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Expug’s All at On(c)e Log - TAC14 | ||
Tags: Papiamento | Estonian | Georgian | Native Materials | Norwegian | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Mandarin | Russian | German | French | ||
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 89 of 415 31 January 2014 at 5:00pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
It ws the first one I found, Video Downloader Professional. Just googled for Chrome video downloader, it's the first result, at Chrome Webstore.
I hope so, too! Hope you'll take the best out of your internship, and will start giving us great tips on the language and life in China.
Thanks Ogrim! Re 'sysovere', I wrote it exactly the way I saw it at the book, Ogrim, even though I know it's syv (I even looked it up as syvsovere). The book makes use of some alternative spelling here and there, even though it's plain bokmål. The story behind it is very interesting, thanks! We do learn a lot by commenting on others' logs, you're absolutely right. 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 90 of 415 31 January 2014 at 5:08pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
It could be just a typo in the book, I've never seen the form "sysover" before. However, if it is in a dialogue or said by one of the characters, it might be intentional, and the author wants somehow to show that the character doesn't know the right form of the word. I don't have the book available, so I can't really check it. It's been ages since I read Beatles. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 91 of 415 31 January 2014 at 5:18pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Now for an updated.
The issue with my job is settled. Staying late in the evening, getting ready for 8, sometimes 9, occasionally 10 pm extra work. Language learning might not be affected, though I need some adjustments due to the audio-video block. First issue is with Memrise, I simply couldn't load my updated progress today at my old tablet at work: <<We can't download your course progress right now>>. I'll have to invert it to the morning right after Anki, I'll have a couple more hours left after the gym and before I get to work. Duolingo works but it is troublesome to do it at work, especially the exercises where we're supposed to read out loud. I'll see how it evolves, though, people are already familiar with my Georgian and Chinese studies and won't be much troubled with me saying something in German out loud. Another productive study of Georgian. Sometimes I think it is my main language, though I do invest more time on Chinese. I learned to have an opinion by using მე მიმაჩნია - I consider (so far I only knew მე მგონია. I also learned the important expression რა საწყენია - what a pity. I already knew სამწუხარად which is unfortunately, but it's rather an adverb than a standalone sentence. This Basic Georgian is indeed to be kept at any learner's shelves. The most important info I read about rather scatteredly at Aronson's, Tschenkéli's, Hewitt's is clearly systematized and hierarchized at Makharoblidze's. At today's lesson I got another useful chart for the confusing verbs 'to sit', 'to stand', 'to lie' as well as for 'to give'. They all change radicals throughout tenses and 'to sit' even changes radicals from singular to plural. The verb 'to give' has an interesting feature. When I or you give something to a 3rd person, the prefix მი is used, as it denotes moving away from the speakers (cf. მივდივარ, I come). When it's the 3rd person who gives something to me or to you, the prefix used is მო, which denotes moving towards the speakers (cf. მოვდივარ - I come). So, it's not just an 'irregularity', it has a neat logic of its own. I believe I'll get used to browsing through Basic Georgian and will end up memorizing where is each important stuff, given its importance and effectiveness. 9 more lessons and I'll finish it as a textbook and keep using it as a reference work. Today's TY Russian on adjectival declension was insane. The author apologized and presented 90 sentences to translate from Russian and 90 into Russian. This is simply insane! It's not just a matter of making me lose much time. It's simply not didactical or pedagogical. Fortunately next lesson has only 25 sentences each way. Well, schedule done, I'll go home. Still have to read the Papiamento book, but I'm coping with that. Maybe next week I'll start bringing it to work as I'll stay longer here. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 92 of 415 03 February 2014 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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First day of the new routine. Not bad. I have 1h30 more hours free in the morning, and
I have to organize myself to start textbook studying before coming down to work. Today I only listened to the English episode and went through the Chinese podcast. I should have worked with an activity that demands more focus, such as the Basic Georgian lesson, and leave the listening-only activities for busier times at work. I'll learn to manage these practical issues later. 9 hours is enough time even if I was rather slow today. I think that's the point exactly, learning to slow down, stopping to do things on a rush. I finished the schedule and still have 2 hours to go which I should learn to use wisely. I brought the Papiamento book because I won't have time when I arrive. There are issues with audio/video, for example, with Memrise, which I'll have to incorporate at the early morning routine. What I want to avoid is random browsing to kill the remaining time, because it leaves me dizzy and much more tired than if I were studying/reading. Now for individual activities: I finished HSK 1 at Memrise. I decided to simply delete the course after I completed all levels. I started HSK2 and so far there are only repeated characters. I wonder how it is like. HSK 1 had 400 characters and HSK 2 has 625. On the one hand, I hope there are more new characters than only this 625 interval. On the other hand, I'm afraid of missing the less used and obscure characters form HSK 1 if I ever get down to doing the exam. I have no idea how it works, anyway. The eternal issue with Travel in Chinese. I learned to download the videos from CNTV site, but since yesterday they aren't loading at all. So, today I had to work with barely the lesson at Youtube. But that's just part one, and today is a review lesson. So I actually missed 2/3 of the lesson. I'll give it a try when I get home, but I won't worry too much about that. It's meaningless to spend more time preparing material to study and worrying about that than actually studying. The review lessons aren't that great either. They present the videos again while commenting on the video's subjects wtih foreign students which are always the same, alternating among 4 or 5. I finished watching Le dîner de cons. That was yesterday. Today I finished watching episode 2 for the series Mediums. I'm just finishing this post and will start the film Mon meilleur ami. Other than that, I think it was wise to work a little bit slowly, especially for German and Russian, which are indeed the languages that put the most difficulty as I'm at lower levels and am using only textbooks so far. It's still early to decide if I can add up more resources now that I have 9 hours. or if that will just contribute to burnout. I'll probably invest on watching films because that's a pastime after all. Reading can be much more tiresome, as I already read a lot from forums and groups. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| 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 93 of 415 03 February 2014 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I simply love the Georgian letters, and I am so envious of your study routine :-)
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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5263 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 94 of 415 03 February 2014 at 10:45pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Expugnator is hard core! If we all had that kind of discipline... !
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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4860 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 95 of 415 04 February 2014 at 1:26am | IP Logged | ||||||||
If i wouldn't have my mental crises... I'd already beat some polyglots. Well, at least Benny Lewis. 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 96 of 415 04 February 2014 at 8:36am | IP Logged | ||||||||
In deed. A very clear mind too. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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