Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5826 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French
| Message 9 of 20 05 January 2012 at 9:40pm | IP Logged |
I'm also aiming for C1 in Japanese this year! We may be around the same level. :) Good luck!
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pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5251 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian
| Message 10 of 20 11 January 2012 at 2:25am | IP Logged |
Russian
Alright, just a quick update. I ditched the Russian books becuase they've been boring me to tears. I'm working on Beginner's Russian content at LingQ instead. I'm lovving it!
Japanese
If anyone is an Intermediate Japanese learner looking for a textbook, Introduction to Intermediate Japanese by Nobuko Mizutani is awesome! I've been copying the texts in this book by hand, and entering the vocab into Anki. Then I listen to the audio at night. I'm learning so much, SO quickly! In addition, there are concise grammar explanations, and exremely useful Kanji Compound exercises.
French
But Alas, not all is well. I'm pretty behind on French. My other languages just keep distracting me from it. So I'm going to have to make an effort to establish a habit of studying this language, like I already have with Russian and Japanese.
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pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5251 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian
| Message 11 of 20 11 January 2012 at 2:26am | IP Logged |
Good Luck Laui lashire! We can do this!
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pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5251 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian
| Message 12 of 20 11 January 2012 at 2:30am | IP Logged |
Yay! Just found a sentence deck on Anki for New French with Ease. Good stuff.
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pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5251 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian
| Message 13 of 20 18 January 2012 at 4:08am | IP Logged |
Wow, this three languages at once thing is quite the mental workout. I'm right on track and I find that studying is much more enjoyable with a variety of things to study. I study an hour in the morning, listen here and ther throughout the day, and 2-3 hours at night. I don't have a specific time set for each language, I just make sure to study each one at some point.
Also, I found a really fun series on Japanese LingQ. It's a creepy radio drama. And I've started watching Nihonjin no Shiranai Nihongo. Yes, it's a little offensive, but it also has it's funny parts, so I just look past that.
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cathrynm Senior Member United States junglevision.co Joined 6123 days ago 910 posts - 1232 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Finnish
| Message 14 of 20 18 January 2012 at 5:03am | IP Logged |
I can't imagine 3. I'm learning two, Japanese and Finnish, it still feels like a lot of language. I think 2012 I'm going to be taking the JLPT N2 again, so this is kind of my goal, I guess. Improved reading speed and accuracy.
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Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6083 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin
| Message 15 of 20 18 January 2012 at 11:21am | IP Logged |
yep! JLPT N2 is no walk in the park. I admire anyone who is studying for this one!
pinappleboom, I know you just found New French with Ease but for Michel Thomas there's
these scripts which have some good sentence material in them. (There's also MT "builder" decks and "advanced" decks in Anki) -- just in case you're interested!
good luck!
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pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5251 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian
| Message 16 of 20 20 January 2012 at 4:15am | IP Logged |
Thanks Sunja! That will definitely come in handy.
cathrynm, good luck on the JLPT! And I really admire that you're studying Finnish. Just reading about it's grammar makes my head spin...
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