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Josquin’s TAC 2014 - Катюша, Celts, 旅立ち | ||
Tags: Gaelic (Irish) | Hungarian | Portuguese | Korean | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Italian | Japanese | Russian | ||
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 49 of 227 10 February 2014 at 12:43am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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I don't think Gaeilge gan Stró will disappoint you. Lots of vocabulary, exercises, dialogues (at realistic speed), monologues (several dialects). If you like grammar, you may want to supplement your studies with something like Basic Irish (and Intermediate Irish) by Nancy Stenson, or simply have a look at Learning Irish now and then. I found An Caighdeán Oifigiúil on their own website.
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 50 of 227 10 February 2014 at 1:19am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
Once you have any membership you can, AFAIK, download everything. In fact, you can download everything that your membership entitles you to via iTunes in one go. (I had premium and it took a few days to grab all 30GiB!). Even if you are working through the beginner stuff now, you'll want ther intermediate and advanced stuff later. I don't recall exactly what the differences on the website between basic and premium were. I think the line-by-line audio tool is premium only, but you can do that yourself in any media player. In terms of downloadable content basic gets you the full lesson audio plus the lesson PDF (and maybe the kanji PDF too). With premium you also get a review track and a dialog track and maybe sometimes some bonus + grammar tracks. The review track is just someone reading out ten words or so (often it is a video and you can watch the words). I didn't see much value in that. The dialog track is the Japanese-only lesson dialog (which the lesson then goes on to discuss). That I've found very valuable. You can make these yourself by simply cutting out the dialog and saving it as a separate file. That's pretty time-consuming to do for all their lessons but probably not too much bother for one or two series.
I'm glad to hear that you have some new-found motivation. I've found that using a variety of sources (various textbooks, JPOD101, online study resources and now native media) has helped to keep me going. In anything, there's so much stuff and so little time to absorb it all :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4716 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 51 of 227 10 February 2014 at 3:04am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
Right!? I'm also amazewd by it! Most of my Japanese study on the last weeks were listening to JapanesePod101 podcasts on my way to/from work, and to/from my programming course. They have a lot of good and useful stuff!
I did take the opportunity and it was a great choice. The PDF files help me a lot, not that much about grammar, but mostly to get new vocabulary and read them while listening to the audio, it's a very good feature. The feed premium feature is also amazing.
I made an account on RussianPod101 when I started out with the language, so now I only have a basic account =/ I might get a premium account at least for a month, because the feed premium feature is very useful for me, since I listen to the lessons on my smartphone.
EXACTLY the same here =) Yay for us! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 52 of 227 12 February 2014 at 12:10am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Thanks for your tips and support, dampingwire and fabriciocarraro!
Yes, the PDF files are included in the basic membership, but unfortunately the dialogue-only files aren't. Cutting the audio myself should be doable, if I don't try to do everything in one session. The personal feed feature is incredible!!! Thanks a lot for bringing it to my attention! Getting a premium membership would be worth it only for having this feature. I downloaded nearly all Russian intermediate and advanced episodes today. Doing the same for Japanese would be more than great, so I'm really tempted to upgrade now. Other than that, I think a premium membership isn't really necessary. The review track is superfluous and the other toys as well. The website doesn't offer anything I can't do better myself, so all I want is the audio files and the PDFs. But, as far as those are concerned, they are really great! Today, I listened to an episode of JapanesePod while cooking dinner. That's so fun and cool! And it's really fun to alternate between JapanesePod and Genki. It's a very good combination, so I hope I'll make good progress in Japanese. @Jeff: That really sounds great! I look forward to receiving the book. It was dispatched yesterday, so I hope I'll get it soon. I'll let you know what I think about it. The Stenson books are great! I got them from the library, but I need a good textbook to combine them with. I thought about getting back to Learning Irish after completing Gaeilge gan Stró. I think it will be much more useful then. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| Indíritheach Senior Member United States Joined 4046 days ago 108 posts - 146 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Irish, French | Message 53 of 227 12 February 2014 at 2:41am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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How are you liking Gaeilge gan Stró? Do you think that it would be useful for someone who has *almost* completed Learning Irish, or do you think it would be too much review? I ask because I had a look at the course and I like that it explains the differences between dialects, but I don't want to spend the money if it covers stuff that I have learned before or could learn with the resources I already have.
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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 54 of 227 12 February 2014 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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I'll be able to tell you as soon as I have received it... :)
But, generally speaking, I think it's much more about conversational competence, while Learning Irish is all about grammar and obscure vocabulary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||
| jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 55 of 227 12 February 2014 at 5:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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Yeah, that's the difference. Gaeilge gan Stró has four dialouges per lesson (six per lesson for the Intermediate course), various kinds of exercises based on the grammar and topics covered, a "Talking Heads" section with three monologues at the end of each lesson. This is exactly what I (didn't know I) have been looking for.
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| Tollpatchig Senior Member United States Joined 4008 days ago 161 posts - 210 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Maltese | Message 56 of 227 12 February 2014 at 5:33pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||
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The languagepod101 series are excellent. I'm thinking about restarting with them and
doing the German and French. Also Jos, since you're interested in Japanese let me direct you to KemushiChan most of her vids are in Japanese and English, plus subs for both languages (including the Japanese kanji). She's been speaking Japanese for 10+ years and teaches it as well. Her tips and tricks are applicable for all languages but naturally some are more about Japanese. I'm too intimidated to learn Japanese but I make sure I keep up with what Loretta is doing. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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