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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 73 of 117 04 August 2014 at 10:56pm | IP Logged |
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not today listen to something (6 minutes) listened to Tagalog version of Let It Go, once while reading English and once while singing along read something (9 minutes) reading comprehension exercise from Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo bilingual texts: Why the Sky is High; Napoleon write something (22 minutes) translation exercise from Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo copied out an audio exercise from Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo practice vocabulary (33 minutes) anki and memrise inputted vocab from Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo lesson 8 other (27 minutes) lesson 2 of Pimsleur TOTAL TIME TODAY: 97 MINUTES 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 74 of 117 05 August 2014 at 10:05pm | IP Logged |
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I worked with my tutor today. On the one hand, it was a really useful hour - I'm able to converse much more now
than even a month ago. But today I really realized how much I'm using English as a crutch. I keep trying to use English sentence structures in Tagalog, and they simply don't work. I need to focus on thinking in Tagalog, and let go of the inner translation trap that I keep falling into. In addition to simple conversation, I also worked with my tutor to create two more "islands" today (although I'm really not doing islands exactly as described in How To Improve Your Foreign Language Immediately): May aso kami. Chase ang pangalan niya. Siyam na taon na siya, pero bata pa siya. Chesapeake Bay Retriever siya, at malaking malaki - 120 pounds! Medyo mataba siya, kasi gustong gusto niya ng pagkain. Nakakatawa at mabait na aso siya. Wala kaming anak, kaya pamilya ang turing namin kay Chase. May alagang hayop ka ba? Gusto mo ng mga hayop? We have a dog. His name is Chase. He's nine years old, but he's still young. He's a Chesapeake Bay Retriever, and really big - 120 pounds! He's a bit chubby, because he really likes food. He's a good, funny dog. We don't have any kids, but Chase is family. (transliteration: "we treat Chase as family") Do you have any pets? Do you like animals? Nakatira ang pamilya ko sa Ontario. Abogado ang tatay ko at bookkeeper ang nanay ko. Malapit ako sa mga magulang ko, kaya medyo malungkot ako kasi malayo ang mga bahay namin sa isa't isa. May dalawang kapatid din ako, isang babae at isang lalaki. J at C ang pangalan nila. Nakatira sila sa Toronto. Technician si J at waitress si C. May asawa na si J at may dalawang anak na babae sila. Walang asawa si C, pero may nobyo siya. Saan nakatira ang pamilya mo? May kapatid ka ba? My family lives in Ontario. My dad is a lawyer and my mom is a bookkeeper. I'm close to my parents, so I'm a bit sad because our houses are far from one another. I also have two siblings, a sister and a brother. Their names are J and C. They live in Toronto. J is a technician and C is a waitress. J is married with two daughters. C isn't married, but she has a boyfriend. Where does your family live? Do you have any siblings? Today's Tagalog log: talk to someone (60 minutes) hour-long session with an italki tutor listen to something (23 minutes) reviewed a few older dialogues, and then worked through Teach Yourself unit 7, dialogue 2 sang along once with Bumitaw read something (7 minutes) reading comprehension / cloze exercise from Teach Yourself unit 7 write something (11 minutes) worked on a rough draft of my islands before my tutoring session practice vocabulary (18 minutes) anki and memrise TOTAL TIME TODAY: 119 MINUTES 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 75 of 117 07 August 2014 at 1:07am | IP Logged |
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Not today. I really need to take advantage of the fact that I live with a native speaker. On the one hand, I do. When I'm doing any work in Tagalog, I read things aloud and he corrects my pronunciation and answers any questions. But we rarely have conversations - I guess because I've already said all of the things I know how to say to him a hundred times. Ha! listen to something (12 minutes) reviewed dialogues from Teach Yourself Filipino read something (12 minutes) reading comprehension exercise from Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo, lesson 8 (also read aloud twice to work on pronunciation) write something (15 minutes) Finished up lesson 7 of Teach Yourself Filipino! practice vocabulary (25 minutes) anki and memrise - I had lots of watering to do on memrise today! other (27 minutes) Listened to 2 episodes of Kalye Speak (didn't count for time, because they're mostly in English) Lesson 3 of Pimsleur - I actually quite like the course! Even though it's overly formal and not really "street Tagalog", it does help me to work on sentence structure. Word order changes in Tagalog based on whether a sentence is affirmative or negative, and it can be tricky to remember. I like having to quickly manoeuvre between "Nakakaintidi ako" (I understand) and "Hindi ako nakakaintindi" (I don't understand). TOTAL TIME TODAY: 91 MINUTES Edited by Stelle on 07 August 2014 at 1:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 76 of 117 08 August 2014 at 2:23am | IP Logged |
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I had a (very painful) conversation with my husband. He's the most patient person I know! Haha! listen to something (9 minutes) I listened to the Tagalog version of Let It Go twice, once while reading English and once while singing along. I'm starting to notice and recognize more words every time. For instance, today I had a lightbulb moment with this line: Wag ipaalam, wag ilalabas (don't let them know, don't let it out) Hey! Wait a minute! "Hindi ko alam" means I don't know, and "sa labas" means outside! I love when connections start to solidify! I also watched a short video aimed at toddlers, with vegetables reassembling to create a bird. Yes, it's as riveting as it sounds. Ha! No, actually, I quite liked it! It was very easy, but I might listen to it again tomorrow and transcribe the Tagalog. Here, you know you want to watch it: mga gulay / vegetables read something (23 minutes) Rather than moving on in Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo, I decided to spend some time reviewing tonight. I read all of the reading comprehension texts from lesson 1 to lesson 7. It was good to review some of the vocabulary and expressions that I've learned. I also read Napoleon, an early reader in French that my former tutor translated into Tagalog for me. Today, I noticed that the verb aspects switch back and forth between complete and incomplete when they should stay consistent. I'm going to go over the translation with my new tutor next week to make any necessary corrections. There are 13 books in the series, and I taught many children to read using those books, so I'd like to get them all translated. write something (13 minutes) I wrote two short texts today, one about the languages that I speak, and one about learning Tagalog. I'll try to get them corrected shortly. practice vocabulary (20 minutes) anki and memrise other (27 minutes) lesson 4 of Pimsleur - This one was tricky for me! I keep mixing up the word order when we switch from affirmative to negative sentences. I also have a hard time remembering which verbs take ako/ka and which ones take ko/mo. I think I'll redo this lesson before moving on to lesson 5. TOTAL TIME TODAY: 102 MINUTES edited to correct a typo Edited by Stelle on 08 August 2014 at 2:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 77 of 117 09 August 2014 at 3:28am | IP Logged |
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I put up a link to Tagalog resources on my blog today:
Tagalog resources talk to someone (20 minutes) I had a 45 minute Tagalog Skype session today, but we kept reverting to English. I really like this tutor personally, but she doesn't push me enough and she often asks me questions in English. I'm only counting half the time, since we only spent half the time talking in Tagalog. listen to something (9 minutes) Tagalog songs from Frozen read something (6 minutes) Bilingual stories on YouTube write something (14 minutes) Not exactly writing - but I spent some time digging through the grammar explanations in Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo lesson 8 practice vocabulary (25 minutes) anki and memrise TOTAL TIME TODAY: 74 MINUTES 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 78 of 117 10 August 2014 at 2:32pm | IP Logged |
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talk to someone Not today listen to something (32 minutes) I listened to short cartoon clips for 20 minutes. I was listening extensively, so I didn't repeat or try to figure out tricky parts. I was focusing and I understood a lot of individual words, although much of it was beyond me. I made myself a playlist with 8 or 9 short cartoons (2-4 minutes each). I also listened intensively to a piece of audio from TMTT lesson 8, listening to it multiple times in order to transcribe it. There's one sentence at the end that I couldn't quite get. I think it's something like this: Dimagpunta oo nga ang nanay niya ngayong araw. But that doesn't make any sense to me. I'll have to get JP to listen to it. But all of the "ng" and "n" sounds, one after another, were almost impossible to pick apart. read something (13 minutes) Read through old and new texts in TMTT textbook. I have to review old texts more often. I also found an online bookstore that sells bilingual picture books in Canada: Pinoy Culture Their prices are reasonable and so is the shipping within Canada. I need some *real* books, so I bought four. I'm hoping that those will tide me over until we move back to Ontario (soon, I hope!) and I can use the library system. Our library here has only three Tagalog children's books that I have to borrow from Halifax through interlibrary loan. I've requested them, but they'll take up to 9 weeks to get here. write something (28 minutes) I translated the second Napoleon book with JP's help. I'm not sure we're doing it right, though, since I've never read any books in Tagalog. Lots of early readers in English and French use the present tense, so that's how we're translating these. Except that Tagalog doesn't really have present tense in the exact same way. They have incomplete, complete and contemplated. So we're using incomplete (for present tense), but I'm not sure that's how children's books in Tagalog work. practice vocabulary (20 minutes) anki and memrise other (27 minutes) Repeated lesson 4 of Pimsleur. I think that I'm going to aim for a Pimsleur lesson on every day that I don't have a Skype practice session scheduled. TOTAL TIME TODAY: 120 MINUTES Edited by Stelle on 10 August 2014 at 2:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 79 of 117 11 August 2014 at 1:08am | IP Logged |
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not today listen to something (10 minutes) I listened to Tagalog version of Let It Go, once while reading English/Tagalog and once while singing along. Even after a dozen times, I'm still figuring new things out every time. One thing's for sure...it's taking way longer for Tagalog to sink in than Spanish! I also watched a 4-minute video. It's a rather cringe-inducing cartoon about a pig who doesn't share, and so she doesn't have any friends. It's one of those "and the moral of the story is..." stories that I generally dislike. But - simply because it's in Tagalog and I can understand many words - I kind of sort of enjoy it. I think I'm going to be like a kid and watch it every day this week, if I can stand it. Hopefully by the end of the week it will be pretty transparent. read something (6 minutes) Re-read several texts from earlier lessons of Tara Mag-Tagalog Tayo. write something (34 minutes) Copied out the entire translated text for Napoleon 2 on sticky notes and covered the French text with them, to create a Tagalog book that I can actually read. This was kind of an accidental project, but I love having bilingual text hidden under a flap - I only see the French words if I go through the trouble of lifting the flap. I also worked through 4 or 5 exercises in lesson 8 in the TMTT workbook. practice vocabulary (22 minutes) anki and memrise TOTAL TIME TODAY: 72 MINUTES 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 4145 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 80 of 117 12 August 2014 at 2:15am | IP Logged |
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not today listen to something (7 minutes) I watched "Pixie Can Share" (can you guess what the moral of the story is?) for a second time today. I'm going to watch it every day this week and see how much my comprehension improves. I also listened to two Kalye Speak podcasts, although I only counted each one as a minute and a half, since the rest is in English. read something (35 minutes) I've been working on building a collection of comprehensible texts. More on that in a future post! write something (19 minutes) A few exercises in the TMTT workbook, and transcribing a listening exercise. practice vocabulary (16 minutes) anki and memrise other (27 minutes) Pimsleur lesson 5. I'm going to repeat this lesson. TOTAL TIME TODAY: 104 MINUTES 1 person has voted this message useful |
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