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| farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese | Message 1 of 40 29 April 2008 at 3:19am | IP Logged |
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I'm participating in the Total Annihilation Challenge for the first time this year.
I've been studying Japanese and Russian at university since the beginning of this year (I had studied them on my own a bit previously), but recently most of my study has been fairly passive; keeping up with homework and so forth. I've also been studying Esperanto on my own for a few months, although I attended an immersion class for a week and a half. My main self-study resource for Japanese and Russian is currently the Pimsluer lessons (I'm up to twenty-something in both languages). I intend to keep these up. For each week, I have a vocab list to learn for my Japanese and Russian classes at university. I put these into Mnemosyne (SRS) and try to do all my repetitions every day. I also have vocab for Esperanto in my deck. I'm currently working through learning all the Kanji, using Henshall's A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters (similar to Heisig). After this, I intend to start on AJATT's 10000 sentence method. I also plan on using sentences for my other languages. Esperanto will come from Lernu's word of the day (they give example sentences). Russian shall probably be from my big Russian dictionary (Collins), but it would be good if someone could also recommend a source of example sentences suitable for beginners. I am also part of the Esperanto study group on Lernu, week two of which begins tomorrow. So: Do my flashcard repetitions every day. Learn my new Russian and Japanese vocab every week. Do a Pimsleur lesson as often as possible. See if I can learn the most Kanji. Keep up with the Esperanto study group. Learn some new sentences every day (not for Japanese, since I'm doing kanji first). I intend to begin on May 2nd, the day my Japanese history essay is due. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese | Message 2 of 40 02 May 2008 at 6:16pm | IP Logged |
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Day One (Written morning of Day Two)
Well, my TAC is off to a great start. After accidentally falling asleep for a couple of hours (I was up late writing an essay last night) and later being locked out of my apartment, I did manage to get some study done. Here's what I did: Russian Pimsleur 1 Lesson 19 - Repeat, since I wanted to revise the numbers. Lesson 1 of NPRC (New Penguin Russian Course) - Fairly easy to begin with, but I'd rather work through it than skip the stuff I think I know. Read through NPRC Lesson 2 - Today I'll be doing the exercises. I've decided that I need more practice on Russian numbers. I'll probably make some flashcards for them. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese | Message 3 of 40 03 May 2008 at 5:30am | IP Logged |
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Day Two
Flash cards: 321 repetitions + 58 new words (these include ones I'd forgotten). Watched Steamboy in Japanese with English subs - Well worth watching. NPRC Lesson 2 exercises and Lesson 3 (Including exercises) - I still have a few vocab words to learn from these. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese | Message 4 of 40 04 May 2008 at 3:12am | IP Logged |
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Day Three
Flashcards: 111 repetitions + 26 new words. NPRC Lessons 4 and 5 50 new kanji, which puts me about 65% through the grade one characters. I've got to type some more into my SRS now. I've also been in search of more resources. Edit: I've done some more study today. Read Souseki's First Night in English, then listened to the Japanese while following along. I've decided to study more kanji before I continue with this. Studied Ruslan Lesson 7 - I still need to do some more vocab from this book. Did some Russian grammar exercises and translations (from my university coursebook). Listened to Radio Svoboda (link below) in Russian for 10 minutes or so. I couldn't understand a lot, but it now sounds much more familiar than it used to. --- Here are some resources that may benefit others: Russian Resources Some Russian movies that are recommended by everyone are Night Watch and Day Watch. I'm still to see them myself, but I hope to soon. Radio Svoboda (stream here) is what I'm listening to currently for Russian. The BBC have Russian News (text and audio), too. Russian Lessons.net have a variety of parallel Russian / English texts with Russian audio. I haven't looked at these much yet, though. Japanese Resources In terms of Japanese, AJATT is well recommended. I haven't got on to the sentences myself yet, but it seems like a very good method. I'll post some more resources if anything comes to mind. Edited by farrioth on 20 June 2008 at 6:11am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese | Message 5 of 40 05 May 2008 at 6:04am | IP Logged |
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Day Four
Flashcards: 201 repetitions + 37 new words Pimsleur Japanese 1 Lesson 28 Half an hour using Ruslan software (lesson 7) Russian Ruslan Workbook Lesson 7 - I have some more to do on this. 20 new Esperanto words Eperanto study group week two lesson and exercises One hour Japanese lecture - covered some new grammar. Two hour Russian Class I need to catch up with my Japanese and Russian flashcards; I've got quite a bit of vocab to learn. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese | Message 6 of 40 06 May 2008 at 4:03am | IP Logged |
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Day Five
Wow, five days already. I haven't had a lot of time today, but: Flashcards: 62 repetitions + 59 new words Downloaded some Esperanto audio from Radio Verda Got the books Big Silver Book of Russian Verbs and A Japanese Reader I'm going to read some of A Japanese Reader now. At university: One hour Japanese class Edit: I did lessons one to three from A Japanese Reader - these were a little harder than I expected. Partly I'm not used to Japanese written vertically. Edited by farrioth on 07 May 2008 at 5:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese | Message 7 of 40 07 May 2008 at 5:17am | IP Logged |
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Day Six
I've been tired today. Two pages from Genki Japanese workbook - Quite a bit of writing. Three pages of Japanese writing practice with a fude, mostly hiragana - my Japanese writing is messy; this should improve it a bit. Went over lessons one to three from A Japanese Reader and did lesson four - I'm going to go over these until I can do them smoothly. More on lesson 7 in the Ruslan workbook - perhaps 40 minutes on this. About half an hour using the Ruslan software. 63 new Japanese words in the flash cards - I think I can remember most of these. At university: One hour Japanese Class I've got to catch up on my flash cards quite a bit still, but that will have to wait at least until I have my Russian homework finished for class tomorrow. I'm going to go and read something not too intensive now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese | Message 8 of 40 08 May 2008 at 7:11am | IP Logged |
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Day Seven
Tired as usual. Flashcards: 114 repetitions + 132 new words - still more to do... I also wrote my kanji for today with a fude. I did two pages of mostly kanji all up. Two hours or so on the Ruslan workbook including listening exercises - some good practice of numbers here. 20 minutes on Genki workbook. Another 20 minutes writing in Japanese. At university: One hour Japanese Class Two hour Russian Class I need to do some more kanji flashcards soon. I also must do some more Pimsleur lessons. It's hard to find the 20 minutes straight I need for these. Today I also had the good idea of playing IF in my target languages. I don't think I'm quite ready for this yet, though. I might write a post about it some time. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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