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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4142 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 89 of 117 23 August 2014 at 12:39am | IP Logged | ||
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We're now 3 weeks into the six-week challenge, making it the half-way point. I'm definitely enjoying this 6WC
more than the last one, probably because I can do more with the language now. Because I can use more sources and do more stuff, it's much more enjoyable to put in more time. I'm currently in 13th place with 32 hours and 27 minutes. I'd love to say that I was aiming for top 10, but the 10th place participant is already twelve hours ahead of me, so the odds aren't good. The top three are clocking in at about 120 hours each so far -amazing! Today: listen to something (17 minutes) Teach Yourself lesson 8, dialogue 3. I also listened to a few old audio files from Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo. read something (20 minutes) I read from my book bin today: some texts from my course, two Napoleon books (easy readers that I translated), and Prinsipeng Malungkot (The Sad Prince), a bilingual picture book. write something (20 minutes) I finished translating the third Napoleon book, but there are still a few things that I need to check with my tutor next week. I also handwrote the dialogue from Teach Yourself. practice vocabulary (10 minutes) anki and memrise other (27 minutes) Pimsleur lesson 12. I'm glad I repeated this lesson; it was much easier today than it was yesterday. TOTAL TIME FOR YESTERDAY: 94 MINUTES 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4142 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 90 of 117 23 August 2014 at 4:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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I put up a blog post with pictures of the contents of my Tagalog book bin:
Reading Easy Stuff (with pictures) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| marimorimo Diglot Newbie Philippines Joined 3744 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English, Japanese Studies: SpanishB2 | Message 91 of 117 25 August 2014 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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As a Filipino who has been hoping for my husband (Japanese) to pick up the language, your
Taga-log is inspiring! I wouldn't mind giving him "true immersion" so to speak, by speaking to him in Tagalog at home, but he's resistant to the idea. He prefers learning through grammar books *shakes head*. But he is pretty good at listening and can imitate a lot of words with a nice accent even without knowing what they mean. Edited by marimorimo on 25 August 2014 at 12:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4142 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 92 of 117 25 August 2014 at 1:52pm | IP Logged | ||
Thanks marimorimo! I wish that my husband would be open to "true immersion" at home. He keeps answering me in English, though. I guess because it's frustrating to talk to someone who can only talk like a toddler. Haha! His English is perfect (truly - better than more native English speakers), and we live in Canada, so learning Tagalog isn't really necessary. I'm just doing it because I want to! Good luck helping your husband to learn Tagalog! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4142 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 93 of 117 25 August 2014 at 2:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Saturday, I did absolutely nothing. Not a word! It was a nice break, to be honest. And besides, it really couldn't be
helped. We had 8 episodes of Hell on Wheels to get through. Ha! Yesterday... listening: old dialogues, and the last dialogue of Teach Yourself lesson 8 reading: 20 minutes with my book bin writing: copying out the TY dialogue in my notebook vocabulary: anki (had 2 days' worth...yuck!) other: lesson 13 of Pimsleur - no difficulty, will move on to lesson 14 total time spent this weekend: 89 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4142 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 94 of 117 26 August 2014 at 2:48am | IP Logged | ||
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Quiet day today...
reading: 20 minutes with my book bin vocabulary: anki - ran through my decks and inputted vocabulary from Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo lesson 9 other: lesson 14 of Pimsleur - will be finished with my 15 lessons of Tagalog tomorrow! total time spent this weekend: 64 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4142 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 95 of 117 27 August 2014 at 3:13am | IP Logged | ||
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talk to someone: good half-hour conversation with my tutor today. I really have a hard time expressing
myself, which can be frustrating, but I have to remember to stick to the easy stuff for now. listen to something: 30 minutes of Tagalog cartoons while on the treadmill. I'm on week 4 day 1 of the Couch to 5 K running program. I'm glad I'm sticking to it, since I've put on a lot of weight over the past year. It helps that running time is also language time. Once a week, I watch my Tagalog playlist, and twice a week I watch a Spanish comedy show. write something: 10 minutes correcting a paragraph with my tutor vocabulary: anki and memrise other: Pimsleur lesson 15. I'm *almost* finished. I need to repeat lesson 15 one more time, and then I'll post my review of Pimsleur Tagalog. Officially, there are 30 lessons, but I only got the first 15 for free, and there's no way I'm paying over 100 dollars for the last 15. TOTAL TIME FOR TODAY: 108 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4142 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 96 of 117 27 August 2014 at 5:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Notes on verb conjugations
So far I've been working with mag- verbs. No problem. They're pretty straightforward, a combination of changing prefixes (mag- for infinitive and contemplated; nag- for completed and incomplete) and infixes (reduplication of first syllable of root word for incomplete and contemplated): mag-aral (infinitive - to study) nag-aral (completed - studied) nag-aaral (incomplete - studies/is studying) mag-aaral (contemplated - will study) magtrabaho (infinitive - to work) nagtrabaho (completed - worked) nagtatrabaho (incomplete - works/is working) magtatrabaho (contemplated - will work) English loan words can be turned into verbs by adding mag-: mag-kompyewter - to use a computer mag-share - to share mag-swim - to swim Today I started working on -um- verbs. These seem much harder for me to wrap my head around! They involve adding an -um- infix to a root word (which is always Tagalog and never an English loan word). Let me see if I can make any sense out of it. root word: bili (buy) add -um- before the first vowel to make the infinitive "to buy" (which is the same as the completed "bought": bumili don't add -um- and just reduplicate the first syllable of the root work to make the contemplated "will buy": bibili add -um- before the first vowel of the completed aspect to make the incomplete "buys/is buying": bumibili I can figure out the contemplated aspect relatively quickly, but for incomplete (the one that I most commonly use at this point), it feels like I'm doing math: root word + figure out the contemplated + -um- = present tense And by that time the person listening to me has given up and moved on to other things. Ha! I need to practice the most common ones as chunks, and hopefully figuring out new ones will come more easily with practice. A few more common -um- verbs that I need to learn as chunks: gumastos (to spend / spent) gumagastos (spends / is spending) gagastos (will spend) humanap (to look for / looked for) humahanap (looks for / is looking for) hahanap (will look for) lumapit (to move closer / moved closer) lumalapit (moves closer / is moving closer) lalapit (will move closer) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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