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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 17 of 251 22 December 2012 at 11:46pm | IP Logged | |||||
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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 18 of 251 23 December 2012 at 7:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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SUPER CHALLENGE UPDATE - Added Italian audio entries 13-14, French audio entry 27, and French book entry 11
The big news today is that after almost 7 months of mostly continuous work, I finally finished the passive wave of Assimil's New French With Ease! I'm very excited. I'm not about to make any claims as to a level that Assimil "got me to," as I've been doing lots of reading and listening for the Super Challenge, etc., and of course every little bit helps. I DO think I can say that with the indispensable help of Assimil I have gone from clearly NOT knowing French to clearly having SOME meaningful French ability in all 4 language skills, and I am at a level where I can comfortably use native materials (books, tv, etc) to practice and continue to improve. I still have half of the active wave to do, so let's wait and see how I'm doing again once I finish that. Before finding HTLAL, I had tried to learn many different languages, but never got anywhere close to this far. After a little while of hanging out on the forums I decided that I would learn French to "HTLAL Basic Fluency"--for a number of reasons (e.g., access to Assimil for Hebrew/Yiddish/etc., French literature, proximity to Quebec), but primarily as a "test case" to prove that I really can teach myself a language to a respectable level, my lingering doubts notwithstanding. I'm not there yet, but it no longer seems impossible, or even improbable. BOOKS (Italian): 0. ... FILMS, ETC. (Italian): 13. Serie A: Cagliari - Juventus 14. Serie A: Pescara - Catania BOOKS (French): 11. Assimil New French With Ease (passive wave) FILMS, ETC. (French): 27. Petits arrangements avec ma mère (Movie on TV5MONDE) BOOKS (Dutch): 28. ... FILMS, ETC. (Dutch): 24. ... I am not entered in any Super Challenge for German, but I also am still reporting for my log: BOOKS (German): 12. ... FILMS, ETC. (German): 34. ... 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 19 of 251 23 December 2012 at 8:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I have always had a habit of starting many different books at the same time and not always finishing them. For
language-learning purposes this still isn't a big deal, but I am trying to finish books before logging them for the Super Challenge. Now that instead of just English, I'm reading in many different languages (at various times: English, Dutch, German, Yiddish, French, Italian, and Hebrew thus far), it's become more important for me to keep track of what all I'm reading, e.g., so that I can circulate through everything appropriately to maintain frequent contact with the languages I'm actively working on. I've been keeping track using post-it notes, but it seems like a good idea to record it here, now that I have my own log, in case I lose my post-it notes. Books in which I have been making substantial recent progress: German: Das Lied von Eis und Feuer 05 (George R. R. Martin) [300 pages read] Italian: Harry Potter 1 [60% read] French: Le Seigneur des Anneaux, tome 1 [250 pages read] Audiobooks: German: Das Erste Horn: Das Geheimnis von Askir (Richard Schwartz) [11.5 hours listened] French: 20,000 lieues sous les mers (LibriVox) [two-thirds listened] Inactive books in which I have made substantial progress (i.e., about 100+ pages or 25%+ complete): German: Mein Leben (Bill Clinton) French: Le trône de fer, tome 1 (George R. R. Martin) French: Dune (book 2 = second half of English edition) Italian: Andreuccio da Perugia (graded reader) Yiddish: In fremde hent (Chassidic mystery/adventure novel) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tastyonions Triglot Senior Member United States goo.gl/UIdChYRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4666 days ago 1044 posts - 1823 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 20 of 251 23 December 2012 at 8:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
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That's great that you finished the Assimil French passive wave. I've got about six weeks
left with it myself, at a lesson per day. Sounds like your studies are going well. Keep it up! :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 21 of 251 01 January 2013 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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SUPER CHALLENGE UPDATE - Added Italian audio entries 15-16, French audio entry 28-29, and French book
entries 12-15 I'm going through serious football withdrawal now with the winter break, but I never got around to logging the last few matches. When my parents were visiting they were starting to get a little sick of Italian football, though my dad couldn't help watching and screaming about the officiation, as usual. I'm now halfway through the French translation of Tolkien's Fellowship of the Ring (i.e., I finished "Book I"). Thus far, I'd say that this is the most difficult prose I've read where I feel I'm doing fairly well and pretty much never getting lost. I've read the story in English, but that was many ages ago. I read it in German, but that was about "one age" ago. So there's a lot of general context clues, but most of the text is relatively unfamiliar nonetheless. And my newest adventure has been BDs in French. I recently discovered BDs numeriques, which can be had for "location" at izneo.com, generally for 2 Euros a pop. Inspired by emk's log, I read the first book from the Aldébaran series, which then led my to take Blake et Mortimer for a spin. These have been the highest-level French so far where I've been able to approach 100% comprehension, so I think this is proving a great source for difficult-but- comprehensible input. I'm a little at a loss for how to log the BDs, however, since they vary wildly in terms of text density. The Donald Duck BD that I read was relatively light on text, whereas Blake et Mortimer is filled with massive text bubbles all over the place, where a lot of pages are quite comparable to standard book pages. I'm just taking a wild guess, but in this case I converted the Donald Duck BD at a rate of 400 pages per book, and the others at a rate of 200 pages per book. I think it'll all come out in the wash well enough. BOOKS (Italian): 0. ... FILMS, ETC. (Italian): 15. Serie A: Roma - Milan 16. Serie A: Inter - Genoa BOOKS (French): 12-14. Le Seigneur des Anneaux, Livre I (375 pages) 15. Bandes Desinées: Super Piscou Geant - Les origines de Doubleduck Aldébaran - la catastrophe Blake & Mortimer - Le Secret d'Espadon, t.1 FILMS, ETC. (French): 28. Ligue 1: Lille - Montpelier 29. Foot! BOOKS (Dutch): 28. ... FILMS, ETC. (Dutch): 24. ... I am not entered in any Super Challenge for German, but I also am still reporting for my log: BOOKS (German): 12. ... FILMS, ETC. (German): 34. ... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 22 of 251 02 January 2013 at 3:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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There's still the crazy English football, with Boxing Day and all :-) I watched Arsenal in Italian today :)
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| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4689 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 23 of 251 02 January 2013 at 3:29am | IP Logged | |||||
Funny you should mention, I did actually watch ManU-Newcastle on Boxing Day (in English). What a wild ride THAT was! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 24 of 251 02 January 2013 at 3:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hehe I also did. In Polish, I think :)
(some fans are offended by the "ManU" abbreviation btw...) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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