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| ummagumma Senior Member IrelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5249 days ago 217 posts - 241 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 1 of 110 01 January 2011 at 4:15pm | IP Logged |
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Hi all,
First of all ein frohes neues Jahr to everyone! This is my first year taking part in TAC. Not sure what to expect. I have a journel here already but I'll be putting all my journel entries in this log instead from now on. I look forward to getting to know my team mates better over the year and to interact with the other TAC German learners. No sense in creating boundaries! As a self learner it is hard to estimate at what level my German is at. I'm hesitate in writing this down but best guessimate would be a level in the region of B2/C1. My aim for 2011 is to get to Advanced Fluency - a lofty target! My relative stengths would be Listening and Reading Comprehension. I have many hours of L-R under my belt so this explains this area of strength. It's time to move on ... My weaknesses would be writing and speaking. It is in these area that I want to target for improvement. I'm considering writing portions of this journel in German. Scratch that. I will write portions of this journel in German. Speaking is where its at for me and this will be the true metric by which I'll be judging my success at the end of the year. I haven't decided on learning materials yet. I'm open here to suggestions. At this stage I'm really enjoying gettin into native materials ... native German books and tv. I was thinking of continuing L-R but adding Shadowing to get my speaking up to standard, forcing myself to converse more in German (because I can be very lazy), writing sample conversation pieces and researching the grammar myself. Any ideas given my targets? At the start of this TAC I wish all every success in 2011. Edited by ummagumma on 03 January 2012 at 9:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ummagumma Senior Member IrelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5249 days ago 217 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 2 of 110 10 January 2011 at 5:10pm | IP Logged |
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Study wise a terrible start to the year. I've been travelling lots and living out of a
backpack. It has disrupted my German study. I was however able to put together a few thoughts on a study plan. The plan is to activate the language (eg shadowing) and using as much as possible native materials now. A big element of the plan is the early morning sessions. This will involve getting up 1 1/2 hrs earlier. I must be crazy. Morning Shadowing &nb sp; - 1/2 hr Assimil ; - 1/2 hr Reading Aloud - 1/2 hr Day Radio (Passive) - (not measurable as i'll be tuning in and out) Evening L-R &nb sp; - 1/2 hr TV (+other media) - 1/2 hr Speak (+OnlineChat) - 1/2 hr That's 3 hrs a day which is a big increase for me in time learning. It is called Total Annihilation so that's what I'm aiming to do. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5786 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 3 of 110 12 January 2011 at 7:46pm | IP Logged |
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Hi ummagumma,
I wish you good luck with you studies! I agree with you that in your level the native books and tv are the best materials. Personnaly I enjoy reading "parallel" books in target and known languages. Assimil is not bad too. Anya 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| gizmo2012 Groupie United Kingdom Joined 5087 days ago 49 posts - 49 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French | Message 4 of 110 12 January 2011 at 8:16pm | IP Logged |
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Hi ummagumma!
I'm on your team as well and am here to wish you luck with your studies! Thanks, James 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ummagumma Senior Member IrelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5249 days ago 217 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 5 of 110 13 January 2011 at 11:04am | IP Logged |
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Thanks James and Anya. I appreciate it.
Was even speaking for 1 1/2 hours last night in German. Look at me!!! Na. Learning to activate and become competent with speaking (and stop being a coward!) and getting more native material exposure is where it is at. I'll be the happiest guy around if I can manage this. Keep the Faith. Good luck to ye all. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ummagumma Senior Member IrelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5249 days ago 217 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 6 of 110 17 January 2011 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
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Deutschlernen Woche 10/1 - 16/1
Stunden Shadowing 1 1/2 Assimil Kurs 4 Lesen 3 1/4 L&R 3 1/4 Sprechen 3 1/4 Schreiben 1/2 Fernsehen 2 1/2 Gesamt 18 1/4 Stunden pro Woche (oder Durchschnittsstunden ca. 2 1/2 hours) Diese Woche war ich ganz motiviert. Ich habe meinen Rhythmus wiedergefunden. Im Hinblick auf Shadowing habe ich nur eine Viertelstunde pro Tage gemacht und nicht halbstuendig als geplant. Alles in allem war es eine erstklassig Woche! Edited by ummagumma on 17 January 2011 at 7:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| polyglossia Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5397 days ago 205 posts - 255 votes Speaks: French* | Message 7 of 110 19 January 2011 at 4:08am | IP Logged |
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Eine Viertelstunde "shadowing" ist also ganz gut!!! Heute habe Ich gar nichts gemacht !!! Zuviel gearbeitet die letze Woche glaube Ich... Doch hast du 18 (!) Stunden pro Woche gemacht!! Ganz erstaunlich !! Ausgezeichnet ! Prima
Was sind deine Bücher und Audio-material ??? Hast du was vom Internet gekriegt?? oder nur gekauft??? (Ich kaufe nichts mehr "brand-new" Material !! Alles was Ich brauche, kriege Ich beim Internet) Keep going!! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ummagumma Senior Member IrelandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5249 days ago 217 posts - 241 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 8 of 110 19 January 2011 at 9:54am | IP Logged |
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Ja, die Woche war relativ intensiv. Hoffentlich kann ich es weiter so machen! Im
Augenblick bin ich hochgradig motiviert. Ich benuetze Harry Potter 3 e-book und mp3 fuer L&R, Assimil fuer Shadowing und verschiedene Buecher und das Internet fuer Lesen Material. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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