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| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 17 of 32 29 April 2012 at 10:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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A New Mandarin day!
Or actually two, but the only thing I did yesterday was to read an article about Mandarin. Today, however, - I spent 1 hour 10 minutes on memrise.com - attempting to learn characters. No flowers in my garden so far though. - I listened to Pimsleur lesson 1 twice, and lesson 2 twice. Don't know any of it yet, but I am starting to really like the language. Particularly the grammar :-) (2 hours) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Lucky Charms Diglot Senior Member Japan lapacifica.net Joined 6950 days ago 752 posts - 1711 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: German, Spanish | Message 18 of 32 30 April 2012 at 7:52am | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm having fun and am actually being focused with Mandarin right now, so I'll save my
voucher for when I hit a plateau and get frustrated. I'll either use it for Arabic (because I heard a basic knowledge of Arabic word formation is helpful for learners of Persian) or Korean (because I want to explore how similar to Japanese it really is). 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5925 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 19 of 32 30 April 2012 at 10:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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I have been learning to write the Devanagari script. On Saturday I spent almost 2 hours copying letters from this site. I only know a few words right now and none of them would make sense in a sentence, but I can learn more Hindi vocabulary in the morning. Edited by mick33 on 30 April 2012 at 10:32am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5220 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 20 of 32 30 April 2012 at 10:22am | IP Logged | |||||
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Vietnamese
Friday I spent getting my materials together and listening to some random clips I found on the web so can't really count that. Saturday: I started to learn the Vietnamese alphabet, curiously derived from Portuguese according to Wiki. One hour later had 90% of the letters pronounced. Tones baffled me. So I broke off to make a chocolate cake and some scones. Sunday: a further hour on the alphabet. Cut the audio from some you tube video and using Audacity recorded myself shadowing the speaker trying to match my waveforms to his. This tone thing is a lot harder for me. Learned my first few phrase fragments; greetings and thanks. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6152 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 21 of 32 30 April 2012 at 11:31am | IP Logged | |||||
Did you purchase Pimsleur or rent it from a library ? Purchasing Pimsleur for a one week challenge is beyond dedication. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 22 of 32 30 April 2012 at 1:53pm | IP Logged | |||||
Uhhm. Blush... I had actually ordered it through my work, and just happened to have it when the challenge started. I may be doing a bit more than 3 days later on... We do not get Pimsleur here. Until I found this forum I had never heard of Pimsleur, Michel Thomas or Assimil. But I am of course also beyond dedicated :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 6152 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 23 of 32 01 May 2012 at 10:47am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've decided to cash my one week voucher in for Czech. I'll start it when I return from Italy, and try to keep it to just a week. :-) I'm currently using the FSI Fast Italian course drills to speed up my speaking ability. The Czech course follows a similar format with half an hour, sometimes up to an hour, of audio for each unit. While I'm also using Assimil Italian and Living Italian for my current study, I'll test out the FSI course by itself for Czech.
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| mick33 Senior Member United States Joined 5925 days ago 1335 posts - 1632 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Finnish Studies: Thai, Polish, Afrikaans, Hindi, Hungarian, Italian, Spanish, Swedish | Message 24 of 32 01 May 2012 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm done with Hindi for now. As I expected, I learned just enough to whet my appetite for Hindi and other Indo-Aryan languages in the future. I had fun drawing some of the consonants and trying to pronounce them and I now know 10 words. I love the Devanagari script and Hinduism has intrigued me for a long time, so it is very likely I will cash in another voucher later on this year and learn a little more Hindi Edited by mick33 on 01 May 2012 at 9:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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