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J and K: Leurre’s TAC13 Asian Team 鶴 log
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Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5426 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French, English, Korean, Haitian Creole, Spanish^C2 Studies: Japanese	Message 1 of 9 03 January 2013 at 6:33am \| IP Logged
	Welcome to my very first TAC log! I am participating in this year's TAC with the Asian Team/ Team Crane/ 鶴 I am participating as both a 'regular' participant for Japanese and as a 'godfather' for Korean. This last part really simply means that Team Crane, if you have any questions about Korean in the learning process, just ask me and we can talk it through! I am not a native Korean speaker, but I've been studying it for quite a while and am confident that I can help you out with most of your questions related to learning the language! I will be participating in team activities and challenges with my Japanese. Edited by Leurre on 09 January 2013 at 1:50am 1 person has voted this message useful
Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5426 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French, English, Korean, Haitian Creole, Spanish^C2 Studies: Japanese	Message 2 of 9 09 January 2013 at 3:43am \| IP Logged
	Okay, so after a really busy week, in which I found out that I may be moving to Rwanda in the next month, I can finally get around to setting my goals and study methods clearly! This year is divided into 2 languages, Korean and Japanese. I am good at Korean but not good at Japanese. Most of my Korean study will be focused on acquiring political and economic, very specific vocabulary that I may have use for in my job, as well as on keeping up a healthy regime of reading and listening. Most of my Japanese study will be getting me acquainted with most basic grammar, getting as much practice in as possible in speaking and writing. Japanese I will be using the following materials and methods -Tutoring -Grammar study through various websites like tanos.co.uk -Dramas and shows (I'm starting to be able to understand a little!) -"Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese"- this is a nice textbook that I have been using and will continue to use -Writing I will be following a weekly regime: -Go through ~4 hours of tutoring/talking -One chapter, or a bit less, of textbook study -Further sentence-based study of grammar points and vocabulary through JLPT websites -Watching dramas and TV shows (relaxing time) -Upkeep two Anki decks: one for words, one for sentences -Keep a personal journal, in which I write something, anything, every day (I'm thinking of maybe putting this up as postings on Lang8) Korean Korean is going to be more straightforward, because there is a lot to build on. I will be following a monthly regime: -1+ books -60+ Newspaper articles -20+ hours of TV news -(It would be great if I also started writing my thoughts on the news, or started up a blog on international development in Africa in Korean, but I'm already planning to do that for English, and let's face it, I would do like a month of it before quitting, and then just feel bad about it). So there it is. Japanese is going to be a very segmented, active, short and hopefully exciting repetition of experiences! Korean is going to be slightly more longterm, and I will eventually need to find a good way to keep up/work on my speaking fluidity. But I have put off learning Japanese for years, always saying that my Korean was too weak, that I would start sucking at it. There is no real danger of that anymore, and besides, I can always learn Japanese and come back to more focused practice of speaking Korean or something. Or I could have a month in the middle where I switch it up or something... 1 person has voted this message useful
Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5426 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French, English, Korean, Haitian Creole, Spanish^C2 Studies: Japanese	Message 3 of 9 09 January 2013 at 4:00am \| IP Logged
	January Korean On schedule! I gave myself an extra assignment for this month: I have an Anki deck of professional- level Korean expressions that I have picked up from thesis research or from the news; I only have 286 sentences though, so by the end of the month I want to get up to 500! Japanese Week 2 Goals: -Look up some key words that my tutor keeps saying -Catch up on Anki reviews -Look up and collect sentences on grammar (especially　ことになる。ようになる) -Keep watching 学校じゃ教えられない (possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen, but entertaining still) -Listening for the 読み物 of Chapter 6 of my textbook -*Finally put up my introduction on the team page in Japanese!!* Edited by Leurre on 09 January 2013 at 4:08am 1 person has voted this message useful
druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4869 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, English^C2, Korean Studies: Persian	Message 4 of 9 09 January 2013 at 9:57pm \| IP Logged
	Moving to Rwanda sounds exciting! Will you be dabbling in the local language a bit? As far as Korean writing goes, if you plan to post anything in your log I look forward to reading it! 1 person has voted this message useful
LittleBoy Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5311 days ago 84 posts - 100 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto	Message 5 of 9 16 January 2013 at 12:53am \| IP Logged
	Hello fellow Team 鶴 member! Sounds like a very good schedule, you should start seeing some very good results with that. As druckfehler says, moving to Rwanda sounds fascinating. Best of luck for 2013! 1 person has voted this message useful
yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4633 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, English^B2, English^C2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin	Message 6 of 9 17 January 2013 at 1:27am \| IP Logged
	Hi Fellow Team 鶴 member!！ Really nice plan! I'm looking forward to seeing your progress! And as you offered your help, be ready for me to come bother you with some Korean ;) Good Luck for this year! 1 person has voted this message useful
billyshears66 Groupie United States Joined 4515 days ago 69 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin	Message 7 of 9 20 January 2013 at 6:29pm \| IP Logged
	Rwanda does sound exciting! Sounds like you have a good plan of attack for your two languages. I hope we can all help to keep each other on track. Good luck to you and I'm excited to follow your progress. 1 person has voted this message useful
Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5426 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French, English, Korean, Haitian Creole, Spanish^C2 Studies: Japanese	Message 8 of 9 21 January 2013 at 6:37pm \| IP Logged
	Thanks guys! Let's hope I can stick to the schedule.. wherever I end up! I'm definitely looking forward to helping out! 1 person has voted this message useful

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Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5426 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French, English, Korean, Haitian Creole, Spanish^C2 Studies: Japanese	Message 1 of 9 03 January 2013 at 6:33am \| IP Logged
	Welcome to my very first TAC log! I am participating in this year's TAC with the Asian Team/ Team Crane/ 鶴 I am participating as both a 'regular' participant for Japanese and as a 'godfather' for Korean. This last part really simply means that Team Crane, if you have any questions about Korean in the learning process, just ask me and we can talk it through! I am not a native Korean speaker, but I've been studying it for quite a while and am confident that I can help you out with most of your questions related to learning the language! I will be participating in team activities and challenges with my Japanese. Edited by Leurre on 09 January 2013 at 1:50am 1 person has voted this message useful
Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5426 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French, English, Korean, Haitian Creole, Spanish^C2 Studies: Japanese	Message 2 of 9 09 January 2013 at 3:43am \| IP Logged
	Okay, so after a really busy week, in which I found out that I may be moving to Rwanda in the next month, I can finally get around to setting my goals and study methods clearly! This year is divided into 2 languages, Korean and Japanese. I am good at Korean but not good at Japanese. Most of my Korean study will be focused on acquiring political and economic, very specific vocabulary that I may have use for in my job, as well as on keeping up a healthy regime of reading and listening. Most of my Japanese study will be getting me acquainted with most basic grammar, getting as much practice in as possible in speaking and writing. Japanese I will be using the following materials and methods -Tutoring -Grammar study through various websites like tanos.co.uk -Dramas and shows (I'm starting to be able to understand a little!) -"Integrated Approach to Intermediate Japanese"- this is a nice textbook that I have been using and will continue to use -Writing I will be following a weekly regime: -Go through ~4 hours of tutoring/talking -One chapter, or a bit less, of textbook study -Further sentence-based study of grammar points and vocabulary through JLPT websites -Watching dramas and TV shows (relaxing time) -Upkeep two Anki decks: one for words, one for sentences -Keep a personal journal, in which I write something, anything, every day (I'm thinking of maybe putting this up as postings on Lang8) Korean Korean is going to be more straightforward, because there is a lot to build on. I will be following a monthly regime: -1+ books -60+ Newspaper articles -20+ hours of TV news -(It would be great if I also started writing my thoughts on the news, or started up a blog on international development in Africa in Korean, but I'm already planning to do that for English, and let's face it, I would do like a month of it before quitting, and then just feel bad about it). So there it is. Japanese is going to be a very segmented, active, short and hopefully exciting repetition of experiences! Korean is going to be slightly more longterm, and I will eventually need to find a good way to keep up/work on my speaking fluidity. But I have put off learning Japanese for years, always saying that my Korean was too weak, that I would start sucking at it. There is no real danger of that anymore, and besides, I can always learn Japanese and come back to more focused practice of speaking Korean or something. Or I could have a month in the middle where I switch it up or something... 1 person has voted this message useful
Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5426 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French, English, Korean, Haitian Creole, Spanish^C2 Studies: Japanese	Message 3 of 9 09 January 2013 at 4:00am \| IP Logged
	January Korean On schedule! I gave myself an extra assignment for this month: I have an Anki deck of professional- level Korean expressions that I have picked up from thesis research or from the news; I only have 286 sentences though, so by the end of the month I want to get up to 500! Japanese Week 2 Goals: -Look up some key words that my tutor keeps saying -Catch up on Anki reviews -Look up and collect sentences on grammar (especially　ことになる。ようになる) -Keep watching 学校じゃ教えられない (possibly the most ridiculous thing I've ever seen, but entertaining still) -Listening for the 読み物 of Chapter 6 of my textbook -*Finally put up my introduction on the team page in Japanese!!* Edited by Leurre on 09 January 2013 at 4:08am 1 person has voted this message useful
druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4869 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes Speaks: German*, English^C2, Korean Studies: Persian	Message 4 of 9 09 January 2013 at 9:57pm \| IP Logged
	Moving to Rwanda sounds exciting! Will you be dabbling in the local language a bit? As far as Korean writing goes, if you plan to post anything in your log I look forward to reading it! 1 person has voted this message useful
LittleBoy Diglot Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5311 days ago 84 posts - 100 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto	Message 5 of 9 16 January 2013 at 12:53am \| IP Logged
	Hello fellow Team 鶴 member! Sounds like a very good schedule, you should start seeing some very good results with that. As druckfehler says, moving to Rwanda sounds fascinating. Best of luck for 2013! 1 person has voted this message useful
yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4633 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, English^B2, English^C2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin	Message 6 of 9 17 January 2013 at 1:27am \| IP Logged
	Hi Fellow Team 鶴 member!！ Really nice plan! I'm looking forward to seeing your progress! And as you offered your help, be ready for me to come bother you with some Korean ;) Good Luck for this year! 1 person has voted this message useful
billyshears66 Groupie United States Joined 4515 days ago 69 posts - 78 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin	Message 7 of 9 20 January 2013 at 6:29pm \| IP Logged
	Rwanda does sound exciting! Sounds like you have a good plan of attack for your two languages. I hope we can all help to keep each other on track. Good luck to you and I'm excited to follow your progress. 1 person has voted this message useful
Leurre Bilingual Pentaglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5426 days ago 219 posts - 372 votes Speaks: French, English, Korean, Haitian Creole, Spanish^C2 Studies: Japanese	Message 8 of 9 21 January 2013 at 6:37pm \| IP Logged
	Thanks guys! Let's hope I can stick to the schedule.. wherever I end up! I'm definitely looking forward to helping out! 1 person has voted this message useful