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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 33 of 118 18 January 2014 at 3:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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It sounds like you're doing really well! I'm impressed with your commitment and how much time you're putting into
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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 34 of 118 20 January 2014 at 1:20am | IP Logged | |||||
motivation. Good luck with your studies as well! 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 35 of 118 20 January 2014 at 1:33am | IP Logged | |||||
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I didn't log anything yesterday but that doesn't mean I didn't keep up with my goals. I had a late night skype
session and I just forget to log my progress after that. I have to go at this 100% because that's easier than 98%! If I know I'm going to have problems in the evening catching up after I'm done with studying for the day, I'll just post in log during the day even though I might be halfway done. No bother, its important for me to just keep this thing going everyday. This is my progress for Jan 20th only below. 1.) German - My early Saturday mornings usually consist of my log bike ride with friends. I wanted to take a break from that. I spent my time from 530 ish until about 800 am studying until everybody got up. Most of that time was on LingQ and my Anki deck which I have 50 new cards and 100 reviews posted on words in just one podcast. I'm going to master this one podcast and be able to understand every word and then I'll move on to the next. What great motivation. As a side note, I need my bike ride next time. My day sucked after that because I kept trying to find a way to push 2 hours in the day to get my ride down but I couldn't pull it off. I made the kids clean all day instead and they hated that. If I can get my ride in, I generally find ways to be lazy and get more studying in throughout the day. Consider this next time! I did get my skype call in with my native speaker in the evening. I really suck at speaking. She can understand me but clearly I can't communicate past the stage of a kindergartener. When I talk to my German companion in German, I feel like I talk to her like my 4 year old talks to me in English! Completed duo goals as well. 2.) Spanish - Finished all duo and lingq goals in the AM. This was the limit of my Spanish time since I wanted to get in the German mindframe for the evening. Finished half of my Anki deck with new increased word list of specific podcast. Watched "A Good Year" in Spanish. French based movie but in Spanish, kind of interesting. I'll switch that back to French when I get better in that language. 3.) French - Did not complete Duo goals and got in about 20 min of Pims. Need to get catch up on reading lessons for French, I am three lessons behind. Edited by ryanl321 on 20 January 2014 at 1:38am 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 36 of 118 20 January 2014 at 1:37am | IP Logged | |||||
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German - Did my early AM ride and run today, listening to 2 hours of LingQ podcasts. I'm so bad. We had church
today and I did a lot of Anki learning during that time. Met duo goals but I need to switch over to Spanish for the remainder of the evening. Need to focus on this language a bit more. Spanish - I've done nothing today, except by meeting my duo goals. I'll put my time in today while the kids are watching a movie getting LingQ study in. I well caffeinated right now so this should be easy. French - Got through about 20 minutes of Pims. If I have time tonight, I'll finish the now 4 lessons I'm behind on reading! I'm very interested in this language but I'm definitely easing into it. No rush for me right now until we've made a final commitment on our travel plans 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5396 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 37 of 118 20 January 2014 at 3:06am | IP Logged | |||||
Just a word of advice, from someone who plans to do WAY too much... Don't try to get caught up. Don't worry about the four lessons. Try to get back on track instead. Make it your plan to get one lesson done today, and another lesson done tomorrow. Trust me, I am the queen of that kinda thing. You are doing amazing as it is. Getting back on track is more important than "catching up" - because you will probably not ever catch up. Even if you could today, you won't be able to next week. :D You have quite the impressive schedule going, though. Keep at it! :) 2 persons have 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 38 of 118 20 January 2014 at 4:09am | IP Logged | |||||
tonight! thanks for your inspiration.. 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 39 of 118 20 January 2014 at 4:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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A great website with good audio for several languages, need a good place to store this site and my bookmarks are a
complete mess: http://www.openculture.com/2007/04/20_podcasts_tha.html 2 persons have 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 40 of 118 21 January 2014 at 6:08am | IP Logged | |||||
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German - woke up and went right to Anki. I knew I had 50 new cards and 100 review cards. I'm still not through
them. Having this many cards is taking away from my Duo. I failed one lesson twice so I won't be able to meet my German goals on Duo today, kind of a bummer but I'm ahead of my goals for that anyway. I did no other German today. Got to talk to a coworker in German for maybe 3 minutes and yesterday at church for less than that. They both lived there for some time and are fluent. I don't do this with them very often. I might have to take them to lunch to get some good speaking time during the workday. Spanish - I listened to 3.3 hours of podcasts. Kind of boring, I just did this as I worked today. I know subconsciously this is helpful but I need some new Spanish music or something to mix it up with. I did able half of my Anki deck. Met my Duo goals. Last night my step grand mother tried to talk to me in Spanish and I had no clue what she was saying. The whole time she was just trying to say "you grew a beard"; I have a lot of this language to learn! French - did about 18 mins of Pims and did my reading assignment for level 10. Not much active activity today. Tomorrow I will reduce my Anki assignments, ensure I meet my Duo targets and fit some speaking in (with myself likely). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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