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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5536 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 825 of 844 01 January 2015 at 3:33am | IP Logged | |||||
My log would be a lot longer had I started it earlier rather than posting so much in CZ's log originally...hehe :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4798 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 826 of 844 01 January 2015 at 4:35pm | IP Logged | |||||
No kidding :P 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5650 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 827 of 844 01 January 2015 at 4:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Numeric Goals for 2015:
6,000 MCDs for Mandarin 5,000 MCDs for Japanese 4,000 MCDs for Korean 3 passes through each grammar book in each language 3 passes through hanzi book I read Benny's new year resolution post (http://www.fluentin3months.com/keep-a-new- years- resolution/) and knew I needed concrete goals. I have really vague goals in 2014 and didn't do anything. Edited by The Real CZ on 02 January 2015 at 1:28am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5536 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 828 of 844 01 January 2015 at 5:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I agree. Quantifiable goals are easier to track and if you can't track a goal, you don't have
visual confirmation that you are accomplishing anything (which can lead to dissatisfaction with your apparent lack of progress, even if you did make progress). I've made my goals this year more flexible (so I don't run into some of the issues I did in TAC 2014), but I still kept counters on them since I can't really track my progress otherwise. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 829 of 844 01 January 2015 at 10:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi fellow East Asian members!
Just had to drop by to say I totally support Woodsei's concept of hyper-awareness. It is exactly the opposite of what I did in 2014, so I don't want to repeat the mistake of unfocused learning in 2015 because that's not what works for me. Had I performed at least a bit more of 'awareness', I could have learned twice as much Chinese (and other languages) in half the time. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5650 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 830 of 844 11 January 2015 at 6:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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For Korean learners:
There's a somewhat new (as in 2014) pop-up dictionary for Korean called "Toktogi". It works similar to Rikaikun/Rikaichan and Peraperakun. It's still in the beginning stages, so it doesn't have every definition. Aside from that, my only complaint is that they don't have the hanja for the words, as I find hanja very helpful to remember the meaning of words. That's a minor complaint from my end, and a lot of Korean learners never take advantage of hanja anyway, so I see why they left it out. However, always have Naver and/or Daum open in another tab just in case. I tried highlighting a somewhat common word "국정" and nothing came up. However, this tool will greatly reduce the number of times you have to copy and paste words into those dictionaries. It's also faster than the Daum popup dictionary, and as good as that one is, its slowness and intrusiveness makes it a pain to use. I'll definitely be using Toktogi from here on out. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4633 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 831 of 844 12 January 2015 at 6:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Very nice find! I've tried using it and it is indeed pretty useful. Finally something
similar to rikaikun etc. Unfortunately, as you said, it doesn't recognize all the words yet but I guess it's just a matter of time before it does. In the meantime, I have been using a Naver dictionnary add-on on Chrome which allows to just double-click on a word and the naver translation will appear in the top right corner of the page (or you can highlight the word, right click on it and click on the line that says 네이버 영어사전에서...검색. It cqn help greatly as well. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5650 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 832 of 844 12 January 2015 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yeah, that's the same as the Daum pop-up dictionary. You can switch between Daum and Naver using that pop up dictionary. However, it's pretty slow for an plugin and it got really annoying having that thing pop-up whenever I double-clicked anything. That's why I stopped using it. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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