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| Hidden Linguist Groupie United Kingdom Joined 4360 days ago 64 posts - 87 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Mandarin, Sign Language, French | Message 385 of 457 06 August 2013 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hidden Linguist checking in. ;)
I hope everyone is doing well. I’m afraid that I didn’t manage to complete the reading challenge for June/July. My knowledge of characters just isn’t good enough at the moment to read even simple articles or books (not even close). I have spent some time reading simple sentences out of my exercise books, which is slowly improving my reading ability, but I still have a very long way to go before I can attempt any proper reading. As for this months challenge, I also like the idea of each of us choosing our own. It would be interesting to see what everyone else comes up with. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4679 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 386 of 457 07 August 2013 at 3:17am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi there,
I haven't attempted the challenges, but I'm still here, even though I've dropped Japanese and Korean: being in China, I'm doing a full-time Mandarin, trying to use my Minnanhua as much as possible (though it means production only, I usually never understand the fast answers I receive) and I'm doing the 6WC reading Classical Chinese. And I think I'm finally going to start preparing for the TOCFL of next year. In my work I've had to work on Burmese (and if there are people knowing Burmese even at a middle-beginner level, I'd be happy if you sent me a PM, I have a few questions about the script). And perhaps later in the year I'll do a Vietnamese 6WC, if I find enough time in my schedule... 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 5131 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 387 of 457 07 August 2013 at 4:58am | IP Logged | |||||
My experience is that reading skills develop quite slowly. One book almost never makes a difference in my perceived ability to read, but over time it gets easier and easier. I think I've been reading on a regular basis for something like two years now, and I'm only now getting to a point where I can pick up any book and read it for pleasure. So, yes, progress can seem very slow. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4633 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 388 of 457 16 August 2013 at 12:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've also finished the 2 month challenge with most my languages!
Chinese: I read 2 easy readers and quite a few small tweets on Weibo. Japanese: I didn't finish my book yet, but I've read a lot of news articles, culture articles (about Ainu), and a good part of my book. Korean : Read almost all the Little prince and started a few days ago 와라!편의점 on Naver Webtoons. Concerning the August challenge, I'm up for choosing our own challenge! And personally, I've chosen to focus on my weakest aspect in all my languages. That would be : - Japanese: Writing. I am watching documentaries (Begin Japanology) about Japan and I will write a sum up of each episode on Lang-8. I'm also translating stuff from my work so I'll count it in too. - Korean: Reading. I will finish the Little Prince and start reading "새" and at the same time, I plan on reading a lot of 좋은 논문. - Chinese: Writing and Hanzi. I can write easily on a computer but I tend to forget the characters when I write by hand. So I will start doing some lines of characters like I used to do for Japanese. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5536 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 389 of 457 18 August 2013 at 4:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
Ahhh...someone else is reading that series now. I just passed episode 200 this week (reading one per day). I still don't always understand everything that is going on, but generally get the idea (and some days I understand it completely, it just depends on the content). One of the early episodes (can't recall the number offhand) where the clerks have varying methods of responding to foreign speaking customers has been my favorite one by far, though. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4633 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 390 of 457 18 August 2013 at 11:42pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Haha actually, the reason I started is you! I've been seeing on log this "Read 와라!편의점
(7 pages)" for so long and I was always curious of what it was so I looked it up and tried reading one and... I'm hooked! I started about 4-5 days ago and I'm already at the 23rd! Like you, some times I understand it fully and some others, I have trouble understanding what they are talking about. It's good though! Nice drawings, everyday topic but varied at the same time... Exactly what I need! I do remember the one you're referring to, about the foreigners. I think it was episode 15 or so. Incredibly funny! Loved it. But even the other ones, they're all refreshing and a good way to read some Korean just for pleasure. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5536 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 391 of 457 19 August 2013 at 2:53am | IP Logged | |||||
Glad I could help...hehe :)
Since you narrowed it down, I just double-checked and it was episode 19. The best part is the guy that just throws out random English phrases from K-pop songs. http://comic.naver.com/webtoon/detail.nhn?titleId=26316&seq= 19 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| yuhakko Tetraglot Senior Member FranceRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4633 days ago 414 posts - 582 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishB2, EnglishC2, Spanish, Japanese Studies: Korean, Norwegian, Mandarin | Message 392 of 457 20 August 2013 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Weirdly enough, since you said which episode it is, every time I open the app on my
phone, it opens this one! I'm starting to know it by heart now..! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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