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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 1 of 42 03 January 2014 at 11:57am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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(The 2013 log is at
http://how- to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=35004) My Projects My biggest challenge in 2014 is the organization of the Polyglot Gathering, which will take place in Berlin in June. At this point, I know what my priorities are until then but I don't know what I will want to focus on afterwards, so my plans are for the first half of 2014 only. One exception is my book challenge. I enjoyed the book challenge I set myself last year, so this year I shall again try to read 50 books, most of which should be in foreign languages. My focus until June is to bring my conversational ability up in all my languages. I'm an introvert, so having a conversation is rarely a goal, and that means that I most like to study languages through reading. My reading ability is way beyond my speaking ability in most of my languages. But now I have a reason and a deadline to work on my speaking :-) I did also sign up for the January Tadoku though, hoping to get a head start on my reading. I do not want to start a new language before the Polyglot Gathering, but I may not be able to resist. After the conference, all bets are off. The languages that call out to me the most right now are Chinese (so beautiful) and Indonesian (so easy), but I shall definitely also work on Dutch, Italian, Modern Greek, Spanish and possibly Japanese, Portuguese, Arabic, Swahili. My German, English, Esperanto and French are at a level I'm content with. This year I most want to work on my website www.learnyu.com and possibly write another book. These take precedence over language study. However, I'm still aiming for > 700 hours total over the year. Edited by Sprachprofi on 03 January 2014 at 7:47pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4860 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 2 of 42 03 January 2014 at 2:30pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
My God! I have COMPLETELY opposite! And unfortunately in many of my target languages I don't have a good language partner (or a partner who wouldn't use some fake excuses/would have more time for me) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 3 of 42 05 January 2014 at 6:24pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I still have credits on italki, which I can use on speaking practice, but I'd prefer to do language tandems or other exchanges with native speakers, because I think my speaking is not that bad anymore. For Mandarin, I'll also keep reading books - I brought back a bunch from China in April - and I'm trying out a local Chinese class on Wednesday, not sure yet if I'll join. For Indonesian, I have my textbook that I haven't completed, plus these online resources: http://gloss.dliflc.edu/ - G.L.O.S.S. audiovisual materials for Indonesian http://www.bliubliu.com - read graded Indonesian texts and improve your vocabulary http://tedxtalks.ted.com/browse/talks-by-language/indonesianTEDx talks in Indonesian, some with subtitles http://www.childrenslibrary.org/ - children's books in Indonesian and many other languages (use Advanced Search by language) http://www.indokarlmay.com/v6/?page_id=233 - Karl May books as PDF in Indonesian http://hugemanga.com - Online manga in Indonesian 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||||||||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4860 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 4 of 42 05 January 2014 at 7:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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This Bliu Bliu seems to be interesting.
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| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 5131 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 5 of 42 05 January 2014 at 7:21pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Sprachprofi, how do you find working with bliubliu? I've tried it for Polish a few times, but it kept showing me individual sentences without any context. Not the kind of graded reading experience I was after... I hope they do a better job for other languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5167 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 6 of 42 06 January 2014 at 9:25pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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A little better timing and we could start Indonesian together, Sprachprofi. It is on my
hit list right after Estonian, maybe next year. Wish you luck at those projects! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 7 of 42 07 January 2014 at 11:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Set your level to something other than beginner and you'll see longer texts. Bliubliu looks for texts that don't have more than a few new words, so at the beginning they show you a lot of sentences if everything else contains too many new words. I haven't tried Bliubliu with Polish, the situation may be worse if their Polish grammar isn't ready yet - unlike LingQ, Bliubliu tries to lemmatize each word and all morphological forms are supposed to count as one word only.
I started Indonesian in April :-) It's a fun language, I love it. Good luck with your studies! Edited by Sprachprofi on 07 January 2014 at 11:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6471 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 8 of 42 11 January 2014 at 1:19pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Finished my first book yesterday: "La Infiel" by Reyes Monforte, 571 pages of Spanish!
It's an interesting story about a Spanish woman who inadvertently falls in love with the leader of a Muslim terrorist cell. I didn't like the way this book winds up portraying Islam. On the one hand, there are discussions early on between those who have a negative image of all Muslims and those who have more nuanced views, on the other hand, there is not a single positive Muslim character in this book. In terms of Indonesian, I created a parallel text based on the Karl May chapters I found and I already read the first chapter. Also, I signed up to an advanced Chinese class, which will take place every Wednesday morning for 3 1/2 hours, and I'm thinking of participating in the italki challenge. Edited by Sprachprofi on 11 January 2014 at 1:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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