rlnv Senior Member United States Joined 3953 days ago 126 posts - 233 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French
| Message 49 of 78 08 April 2014 at 7:26pm | IP Logged |
Hope everyone is doing well with their personal goals. I'm off to a rocky start having lost some time to unexpected long hours at work. But I did take yesterday off to catch up, and have 3 more additional personal days off this month so that I can have extra study hours.
My progress:
Goal 1. Assimil NFWE - 30 lessons.
Progress: I'm 1 lesson behind. Currently finished lesson 39 of the first wave. No issues, I'll catch up on the next day a review level comes along.
Goal 2. French vocabulary - 500 new words.
Progress: I have 113 cards in my April challenge deck so far. On track. There is plenty of incentive to learn them quickly so that the cards become less frequent!
Goal 3. FSI Basic French - units 1 and 2.
Progress: I will start on unit 1 tonight, and spend my personal days off with this.
Goal 4. Hugo French in 3 months - finish this, 8 more weekly lessons to do.
Progress: I'm a bit behind. I still have 5 1/2 weeks remaining. I'm slow because I like to do lots of review. I'll make it.
Goal 5. Schedule sessions with tutor during the last week of April.
Progress: I'm kind of nervous about this already. I'm not sure I'll feel ready to "speak".
Edited by rlnv on 08 April 2014 at 7:31pm
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Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6438 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map
| Message 50 of 78 09 April 2014 at 9:31am | IP Logged |
Jiwon's Update
Disc herniation has been killing me. Am feeling better now, and happily learning the
German proverbs in my bed.
German proverbs: 39/200 learnt.
Spanish book: 13/22 chapters complete.
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4911 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 51 of 78 09 April 2014 at 7:42pm | IP Logged |
tristano wrote:
Is it possible to amend a challenge?
- 10 duolingo's competencies from German to French
because I changed strategy... no problem if it's not possible. |
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That is fine with me, but I can no longer edit the second list of participants. I'll make a third list anyway for the newcomers, and put your revised challenge there.
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Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4911 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German
| Message 52 of 78 09 April 2014 at 7:47pm | IP Logged |
Additional Participants (third list)
My name: Tristano (amended goals)
My goals:
French: 10 new skills in duolingo
Persian: 90 new words
Mandarin: 150 new hanzi
French: 90 new words
My name: SomeGuy
Goals
-Learn the Thai Alphabet
-Complete Pimsleur Thai
-Finish the first three Lessons of 'Thai for beginners'
Name: Monox D. I-Fly
Quests:
1. Know 1,000 most common English words.
2. Memorize 48 Kanji.
3. Able to read Javanese, Japanese, and Greek words using their own respective scripts fluently without pronouncing them letter per letter.
Name: Solfrid Cristina (added a goal)
Goals: 1. Go through all chapters of 'Teach Yourself Russian Grammar' about cases (Chapters 3-33) at least once.
2. Identify and learn 100 Russian words from an Agatha Christie book
Edited by Jeffers on 10 April 2014 at 1:54am
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5336 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 53 of 78 09 April 2014 at 7:58pm | IP Logged |
I know you'll hate me for it, but can I also add something to my challenge?
- Identify and learn 100 Russian words from an Agatha Christie book?
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Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5336 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian
| Message 54 of 78 09 April 2014 at 8:08pm | IP Logged |
Update:
I have now read the following chapters from Teach Yourself Russian grammar - just about the only grammar
which works for me:
From the last update:
April 1st: Lesson 27 (genetive plural)
April 2nd. Lesson 39 and 40 (adverbs)
New material:
April 8th:
Chapter 15 (instrumental, sing. nouns)
16,( instrumental plural, nouns)
17 (prepositional sing. nouns)
30(instr. sing. adjectives)
31 ( instr, plur. adject)
32 (prepos. sing. adj,)
April 9th:
18 ( prepos. plur. nouns)
33 (prepos. plur. adj)
3 (gender of nouns)
4 ( nominative sing. nouns)
5 ( nominative plur. nouns)
20 ( adjectives : unstressed)
21( adjectives: stressed and soft)
I now know what an overdose of Russian grammar feels like :-)
Edited by Solfrid Cristin on 09 April 2014 at 9:08pm
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SomeGuy Groupie Germany Joined 5102 days ago 56 posts - 75 votes Speaks: German* Studies: Arabic (Written), Turkish, Mandarin
| Message 55 of 78 09 April 2014 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
Update:
-Learn the Thai Alphabet: 3/44
-Complete Pimsleur Thai: 5/30
-Finish the first three Lessons of 'Thai for beginners': so far just shadowed lesson 1
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Lianne Senior Member Canada thetoweringpile.blog Joined 5117 days ago 284 posts - 410 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Esperanto, Toki Pona, German, French
| Message 56 of 78 10 April 2014 at 1:34am | IP Logged |
I'm also posting updates in my log, but I'm overly enthusiastic, so I'll update here occasionally, too. :)
1) Complete Michel Thomas Speak French Language Booster - 0/2 disc done. Still finishing up Speak French for Beginners.
2) 10 more skills in Duolingo - 7/10 done! Since the start of the month I've completed Clothing, Colours, Verbs: Present 1, Questions, Verbs: Present 2, Adjectives 2, and Conjunctions. Next up, to complete my goal, are Prepositions, Pronouns, and Verbs: Present 3.
3) Add to Anki all the words I don't know from a French children's book I got from the library (PĂ©tunia, princesse des pets) - 2.5/15 pages done. So, a little behind. I decided to enter whole sentences instead of words. It's been forcing me to learn the imparfait de l'indicatif and plus-que-parfait de l'indicatif tenses, which is good!
Duolingo is the best thing ever for keeping me studying. No matter how busy I am, I MUST do at least one lesson, because I couldn't stand to break my streak! :)
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