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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5169 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 57 of 176 04 February 2013 at 3:24am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the link - I might check it out! For the time being I will call them "zaimki przeczące", like you said -
that's probably the more useful term to know. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5169 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 58 of 176 09 February 2013 at 4:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Before I start my update, I should probably issue a warning that this was NOT a good language week. I was
very busy, but since I knew I was going to be busy I paced myself accordingly. Hence I am satisfied with all that I did manage to get done. :) ITALIAN I did mention that I had a busy week, right? ; ) LATIN 5 hours - 1 hour 25 minutes of flashcard review - 1 hour 5 minutes of translating a page from St. Anselm's Proslogion - 1 hour of interesting and informative discussion in class - 35 minutes of reviewing Unit 25 in Collins and the concepts presented therein - 55 minutes of grammar, vocabulary, + miscellaneous I don't have much to say about this week except that I have managed to delete dozens more doubles from my Anki decks. :) SPANISH 5 hours 40 minutes - 1 hour 35 minutes of flashcard review - 1 hour 45 minutes of listening comprehension - 25 minutes of grammar review with my Practice Makes Perfect workbook - 1 hour 45 minutes of reading - 10 minutes of vocabulary acquisition Flashcard Count: 4,791 cards Author of the Week: Gabriel García Márquez (kind of) I read another short story by Gabriel García Márquez, "La Siesta del Martes". I read it twice; the second time I added some new words to Anki. My other reading included a few chapters from Las Dos Marías and 10 pages of Manual de la Teología para los Católicos de Hoy, a book I picked up at my local library. This book is hard to read and the style is very different from that of contemporary teen fiction, so I think it will be a good learning experience for me. The book is really interesting, too! :) POLISH 5 hours 10 minutes - 1 hour 10 minutes of grammar review - 1 hour of flashcard review - 20 minutes of word list review - 15 minutes of transferring information from paper flashcards to Anki - 55 minutes of listening comprehension - 1 hour 30 minutes of Skyping with my Polish teacher I got through a few more chapters of First Year Polish - I don't have the book with me at the moment, so I can't tell you which ones. I also pulled out one of my old word lists, added some new words, and started reviewing it again, and I transferred some more paper flashcards to Anki. My review Anki deck is up to 553 cards now - only a few thousand more to go! :) I am very satisfied with the results of my listening comprehension. I understand almost all of Drużyna Pierścienia, and the parts I do not understand are normally due to gaps in my vocabulary, not a simple failure to catch the words. I talked to my Polish teacher for the first time in a few months - it was great to talk to her again. :) It was also great from a language perspective. I asked her lots of questions and wrote down lots of idioms to memorize. Our conversation was entirely in Polish, and there were only a few things she said that I did not understand. I can't say I was as pleased with my speaking. I honestly haven't spoken to anyone but myself in Polish since October, which is strange since I used to speak Polish a few times per week. I suspect my tongue will regain confidence in Polish rather quickly, especially since I am making an effort to kick up the intensity of my Polish studies. Has anyone else noticed that every week my Polish study time gets closer to my Spanish study time? I wonder when Polish will pass Spanish - it has already passed Latin . :) GENERAL I have been examining my language plans for the year. Right now I am putting Polish, Spanish, and Latin at equal priority, with Polish maybe being a TINY bit more important. This summer Italian will jump up to the first spot, and from August onward Latin, Ancient Greek, and Spanish will be most prominent. I probably won't have much time for Polish after August, so I am trying to cram as much studying as possible into the next 7 months. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6901 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 59 of 176 09 February 2013 at 4:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I posted this on my log but it makes more sense to ask you here: would you like to try an English-Polish Skype language exchange with me sometime? I'm out of practice with my English, and I'm pretty good at helping foreign learners of Polish. Considering that you're focusing on Polish quite a lot these days, maybe you could use a conversation partner besides your teacher.
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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5169 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 60 of 176 09 February 2013 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
It would be nice to do a Skype exchange sometime. I definitely could use more practice speaking Polish, since right now my speaking pretty much stinks. I am trying to improve my Polish a lot before I start college in the fall, since I won't be able to focus on Polish much there. I think I could help you with English, too - I don't have much experience with helping foreigners learning English, but I do know English grammar very well and so I can answer most questions. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6901 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 61 of 176 09 February 2013 at 5:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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OK, so now that we have already agreed we could both profit from such an exchange, we'll just have to find a good moment for that :). I've been quite busy recently but I think I can make it, I have a pretty flexible schedule. I'll write you a PM with my e-mail and Skype name (some people reported they couldn't send me a PM so e-mail is probably a better means of communication). And I don't want to spam too much on your log :).
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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5169 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 62 of 176 16 February 2013 at 8:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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Update time!
ITALIAN Please don't ask. I know, not even flashcard review. This week I will make more of an effort! : ) LATIN 5 hours 20 minutes - 1 hour 30 minutes of flashcard review in Anki - 55 minutes of vocabulary acquisition - 40 minutes of translating two paragraphs of St. Anselm's Proslogion - 30 minutes of grammar study (Unit 26 of Collins and other related things) - 45 minutes of miscellaneous study - 1 hour of interesting conversations in class Not a very inspiring week at all. Hopefully I will do better next week. I need to start translating some ancient writings! St. Anselm is neat, but his writings belong to a different genre. I want to explore Cicero, Catullus, etc. Spanish 7 hours 14 minutes - 1 hour 49 minutes of reviewing flashcards in Anki - 1 hour 55 minutes of vocabulary acquisition - 55 minutes of grammar exercises - 1 hour 45 minutes of listening comprehension - 50 minutes of reading Flashcard Count: 4,837 cards I didn't have a very productive Spanish week, although I did clock 7+ hours. The fact is that it is so easy to get Spanish study hours in by listening to the news, doing exercises, etc. that I can have a 7+ hour week without having done anything particularly challenging. One piece of good news is that I am officially done with one of my four exercise books, Practice Makes Perfect Spanish Pronouns and Prepositions. In January I decided to stop stalling and finish all the exercise books so I could move on to something else. I am well on my way now! : ) My reading consisted of a few pages of Las Dos Marías and a few chapters of Manual de la Teología para los Católicos de Hoy. I really must intensify my reading schedule next week. POLISH 4 hours 56 minutes - 35 minutes of writing - 1 hour 10 minutes of grammar review - 56 minutes of flashcard review in Anki - 35 minutes of transferring vocabulary to Anki - 1 hour of conversation - 40 minutes of listening comprehension Well, Spanish beat Polish again this week, but I still got almost 5 hours of study time in, so I'm making progress. :) I am halfway through the fifteenth lesson in First Year Polish. I think it is a good (although fairly easy) review for me. After talking in Polish this week, I have come to the conclusion that my biggest issue at the moment is forgetting words that I once knew. Next week I am going to make a big push to get more old vocabulary added to Anki and to review my word lists. I can't go around forgetting words so basic as "speed" - it's incredibly embarrassing. : ) I will also work on my intonation, since, as Julie kindly pointed out, I tend to use American English speech patterns in Polish. I also want to get going with my reading, but my enormous vocabulary review comes first. I am VERY excited about it! : ) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Fuenf_Katzen Diglot Senior Member United States notjustajd.wordpress Joined 4367 days ago 337 posts - 476 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Polish, Ukrainian, Afrikaans | Message 63 of 176 19 February 2013 at 1:29am | IP Logged | ||
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I don't know if you mentioned this before, but are you focusing on Ecclesiastical Latin, or classical Latin (forgive me if I misused terms)?
I haven't started to really tackle Polish intonation yet...it's pretty different from what I'm used to doing, and I think because I have a music background, I tend to notice if I speak incorrectly and it's quite frustrating! I give you a lot of credit for getting in that much study time on each of your languages. That takes a great amount of dedication! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 6103 days ago 707 posts - 1220 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 64 of 176 19 February 2013 at 10:07am | IP Logged | ||
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Great work Amerykanka!
I'm encouraged by your listening abilities. My problem is lack of real time comprehension - I know the majority of the words but my brain can't process them fast enough! I'm trying to relax and NOT translate in my head, but it's slow-going. What's Drużyna Pierścienia all about? Have a great week. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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