Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6621 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 57 of 436 01 February 2013 at 6:55pm | IP Logged |
Congratulations. I'm looking forward to being there myself someday.
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g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5983 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German
| Message 58 of 436 02 February 2013 at 2:49pm | IP Logged |
Keep going and you will get there too!
I've just booked myself a holiday. After the 6WC finishes, I'm going to Germany for 12 nights. You'd think that would be good motivation to study, although so far I've spent more time researching and planning my holiday than I have done studying the language. Now I've got trains and hotels booked, I can go back to focusing on what's really important - getting good at German!
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Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6621 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish
| Message 59 of 436 03 February 2013 at 8:33am | IP Logged |
Dreaming about learning often gets in the way of actual study. I have that problem a lot. I'm counting on the 6WC to give me the kick in the pants that I need. I'm determined to beat Cristina, so I have to work hard.
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dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4666 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese
| Message 60 of 436 03 February 2013 at 1:36pm | IP Logged |
g-bod wrote:
JLPT results are now out online. I passed N2!!!! |
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Congratulations. Makes all the hard work worthwhile doesn't it?
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Toffeeliz Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5681 days ago 116 posts - 130 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin Studies: Russian
| Message 61 of 436 03 February 2013 at 7:16pm | IP Logged |
Congratulations! :D
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g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5983 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German
| Message 62 of 436 03 February 2013 at 7:41pm | IP Logged |
I had a slightly weird experience in my Japanese language exchange today. I made the mistake of using 母 when I should have used お母さん, which my partner corrected. However, when he corrected me I was a bit surprised because I was sure I had said お母さん in the first place. I already knew that 母 would be wrong in the context I used it, and yet it still slipped out without me even noticing.
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g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5983 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German
| Message 63 of 436 04 February 2013 at 8:00pm | IP Logged |
I have a question for anybody studying a language with genders!
Should I concern myself with memorising nouns and articles right now?
In pretty much every German course I've looked at so far, any explanation of the use of der/die/das also comes with the advice that I must memorise the article with the noun.
I guess it's sound advice, since if you don't know the correct article you don't have much of a chance of producing correct German.
However, my main aim at present is to build up my passive knowledge and I've been pretty much steadfastly avoiding rote memorisation of anything so far. But I'm starting to wonder, would I be saving myself future pain if I made a start on drilling nouns and genders right now? Or is it safe to leave it until I need it?
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mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5227 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese
| Message 64 of 436 04 February 2013 at 9:46pm | IP Logged |
You can obviously see the down side of delaying it. Is not doing it right now really an 'up' side?
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