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| Rhadryn Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5384 days ago 53 posts - 60 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese, French Studies: Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Latin, German | Message 33 of 42 29 January 2013 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | ||
Update 4 (22/1-28/1)
The distraction abated and is mostly gone now. Only 35.5 hours of studying, but I still met all my goals. I read four chapters of Harry Potter this week. Wow. Either my reading speed is increasing or the chapters are much shorter (probably a bit of both, I hope). It's still early, but I'm actually quite motivated to read the book at this point. Also, I wrote a post for Lang-8. It was even more painful than last time. I think I'm going to try using some textbooks to study from starting next week, in order to review sentence structures. Some listening exercises would probably be a good time investment as well. I gave up on learnrussian.rt. I was learning, but I wasn't getting drilled enough. Some of the grammar explanations weren't complete. And the absence of an answer key was absolutely maddening. It's a pity because the site is extremely well set up, and the dialogues (and speakers!) are fantastic. In it's place I've started listening to a Russian podcast. But I decided that wasn't enough, so yesterday I started doing the exercises in a Russian grammar workbook. This book is amazing, with concise explanations, focused grammar points, and a healthy dollop of exercises. And I'm writing the answers on the computer instead of on paper which I think will help my motivation a lot since I have such a bipolar relationship with writing. For the last week I've been reading and listening to audio from various short stories. From tomorrow I'll probably begin to use some sort of textbook. Always a pleasure. It's hard to put the book down after 30 minutes. I'm already a third of the way through, so I hope I can find another book to read that is this good. Finished Lamartine today, and next I'll be reading about Alfred de Vigny. There were several selections I liked for no apparent reason in this last week's reading, so here's one of them: L'hiver noircit sa rude écorce; Autour du banc rongé du ver Il contourne sa branche torse Comme un serpent frappé du fer. As of today, I've finished Alif Baa. I'm satisfied that it gave me a solid foundation in reading and pronouncing Arabic (and I have an idea of how to write, as well). Next I'll be doing Assimil and making flashcards from the vocab I learn there. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Rhadryn Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5384 days ago 53 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, French Studies: Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Latin, German | Message 34 of 42 30 January 2013 at 1:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the corrections, milesaway! I have a couple of questions:
If "Но я не работаю сейчас" sounds sad, so what could I say in its place? Нравится - why do I need the singular when I'm talking about two activities that please me? I appreciate the encouragement, Solfrid Cristin! I'm tempted to do the six week challenge, but in the past when I've tried to immerse myself in a language I get bored of it, and feel guilty whenever I'm doing something else. Plus it kind of goes against my philosophy for this year--to do things with consistency and in moderation and thereby establish a firm foundation. I wish I could help, but I think it's better not to. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4708 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 35 of 42 30 January 2013 at 1:14am | IP Logged | ||
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Мне не нравится изучать ... it takes a verb here, not a noun. You get the plural with
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| milesaway Triglot Senior Member Russian Federation Joined 4332 days ago 134 posts - 181 votes Speaks: French, English*, Russian Studies: Finnish, Sign Language | Message 36 of 42 30 January 2013 at 9:12am | IP Logged | ||
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Я не работаю сейчас is the better option. It would be used to say that you are currently not working, either by choice or a seasonal thing (for example, school holidays if you're a teacher, like me.) Но теперь у меня нет работы is what sounds sad, like I used to work, but lost my job or something like that.
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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5396 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 37 of 42 02 February 2013 at 12:37am | IP Logged | ||
This is the reason I /am/ doing the TAC. I'm not competing for first place for my target language, although I supposed I am using it as an incentive to get my butt moving. If I can make it in the top 10-15 of the total hours (for all languages) though, that would be awesome. It's nice to be able to see graphs showing how consistent you've been with each of your languages. Of course, you already have cool graphs. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4845 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 38 of 42 10 March 2013 at 1:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey, how's your Russian doing? It would be great to read something from you again soon! I hope everything's fine.
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| Rhadryn Triglot Groupie United States Joined 5384 days ago 53 posts - 60 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese, French Studies: Spanish, Russian, Arabic (Written), Mandarin, Latin, German | Message 39 of 42 27 March 2013 at 5:32am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the checkup, Josquin.
I had some technical problems at the beginning of February and motivational problems soon followed, so that for nearly a month I did little other than minimal Japanese. But I've been back to studying for ten days now and have worked all but German back into my schedule, so it's definitely time to make an update. Since it's been so long, no charts. One of my technical problems was with the charts, which mysteriously shrink every time I look at the spreadsheet, but hopefully I'll figure out how to fix that and have a new chart up for next week. First, I have now replaced the website that I used to use to keep track of my daily habits, chains.cc. I had a chain of 150 days of doing Japanese flashcards in a row, but breaking that chain led to less motivation to continue, so I've stopped using that site. The new one, HabitRPG, is much more merciful and motivating. Harry Potter 4 is still going at a snail's pace. I'm now about a third of the way through the book. As it's so tedious, I've also been reading a visual novel, which is really exciting for me because doing so was my strongest motivation for learning Japanese other than the language itself. I understand about 95%, and if I can't infer the meaning then half the time I can still figure out how to look it up, so I can understand almost everything if I'm not lazy. I've watched tons of anime and even some drama recently, so much so that I was thinking in Japanese for a few days, and even now I find myself talking out loud in Japanese. I've only added about 120 new vocab words in the last 8 weeks, but at least there's progress. Still not happy with Russian progress. I've not done much at all in regard to the grammar. I've only learned about 70 new words according to Anki. However, I've been really consistent with listening to a Russian podcast that I mostly understand and which also teaches new words, so I'm hoping that helps. In the last week, I've been watching an AMAZING Russian drama called Одна Ночь Любви. I highly recommend it, and have to exert a lot of willpower to stop watching it. The past two days I've watched it so much that my mind tries to think in Russian, but I'm lacking so much vocabulary that it doesn't quite work. Not much has changed. I really want to work through this grammar book and then go through Assimil again, but I haven't touched the grammar book since early February. I finished El Nombre Del Viento and began the next book, El Temor de un Hombre Sabio. I'm sad that the Rueda del Tiempo books aren't available for Kindle. I'll probably try finding a hard copy by the time I finish with my current book. I haven't done much reading, but I watch the news practically every day, for 10-20 minutes. It's really good and helpful for aural comprehension, but I should get back into the reading soon. I haven't progressed much in the past 8 weeks, but I still remember most of what I studied, up to Assimil lesson 11. So yeah, next week I'll return to regular weekly updates and keep it consistent. Edited by Rhadryn on 27 March 2013 at 6:16pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| 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 40 of 42 30 March 2013 at 7:37am | IP Logged | ||
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I found that reading HP4 in Japanese went really slowly too. I thought I'd never get finished.
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