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tarvos
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 Message 361 of 568
30 October 2013 at 3:28pm | IP Logged 
Uitlezen = to finish reading
voorlezen = to read out loud :)
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Hekje
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 Message 362 of 568
30 October 2013 at 11:11pm | IP Logged 
Vos - Ja, ik vind het bijna jammer dat die stemmen zo lekker knap zijn, op kantoor kan ik er niet naar luisteren
want ik zou dan zeker lekker in slaap vallen, of gewoon te relaxed worden. :-P

Vos wrote:
Sommige (some of them?) waren zo knap!

(Sommigen? Weet ik veel...)


Dutch

Nog een paar pagina's in De ontdekking van de hemel gelezen. Ik heb pagina 57 bereikt.

Verder! Voor iedereen die van satire houdt: ik geef je De Speld, een online
tijdschrift die een beetje op The Onion lijkt. Kijk eens naar het hoofdartikel van de afgelopen vrijdag,
'Nederlandse regering wil weten waarom Rutte niet is afgeluisterd' ('Dutch government wants to know why [Prime
Minister] Rutte is not bugged').


Indonesian

I did more wordlists today. They really do seem more effective for me personally than Anki. Or maybe just more
enjoyable?

Anyway, today I also reviewed the Wikibooks lesson on telling time in Indonesian. Delightfully, Indonesian also
says "half 3" to mean "2:30", just like in Dutch. I wonder if they have always done it that way or if it's a holdover
from the Dutch occupation.

There are technically more Wikibooks lessons, but the quality seems to take a nosedive after this one. It looks
like I am being driven back into the firm, loving arms of the Assimil now.

Small note - I am going to drill numbers hardcore on my next wordlist, as Indonesian numeral names are vastly
different from English, Dutch, and French ones. I actually love this, but I am gonna have to rise to the challenge.
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Hekje
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 Message 363 of 568
02 November 2013 at 9:20pm | IP Logged 
Dutch

I watched three episodes of this new show I found, Je Zal Het Maar Zijn. It
reminds me a little of This American Life (the radio program) but more pop culture-y. I
highly recommend it, especially to you, Vos, as it's a bit like De Wandeling
too.

The episodes I watched:

- Je Zal Het Maar Zijn: di 29 okt 2013 - No title, but it's about a prepper, a
friend of the dude who does Zwarte Piet is Racisme, and a lady who trades sexy times
for furniture.
- Je Zal Het Maar Zijn: Bijzondere relaties
- Je Zal Het Maar Zijn: In de ban van je uiterlijk

Aaand a Super Challenge update:

Films: 88/100
Books: 9
"Books": 23.5/100 (as of De aanslag)

My hope is to finish the film part and De ontdekking van de hemel by December
31; I think that would make me happy.

Obviously at this point the books part isn't going to happen by the end of the official
challenge, but I still like keeping track of what and how much I read, so 10,000 pages
might stay as a personal goal for later.


Indonesian

Just did some word lists. You know, the uge.

Thanks to iguanamon, I also now have this super-fab collection of
links to Indonesian resources, including
Indonesian BBC and much, much more. I've only really looked through the Indonesian BBC
- tried to read some articles and such, just get a feel for things - but yeah, this is
suuuper rad awesome.


Side note - I totally cracked the other day and got Assimil French With Ease. But I am
not (not, not!) letting myself start it until at least my birthday.
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 Message 364 of 568
02 November 2013 at 9:32pm | IP Logged 
You're welcome! Glad to have been able to help you, Hekje. I've lurked on your log for a long time and am enjoying watching your progress. Hope you can manage to resist the siren call of French for a while.

Edited by iguanamon on 02 November 2013 at 9:33pm

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Hekje
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 Message 365 of 568
03 November 2013 at 10:26pm | IP Logged 
Thanks iguanamon! I'm flattered that you follow my log, as I have a lot of respect for
your posts around the forum as well. Let's see how I do with French :-)
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Vos
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 Message 366 of 568
05 November 2013 at 3:13pm | IP Logged 
Je zal het maar zijn klinkt me leuk! Je kent me goed. Zodra ik mijn laatste tentamen heb gedaan en de laatste
opdracht heb ingeleverd, zal ik er een paar kijken.
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Hekje
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 Message 367 of 568
06 November 2013 at 5:26am | IP Logged 
Dutch

Yesterday I read to page 78 in De ontdekking van de hemel. It was a good reading
day; I felt like I could really see what was happening in the story in almost
like hi-def. Sometimes, depending on how abstract the narrative gets, I can't reach
that level and it's like feeling out the action in the story through a blanket. But
yesterday was good.


Indonesian

So apparently I've been doin it rong. Assimil, that is.

I recently stumbled across this nicely informative
article
and realized, oh my goodness, I could not have been more off.

Before, basically, I was listening to the audio 1-2 times, writing out the sentences in
my notebook, making a little vocabulary list, and calling it a day. Just way not enough
listening and too much mindless copying. Today I went back through Assimil Lesson 1 as
per the instructions of the webpage I linked and things just felt like ten times
more effective. I'm actually looking at Assimil a little differently now.

So I think I'm going to go back to the beginning and do Assimil this way. I've only
done ten lessons anyway so there's not much to backtrack, and I think it's really
important to get the foundation solid.

Other than that, I have been keeping up with ye olde wordlistes.

Edited by Hekje on 06 November 2013 at 5:28am

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Hekje
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 Message 368 of 568
07 November 2013 at 6:40am | IP Logged 
Dutch

Today:

- Je Zal Het Maar Zijn: Mensen met een dubbele identiteit

Ik schrijf ook wat over mijn avond, want ik vind het hoe dan ook leuk om af en toe iets
in het Nederlands te schrijven.

Vandaag ging ik met mijn huisgenoot naar een meet-and-greet voor illustratoren. Het
grappige was dat ik niet een van de illustratoren was: ik was een van de mensen die hun
portfolio's beoordeelde. Gek, hè?

Je zal maar denken: Maar Hekje, je studeerde net af! Je bent geen professionele lerares
of zo, hoe kan je dan portfolio's beoordelen? Dat slaat nergens op!

Ik ben het met je eens. De ervaring deed me denken aan in een film zijn of zo, alsof ik
de hoofdrol in een tv-programma aan het spelen was. Niets voelde werkelijk. Het was
echt een New York-achtige nacht, met al die vreemden om me heen en het gevoel dat alles
en nog wat kon en zou gebeuren.


Indonesian

Assimil 2, the "right" way, and word lists. I find that trilling the r at the end of
words is still kind of challenging right now for me, but I'm working on it every day.

I've also finished all my numbers word lists. Feels good man. I should note that I rode
mnemonics pretty hard for those; mnemonics have been like, my best friend while
approaching this new and pretty foreign vocabulary.

Edited by Hekje on 07 November 2013 at 6:48am



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