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| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6038 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 57 of 392 30 January 2011 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I used to be up at six every morning while I was at uni but got out of the habit when I returned to my parent's house. I have to be up at 5 on tuesday so I've set myself the goal of getting up the rest of the week at 5 and see how I cope.
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| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6140 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 58 of 392 31 January 2011 at 8:41am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Okay, so I’m a little late. But better late than never, right?
გმადლობთ! თქვენც მაგარი ხარ! (I totally guessed on that second sentence. I feel guilty about not studying Georgian now.) あなたは書いた物をすっかい分からなかった のに，言った物を分かったと思います。あり がとうございます。(I think I said that completely wrong, but hopefully you can understand what I meant.)
That would probably have been when I was twelve, and my first attempt was Mandarin. Failing at that, I didn’t study anything else until later in the year, when I started learning some French and Portuguese. And then there was Esperanto, then German, then Italian, and so forth. Of course I haven’t been so dedicated the whole time…I’ve gotten more and more obsessed as I’ve progressed.
Vielen Dank. Also du bist sehr behilflich, und deine Verbesserungen waren sehr hilfreich. :)
Thanks, Teango. Of course all the same to you—your L&R projects never fail to amaze! I must give credit to tomsawyer for the idea of the graph though. Hm… He hasn’t written in his log in a while; maybe I should write him a little wake-up note.
No problem, and köszönöm (oooh, look at all those umlauts!). I guess my school is somewhat unusual in the United States in that it has so many options, but it’s probably equally horrible as the rest of the country in the quality of the classes (with exceptions, like my German class), the requirements for foreign language study, and the number of students who actually take advantage of the opportunity to learn. Which countries have you lived in?
Thank you, Cristina. I also love your log and the fact that you can cram so much into such a busy schedule is also inspiring for me.
Gracias, Przemek. Supongo que esa Madonna es alguna celebridad, ¿a que sí? No conozco muy bien las personas famosas porque nunca presto bastante atención y no me gusta “la cultura pop,” pero me alegro de que soy tu ídolo, aunque no lo merezca.
Yes, these posts are quite exhausting to write. I think I’ll start writing them a little bit throughout the week. For example, I’ll write the Polish section on Wednesday after I’ve finished studying Polish. And I completely agree about not learning when you’re tired.
For me recently, the languages that have been keeping me up are Swedish, Dutch, German, and Persian, so maybe you’re right about the Germanic language energizing thing. Or maybe it’s just that those are my focus languages and I felt like I needed to stay up to finish studying them for the day, and German was keeping me up because I put off doing my German homework. :P
“The route of the lark” – I like that. Like I said, last year I was consistently getting up quite early (usually sometime between 4:30 and 5:30) and going to bed by 11:00, or shortly thereafter at the latest, so I know how wonderful that sleep schedule is. I started to switch over to a new schedule last night, and I was up in bed by 11:30, I think, awake by 6:15, and out of bed by 7:00 (I was doing Anki in bed, so it wasn’t like I was just lying there idly). Major success compared to sleeping in until 1:00 PM on Saturday after having stayed up late writing that post. The only reason I’m not asleep now is because I’m responding to all of these messages, which I’ve put off for too long! Thanks for the corrections. I seem to be making the same sorts of mistakes over and over, so hopefully once I learn some of the grammar patterns you’re using there and reading your corrections, they’ll finally stick. I feel like in a way, my Japanese class at school has actually hurt my knowledge of the language rather than helped it. I’m contemplating whether or not I should take the next level next year.
Lengthy post? Where? No need to apologize, I’m even guiltier of this than you. I really should be the one apologizing for this crime! I’d be lucky if I could say that I have been functioning on that for only this past week. Unfortunately that has been my reality since last April, with the exceptions of the summer break from school and Thanksgiving and Winter Breaks. I’m very excited that I didn’t do as horribly as I thought with regard to my Dutch accent. I’ll probably be satisfied with the “native-like, but there’s something noticeably off” (if I understood what you meant correctly, that is) accent for Dutch, because that’s how I apparently am with English. On many an occasion I’ve been asked what country I’m from or what my native language is. I’ll definitely work on those ‘oo,’ ‘aa,’ and ‘u’ sounds, along with the other bits you’ve bolded. Dank je wel! Also thank you for the corrections to my written Dutch. As for the twee uur, I now remember reading that in Dutch the singular is used with uur and jaar because they are neuter words. But you’d say twee maanden or twee weken, right? (And yes, they do give wagen as a translation for ‘car.’)
Yes, I remember how peaceful and wonderful it was doing my work in the morning while no one else was awake. As it is now, I have to work amidst people running around busily and loudly, lots of yelling, bothering me with silly questions and demands, just bothering me because they have nothing better to do (that would be my brother), TV programs and movies, and all sorts of other distractions.
Good luck with your sleeping schedule goal. I’m attempting something similar this week, although I have a feeling I won’t succeed on this front tomorrow morning due to my having stayed up to reply to all of these messages. Oh well, better luck next time. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| hribecek Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5347 days ago 1243 posts - 1458 votes Speaks: English*, Czech, Spanish Studies: Italian, Polish, Slovak, Hungarian, Toki Pona, Russian | Message 59 of 392 31 January 2011 at 3:34pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
England, Czech Republic, Spain, Costa Rica and Belize. Plus 1 month in Guatemala where I witnessed the schooling system too. None of them come close to your 2 hours a day and 5 choices. Czech Republic is the closest with about 5-7 hours a week and 4 language options. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 60 of 392 31 January 2011 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Since I stayed up until 4 o clock in the morning last night reading a German book, which made me look like my own great grandmother when I went to work today, I realize I have very little moral authority in this case, but you really do need to get more sleep. You will crash and burn if you do not get the sleep you need, and we definitely can't have that! We need you here!
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5479 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 61 of 392 01 February 2011 at 12:02am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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I agree with Solfrid Cristin. You need to get more sleep! If you sleep more, your learning capacity will increase,
making your time spent learning more efficient! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5333 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 62 of 392 01 February 2011 at 1:09am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Right. I never realised it's because uur and jaar are neuter but now that you mention it, that makes sense, since the word kwartier works that way as well.
I guess it just sounded weird to me because the speaker speaks so carefully and properly yet he uses very informal language. It would have made more sense to just say auto. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6140 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 63 of 392 01 February 2011 at 1:20am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Well, good news! Apparently it has finally reached the notice of our school district's stupid superintendent that...
- it's deathly cold outside -- it's supposedly going to be -30°F (-34.4°C) tomorrow morning with windchill - the streets and sidewalks are literally just sheets of ice - there's over a foot of snow and a very cold wind ...and that these conditions are not fit for school, so school is canceled tomorrow! Yay! Actually, we really shouldn't have had school today either, because... - there were similar conditions to the above except not quite so cold or snowy - the buses were all delayed by at least 20 minutes, so many people couldn't get to school on time, and some people only arrived as late as noon - countless accidents all over the place and putting tons of people in huge danger (especially the people who live in the mountains and have to come down the mountain roads to get into town; a girl in my German class today said that she literally thought she was going to die as she drove down to school this morning) - tons of people falling and getting hurt while walking in and around the school; I remember hearing medical help being called this morning because someone had fallen and gotten a head injury, and I almost took a bad fall myself while simply crossing the street to get to the school Anyways, I'm very glad that we aren't expected to be there tomorrow, because seriously!? Do they think I'm willing to freeze to death and/or get in a car accident and/or get badly hurt from slipping just so that I can get to my most beloved math class on time?! For once, apparently they don't. So, this all means that I'll have a lot more time than expected, which of course means more study time and more time for being able to rest (@Solfrid Cristin and ruskivyetr). I guess I should start now by working on these Anki reviews that piled up while I was at school. Or should I do Swedish? Or Russian? Or Persian? Or kanji? So many options... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5332 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 64 of 392 01 February 2011 at 6:54am | IP Logged | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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You sound like you really need a day off. We do not get snow days, ever. My husband's grandfather who
worked with telephone poles was once sent home when they were at -43 Celsius and strong wind. Even their supervisor understood that working at the top of a telephone pole in those conditions was inhuman. Schools however remain open no matter what. I hope you get both a nice sleep in and some studying done. Have fun! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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