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| AnaV Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4340 days ago 20 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: Danish | Message 1 of 16 13 January 2013 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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So, this is my first TAC and I am very excited about it :)
My name is Ana, I am a Brazilian married to a Dane. I have been studying Danish on my own since July 2012 - about a month before we moved to Denmark. We have been living in Brazil and Malta before, and I have been to Denmark a couple of times before moving there. It was not really hard talking to my husband's family and friends or going around there, since most people in Denmark speak English. But of course, it is not the same of speaking their language, especially when we are planning to live there for a while. I am really enjoying to learn Danish, even though it is quite hard sometimes. I am not the self-disciplined type, but since I've started, I'm managing studying almost every day. I think it will be a little harder to keep my habits now, since we are spending a time in Brazil and I am not completely immersed in a Danish-speaking enviromnent anymore. But I am planning to stick to my studies, and I have no doubt this challenge is going to help me on it. I hope I will have had improved a lot when we go back to Denmark in March, when I am going to start to take regular classes. I think I have made some progress so far, but my skills are quite unbalanced. I can understand a lot of what I read and some of what I hear, but I struggle a lot to speak. I think it reflects the way I have been studying: I love reading, so I am always checking Danish newspapers and have just started reading a book in Danish. I also watch some Danish tv regularly, but I spend very little time with conversation. I have tried to keep talking in Danish to my husband everyday, but sooner or later I always stop doing it So, by now, my goal is to accomplish the following tasks every day: *** reading at least 3 pages of the book + 2 newspaper articles *** watching at least 1 hour of Danish programs *** studying my Anki deck and adding 10 new words every day *** talking at least 30 minutes in Danish *** writing at least 1 post on my blog every week I hope we all will have a great time learning languages this year. Tips and corrections are always welcome! Vi ses :) Ana 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gosiak Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 5130 days ago 241 posts - 361 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, German Studies: Norwegian, Welsh | Message 2 of 16 13 January 2013 at 10:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey :)
This looks like a very good plan to me,plus, you're among the lucky ones that have somebody to talk to in their target language. May the Viking force be with you! ;) I'll be following your progress. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Julie Heptaglot Senior Member PolandRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6907 days ago 1251 posts - 1733 votes 5 sounds Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, GermanC2, SpanishB2, Dutch, Swedish, French | Message 3 of 16 13 January 2013 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey, welcome to team Viking! Good luck with your studies, it seems like you have a good plan. Read Kez's log thoroughly, it seems that you're in a similar situation and you can find some inspiration there. Interstingly enough, you both define your (daily) goals in a similar way :).
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 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4995 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 4 of 16 14 January 2013 at 12:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome! ;-)
I created a page for you on our website, so you can start building up whatever you want there. To have access to it, send me your email-address (via PM!) and I'll add you to our site. If you already have a Wordpress account, I just need your username to add you. Good luck + happy learning! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5351 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 5 of 16 14 January 2013 at 2:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Hej AnaV!
Welcome to the forum and welcome to Team Viking! I wish you all the best for 2013 and good luck with Danish learning! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4361 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 6 of 16 14 January 2013 at 8:22am | IP Logged | ||
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Hej AnaV!
As Julie said, we're in quite a similar situation so it's going to be fun following your log and seeing how you're doing.
I'm doing something quite similar at the moment. I have a '30 day challenge' with myself to do a certain amount of reading/listening/speaking & watching per day. What helps me is that I have a small calender, and every day when I've done everything I had to do I put a red cross on the date. After a while this will become a long line of red crosses and will keep me motivated to do my Swedish tasks because I wouldn't want to break the line. It's a bit motivation for me hehe ^^ Can't wait to read about your progression! Welcome to the Vikings! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AnaV Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4340 days ago 20 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: Danish | Message 7 of 16 15 January 2013 at 3:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you guys for your support!
I am feeling very motivated after taking part on TAC. Next Sunday I am going to write about how things went this week, and also about my materials @Mae Thank you for creating the page. I have sent you a message about it, but just in case something went wrong, my wordpress username is anavester :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| AnaV Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4340 days ago 20 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: Danish | Message 8 of 16 21 January 2013 at 4:04am | IP Logged | ||
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Here I am again! And actually not very satisfied with my performance last week
I am taking a quite demanding statistics-related course at the moment, so I dedicated a much shorter time than the planned to learn Danish. The only day I did all the activities was Monday :( As a positive point, I managed to do at least one of the activities every day - so I still kept a regular contact with the language :) Anyway, the course is going to last a couple of weeks, so I have decided to cut down my goals a little bit, to be able to really stick to them: *** reading at least 1 page of the book + 1 newspaper article (aloud to my husband, whenever is possible) *** watching at least 30 minutes of Danish programs *** studying my Anki deck and adding 10 new words every day *** talking at least 30 minutes in Danish - this one I really want to stick to, as I feel speaking is my main challenge right now I want to start writing on my blog again, and also on my Team Viking's page, but I just feel it is quite impossible right now. I hope I'm going to be able to do it soon :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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