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| Meelämmchen Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5083 days ago 214 posts - 249 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: Modern Hebrew | Message 9 of 36 16 January 2011 at 3:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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That is really an extensive use of Anki! I already get horrified if the reviews climb up to 200. By the way, what is this "Personal Statement" that you are working on?
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| Mistral Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5929 days ago 160 posts - 179 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, German | Message 10 of 36 17 January 2011 at 9:54am | IP Logged | ||
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Hey!
Well, spending hours on Anki is a bit of tiring but I really have to catch up with the vocab. Personal Statement is necesarry when you want to study at British universities (in my case it's Edinburgh). You write there about your passions, achievements, voluntary work and why you are so special and why you should be admitted to the school. The most stressing thing about it is that they judge you mainly by Personal Statement. I've sent mine like 3 days ago and hope that I will get an invitation! Progress: -revised 1500 words (1400 left) -spent 4 hours studying I totally don't get it, where I spent rest of my time. I've counted for how many hours I'd been doing something else and I got 2 hours! But I thought that I was studying from 9AM to 9PM. Guess that I'm really bad at time managing. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| rob4languages Groupie Egypt Joined 5197 days ago 53 posts - 55 votes Speaks: Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: English | Message 11 of 36 19 January 2011 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | ||
thank you Anna for your amazing reply , the same I just said to RenneMona , to know the both Accents is like a real treasure , 'coz when you need to speak to a native from Uk or US 'you'll not find any problem , really I'm really impressed for what you've doing to improve your English , I'll follow your log ! Robert; 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mistral Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5929 days ago 160 posts - 179 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, German | Message 12 of 36 20 January 2011 at 12:11am | IP Logged | ||
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Sure, it's a great thing to know both accents. However, it may be difficult to learn perfect pronunciation of them, you just have to decide which you prefer more. Well, it's much easier that way. Because of the practical reasons I chose American English, but I have to admit that I like British pronunciation more. Oh well, life is cruel ;)
Progress! -revised 1400 words which means that I finished revising, yay! Now my plan is to learn 200 new words every day (mainly TOEFL words) starting from Friday. -3.5 hours studying English -3.5 hours doing nothing, great... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mistral Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5929 days ago 160 posts - 179 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, German | Message 13 of 36 20 January 2011 at 11:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ok, so today I:
-revised words from Anki (just trying to be up-to-date with all repetitions) -add some new words to Anki -did one sample English matura exam (got 80% so it's fine. Enough for my uni, at least) -revised how to write speech, letters, essays, reviews and narratives -revised some grammar useful in formal writing like inversion, passives etc. -spent 6 hours studying English -2 hours watching a movie in English ("the name of the Rose") -4 hours talking with my Japanese friend haha (kind of feel like i'm paying more attention to my Japanese than English) -the rest of the time spent on... well, nothing. Do you know any good books for trying the 10 000 sentences method? Can be English, Japanese, Korean, Mandarin. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mistral Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5929 days ago 160 posts - 179 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, German | Message 14 of 36 21 January 2011 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Progress:
-learnt 200 new words -revised awaiting cards -listened to a podcast "Wikipedia at 10" at BBC (interesting but too easy to understand) -read an article "Does Iran Need Four More Years to Develop Nukes?" at Newsweek and added to Anki all new words (unfortunately I'm not interested in politics at all) -all that took me 2.5 hours. I've also wasted around one hours on I-don't-know-what. I have absolutely no idea what was that. So from today on I've decided to learn 200 new words, read one article on Newsweek/BBC/Time/whatever and listen to one podcast every day. Grammar is not so important for my matura exam and TOEFL so I will just leave it for a moment, maybe just few hours a week will be sufficient. Oh, and by the way: for learning, counting my learning time, focusing i use pomodoro technique (google it!) nad a programme Focus Booster (it helps with the technique). Basically it's 25 min constant studying and 5 min rest. Great stuff and it really helps with attention deficits and such. And once again:
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| tozick Diglot Groupie Poland Joined 6362 days ago 44 posts - 69 votes Speaks: Polish*, English | Message 15 of 36 24 January 2011 at 3:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't think there are any particularly good books for the 10k sentences method. I believe the whole point of it is to get sentences from a wide variety of sources. And, most importantly, you should read/listen to things that you're genuinly interested in.
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| Mistral Diglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5929 days ago 160 posts - 179 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Polish*, English Studies: Mandarin, German | Message 16 of 36 24 January 2011 at 4:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sorry for not writing for 3 days but I had a prom so there was a lot of preparations, the party itself and a hangover afterwards so found it hard to study anything.
Progress: -learnt 200 new words -revised awaiting cards -listened to a podcast "China: Shaking the World - Part One" at BBC (can't wait for the sequel!) -read an article "Why Almost Everything You Hear About Medicine Is Wrong" at Newsweek and added to Anki all new words (interesting and startling) I was asking about 10k books because I actually found one. Glossika was talking about it in one of his videos but unfortunately it was Chinese-Japanese if I remember well. Oh well, guess I will just try AJATT method. Dzięki :) Edited by Mistral on 24 January 2011 at 7:35pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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