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| ryanl321 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4365 days ago 94 posts - 101 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 73 of 118 05 February 2014 at 6:23am | IP Logged | ||
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The last few days have not been so good for studying. I've been missing out on speaking time so its been
less motivating. Just keep swimming Ryan.. German - Listened to 15 minutes of podcast and that was it. I did get a few songs in but I didn't count those. No Duolingo today for German. Spanish - 38 minutes of Anki and 10 minutes of Duo. French - 15 minutes of Pims, did 10 minutes of Duo but failed my lessons. Still counting this tough!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ryanl321 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4365 days ago 94 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 74 of 118 05 February 2014 at 4:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Wanted to post this excellent resource for Spanish podcasts (free with text and audio) for later use. The podcasts
are very long, at approx an hour. Need to see if I can split into several chucks: http://www.spanishpodcast.org/podcasts/ I've imported this into LingQ but I'm transitioning away from using the LingQ app on my phone to listen to these podcasts. The app takes too long to open (maybe because I have too much stuff in my playlists) but the big issue is that it takes a long time to switch languages. The advantage to using the LingQ app is that the listening time gets automatically recorded. But some of my Spanish podcasts take time away, actually come in as negative time! I've asked technical support why, and we've trouble shooted and no answer. So I'm switching over to my itunes playlists and going to manually enter my time in LingQ. 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4869 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 75 of 118 06 February 2014 at 2:28am | IP Logged | ||
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I have the same problem with the LingQ app on an android mobile. I think it is a buggy app. Need to be fixed.
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| Crush Tetraglot Senior Member ChinaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5866 days ago 1622 posts - 2299 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, Esperanto Studies: Basque | Message 76 of 118 06 February 2014 at 2:46am | IP Logged | ||
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It's hard to limit yourself to one language when you want to study three, but that's ok. It's hard to decide when you feel comfortable saying you "know" a language, anyway.
Good luck and if you have any questions, ask away. I look forward to following your progress this year, and hope i can join in with some French and German of my own. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ryanl321 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4365 days ago 94 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 77 of 118 06 February 2014 at 7:04am | IP Logged | ||
Hey Bjorn, I've disliked the app. It has such potential though. I like the flashcards of the day but I simply can't modify which flashcards of the day appear, for new cards I can't get the most important words, words from a specific course/lesson, etc, it just randomly comes from my lingQ stash. I'm not quite sure how the SRS system works. I just trust Anki too much. I'll just enter my time manually from here on out. Do you like LingQ? Has it worked out for you? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ryanl321 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4365 days ago 94 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 78 of 118 06 February 2014 at 7:04am | IP Logged | ||
You've been very helpful sir.. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ryanl321 Groupie United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4365 days ago 94 posts - 101 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 79 of 118 06 February 2014 at 7:12am | IP Logged | ||
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I've been watching the Steve Kaufman youtube vids on his progress with Korean in the 90 day challenge. I admire
that man, he simply knows what it takes to learn languages, hard work and consistency. He seems very motivated too. The opportunities he finds to speak Korean in various restaurants, skype, etc, are excellent. He has definitely inspired me. My fault is that I bounce around so much and don't focus or listen with the intent to absord. I also don't get enough practice in. He's at 3 hrs/day for one language. I'm at 2 hours a day for 3. No worries, I'm just going to simply meet my goals in 2014. I will quantify my goals in the next few weeks. Here is my progress today: German - met duo goals with about 20 minutes. I had a streak of over 50 days meeting my duo goals here and that ended yesterday. Was kind of upset with that. No matter, I won't let it happen again. Got about 30 minutes of Anki and listened to podcasts for about 15 minutes. Spanish - met duo goals with about 10 minutes. Got in 18 minutes of Anki and 20-30 minutes of listening to podcasts. Will consider starting the Learn Spanish Like Crazy here soon after I evaluate it. French - Got into Duo but didn't met my goals. I am seriously behind. Perhaps Friday that will be a day devoted purely to French, catching up on Duolingo and remotivating myself to learn this language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4869 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French | Message 80 of 118 07 February 2014 at 2:13am | IP Logged | ||
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ryanl321:
I gave up Lingq on Android mobile,seems to be working on a mini iPad. To early to say how effective Lingq is. I subscribed to Lingq because of GEOaudio, I just love those travel letters. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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