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| Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4509 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes  Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech | Message 73 of 198 08 February 2013 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | ||
I understand you, because I'm going through the same situation. I'm struggling to find a room, and most of the adverts seem to be swindles. So I'm also slacking at languages so to speak, since I haven't enough time now. Anyway, you wrote in German, so that's something, he, he. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4871 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 74 of 198 08 February 2013 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Here it was more the fact that the landlords can cherrypick their future residents
because there are more people than places to house them it seems. Where are you going? (because of last month's exams, I've been terrible at keeping up with your logs.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| nuriayasmin70 Diglot Senior Member Germany languagesandbeyoRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4519 days ago 132 posts - 162 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: SpanishB1, Portuguese, Czech, Hungarian | Message 75 of 198 08 February 2013 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | ||
Heute haben meine Mitbewohner und ich endlich ein Haus für nächstes Jahr gefunden. Anscheinend gibt es jedes Jahr mehr haussuchende Studenten. Weil ich diese Woche an "Haussuchstress" gelitten habe, habe ich fast kein Deutsch oder Japanisch gelernt. Ich habe mir auch tägliche Ziele gesetzt, um mich daran zu gewöhnen, regelmäßig zu lernen. Ich habe letztens auch eine interessante Band gehört: Die Apokalyptischen Reiter - Heavy Metal auf Deutsch. If you use "Haus suchen", it means you're looking for a complete house, otherwise it would be "Wohnung suchen", "die Wohnungssuche", "auf Wohnungssuche sein", "der Wohnungssuchstress", though the last one is an invented word but totally understandable. "erlernen" sounds a bit old-fashioned to me and I'd also rather use it for something which is completely like "Ich habe Deutsch innerhalb von 2 Jahren erlernt". "neuerdings" is used for something you recently started to do and do regularly now, also for a state of mine. Examples: Ich höre neuerdings gerne "Die Apokalyptischen Reiter". Sie ist neuerdings immer so traurig, wenn sie von der Arbeit kommt. "letztens" is used for something you did a short time ago, genereally for something you did only once. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 76 of 198 08 February 2013 at 7:29pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm not a Heavy Metal fan, so I don't know Die Apokalyptischen Reiter, but there's a lot of good German music out there. However, I didn't know there was German Heavy Metal, although it's probably unlikely that there wasn't any at all. EDIT: Oops, I just noticed nuriayasmin was faster than me. Anyway, maybe a second correction is useful as well... Edited by Josquin on 08 February 2013 at 7:30pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4871 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 77 of 198 09 February 2013 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks to the both of you. :)
(I would have appreciated German explanations in German as well, though. ;) ) We were looking for a house though; there are five of us and the houses around here are relatively small; I thought Wohnung was more like a Flat. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4842 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 78 of 198 09 February 2013 at 7:01pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, "Wohnung" is a flat, but the word "Wohnungssuche" is a fixed expression and much more common than "Haussuche". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4871 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 79 of 198 14 February 2013 at 9:57pm | IP Logged | ||
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So half of February is gone, and as mentioned earlier, I had made daily goals.
Incoming boring stats: GERMAN Add 5 Anki sentence cards# (13/14) Read two news articles (7/14) At least an hour of listening* (14/14) JAPANSEE Add 10 Anki sentence cards# (14/14) Read two news articles** (7/14) Read ten pages of a book#*** (11/14) At least an hour of listening* (14/14) ANKI CARDS Japanese: 209 (75% of total goal) German: 88 (62% of total goal) *Listening to music or the radio doesn't count **Or three NHK Easy article ***I have a few books as text files. Kino no Tabi = ~230 pages So, in terms of Anki cards, I'm ahead, but I don't always fulfill my daily goals; however, my aim was to achieve at least 80% of them (#-marked = weighted 2x), which I did. This "system" might seem silly, but I find that it has helped me feel more focused and I'm getting better at using the easily wasted times duirng the day. Edited by stifa on 14 February 2013 at 10:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6083 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 80 of 198 15 February 2013 at 9:09am | IP Logged | ||
Trying to make use of wasted time is half the battle! I like you goal of going for 80%, especially Anki cards -- I've never been able to stay with Anki for long -- your system seems to be working! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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