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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4146 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 137 of 384 25 December 2013 at 1:18am | IP Logged | |||||
Thanks for the heads-up! No, I don't have Platiquemos. It's nice to know in advance that the audio is a bit off in FSI, that way I won't be confused. I'm glad to hear that they don't do too many review lessons. While I definitely see the value in reviewing grammar points, I don't see why remembering piddly details is terribly important. Gracias y feliz Navidad! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4146 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 138 of 384 26 December 2013 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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As I've mentioned more than once, I wasn't planning on starting Tagalog until May, when I get back from Spain.
I'm busy enough immersing myself in Spanish, figuring out my packing list for the Camino de Santiago, doing training hikes, and - oh yeah - working, cleaning the house, taking care of my dog, hanging out with my husband. But now I've joined TAC14 Team Coconut (SouthEast Asian languages), and I really don't want to wait until May to get started! I've also been curious for some time about Memrise. It looked like fun, but it wasn't really something that I wanted to do with Spanish, since I already have more than enough Spanish materials. So today I started a Tagalog course on Memrise: Foundation Tagalog My goal for the next three months is to focus most of my language-learning time on Spanish, and spend just a few minutes each day on Memrise. I'm going to explore the "plant" and "water" cycle with five words per day, doing nothing else for Tagalog until May. It will be a fun little experiment to see if I like Memrise, it will let me play with a new language, and it will give me a bit of a head start on Tagalog - without losing my focus on Spanish. Just for fun, I made a list of words that I already know in Tagalog (spelling may be very off, since I only know how to say them): masarap - delicious pogey - good-looking magaling - good aso - dog salamat (po) - thank you komusta - how are you mabuti - fine bigas - rice (uncooked) canin - rice (cooked) tubig - water malamig - cold mainit - hot tulog - sleep I think it's really interesting that Tagalog has a different name for rice, depending on whether or not it's cooked! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4146 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 139 of 384 27 December 2013 at 1:51am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've decided to start a new log for Tagalog, and keep this log specific to Spanish.
my Tagalog log 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4146 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 140 of 384 30 December 2013 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I put up a new blog post today outlining my goals for 2014, along with an image of my very low-tech tracking
sheet: Spanish 2014 Edited by Stelle on 30 December 2013 at 3:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4624 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 141 of 384 30 December 2013 at 6:25pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Very nice blog. I think your tracking sheet is a great idea. I use an excel spreadsheet to do something similar, but have only two categories: oral and written. Oral is for skype conversations, listening to audiobooks/podcasts, watching films, etc and Written is for reading, writing emails, doing grammar exercises or reviewing vocabulary. For every 20 minutes spent doing an activity, I record a star at the end of the day. Sounds childish, but it keeps me happy...
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| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5349 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 142 of 384 30 December 2013 at 8:45pm | IP Logged | |||||
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What an impressive language journey this log chronicles!
As a newbie in Spanish there’s no doubt that there’s much I can learn from you. I’m looking forward to a fantastic TAC’14 for Team Lobo! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4146 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 143 of 384 30 December 2013 at 10:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
Childish and happy - sounds like the best way to learn, as far as I'm concerned! ;) I like your two categories…that makes a lot of sense.
Thanks Emme! I'm looking forward to learning with you this year! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| BaronBill Triglot Senior Member United States HowToLanguages.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4691 days ago 335 posts - 594 votes Speaks: English*, French, German Studies: Spanish, Mandarin, Persian | Message 144 of 384 30 December 2013 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi Stelle. Great goals! I'm stealing your tracking sheet for my B2 German. Changing a few things, but I love the layout.
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