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| Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5642 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes  Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French | Message 73 of 88 24 December 2014 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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I study in Leiden and I love it. The city is a like a well kept secret. It's beautiful
but not full of people like Amsterdam or Den Haag (or even Haarlem) and the quality of education is good. I spent a semester at the UvA but I like it less than Leiden because of the fact that the campus is spread throughout Amsterdam and it is super busy and bit of a nightmare if you need to commute to your classes like I had to. Maybe it's better if you actually live in Amsterdam. I also found the administration a bit chaotic. There were some problems there. My boyfriend studied at the VU, which is known for its scientific/technical studies, and he said that the campus was rather depressing but it is on the outskirts of Amsterdam so you can easily escape that with the trams. I don't have any experience with Utrecht or Groningen. I think it would depend on what you would like to study because some universities have more of a focus on scientific subjects and others on humanities subjects and the quality of teaching will vary. Also, I believe, of the universities you mentioned, only the UvA and Utrecht are considered among the best 100 universities in the world. I can't help you with radio stations and podcasts. I do most of my listening via the tv. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5642 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French | Message 74 of 88 27 December 2014 at 4:08pm | IP Logged | ||
Teams: TID=39852&PN=2">Français, language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=39113&PN=4">Yürükle r Français My plan is to do the following: - Finish up FIA - After that move onto Hugo Advanced French (and then another course...) - Continue listening/watching tv at the pace I am currently going - Reach at least 50 books for the Super Challenge - Write 1000 words of French per month (I did say 2500 but I'll never reach that at my level!) - Continue using Anki Türkçe I have never learnt a language that shares so little vocabulary with English before so I don’t really know what I am doing. I am starting with a book called Elementary Turkish by Lewis V. Thomas and plugging vocab into Anki. So my plan is not very clear but I will figure it out as I go along. This year I am aiming for A1. I also intend to sample as much Turkish food as I can. :) Edited by Iolanthe on 05 January 2015 at 6:28pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| plumbem! Groupie United States Joined 3634 days ago 44 posts - 72 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, French | Message 75 of 88 27 December 2014 at 6:08pm | IP Logged | ||
That is awesome!I don't know how long the super challenge is but that is a lot of books! I'd be happy to read 50 books in a year. Also what is FIA? I was also curious if you have any special tricks/an app for tracking your minutes? I think its a very cool feature of your log and would like to try it myself. I really started wanting to learn Turkish when I lived in the NL too. Its all that shoarma gone to the head! Edited by plumbem! on 27 December 2014 at 6:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4910 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 76 of 88 03 January 2015 at 1:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome to Team Français 2015! How far are you into FIA, and how long do you take per chapter?
plumbem!, FIA is French in Action, an excellent course based around videos. It was made in the 80s but is still used in universities. Since you live in the USA, you can watch the videos for free at http://www.learner.org/resources/series83.html. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| tristano Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4048 days ago 905 posts - 1262 votes Speaks: Italian*, Spanish, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 77 of 88 03 January 2015 at 6:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi @Iolanthe,
good luck with this year of studies ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5642 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French | Message 78 of 88 04 January 2015 at 11:34am | IP Logged | ||
I don't do anything fancy. I mostly just do it the old fashioned way by checking the clock to see when I start and finish an activity. Then I note down the time spent studying in Evernote and at the end of each week I put the total into a spreadsheet that calculates the grand total for me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Iolanthe Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5642 days ago 410 posts - 482 votes Speaks: English*, DutchC1 Studies: Turkish, French | Message 79 of 88 04 January 2015 at 11:37am | IP Logged | ||
Hello Jeffers! I just watch the video and then read over the transcript noting down any new words to put into Anki. I don't like to linger on a course for too long. It is mental laziness I suppose but I supplement that by doing lots of work with native materials because that's what I find the most fun. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sooniye Diglot Groupie Sweden Joined 3898 days ago 44 posts - 52 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Spanish, Danish, Turkish, Japanese, Croatian, Hindi, Hungarian, Albanian | Message 80 of 88 05 January 2015 at 12:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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Looking forward to follow your log and progress in Turkish, a language I just started myself.
I wish you best of luck with your studies! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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