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| Ending Newbie United States Joined 5322 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 25 of 28 01 February 2015 at 3:04am | IP Logged |
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Since I'm planning on participating in the 6 week challenge, I thought I'd make a little
post about my goals/plans for that challenge in particular. For starters, I don't use Twitter (I'm still resisting it for reasons I don't even fully comprehend), so I won't be keeping track of anything through the leader boards. I will however continue tracking my time via Toggl, and post it with my (semi-)usual updates. Now, for the goals: I have three main goals for the next six weeks. First, I'd like to finish up the duolingo tree. I went through a calendar and attempted to assign lessons to each day, with a review day at least once a week. With the schedule I made up, I should finish it around March 5th, assuming I actually stick to it! My second goal is to finish the grammar book I've been using: "easy french step-by-step." I feel it reinforces the material from duolingo and my other resources pretty well, so I'd like to actually finish it. I've done a rough plan for that as well, which normally breaks down each chapter between two days, again with at least one review/break day a week. If I stick with that schedule, I should finish it some time around the end of February. My third main goal is going to be to start using the 'easy french reader,' and I'd like to complete through the second part in that. I'm thinking (or at least hoping) that this will be the easiest of my goals. Other than that, I plan on continuing with my other main resources: mostly Lingvist and Assimil. If I actually manage to do an Assimil lesson a day, I should be able to finish the first passive wave by the end of the six weeks as well. Knowing my history with Assimil, however, I'm not going to make that one of my main goals (though it'll still be nice if it happens). So here's to a (hopefully) productive six weeks, and good luck to everybody else participating! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ending Newbie United States Joined 5322 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 26 of 28 17 February 2015 at 5:51pm | IP Logged |
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I've been neglecting this the last few weeks, which I regret. Unfortunately, I've been rather
distracted by life the last couple of weeks: in a good way at least! being more social, etc. However, this means that I haven't been putting as much time toward my French as I would like. I've (mostly) kept up on duolingo, lingvist and my anki deck-missing a day here or there, but that's it. Unfortunately, I haven't been keeping on track with anything else. For duolingo, I've mostly been reviewing (for some reason I've been getting a *ton* of decayed skills each day?) and I'm sad to say I've barely touched any grammar. Here's to hoping I can manage to get back on track soon! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ending Newbie United States Joined 5322 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 27 of 28 18 April 2015 at 3:08am | IP Logged |
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So, life happened, and it unfortunately distracted be from my French studies for the last
two months or so. I will say that I never *completely* neglected French, and managed to at least get a duolingo review in each day, but often that was it. Now that I once again have a little more free time, I'm hoping to get back into some more serious studying and keeping this log updated once again. I started committing more time to studying about a week ago, though in that time I have focused almost exclusively on duolingo. I did, however, manage to finish the French tree today, and I plan on going back to strengthen all my decaying skills now. I also hope in the next week or so to get caught up on my lingvist reviews, as they have fallen very, very far behind. Just a small update to show that I haven't completely forgotten French, and hopefully some motivation for me to get caught back up^^ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Ending Newbie United States Joined 5322 days ago 19 posts - 20 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, French | Message 28 of 28 08 June 2015 at 4:06pm | IP Logged |
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It's been awhile since I updated this so:
I've been pretty consistent with my French studies the last month or so. I try to get a few hours in in the morning, spread out across various resources. Duolingo: I've kept the tree golden, and started on the reverse tree (though I've only been working on that sporadically) Lingvist: I'm at 2,215 words by their count, and I've been fairly consistent with daily reviews. Easy French Reader: I'm working through the 3rd part in that at the moment--I'm finding it much more challenging than the second section, which I breezed through in a couple of days. Other: I've started reading le petit prince, and I'm really enjoying it so far. I'm only 30-40 pages in, but it's a nice little boost to my confidence that I can at least get the gist of the story (I've never read it before, even in English). I'll probably go through the story a second time to more actively figure out all of the vocabulary and such. Other than that I've been fairly sporadic with my other resources, though I am giving memrise a try--not sure how much I like it yet though. Future: I do have a few goals for the summer, and I'm hoping I can complete them all. For starters I'd like to actually start updating this log again (I really have no excuse not to). I also want to finish Le petit prince, and hopefully read another book in French (probably Harry Potter). I've also started working through French in Action, and would like to complete that by the end of summer. Overall my focus is going to be on strengthening reading and listening, so I can hopefully focus on writing/speaking in the fall. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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