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| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5217 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 25 of 32 02 May 2012 at 5:03pm | IP Logged | ||
Monday I had a day off from Vietnamese as I had some documents to finish in English. Tuesday: I learned a few more phrasal chunks. I tend to aim for 30 but you know... I amn now old ... Wednesday: I posted a request for a native Vietnamese person in my locality to chat. I am a certfied EFL tutor so it's not a bad deal. I need to get this tone/shape thing down. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| maydayayday Pentaglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5217 days ago 564 posts - 839 votes Speaks: English*, German, Italian, SpanishB2, FrenchB2 Studies: Arabic (Egyptian), Russian, Swedish, Turkish, Polish, Persian, Vietnamese Studies: Urdu | Message 26 of 32 03 May 2012 at 3:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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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. Monday I had a day off from Vietnamese as I had some documents to finish in English. Tuesday: I learned a few more phrasal chunks. I tend to aim for 30 but you know... I amn now old ... Wednesday: I posted a request for a native Vietnamese person in my locality to chat. I am a certfied EFL tutor so it's not a bad deal. I need to get this tone/shape thing down. Thursday: Revise alphabet and pronciations got the alphabet now and tones are getting better - so it seems from audacity. Have 70 phrase segments/chunks and am starting on joining them up. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5954 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 27 of 32 08 May 2012 at 7:43am | IP Logged | ||
I cashed in my voucher, and received considerable value in return. Turns out that none of the root words actually related to hockey, which naturally was a bit disappointing at first, but toki pona is such a different and interesting experience that my early disappointment soon diminished. My toki pona week was the certainly the most fun I’ve ever had with language study. 4 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 Iversen Super Polyglot Moderator Denmark berejst.dk Joined 6701 days ago 9078 posts - 16473 votes Speaks: Danish*, French, English, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese, Dutch, Swedish, Esperanto, Romanian, Catalan Studies: Afrikaans, Greek, Norwegian, Russian, Serbian, Icelandic, Latin, Irish, Lowland Scots, Indonesian, Polish, Croatian Personal Language Map | Message 28 of 32 08 May 2012 at 9:22am | IP Logged | ||
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I have actually used several vouchers (which I gave myself without asking anybody). For instance I returned from Poland (and Germany) one year ago with the intention of adding Polish to my list, and I studied it so intensively for a short time (maybe slightly more than one week, though) that I could concoct a Youtube video without actually reading aloud - but with a heavy dose of prelearned sentences and a few glances into my papers in between AND some heavy editing.
I did the things I normally do: studied grammar, copied from bilingual texts and transferred new words to wordlists, and I even listened to genuine Polish sources to get the 'sound' of the language. But then I became involved in other projects, and Polish is right now on the 'keep contact but not more' list. This doesn't mean that I have given up - one of the languages which I study now is Irish, which lay dormant in exactly the same way for a year until I decided that my pronunciation didn't have to be perfect when it wasn't likely to be tested. Irony: I have since found out that close listening with meticulous note-taking in a homebrewed phonetic writing gave me the necessary information about the pronunciation ... but Polish came too early for this treatment. Earlier I have for instance studied the Tagalog verbal system for a month or so - one week would have been sufficient if I had dropped my other attention craving languages, but I didn't want to do that. And during my week on Taiwan I actually read about Chinese and learned a number of (traditional) signs for useful things, such as 'English' and a number of cities. Edited by Iversen on 14 May 2012 at 2:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4886 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 29 of 32 08 May 2012 at 6:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oooh I've never heard of Toki Pona before but I think I may have to give it a try now that I've just finished a work project :oD Thank you Spanky for mentioning it :o) it sounds like great fun! :oD Edited by WentworthsGal on 08 May 2012 at 6:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jellyfish Triglot Groupie Japan Joined 4783 days ago 50 posts - 70 votes Speaks: English, German*, Japanese Studies: Thai, Persian, Russian | Message 30 of 32 11 May 2012 at 11:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Great. I'll keep it for after the 6WC, and then exchange it for a dose of Devanagari.
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| Michael K. Senior Member United States Joined 5727 days ago 568 posts - 886 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Esperanto | Message 31 of 32 11 May 2012 at 3:14pm | IP Logged | ||
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I decided to do 7 days of Latin instead of Swedish.
Today is my 4th day. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yassi Diglot Newbie Austria Joined 4827 days ago 34 posts - 49 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC1 Studies: Turkish, Slovak | Message 32 of 32 14 May 2012 at 11:12am | IP Logged | ||
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That's such a good idea! I'll use mine for Korean and I'll start on Wednesday evening - after finishing my beginners' Slovak book.
I've always liked Korean but I don't think I'll ever really study it. But it's perfect for my wanderlust voucher! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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