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Radioclare’s TAC log 2014 (*jäŋe/*ledús) | ||
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes  4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 401 of 522 31 October 2014 at 9:30pm | IP Logged | ||
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We could give the consistency thread another try :) Should be useful for daily goals :)))
Tadoku ends at midnight, so don't forget to log your reading before that ^^ I think your film stats are fantastic, especially as you're not really into films (same here...) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 402 of 522 01 November 2014 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||
Aww, thank you :) I think the fact that I constantly feel disappointed in them is because it feels like such an effort for me to watch Croatian TV/films so I'm always checking my stats to see how much they've increased by and it's only about 0.3 of a film every time I watch a TV episode so I feel like I'm getting nowhere. Whereas reading books is really natural for me so I don't check my stats that often and they seem to go up really quickly :) I will have a look at the consistency thread. I remember seeing it before and thinking the rules looked really complicated but that was probably in January when I was still trying to figure out how to use the forum! ******* I was going to say that I don't feel I've achieved much today, but I'm trying to have less negative self-talk so I'll list what I have done: - Cleared my backlog of unwatered Memrise plants (432 watered) - Watched two episodes of 'Bitange i Princeze' - Written out the exercises from three chapters of by BCS textbook as grammar practice. - Started making notes on Chapter 5 of the BCS grammar book. - Created a Memrise course with 70 useful Croatian phrases that will hopefully make my Croatian sound more natural when I speak/Write. Before I go to bed I'm also hoping to write an email to a Serbian Esperantist who has been messaging me on Interpals this week. When I write it like that it actually sounds quite productive :D In addition I have cleaned my house and booked a holiday in Brussels for new year. I had to give up on the idea of going to Slovenia/Croatia/Serbia in the end; all the flights from Eastern Europe are just too expensive at the start of January. But getting to Brussels is comparatively cheap on the Eurostar, so it seems like a good choice even though I don't know a lot about Belgium. We do have a friend in Antwerp who we might be able to visit. And it will help my with my goal of visiting every capital city in Europe (Brussels will be number 26 for me) :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 403 of 522 02 November 2014 at 11:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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I haven't had a lot of time for language study today. We went to a christening in a
place about two hours' drive from where we live and afterwards we went to visit my sister, who has recently moved to a town nearby. It was a nice day, albeit one of those where you actually do nothing but feel exhausted from it. When I got home I spent almost two hours rereading the first 115 pages 'Sanjao sam slonove'. I hope I've got it right that you can count rereading towards the Super Challenge (if not, someone tell me because I've logged it!). I very rarely reread a book when I'm still in the middle of it, but in this instance I felt like it would help me to get a better handle on the storyline. And I think it has :) This book is a lot easier to understand than the book I was reading last week (because the characters don't speak in any kind of dialect or slang) but I'm still finding it harder than reading a translation, and to follow the sense of some of the sentences I have to concentrate really hard. I'm impressed by how much more I've understood on my second reading of the text though, despite being too lazy to look up all the words I don't know :) Apart from that I've just done a bit of Memrise. I'm disappointed that watering/planting done via the Memrise app doesn't count towards your learning streak on the website. I much prefer using the app and did so for almost an hour yesterday, only for the website to tell me today that I had "no learning events" yesterday. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 404 of 522 04 November 2014 at 1:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yesterday was quite an unproductive day work-wise as I was travelling between meetings in different cities. However, it was quite a productive day Croatian-wise as that meant I had lots of time for reading on trains :)
In total I read 81 (new) pages yesterday and a further 33 on the train this morning, so I'm now getting towards the end of the book. I'm up to 151.8 books now so I got an extra star :) Yesterday evening I watched two more episodes (67 minutes) of 'Bitange i Princeze'. 73 films now, so 'only' two more and I may get another star or I may not actually get one (I've lost track of how it's working now) because I may already have too many from reading. But 75 feels like it will be a landmark anyway. I also did some Memrise last night but I'm having annoying sync issues between my phone and the computer so I gave up. I'm upgrading my phone soon so perhaps it will work better when I have a new one. I spent half an hour or so writing in Serbian to two people who have sent me messages on Interpals. Writing an email to someone feels like a real effort still but I know it's good because the more often I do it, the easier it will get! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 405 of 522 04 November 2014 at 2:03pm | IP Logged | ||
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Brussels is one of those cities that should be a lot better than it really is.
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| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 406 of 522 04 November 2014 at 2:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh dear, that doesn't fill me with confidence :D Serpent said it was nice!
I went to Oslo for new year last year so I'm hoping that Brussels will at least be cheaper and have alcohol more readily available :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4705 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 407 of 522 04 November 2014 at 4:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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That it definitely has.
I spent two years travelling back and forth between the Netherlands and Belgium and spent two months living in Brussels. I don't really find Brussels that great a place, and you're going in winter, so my guess is that it's just going to rain and be cold. I recommend the Grand Place. You can go up to Heizel to see the Atomium if you like. But it costs a fortune to get in apparently. I never went in when I was there. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4581 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 408 of 522 05 November 2014 at 1:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the recommendations, tarvos :) We are staying for six nights so we may only spend a couple of days in Brussels and then go on some trips to different places, depending on how expensive train fares are in Belgium. I know it will be wet and cold in December but it's the same at home so I think I might as well be wet and cold somewhere different when I have the time off work. So long as I don't have to toast the new year with a can of Sprite (which is what happened last year in Oslo!) I will be happy :D
****** This morning I finished reading 'Sanjao sam slonove'. I really enjoyed it and I think I will definitely reread it when my Croatian is better. The story set in the 1990s and follows the story of a member of the Croatian security services whose father is testifying against members of the Croatian army who committed war crimes against Serbs earlier in the decade and who is subsequently murdered. There appears to be a connection between his murder and an investigation the security services have been running into a member of the Croatian mafia, and things become increasingly complicated as the two stories intertwine. It paints quite a grim picture of post-independence Croatia, with corrupt officials, police and lawyers who are in the pocket of the mafia etc. The connection with elephants (slon = elephant) is that the murdered father was part of a security team guarding the Croatian president during his visits to a secluded island, which also happened to be home to a pair of elephants which had been donated by the Indian government. The soldiers in the security team are drunk, bored and on drugs and decide to take out their frustrations by beating and abusing the elephants. Somehow the father develops an obsession with the elephants and the violence he witnesses towards them seems to disturb him far more than the violence he has witnessed towards human beings during the war. I won't spoil the entire story but the elephants haunt him for the rest of his life. I logged 20 minutes of Croatian music for the 6WC last night, which is a third of the time I spent listening to it. There was chaos on my commute last night so I wasn't able to sit and read on the train. Very frustrating. I caught up on a bit of Memrise in the evening and watched two more episodes of 'Bitange i Princeze' which brings me up to 74 films. I had an idea that I could try to get to 200 books and 100 films by the end of the year, but not sure how realistic that is. I don't feel like the 6WC is going very well for me. I have 13 hours of Croatian logged so far but 9 hours of it is stuff I would have done for the Super Challenge anyway. Need to try harder. Or perhaps, I need to choose whether I would rather focus on the SC films or grammar study, because I probably don't have time for both. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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