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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5395 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 1 of 246 16 December 2012 at 5:08pm | IP Logged |
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2014-15 Super Challenge & 2014 goals accomplished Hello to all my new TAC 2013 teammates. I will be part of the Romance Team PAX, the Croatian Team Divan, the Russian Team Mir and the Slavic-Romance Team Nebun this year. Hopefully my teams will not fall apart this year. Last year, there were a number of us that made it to the end of the year, but there was very little interaction among many of my teammates. This year, I am confident we will do much better! My name is Kerrie, and I am a single mom of beautiful 10 year old twin girls. They are my world. I am an English tutor, and I work (mostly) from home. This is so much better than the job I used to do, working in a factory, and it gives me some time to work on studying languages. I found out about 15 months ago that I have celiac disease, and a whole host of other food intolerances. (Don't worry. All this means is that I can't eat wheat. And rye, barley, gluten. Potatoes, tomatoes, peppers, eggs, corn, milk, and bananas. And eggplants, but I don't miss those!) Everything I ate was making me... Sick. Tired. Sore. Sleepy. Unfocussed. Yuck. Blah. Blah. Yuck. And now that I've figured that out, I can focus now. I'm healthier than I have been in 15 years. I *finally* made a lot of progress in Spanish and French last year, and almost made it through Assimil's Italian with Ease. I spent some time with other languages, but those three were my main focus for the year. This year, I am going to work on my Spanish and French the most. I am doing the Super Challenge for both of them. 100 movies, 100 books, 100 writings. My goals for Spanish for 2013: Finish 100 books (100 pages) (so far 10/100) Watch 100 movies (90 minutes) (so far 35/100) 100 (200 word) Writings (so far 20/100) Active Vocabulary of 15,000 words My goals for French for 2013: Active wave and shadow Assimil Finish 100 books (100 pages) (so far 1/100) Watch 100 movies (90 minutes) (so far 48/100) 100 (200 word) Writings (so far 54/100) Active Vocabulary of 10,000 words I have decided those are my only definite goals for 2013. My secondary languages are Italian, Croatian, Portuguese, and Russian. My goals for Italian for 2013: Finish Assimi Active wave and Shadow Watch 100 movies (33/100) Read 10 books (100 pages) (0/10) 50 (200 word) Writings (28./50) Active Vocabulary of 7500 words My goals for Croatian for 2013: Complete Assimil Le Croate, plus Active wave and Shadow Complete Colloquial Croatian and Serbian Watch 100 movies (10/100) Active Vocabulary of 4000 words My goals for Portuguese for 2013: Complete Passive wave of Assimil Watch 100 movies Listen to Harry Potter audio books My goals for Russian for 2013: Complete Assimil Russian, including Active wave and Shadow Michel Thomas Russian course(s) Active Vocabulary of 4000 words Other goals for 2013: Assimil Le Coréen Sans Peine Assimil Le Turc Sans Peine Assimil German with Ease I learned throughout the course of the 2012 TAC that I set too many goals for myself. Too high, too. I want to work on Italian, Croatian, and Portuguese, but Spanish and French will come first. I am also hoping to sneak Russian into the mix with Assimil and Michel Thomas, as soon as I'm finished with the passive wave of Italian with Ease. We'll see. I want to get back to Assimil's Turc Sans Peine, German with Ease (I've already worked through half of that), and Le Coréen, if I can find the time. I'm halfway done with German, and the Korean and Turkish books are only 71 lessons long, so it's certainly a possibility. Maybe for a six week challenge. I have always wanted to learn Turkish. It's a gateway between the east and the west. It's Turkey. Istanbul. So much culture and history there. Then a friend of mine got me hooked on Turkish dramas, and now I am totally a lost cause. Likewise, I somehow fell in love with Korean dramas over the past year, and would love to learn to understand them without subtitles. I really don't have a desire to learn to speak Korean, but who knows. Maybe I am really an Asian freak at heart and haven't realized it yet. I really want to make my way through Le Coréen (or start working with another Korean textbook, but I have no idea which one) so I can start to understand their language and culture a little better. I've thought about Norwegian, Hungarian, Greek, Dutch, Catalan, Swahili, Polish, Czech. Any of those would make for a nice Assimil excursion for half an hour a day if I find the urge to expand my horizons, although Polish and Czech will have to wait until I have a more solid grasp on Croatian and Russian. :) I recently discovered that I can add a lot of vocab to Anki relatively easily, and I can use Anki on my phone. I figure 25 words a day (for Spanish and French) is about 9000 words. For Italian 20 words a day will bring me to about 7500. For Croatian, 10-12 words a day will bring me to a respectable 4000 words by the end of the year. This year I am setting concrete, countable goals. For me, that is much easier to work towards than saying that I want to be a B2 or a C1 in a certain language. My goals are still high, but I think they are mostly achievable. I often get frustrated with French, but I'll be damned if I let it beat me. Super Challenge, here I come! Edited by Kerrie on 11 January 2015 at 3:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| JohannaNYC Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4452 days ago 251 posts - 361 votes Speaks: Spanish*, English*, Italian Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Arabic (Egyptian) | Message 2 of 246 16 December 2012 at 5:49pm | IP Logged |
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Looking forward to reading your log. Are those the official team names?
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| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6903 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 3 of 246 16 December 2012 at 6:02pm | IP Logged |
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Looking forward to reading your log, to.
I think at least Prieteni is not official yet. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5395 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 4 of 246 16 December 2012 at 6:07pm | IP Logged |
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None of the team names are official yet. I'll change them if/when we actually decide anything. We're still a few weeks away from the new year, and no one seems to want to make any decisions. :) But if those are they names we choose, at least they all fit. Until I add Russian in the mix. LOL 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5395 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 5 of 246 18 December 2012 at 3:30am | IP Logged |
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Team Pax (Romance)
Kerrie - TAC 2013 Kerrie Team Divan Prieteni Pax (Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, Croatian) Songlines - The Peaceful Schnitzel (French, Italian) Margh19 - My TAC 2013 (French, Spanish) sillygoose1 - My Language Journey (French, Italian, Spanish) GRagazzo - Concentrazione (Italian, Spanish) fezmond - Beginning French (French) Kanewai - TAC PAX: Kanewai and the Romantics (French, Spanish, Ancient Greek) tastyonions - Tastyonions TAC 2013 (Team PAX) FR (French) Flarioca - TAC’13 Pax Team (ita+cat) / Assimil Exp (Catalan, Italian) LittleBoy - Rob’s Log ’13 (TAC 鶴 and Pax) (French, Spanish) Adrean - (French, Italian) Anya - Anya’s TAC2013 (French, Spanish, Italian) geoffw - Geoffw’s TAC2013 log (French, Italian) Quique - French, 22 years later (French) Darustet - (French) Jinx - TAC 2013 : Jinx & Too Many Languages French, Catalan sctroyenne - Adv French, Beg Spanish and Irish French, Spanish garyb - Gary's TAC2013 - PAX (French, Italian, Spanish) Rout - Rout - TAC 2013 - Spanish Team (Spanish) Associate members Solfrid Cristin - Cristina's way TAC 2013 TEAM MIR/SPARTA emk - French: Taking it to the next level Team Mir (Russian) tarvos: tarvos's log Solfrid Cristin: Solfrid Cristin's log Aloysius: aloysious' log Expugnator: EXPUGNATOR'S LOG mrwarper: mrwarper's log tecktight: (log) fabriciocarraro: fabriciocarraro's log teango: teango's log Silbermond: Silbermond's log Bbcatch08: Bbcatch08's log Josquin: Josquin's log TheGreaterFool: The Greater Fool's log Emme: Russian: Emme's log Medialis: Medialis' log LanguageSponge: LanguageSponge's log Woodsei: Woodsei’s log Toffeliz: Toffeliz' log Kerrie: Kerrie's log Wort: Wort's log zecchino1991: zecchinos log Ignis Fatuus: (log) Riff: riff's log ancpem1: anspem1's log Rhadryn: Rhadryn's log Team Divan (Croatian) Kerrie Serpent Danac JohannaNYC ellasevia Bbcatcher08 nosundays HodorIsKing Annette Honorary Members Chung Team Nebun (Slavic-Romance) Serpent Kerrie - Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese; Croatian. JohannaNYC - Spanish (native), Italian; Croatian Amerykanka - Spanish, Italian, Latin; Polish Julie - Polish (native), Russian; French mick33 - Spanish, Italian; Polish DaraghM - French, Spanish, Italian; Russian, Polish, Czech Isabliss_27 - Portuguese (native), French; Russian Skuld - Spanish (native), Catalan/Valencian, French; Russian FDppkaul - Portuguese (native), Catalan, Spanish, Italian; Russian, Bulgarian Edited by Kerrie on 04 January 2013 at 1:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4688 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 6 of 246 18 December 2012 at 8:33pm | IP Logged |
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Let's go Team PAX! Quick question: how do you count/evaluate your active vocabulary? I would think that counting
active vocabulary would be an even harder exercise than counting passive vocabulary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5395 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 7 of 246 18 December 2012 at 8:49pm | IP Logged |
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I use Anki. I'm pretty sure I have at least a few thousand in Spanish and French, so if I aim for 9000ish new words for the year, I will be well over my goals. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5793 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 8 of 246 18 December 2012 at 9:47pm | IP Logged |
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Good luck!
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