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Ruskivyetr’s TAC ’11: Team Ł | ||
Tags: Georgian | Swahili | Icelandic | Farsi/Persian | Polish | Norwegian | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Russian | German | ||
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5474 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 49 of 77 27 February 2011 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
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Week of 2/27/11
So from what I wrote earlier, I put Farsi and Swahili on hold for just this week only, so I could get back into the swing of things after break. I wish that I had done more over break, but I did get some stuff for Russian, so I’ll just quickly state what I got done in my Russian section for this week. Deutsch: Goals: For this week, I would like to post at least 1 entry to Lang 8 about something extremely trivial. I would also like to read through Assimil a bit and just enjoy the bilingual text. I’d like to read at least a few pages of “Der Seher des Pharao”, and also some news clippings. I’d like to get some more L-R done from Lenz...let’s shoot for at least 2 hours of that. I also got a new book that I’d like to try. It’s a beginner’s book, but it’s chalk full of vocabulary that would fill in the holes so I’d like to get at least 3 or 4 chapters of that done. I would also like to add a few more chapters of my vocabulary book (maybe 2?). Русский: Goals: First of all, I would like to start by saying that I finished chapter 1 of Princeton Russian. I will continue on to Chapter 2, and continually review chapter one within this next week. I am familiar with all the vocabulary from chapter 1, although some of the vocabulary I have not entered from the later lessons. I would like to make an attempt to COMPLETE chapter 2 by the end of the week, although it does not seem entirely possible. We’ll see how my week plays out. Polski: Goals: I haven’t done Polish in a while, so I’d like to review chapters 1-4, and clean up anything in that section. That’s mainly what I am doing this week. If I have time I’ll do chapter 5. Well...time to get started :/. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5474 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 50 of 77 06 March 2011 at 7:53pm | IP Logged |
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Week of 2/27/11
What I accomplished...not much, but better than nothing. Deutsch: I didn't post in Lang 8, however I did hand in my Tagebuch for German class, so I suppose it's somewhat like a Lang 8 entry. I read and followed along with the newer Assimil book (which I found the audio for :). I didn't read anything from "Der Seher des Pharao" or Lenz, although I did translate half of a really long article from zeit.de about what's going on in Libya (it's from the beginning of the week.) My goals of next week will probably include to finish it, and get half of another one done, and actually read some "Seher des Pharao" and "Lenz". Русский: I didn't delve into any Chapter 2 stuff, however I fully reviewed Chapter 1, and have put it to rest. My view on all this review makes me feel like I'm not learning anything, which probably fuels my procrastination. However, the Princeton course moves quickly, so I feel as if I'll be challenged in a few chapters or so, seeing as there is a growing amount of vocabulary that I didn't know before. Polski: I did accomplish everything needed for Polish. I just feel as if I didn't L-R some of the dialogs enough, so I'm going to probably make bilingual texts of ALL my dialogs from that book, and make it into somewhat of an Assimil type situation for when conventional study gets me down. Farsi and Swahili are reactivated after their weeklong hiatus, and I will be posting my goals post for the week of the 6th of March in no more than two hours. I actually feel like this week was somewhat successful, even though I didn't accomplish all of my goals. Perhaps next week will be the same, the only difference being that I accomplish more :). Edited by ruskivyetr on 06 March 2011 at 7:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5474 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 51 of 77 06 March 2011 at 8:28pm | IP Logged |
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Week of 3/6/11
Before I begin my goals, I'd like to address my Anki status: I have not done much Anki in the past few weeks, therefore causing my reviews to slowly climb. I have 1,285 reviews (which I know is not a lot). My goal this week is to somehow bring that down to 0, and then make a point of doing at least SOME Anki everyday. Deutsch: Goals: This week, I'd actually like to try and write in Lang 8, something I didn't accomplish last week. This week I'd also like to make some headway in "Der Seher des Pharao". My treat for doing that will be to spend a day doing just Anki (this serves a double purpose, seeing as my reviews for German are the highest). I'd also like to translate some Lenz, and hopefully after that do some L-R (it is not translated, so I must do it myself). I'm not making the L-R a goal, just a little plus if I get a sizable amount of the translation done. I'd also like to finish translating this article about what's going on in Libya. It's rather long, so I didn't finish it last week. If I do finish it, I'd like to try and start another one. I'd also like to do some L-R on Assimil lessons 1-12, which I was planning on doing last week, but I only got to lesson 14. Русский: Goals: I'd like to get at least 4 lessons done in Chapter 2 of Princeton Russian. This means that I will complete lessons 12, 13, 14, and 15. If I do finish them, I will treat myself by doing one more. My Russian studies actually feel somewhat empty. It's one of my major languages, yet I only have one resource that I'm currently using. I feel as if I should use Cortina, although I'm not particularly sure. If I end up taking Cortina back as a minor source of study, I'd probably continue on lesson 8 (where I left off), and review most of the first part of the book. I really liked the method, it was just a bit too long per chapter. I'll make a decision by tomorrow and post here about it :). I had actually lost my Cortina book for a while, and only just recently found it, but there are pages missing, so I may have to order a new one. Oh well, it's only 10 dollars :). Polski: Goals: My goals this week are to create bilingual texts of all of the dialogs so far in my Spoken World Polish book. I'd like to get at least lessons 1-3 done. 4 would be an added bonus. I'd also like to complete lesson 5 of Spoken World. I feel too as if my Polish studies are not supplemented enough, so I'm going to search UZ translations and see what I can use. I also may use my Colloquial Polish. I have the audio and book, although I don't particularly want to use it as I already have a conventional method that is much better than colloquial (my Spoken World book). فارسی Goals: This week, I'd just like to catch up and review on my Farsi. This means that I want to just review and make sure that I'm comfortable in everything I've learned so far. So I will review lessons 1-4 in the next week. I'd like to review all the dialogs (perhaps I will create bilingual texts for this one too), and I'd like to just do some of the grammar exercises, seeing where I stand. Kiswahili: Before I state my goals, I'd just like to say I'm disappointed with my progress in Swahili. I decided last week that I will use the older version of "Teach Yourself Swahili" instead of Spoken World. I can get it for free on UZ Translations. Perhaps in the summer I will get a copy of Spoken World Swahili, when I will hopefully be done with most of the Spoken World books that I am using right now. My goal for this week is complete at least the first 2 lessons in TY Swahili. Let's see if I can get all of this done :). Until next time... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5474 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 52 of 77 30 March 2011 at 5:03am | IP Logged |
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Okay...time to update a little.
To anyone who reads this log, I'd just like to write about why I've been absent for the past few weeks, and recent language changes. Two weeks ago during standardized testing, I vomited blood after one of my exams. Other than feeling freaked out, I wasn't in too much pain, so I ignored it until after school. After it happened a second time, I spoke to my mother, and we went to the hospital. I had not been vomiting blood, but coughing it up (as in it came from my lungs not my stomach). Apparently the two are often confused seeing as how it feels similar. The doctors gave me blood thickening medication to help stop the bleeding, and I was discharged from the hospital after the bleeding significantly stopped. It has happened twice since, the last time being Saturday, so I've been feeling a lot better, seeing as how blood isn't coming out of my mouth randomly. I've been revisiting, making sure everything is okay (4 revisits including the two extra times I was rushed back to the hospital when it happened again.) According to the doctor, I shouldn't be doing active stuff (like track, which started last week), although I have been anyways. I have also lost a lot of blood, so working, schoolwork, and track piled high on low levels of energy and feeling like crap isn't exactly my idea of an ideal couple of weeks. So, I have not worked with many languages, and I am currently going to put everything on hold until this weekend, when I can finally recuperate and begin with my language studies again. As to my change from Georgian to Icelandic: I don't know why, I just decided to poke around with Icelandic this past week. It was at first harmless, and I didn't mean to be making a big deal about it, until I had a realization that I really like it, and I want to learn it. I have already completed the first chapter of Colloquial Icelandic, and a few books are currently en route to my location to supplement my studies. I don't really have any goals (just to complete the two books in a timely fashion). I kind of want to visit Iceland in the near future, which is a high possibility seeing as how flights to there are cheaper than they are to Germany. WHOOHOO ICELAND. Anyways, besides that, I'm just excited to begin another Germanic language :D. I listed it as Studying on and off because this is just a little experiment :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| fortheo Senior Member United States Joined 5029 days ago 187 posts - 222 votes Studies: French | Message 53 of 77 30 March 2011 at 12:20pm | IP Logged |
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Good log! I also have a lot of interest in Icelandic, so it will be fun to see how you progress.
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5549 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 54 of 77 30 March 2011 at 1:00pm | IP Logged |
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Sorry to hear about your difficulties over the last few weeks. I hope you feel much better soon, and Icelandic is a fascinating language to take on (I always wanted to visit Reykjavik for a weekend and chill out in a geothermal spa). :) Edited by Teango on 30 March 2011 at 1:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kounotori Triglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5337 days ago 136 posts - 264 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Russian Studies: Mandarin | Message 55 of 77 30 March 2011 at 1:06pm | IP Logged |
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Ruskivyetr, I'm sorry to hear that about your health. Hopefully it's nothing serious. I think it would be best to heed your doctor's orders and rest for another week or two or so, especially since you've lost so much blood. Giving your body time to recuperate is extremely important right now.
Good luck on your language studies! I've also wanted to learn Icelandic myself for a long time, but sadly my other language commitments have made studying it difficult. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5474 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 56 of 77 31 March 2011 at 12:47am | IP Logged |
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Thank you everybody for your condolences! I actually felt really good today, and after practice I felt strangely
energized...weird. ANYWAYS: I'm SUPER excited to learn Icelandic, and I'm hoping I can take it far. I've made an Anki deck for it and everything :D. My Beginner's Icelandic book actually JUST arrived today. I'm also talking to my parents about letting me stay in a hostel in Reykjavík this summer, seeing as how airfare is EXTREMELY affordable. I've been working my butt of this year (even though I have to have work papers seeing as I'm only 15), but it'll definitely be worth it if my parents let me go to Iceland with my sister or something. @Teango: I've ALWAYS wanted to go to Bláa Lónið (the Blue Lagoon). Just seems like my type of vacation...outdoorsy and EVERYTHING :D. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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