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| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6043 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 49 of 130 16 March 2011 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 50 of 130 17 March 2011 at 3:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Already one step ahead there...it's currently biding its time in my secret wanderlust cave, waiting for the right moment to fly out into these logs after Irish in the misty-hilled future (lol). 
@Medialis It's so true - it just takes the smallest of excuses to fall for another language these days hehe. And green is no doubt a good positive colour to include in the ranks! Good luck with your Russian stress test with Master and Margarita next month, by the way. I'm a little confused though (probably just a lack of sugar right now as I haven't got round to having lunch yet)...you said that this will be the first time you LR Russian with an aligned text? Edited by Teango on 17 March 2011 at 4:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 51 of 130 17 March 2011 at 11:37pm | IP Logged | ||
 Wishing everyone a happy St. Patrick's Day here on the forum! Edited by Teango on 18 March 2011 at 3:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 52 of 130 18 March 2011 at 9:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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PROGRESS UPDATE, WEEK 11
SUMMARY  RUSSIAN
Active study: 3 hours (study-and-click: Евгений Замятин, "Мы" ) Total active study this year: 67 hours Current estimated reading level:  B1
Other activities this week: - 4 hours of Russian music in the background Total for other activities this year: 17 hours WANDERLUST CONFESSION BOX Although it's not technically wanderlust, and forms part of my goals for this year, I've been tinkering around with kanji this week. As I never got particularly far in the first place (say no more a couple of hundred kanji), I've decided to start over properly and learn 1 new kanji every time I take a little break. Writing kanji out on the whiteboard and ticking off new characters on my wall poster will also encourage me to get out of the office chair and stretch my legs a bit. For this purpose, I've drawn up a workflow and posted the first few pages of my initial kanji cross-reference table on the back of the door of my study. My goal is to follow the order of the main characters and primitive elements set down in Heisig's "Remembering the Kanji" (which also links in with my wall poster and online flashcards on the "Reviewing the Kanji" website), but to substitute the main keyword as given in the Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary. When I come across a kanji that is unique or contains unknown elements so far, I'll turn to my copy of Henshall's "A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters" to get a better picture of how it evolved and draw on this information when writing down the keywords for my story to remember the kanji. TEANGO’S WORD OF THE WEEK "душа в пятки ушла" (his heart sank), but the literal translation is even more ironic - "his soul went (or perhaps more poetically, departed) into his soles". :) NOTES I'm slowly recovering and getting back into the swing of things, so this week I've been taking things nice and easy. :) Edited by Teango on 18 March 2011 at 9:30pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6360 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 53 of 130 20 March 2011 at 1:13am | IP Logged | ||
Ahh. Sugar. A student's best friend! :) Yeah, it's actually true. Whenever I've LRed Russian in the past: Kafka, Dostoyevskij and others, I've only used monolingual Swedish translations as reading materials. I can just imagine the progress I could have gotten if I'd used aligned texts..But the good thing about the physical books was that I could carry them around and read whenever I felt like it. So my reading comprehension was built by doing Scriptorium and reading parallel texts. The LR somehow managed to put a Russian voice on the words even though they were not present during the actual LR sessions. -LR magic. :) I did this with Japanese too, but got stuck at a certain point where I couldn't progress any longer with monolingual reading materials (was too hard to sort out the words from the sentences). So the last 10 months I've used aligned texts for (almost) all my Japanese LR. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6043 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 54 of 130 21 March 2011 at 11:59pm | IP Logged | ||
I love that phrase thanks for sharing Edited by darkwhispersdal on 22 March 2011 at 12:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5559 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 55 of 130 25 March 2011 at 9:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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PROGRESS UPDATE, WEEK 12
SUMMARY RUSSIAN
Active study: 5.2 hours (study-and-click: Евгений Замятин, "Мы" ) Total active study this year: 72.4 hours Current estimated reading level: B1
Other activities this week: - 3 hours of Russian music in the background Total for other activities this year: 20 hours  JAPANESE
Active study: 1 hour (writing kanji and learning their meanings) Total active study this year: 3.5 hours Other activities this week: - film (1.5h): Dave Boyle (director), "Big Dreams Little Tokyo" - film (2h): Hirokazu Koreeda (director), "After Life" Total for other activities this year: 5.5 hours * Overall hours this week: 12.7 WANDERLUST CONFESSION BOX I took a little peak at Old English this week, in the faint hope that it wouldn't be too far removed from Middle English and therefore a breeze to study on the side. Oh, how wrong I was! Even with knowledge of other related languages such as Scots, Swedish and German under my belt, any examples I tried to read through in Anglo-Saxon were about as clear as medieval wattle and daub. Even the grammar itself seemed to share much more in common with highly inflectional languages such as Russian than with the works of Chaucer and Mallory. And to think of it, this is probably a good thing, in that it will at least keep me out of trouble for the time being (well, at least until I get curious and watch Beowulf again). TEANGO’S WORD OF THE WEEK "Мальчик с пальчик" (Tom Thumb) - a legendary little fella no bigger than the size of his father's thumb, and incidentally the first fairy tale ever printed in English. There are many similar stories across the world of thumb-sized characters listed in Wikipedia, including le petit poucet (France), der kleine Däumling (Germany), Issun-bōshi (Japan), Thumbikin (Norway), Pulgarcito (Spain), Piñoncito (Chile), Palčić (Serbia), Patufet (Catalonia), Kleinduimpje (Netherlands) and Hüvelyk Matyi (Hungary). NOTES Still recovering...and no doubt victim to a little study inertia after my recent illness too. I did find a lot of encouragement however in Professor Arguelles' recent video lectures on language learning and my teammates' posts, and I enjoyed catching up on Steve Kaufmann's interviews with other polyglots over the week. I'll try to follow a couple of the Professor's motivational tips next week by i) using a mirror to talk myself out of slacking off whenever the temptation arises, and ii) trying to study a basic minimum amount every day and marking this down on a big wall calendar to progressively get into the habit of some form of consistent study. Edited by Teango on 25 March 2011 at 9:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| M. Medialis Diglot TAC 2010 Winner Senior Member Sweden Joined 6360 days ago 397 posts - 508 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: Russian, Japanese, French | Message 56 of 130 27 March 2011 at 1:22am | IP Logged | ||
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You seem to be gaining some nice momentum now. Watching good movies sounds like a good recovery plan.
Thanks for sharing the link to the Professor's new vids! I had completely missed most of his new lectures. It's always a joy listening to him, because he says awesome things like: "how to go about getting the habit of doing just about anything on a systematic regular basis" -and I find myself nodding my head frantically: Yes! More! More! Edited by M. Medialis on 27 March 2011 at 1:23am 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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