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Day 6
Spanish ANKI Spanish. about.com – reviewing units previously studied last year spanish.about.com ASL lifeprint fingerspelling articles Fingerspelling articles - lifeprint.com Kanji #56 - 60 Edited by Spanky on 11 January 2014 at 7:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Day 7
Spanish Duolingo ANKI a few more Spanish.about.com articles ASL fingerspelling recognition practice - mostly comfortable at medium speed, need to replay for fast fingerspelling Kanji #61-65 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Day 8
Spanish Duolingo – finished level 5 ANKI ASL 3 letter words at fast and “deaf” speed, with ample replays Kanji #66 - 73 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Day 9
Spanish Michel Thomas, Disc 5 ANKI review ASL Fingerspelling video. 3 letter words fingerspelling - 3 letter words (youtube) Fingerspelling practice: names (slow) more fingerspelling: names at slow rate Kanji #74-79 regular reviewing with koohii Reviewing the Kanji site , adding cards as I get to them, and reviewing as promoted by site. Have a number of 1st and 2nd review cards piling up already. this, daily Edited by Spanky on 11 January 2014 at 7:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Day 10
Spanish Michel Thomas, Disc 5 ASL more fingerspelling practice videos from youtube fingerspelling plus wild shirt (slow, short words - no legend provided but easy to figure out) and signing with Courtney (this last one, from a classroom setting, talking about actual fingerspelling practice, blending of letters, etc. Very useful. Medium then slow simple signing). Kanji #80-85 Edited by Spanky on 11 January 2014 at 8:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5957 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 22 of 75 27 January 2014 at 6:56am | IP Logged |
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Days 11 through 26
Regrettably, for the past two weeks, I was stranded on an ice floe with a relatively laidback polar bear named Cecil – not an uncommon occurrence for this time of year for Canada. By “not uncommon”, I don’t mean to suggest that polar bears named Cecil (for that is what I surmised his or her name was) are terribly common. Often they have different names. So, long story short, I did not get much studying done for the past two weeks, the exception being when we floated near enough a Starbucks to loop into its wifi hot spot zone, and luckily there are few spots in this part of the world that are entirely bereft of a Starbuck$. Between trying to keep an eye out for land or ship, and the other eye on Cecil, it was difficult to keep an accurate day by day account of what I did. and most days frankly I did nothing. So I have already frustrated the “every day” motto of my approach (in record time, by the way). But a quick non-daily update and then I am right as rain for the balance of year and will stay away from ice fields. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Spanish – Days 11-26
Kept working on Michel Thomas for Beginners mp3 recordings on the bus, in lieu of chatting with my bus mates, and especially in lieu of talking with that very odd woman who never ever blinks. Discs 6 through 8. Borrowed from the library: McGraw Hill, Practice Makes Perfect: Complete Spanish Grammar , worked through chapter 1, present tense of regular verbs, modo indicativo including use of: - hace + expression of time + que + verb - cuánto tiempo hace que ….. - desde hace cuánto tiempo …. - desde cuándo … Liked the Practice Makes Perfect material enough that I have now bought Practice Makes Perfect: Basic Spanish and will work through that first, then back to Complete Spanish Grammar. Also, strolled through youtube videos, and watched a bunch from a series with a very cheerful presenter from the Butterfly Spanish youtube channel, as follows: Greetings, including a helpful explanation of something that had been driving me nuts: the variation in pronunciation of “ll” as either /j/ or /y/ sound Letters and sounds Las vocales (the vowels) Consonants ckzs the letter "g" Numbers Ten common questions in Spanish, including finally ¿Dónde está el baño? Edited by Spanky on 27 January 2014 at 7:13am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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ASL – Days 11-26
Stumbled across this website, linked from one of the youtube videos on Day 10, immediately prior to Operation ICEFLOE: Sign with Courtney Courtney has very kindly recorded herself in a classroom situation teaching a number of sequential lessons and appears to be an engaging presenter. I have started with the basic videos indicated under her Beginning American Sign Language Class (hover cursor over those words in menu up near top). I note that she mentions that while she teaches some grammar, part of what she engages in is pidgin signed English rather than grammatically correct ASL (?!?) The videos are fun to watch and useful at this point. Worked through most of the Week 1 videos – fingerspelling alphabet, word recognition, numbers up to 20 (previously learned only up to ten), pronouns I, you, we, they, mine, yours, ours, theirs The numbers video – she demonstrates numbers 1-5 with palm forward, whereas one of my earlier youtube videos definitely demonstrated those numbers palm facing back. Don’t yet know if it makes a difference. More numbers practice, new words: hello, what, name, meet, nice/clean, age I've mostly let this lapse over the last little while: bears do not have opposable thumbs or much digital dexterity, so I was reluctant to appear too show-offy in front of Cecil. Kanji – Days 11-26 I am up to only 112; I have been keeping up with Reviewing the Kanji. Edited by Spanky on 02 February 2014 at 5:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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