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| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4640 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 65 of 99 10 December 2013 at 4:33pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks for the encouragement. I hope there will be a functioning TAC group in Greek next year. I think at the end the Sparta team didn't really function too well, and we ended up more or less as individual participants. I am a pretty bad chess player myself, I even get beaten by my 10-year old son on a regular basis (fortunately I do win against him as well). But for me it is really about playing, having a good time, and trying to learn from the horrible mistakes I sometimes commit. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 66 of 99 10 December 2013 at 4:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I have volunteered to be a godmother if there is a team. Even if there isn't I'll help anyway. I'm sorry team Sparta didn't fly.
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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 67 of 99 10 December 2013 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ogrim, you are my hero! You have made more progress in one year than I have done in 5 years :-) And I am
also sorry the team Sparta fell apart. Too much life that got in the way for several of us I am afraid. But 2014 is a new and shiny year :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4640 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 68 of 99 10 December 2013 at 10:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Solfrid Cristina. Thank you but I do not feel like a hero. And I am sure you speak at least as well as me, if
not better. I am sort of good at understanding and writing but my speaking skills stink... That is really what I need to work on. I see you are not doing Greek next year. Too bad but I understand. Yes, team Sparta suffered som losses early on, including our captain Languagesponge,whom I haven't seen here for a long time. Let's hope 2014 will be a great language learning year. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ogrim Heptaglot Senior Member France Joined 4640 days ago 991 posts - 1896 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English, Spanish, French, Romansh, German, Italian Studies: Russian, Catalan, Latin, Greek, Romanian | Message 69 of 99 20 December 2013 at 11:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Some people here are very good at keeping a detailed log quantifying their learning, whether it is hours spent, number of pages/books read, number of films seen etc. It is certainly a good way of keeping track of your progress and evaluate if you reach your goals. Personally I am pretty bad at it, and this log is a proof of that. However, as we are coming towards the end of the year, and I will probably not be able to post much over the next week, I have tried to make a recap. Of course this is more of an estimate, I might have forgotten something and I may have slightly overestimated other things, like time spent on listening. In any case, this is my honest recollection of my work on Greek and Russian this year:
Greek: - I have done Assimil, lessons 1 to 24. I gave up on Assimil early on as I found it boring and uninspiring. - Langenscheidt's Griechisch mit System: All lessons up to 11 (there are 15 in total). Most of the grammar and translation exercises done. - Audio: Listened several times (average of 10 times) to the audio of each of the 11 lessons in Langenscheidt. Done some shadowing. - Talking: Less than an hour. A few sentences when visiting Crete this summer. - Level reached: A shaky A1. I have hardly touched any Greek since September, so a refresher is really necessary in order to go further. Conclusion: Not really reached my goal for 2014, but could have been worse. Russian: - Colloquial Russian 1: Finished the course with lessons 8 to 15 and completed written exercises. - Colloquial Russian 2: Done lessons 1 to 10, concentrating on vocabulary and selected grammar points (verbs of movement, certain prepositions, irregular noun declensions etc.) - Assimil: Done up to lesson 80. I use it primarily for listening/shadowing and vocabulary. - Okno: This is the course book we use in my Russian class, it is a German-based method. We have worked through lessons 5 and 6, which focus very much on talking about yourself and your interests, what you do in different holidays, the days of the week and the months of the year, expressing time, movement, position with different prepositions and cases etc. Lot of related exercises given as photocopies by the teacher, from an old Soviet-style course (don't know the name.) - Read numerous articles in Russian from internet sites. Started on a Russian novel, Москва, я не люблю тебя. Only read three pages so far, it goes very slowly as I need to look up a lot of words. I hope to advance during the Christmas holidays. - Watched maybe a total of 30 hours of TV and videoclips in Russian (a very rough estimate, could be more). - Talking: In my Russian class, obviously, on my trip to Kiev and very occasionally with a Russian colleague of mine. However, as we mostly talk business, we quickly turn into English given my very basic speaking skills. Conclusion: A partly satisfactory year, not least the autumn has been very productive and I think I have almost reached my goals, at least I have got confirmed that I am at a good A2 level now, so this is a good basis to work on for next year. I'll probably not post more this year, so I'll come back in 2014. I will continue to use this log for TAC2014 as well. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4359 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew | Message 70 of 99 20 December 2013 at 12:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well done Ogrim. :)
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| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4611 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 71 of 99 20 December 2013 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Great job, Ogrim. I look forward to following your 2014 log.
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| milesaway Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4332 days ago 134 posts - 181 votes Speaks: French, English*, Russian Studies: Finnish, Sign Language | Message 72 of 99 20 December 2013 at 9:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Nice! Here's to even more progress in 2014!
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