renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 17 of 63 13 January 2013 at 5:17pm | IP Logged |
I'm am a bit behind... *shame*
But I'll cover the lost ground.
I'm watching the french in action lately, which I didn't know untill I saw about it on your log, tastyonions! (I hope I'm not confusing logs here). Anyway, french keeps seducing me every time.
I have to resist and resume my German and my russian.
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BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4620 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish
| Message 18 of 63 13 January 2013 at 8:30pm | IP Logged |
Nice to read about your progress. I admire your courage in taking on several languages at once. A quote from Oscar Wilde: "The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it." Have a great week.
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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 19 of 63 14 January 2013 at 3:53pm | IP Logged |
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Don't worry if you just don't feel like studying them as actively as you used to. I think that a method is the most important to keep going on. If you think you have to force yourself to study German, why don't you try to stick yourself to a short time goal? For example, just ten minutes per day until you're in mood to increase the time. Doing do, it's more difficult to goof off for many time and it's easier to resume your former habits.
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renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 20 of 63 14 January 2013 at 4:43pm | IP Logged |
My goal is 30 min. a day, which is ok, but it only covers the pimsleur part, not the reading and writing part. Even so, it's better than nothing!
This forum really keeps me focused and interested, that is all of the logs, and the opinions, and the support I get!
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 21 of 63 14 January 2013 at 6:38pm | IP Logged |
renaissancemedi wrote:
My goal is 30 min. a day, which is ok, but it only covers the pimsleur part, not the
reading and writing part. Even so, it's better than nothing!
This forum really keeps me focused and interested, that is all of the logs, and the opinions, and the support I
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Good! That's what we are here for :-)
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renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 22 of 63 18 January 2013 at 6:30pm | IP Logged |
As with russian, I am starting over with German assimil. It suits me better after all, because I need the writing, not just the audio.
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BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4620 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish
| Message 23 of 63 20 January 2013 at 6:56pm | IP Logged |
Yes, you need to try different things and find what works for you and is most efficient. There is so much good advice on this forum, but something that works for one person may not work for another. I haven't tried assimil, but lots of people really love it.
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renaissancemedi Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Greece Joined 4356 days ago 941 posts - 1309 votes Speaks: Greek*, Ancient Greek*, EnglishC2 Studies: French, Russian, Turkish, Modern Hebrew
| Message 24 of 63 26 January 2013 at 9:19am | IP Logged |
Still being behing in my German. I have discovered some old french language manuals online, that have turned my attention to french. As a result I study less russian and even less German. I don't like where this is heading. I need some discipline here! I have serious problems juggling three languages (one of which I already know...), and hopefully by saying it it will go away. :)
Anyway, a writing question. Those manuals are old. They mention the gothic script, which is interesting to me because I really like handwriting. Here is the question. I can see learning to read and write the gothic script is very useful to people who read old German books, but does anyone actually use it today? I can see it's not used in print anymore, but is it used in handwriting at all? Is it something worth learning?
Edited by renaissancemedi on 26 January 2013 at 9:20am
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