aussortiert". German total: 20 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 20 minutes (0h20) --- *ENTRY 321* (21 November) GERMAN 80 minutes: read 67 pp. of (and therewith finished) "Aussortiert". German total: 80 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 80 minutes (1h20) --- *ENTRY 322* (22 November 2011) GERMAN 90 minutes: seminar on political translation. German total: 90 minutes MANDARIN 10 minutes: eavesdropped on conversations and understood a bit! Mandarin total: 10 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 100 minutes (1h40) --- *ENTRY 323* (23 November 2011) FRENCH 70 minutes: read 60 more pp. of HP 5. French total: 70 minutes GERMAN 90 minutes: seminar on legal translation. German total: 90 minutes CATALAN 30 minutes: CT homework. Catalan total: 30 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 190 minutes (3h10) --- *ENTRY 324* (24 November 2011) GERMAN 180 minutes: started (250 pp.) a new Krimi ("Der Augensammler" by Sebastian Fitzek). German total: 180 minutes CATALAN 90 minutes: CT class. 20 minutes: CT homework. Catalan total: 110 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 290 minutes (4h50) --- *ENTRY 325* (25 November 2011) GERMAN 90 minutes: read 94 more pp. of "Der Augensammler". German total: 90 minutes CATALAN 150 minutes: CT class. Catalan total: 150 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 240 minutes (4h00) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 133 of 135 07 December 2011 at 2:14pm | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 326* (26 November 2011)
FRENCH 43 minutes: read 34 more pp. of HP 5. French total: 43 minutes GERMAN 360 minutes: took part in a six-hour business meeting in German. 120 minutes: chatted with five friends over Thanksgiving dinner. German total: 480 minutes MANDARIN 10 minutes: eavesdropped on conversations and understood a bit. Mandarin total: 10 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 533 minutes (8h53) --- *ENTRY 327* (27 November 2011) GERMAN 90 minutes: watched an episode of Tatort München (no subs). German total: 90 minutes MANDARIN 15 minutes: listened to Chinese characters speaking in Tatort (no subs), understood a bit. Mandarin total: 15 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 105 minutes (1h45) --- *ENTRY 328* (28 November 2011) GERMAN 90 minutes: watched an episode of Tatort München (no subs). German total: 90 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 90 minutes (1h30) --- *ENTRY 329* (29 November 2011) GERMAN 90 minutes: seminar in political translation. German total: 90 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 90 minutes (1h30) --- *ENTRY 330* (30 November 2011) GERMAN 90 minutes: seminar in legal translation. German total: 90 minutes CATALAN 30 minutes: Catalan homework. Catalan total: 30 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 120 minutes (2h00) --- *ENTRY 331* (1 December 2011) GERMAN 60 minutes: attended a lecture on legal translation. German total: 60 minutes CATALAN 90 minutes: Catalan class. 20 minutes: CT homework. Catalan total: 110 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 170 minutes (2h50) --- *ENTRY 332* (2 December 2011) CATALAN 150 minutes: Catalan class. Catalan total: 150 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 150 minutes (2h30) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 134 of 135 07 December 2011 at 2:38pm | IP Logged |
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Notes at this juncture (7 December 2011)
As usual, I've been keeping assiduous track of my language studies – just not online. Terribly behind on posting to my log. Terribly sorry about that. University continues to be intense – whoever told me being a Masters student in Germany was easy must have been thinking of a different Germany. The main difference here from undergrad studies and education in the US is that the responsibility for everything lies squarely on the student's shoulders. If you don't come to class or don't do the homework, the professors honestly don't mind in the slightest. After all, it's not their problem! They just show up once a week to educate you to the best of their ability, and then test you on it all at the end of the semester (which, by the way, isn't until the end of January here). I'm accustomed to having more deadlines during the semester and less of a pile-up at the end – for instance, for several classes in the past, I've had to write and turn in a short essay every single week. Here, the equivalent is doing the translations. I have to translate about ten pages a week total, which isn't that bad, except that most of it is from English into German – the "wrong direction" for me. It's a very fun challenge, though. Today, for instance, in my "Vertragstext" (legal contract translations) class, I had to "live-translate" a paragraph without the help of a dictionary or online translator or anything, in front of the whole class of native Germans. At first I was terrified, but then it was rather thrilling! Luckily it was a short paragraph: "In case an assigned pilot is incapable to work due to illness or accident for a period of more than 19 calendar days, XXX shall be relieved from the payment of the employee assignment fee from the 20th day onwards for each further day of the pilot's incapacity to work. XXX shall not be entitled to claim replacement or exchange of the pilot in such case." If anyone's interested in my German version of that, it's as follows: "Falls ein eingesetzer Pilot auf Grund von Krankheit oder Unfall für einen Zeitraum von mehr als 19 Kalendertagen arbeitsunfähig ist, ist XXX von der Zahlung der Arbeitnehmerüberlassungsgebühr ab dem. 20. Tag für jeden weiteren Tag der Arbeitsunfähigkeit des Piloten befreit. In einem solchen Fall hat XXX kein Anrecht darauf, Ersatz oder Austausch des Piloten zu fordern." My professor was quite pleased with my spur-of-the-moment attempt, which made me happy. :) In other news, I have a job! I got hired as a freelance translator for a language-learning website called "Lingo4you". Their purpose is to assist students who are struggling in language class by explaining the grammar and general rules of a language as simply as possible. The site is currently available in German, with partially completed sections explaining English, Spanish, and French. My job is to translate the entire website into English. I can work from home and I get paid well, considering it's a part-time job, so I'm extraordinarily pleased with this development. Today, in between classes, I had an extra hour. So of course I went to my favorite bookstore and started reading a novel in Italian. It's called "Io non ho paura" (I'm Not Scared) and the author is Niccolò Ammaniti. It's atmospheric, accessible, and very visual – a thoroughly enjoyable read so far. It's both pleasant and depressing to be reminded how easy it is for me to read Italian. I can just pick up a novel and enjoy it after having self-studied the language for a (patchy at best) year, several years ago; while many German novels still intimidate me after four years of intense study. My true love is a difficult one. :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 135 of 135 27 December 2011 at 3:59am | IP Logged |
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Okay everybody, I've just started my log for next year. You can check it out here if you're interested: TAC 2012 - Jinx - Freutsch & Catalan
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