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| Luna Moonsilver Diglot Groupie Germany lunaslanglog.wordpreRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5080 days ago 77 posts - 99 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Korean | Message 9 of 29 31 December 2011 at 9:01pm | IP Logged | ||
Oh wow, I downloaded the app this morning on my way to work and finished the free level on my lunch break... I love it! :] I've not tried out the sound yet but I'm certainly considering buying all 50 levels in the next couple of days. What a good find! Thank you! :D 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luna Moonsilver Diglot Groupie Germany lunaslanglog.wordpreRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5080 days ago 77 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Korean | Message 10 of 29 01 January 2012 at 12:49am | IP Logged | ||
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[Goals] January 2012
Here I'm going to summarise my goals for the rest of the month. I've estimated what I think will be manageable, but really this month will be a test for what I can achieve, so hopefully February's will be more realistic :]. Just a note: media = films, books, TV. Class work = time spent in class plus time spent on homework/assignments for each class. Deutsch Media - 1,200 minutes in January (20 hours) - 300 minutes/5 hours per week. Since January is when Tadoku runs, I think I'll far surpass this goal this month, but we'll see. I've also started watching a soap called Verbotene Liebe which I kind of totally love ;]. It's a guilty pleasure! Words Read - 83,333 words in January - 20,833 words per week. I want to read one million words in German this year, so that's how it breaks down. I'm averaging books out at about 250 words per page, though I would guess that reading all the Harry Potter books should take me some way towards meeting the goal. I'm about 150 pages into Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen. With this being a Tadoku month, again, I should reach this goal. Words Written - 2,000 words in January - 500 words per week. Most of this will be on Lang-8 and I'm debating whether or not to include assignments because they're usually around 750-1,000 words, which will hit half my goal in a few days. It may end up that I change this to a slightly higher number next month. Class Work I don't have any specific goals to meet for my class work - aside from getting it all done and passing, of course! ;] For January, so far (my Christmas assignments), I have to read a book - Schwarzer Tee mit drei Stück Zucker - do a translation of a newspaper article and do a presentation for our thematic module on one of the books we've read/films we've seen since October. 中文 Media - 1,200 minutes in January (20 hours) - 300 minutes/5 hours per week. Same as the above; I'll watch dramas on viki.com and some films as well, though I think I need to watch more things set in modern times than I currently manage ^//^. I've put Mandarin down as one of my Tadoku languages, though so far I've never managed to read anything in Mandarin for it. Maybe this month will be the one! :] Words Written - 1,400 characters in January - 350 per week. Again, this will be on Lang-8 because I don't do so many writing assignments in class (we've done the one for this semester already). I'm going to try and do two or three a week, though this will depend on time constraints. Either way, this goal hopefully won't be too hard to hit. Class Work Same as above, in that I don't have a set goal of hours for this, though I do have a presentation to do - about my Christmas and what I did - and a couple of exams at some point in January. I'll probably post the dates when I know them for certain. Textbook - 960 minutes in January (16 hours) - 240 minutes/4 hours per week. I want to work through the New Practical Chinese Reader series and finish at least books two and three this year. We're using book two in class, but we're moving at a snail's pace (one lesson every two weeks!) and I want to step it up a bit. Hopefully I'll have finished at least up to lesson twenty-one by the end of January. Assimil - 20 lessons in January - 5 lessons per week. I got hold of Assimil - Le Chinois Sans Peine the other day and though the things at the beginning are very easy, I don't see the point in not using it. Five lessons a week (minimum) shouldn't be too bad, but I suspect they will be getting harder towards the end of January, so I can re-assess this for February. Kiswahili Assimil - 12 lessons in January - 3 lessons per week. I'm on lesson six of Assimil Le Swahili Sans Peine and it's already proving to be quite difficult; partly due to the fact that the whole thing is in French, which I can't speak. Still, I'm getting through it - it's just taking a while. Three lessons a week plus entering the words into anki should be enough to increase my level, however slowly. Media - 480 minutes in January (8 hours) - 120 minutes/2 hours per week. I'm not sure what I'll use here except for videos from BBC Swahili. If anyone knows of any music I can get hold of/any videos I can watch, that'd be greatly appreciated! :] Textbook - 960 minutes in January (16 hours) - 240 minutes/4 hours per week. I may or may not end up using the textbook I have - Living Language Swahili - at this stage. It's mainly because of the whole Assimil-being-in-French thing, but if I do start using it, I'll be taking it slowly. I don't want to mix myself up too much! :] Well, that looks all nice and neat and organised, which was what I wanted. There's no telling if it'll last (probably not), but at least this way I have a plan for the first month of the year. I've also got a weekly schedule which I hope I'll stick to: Sunday: Deutsch, Kiswahili Monday: 中文, Deutsch Tuesday: Kiswahili, 中文 Wednesday: Deutsch, 中文 Thursday: 中文, Kiswahili Friday: Kiswahili, Deutsch Saturday: -- FREE DAY -- The first language up there is my focus language, of which I'll study at least 30 minutes (but hopefully an hour!) that day. The second is the … well, secondary language, of which I'll study a minimum of 15 minutes (moving up towards 30 minutes) that day. I think that's everything. Yet another massively long post ;] Hope everyone had/is having/will have a great new year! 新年快乐！ Ein gutes neues Jahr! - Luna :] edited to fix formatting issues Edited by Luna Moonsilver on 01 January 2012 at 12:57am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4961 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 11 of 29 01 January 2012 at 2:56am | IP Logged | ||
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Nice schedule! By the way, how do you go about keeping track of the amount of hours that
you have studied? Do you just take note in a journal etc? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luna Moonsilver Diglot Groupie Germany lunaslanglog.wordpreRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5080 days ago 77 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Korean | Message 12 of 29 01 January 2012 at 3:28am | IP Logged | ||
I've got a spreadsheet I set up, though I think it needs tweaking. Ellasevia's got a good spreadsheet on his log too (right on one of the final pages somewhere). I do like spreadsheets :3 they're so neat and organised! 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| NickJS Senior Member United Kingdom flickr.com/photos/sg Joined 4961 days ago 264 posts - 334 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Russian, Portuguese, Mandarin, Cantonese | Message 13 of 29 01 January 2012 at 7:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just dropping by to post you the list of team logs so that you can find it easily:
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| Luna Moonsilver Diglot Groupie Germany lunaslanglog.wordpreRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5080 days ago 77 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Korean | Message 14 of 29 02 January 2012 at 8:06pm | IP Logged | ||
Yay, thank you :] 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luna Moonsilver Diglot Groupie Germany lunaslanglog.wordpreRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5080 days ago 77 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Korean | Message 15 of 29 09 January 2012 at 7:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Week 1: 01.01-07.01
Time spent studying (this week): 3hrs 27mins Time spent studying (altogether): 3hrs 27mins It's been a bit hectic this week. Well, I say a bit... It's been one of those horrible weeks where it's the end of the holidays and time to get ready for the normal routine (in my case, going back to University) and I've just been busy essay-writing and translating and whatnot. Still, I got through a couple of Assimil lessons and did some reading - though I'm hoping to crank up my Tadoku score in the next week or so ;]. By this point, for Mandarin, I wanted to be at about lesson 20 in the NPCR series. I'm at 17 and it's slow going - but I think it will get better from now on. We're managing about a lesson every two weeks in class, so I'm hoping I can get through a lesson a week on my own and then use the classes to reinforce the information I've already learned. I've had some good news about my Mandarin class this week, too - we do an hour-long conversation class with a native speaker every week and since the beginning of this academic year (October), I've not been able to go to mine because it clashes with another class I take. I looked at my timetable for this week and it seems to have been fixed. We'll see, though. It's already taken them this long. German is still pretty steady. I'm going to try and read some more Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen, but I need to read Schwarzer Tee mit drei Stück Zucker by Thursday. On the plus side, I've finished all the English books I brought with me for this week, so I'll hopefully get through quite a bit. :] For Swahili, I really, really need to keep doing Assimil. It's getting harder already (I'm only on lesson 8!), so I've started going through the vocab before and entering it into anki - because I'm not retaining the meanings so well when I'm just translating from French without writing it down anywhere. I've entered an accompl.sh challenge to complete eight lessons of a language course this month and I've done one. I've got some way to go! ...That's about it for this week. Things are settling down here (or will be when I get this 2,000 word essay out of the way -.-) so I'll hopefully be around more often. Well, no. Hopefully I'll be studying more often ;]. Hahaha. ETA: fix a typo -.- Edited by Luna Moonsilver on 09 January 2012 at 7:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Luna Moonsilver Diglot Groupie Germany lunaslanglog.wordpreRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5080 days ago 77 posts - 99 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Russian, Mandarin, Korean | Message 16 of 29 30 January 2012 at 12:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Ugh, so I've had a horrible three weeks that began with a multitude of exams and
assignments and ended with my dog being put down. :/. Not so great, but that's mainly why I've not been around so much (read: at all) recently. Sigh. I'll do better, hopefully. Still, here goes some weekly updates: Week 2: 08.01-14.01 Time spent studying (this week): 7hrs 38mins Time spent studying (altogether): 11hrs 5mins Classes started on the 9th and I suddenly found a load of work that really needed to be done. Still, one good thing has come out of this term so far: my Mandarin conversation classes, which I couldn't attend before Christmas due to a clash with another class, have been fixed! We got a new teacher and though we're just doing drills from the textbook, it's pretty useful. Week 3: 15.01-21.01 Time spent studying (this week): 4hrs 55mins Time spent studying (altogether): 16hrs Another hectic week; I had a Mandarin presentation on the Tuesday and then an oral exam on the Wednesday - but hopefully it wasn't so bad. My pronunciation is still shocking though, so it's something I'm going to work on. There's a lot of competition in our class at the moment - from September, if we pass, we have a year out, where we go to the country(ies) of the language(s) we're studying. But for China, because we can't work and because our university has some kind of partnership with Beijing Language and Culture University, we can get a scholarship that helps with some of the cost. There's only five scholarships for a class of about fifteen students (some of them aren't going to Beijing), so yeah, it's getting interesting. I did a German presentation on the Thursday of this week too; which I don't really remember. It was for our film and lit class - so I'm hoping that went okay. I think I ended up debating with the lecturer when she asked me a question though, so that might count in my favour? ;] Week 4: 22.01-28.01 Time spent studying (this week): 11hrs 43mins Time spent studying (altogether): 27hrs 43mins This week was better. With a presentation on Tuesday, I finished all but one assignment for my course (for this semester), meaning that Wednesday, Thursday and Friday I had some free time to devote to studying. I've been using memrise a lot more - it's fun, which helps; plus the points-based system is fun for me and I'm picking up (in German specifically) a lot of 'basic' words that I should know but don't. I've also started moving ahead with the New Practical Chinese Reader series. It's the textbook series we use at uni, but currently we're getting through one lesson every two weeks, which is highly impractical. I've gone through the texts in lesson 17 in great detail already, but I'll have to see if I keep it up over the next week or if I'll lose all motivation again. Also, this week I signed up for the six week challenge that's going to take place in February. I'm going to focus on Swahili because I haven't actually touched it for three weeks and I don't see the point in starting a new language from scratch when I'm never getting anywhere with this one. -- Hmm, I think that's about it. I'm planning on posting a bit more when the six week challenge rolls around - and I'm going to start pestering my teammates as well, so they don't think I've dropped off the face of the earth! ;] Hopefully, my posts will be shorter than this in future, too! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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