farrioth Senior Member New Zealand Joined 6082 days ago 171 posts - 173 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Esperanto, Sanskrit, Japanese
| Message 25 of 40 24 May 2008 at 5:17am | IP Logged |
Day Twenty-three
Didn't do much today - too tired and busy all morning.
Read a small amount on Japanese grammar.
Looked over some Japanese sentences in a multilingual phrasebook - quite reasonable for a phrasebook (it includes vocab and notes on grammar) but not really a resource to learn from.
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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 26 of 40 24 May 2008 at 5:32am | IP Logged |
Day Twenty-four
More productive today - more new Kanji.
Studied 83 Kanji and learnt 24 new ones.
Did one page of kanji writing practice - with fude this time.
Listened to four of the stories from Sōseki's Ten Nights of Dreams (Yume Jūya) had these on in the background.
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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 27 of 40 25 May 2008 at 6:34am | IP Logged |
Day Twenty-five
Got through all 417 scheduled repetitions of my flash cards today, but I still have 192 not memorized to get through.
Read some of A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters - perhaps about half of the second grade characters.
Read a bit of Esperanto stuff - mostly Wikipedia.
Did one page of kanji practice.
Did some study for my Russian oral test - questions and answers in Russian.
Had hoped to do a Pimsleur lesson, but didn't get round to it.
I've been a bit slack with everything lately, especially the Pimsleur lessons and my flash cards. I've got exams coming up soon, so I don't want to work too hard, but I'll try to put in some more effort after they're over. Of course, two of my exams are for Russian and Japanese, so I'll be studying for those.
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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 28 of 40 26 May 2008 at 6:24am | IP Logged |
Day Twenty-six
Flash cards: 41 repetitions (rather low, but that's all there were) + 73 more
I've sorted out my deck a bit more, too - more sentences (Mostly for Esperanto).
Kanji writing practice - half a page
Wrote some short dialogs in Russian - about a page long.
Had a one hour Japanese lecture
Had a two hour Russian class
Had hoped to practice some katakana and do some Russian grammar study, but got a bit sidetracked. I read some useful stuff about writing kanji, however, and found some Japanese sentences that should be useful for later on (links to come).
To do tomorrow:
Get through all my flash cards (as usual)
One page of katakana writing practice
Study more Russian sentences / questions and answers
Do some listening practice
I hope to do some more on top of this, too.
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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 29 of 40 27 May 2008 at 6:42am | IP Logged |
Day Twenty-seven
Flash cards - 62 repetitions + 99 - all up to date now
Did one and a bit pages of kanji writing practice
Listened to and shadowed Russian dialogs from my textbook for about half an hour
Read some Esperanto Wikipedia (for about an hour) and looked up words I didn't know
Studied (and constructed) some more Russian sentences - had to look up some spellings
Didn't do any katakana
Had a one hour Japanese class
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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 30 of 40 28 May 2008 at 7:23am | IP Logged |
No time to update today, so I'll write about what I did tomorrow.
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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 31 of 40 29 May 2008 at 3:07am | IP Logged |
Day Twenty-eight
Got through all my flashcards again - 84 repetitions
Did a few kanji (not sure how many)
Wrote a short piece in Japanese
Did about four hours of Russian study:
Did some shadowing of dialogues from my textbook - maybe an hour on this
Did some more listening practice from the textbook dialogues
Worked out some answers to questions in Russian - looked up the grammar and vocab where I needed
Had a one hour Japanese class
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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 32 of 40 31 May 2008 at 2:14am | IP Logged |
Day Twenty-nine
Apologies for the late updates.
I had my Russian test today; I'm pleased with how it went.
Spent a few hours studying for the test - more shadowing, reading aloud and questions and answers.
Did some short Japanese translations (E>J).
Other than that, I can't remember exactly what study I did.
Had a one hour Japanese class
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