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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 1 of 217 11 January 2015 at 6:55pm | IP Logged |
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Dear friends, whether you're teammates or not, welcome to my log. My log is, as usual,
meant to monitor my progress to 1.force me to work on my goals under threat of public shame ;-) 2.make me not to lose track of all I do for my languages. Now. I've been quite busy during the last two or three weeks so, despite working somehow on my languages, I had not time for htlal. Therefore I promise to write my ending TAC14 post to the drunk snail log asap. And to catch up on my teams too. What are my plans for 2015: FRENCH One of my TAC languages and I plan to "finish" active studying it during the year. The plans are quite harsh due to DALF happening two weeks earlier than I had thought and the French exams being stupidly held only twice a year and always in colision with university exams. That's why I've been postponing this for years and why I cannot wait any longer, no matter how little prepared I feel. I am paying the exam fee for DALF C2 on Tuesday. This is going to be my absolute language priority until the day of the exam. plans: -Finish my grammar review in order to get rid of the last gaps and insecurities. -Get into the Vocabulaire Progressif books and get all the items I do not know actively 100% surelyto anki. There are no words there I do not know passively but I need to have wide enough active vocabulary to not be limited no matter what subject comes. -Work on my writing. One writing task from my preparatory coursebooks every two days. Or more. Having it checked with my tutor -Speaking with my tutor and alone with myself. Again, working mostly on the tasks from preparatory books. I am quite confident about my comprehension and my tutor said he would be very surprised if I didn't pass the spoken part. But writing is making me nervous ever since high school. :-D Apart from that, I still intend to finish my ASCR, which means Advanced Super Challenge residuals. I have something like 8000 pages and 40 movies left. THis is not an absolute priority though. SPANISH: I progressed quite noticeably last year and wish to continue. My reading and listening skills are good and I wish to further deepen them (and get the bonus from these for my active skills too) by completing the SC. I am signed up for the current super challenge and, following the up to date rules, have completed 1/10 of the movie parts and no books (despite having read some things like scientific papers). That is going to change Apart from that, I am going to work on some courses, grammar, vocabulary and all those needed bases for all the skills. I have no clear plans for travelling. At least I haven't planned anything yet. This is another of my TAC languages. I happened to be the team captain and I should put my ... together and act like it more :-D I might be interested in DELE B1 or B2 later during the year. My comprehension is really high, unless you're: andalusian, several people speaking at once or someone crying. I can read quite comfortably fiction books, even though I still miss quite a lot of details. I can read scientific papers related to my field without any trouble. I can make myself understood in quite a wide range of situations and I have quite good pronunciation. I have still got an accent and tons of mistakes, and limited active vocabulary. My active skills are certainly not B1 :-D GERMAN: The third TAC language. I progressed somehow last year and want to continue. All the beginner things mostly. This year, my goal is to finally get to watching tv series and reading books, as I have signed up for the SC and hardly begun. MYSTERIOUS FOURTH LANGUAGE: I can make no promises to myself but I think later in the year, I should finally have a free slot for one more. I am unlikely to have enough time to dive into something exotic (I am considering Japanese, Mandarin, Arabic and so on but I might have time for those in fifty years at the earliest, as it seems). More reasonable choices are: Swedish, as I have already begun and I like it. Italian, as I could do with it for travelling. Polish, as the translations of polish fantasy are more expensive than originals Russian, as it is another language I've got resources for and with good fantasy/sci-fi apart from that, I intend to read in English and therefore finish the ASCR for it. 8 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Nieng Zhonghan Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Antarctica Joined 3673 days ago 108 posts - 315 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Japanese*, Spanish, Galician Studies: Finnish, Icelandic, Armenian, Mongolian Studies: Old English, Russian, English, German, Korean, Mandarin | Message 2 of 217 12 January 2015 at 12:17am | IP Logged |
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I will be following your log, especially your German progress.
Did you find Spanish from Andalusian more difficult? :D I used to have trouble with Argentinian spoken Spanish as I have always felt that they speak faster than other Spanish speakers. Anyway, good luck with all of your goals! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jeffers Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4911 days ago 2151 posts - 3960 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Hindi, Ancient Greek, French, Sanskrit, German | Message 3 of 217 12 January 2015 at 2:21pm | IP Logged |
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Welcome to Team Français, Cavesa. Great to have you on board! I'll be eagerly awaiting your posts on prep for the exam, and your response once you've taken it.
And reading your post has given me an excellent arrow to keep in my quiver of excuses for ignoring people, "I can't understand you when you're crying- or are you Andalusian?" 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Mohave Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Mohave1 Joined 4009 days ago 291 posts - 444 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French | Message 4 of 217 12 January 2015 at 4:12pm | IP Logged |
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Cavesa - I'm so glad you are on Team Français -- and I wish you the best of luck as you prepare for the C2! I
plan to follow your inch stones closely to hopefully learn something to advance my French -- and then also Spanish which I hope to start this fall! Best of luck for a great 2015! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| PeterMollenburg Senior Member AustraliaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5478 days ago 821 posts - 1273 votes Speaks: English* Studies: FrenchB1 | Message 5 of 217 13 January 2015 at 8:02am | IP Logged |
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Hey Cavesa,
I feel like I have seen your name around quite a bit on HTLAL but don't really know you, so I'll be following along with your log this year since you are on the French team as well. Considering you're aiming to sit the French C2 exam, I was wondering if you have you spent significant blocks of time in any francophone countries? I'm really curious to see how you go with the exam and hope you are able to do all the preparation you plan to do. Good luck with all your languages in 2015 and welcome to the French team! PM 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| redflag Senior Member Australia Joined 3844 days ago 123 posts - 182 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Danish, Indonesian, French | Message 6 of 217 13 January 2015 at 8:13am | IP Logged |
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Wow, C2 that's so impressive! Bon chance and I'm very interesting in following what you do.
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| Elenia Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom lilyonlife.blog Joined 3858 days ago 239 posts - 327 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: German, Swedish, Esperanto | Message 7 of 217 14 January 2015 at 2:02pm | IP Logged |
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Bonne chance! I followed your log last year (although not actively), so I'm subscribed
for replies this year. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sctroyenne Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5393 days ago 739 posts - 1312 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Spanish, Irish | Message 8 of 217 14 January 2015 at 6:54pm | IP Logged |
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Je te dis merde pour le DALF C2! I'll be waiting anxiously to hear about your experience. With a tutor you're probably getting good preparation but for an extra boost, this site has some good guides:
Chez Jerome 1 person has voted this message useful |
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