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| yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4803 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 9 of 43 04 March 2014 at 12:08am | IP Logged | ||
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It's nice to have a little group of fellow German learners all about the same level.
Well, at the moment, I'm still trying to get through 'Tintin- Der Case Bienlein (The Calculus Affair, in English). I've just finished 'Post fur den Tiger' and 'Ich Macht Du Gesund' and 'Wie Schoen ist Panama' They're pre school books about a Tiger and a Bear who live beside a river. Nice and gentle. The author's name is Janosch. Once I've got Tintin subdued, I have a 2 kid's novels- Greg's Tagebuch (Diary of a Wimmpy Kid) and 'Hecktor Hamster sieht Rott!'- something about a pet hamster who finds himself on holiday in a farm. Once/if these are completed, then I have Bridget Jones in German and the first Harry Potter book.All of which will probably be more than enough for the next 10 months and beyond. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4083 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 10 of 43 04 March 2014 at 7:03am | IP Logged | ||
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Billions of blue blistering....
I'm a fan of tintin. How is it in German? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4803 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 11 of 43 04 March 2014 at 1:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think at our level it's just getting manageable. I bought it when I was just starting
out and it was rather demoralizing. I have a dictionary to hand and refer to it often so I'm only about a third through as it's taking me an hour to maybe read 2 spreads and I'm enjoying it more. I need to get my head down and finish it- I'd prioritised my Hugo course but I really need the reading practice for balance. As for the actual translation, Tintin is called Tim, Snowy is Struppi and Captain Haddock says "Hunderttausend heulende und jaulende Höllenhunde" (100,000 howling hounds of Hell, apparently). Professor Calculus is a straight translation. It's been great for picking up little turns of phrase and how speech differs from formal written German, particularly if you're mostly reading from textbooks. I'd definitely recommend trying one in German. Even more so as a fan. I hadn't actually read a Tintin book before. I bought a couple of Mandarin versions when I was living in China but I couldn't read more than a couple names and unhelpful things like 'he' 'she' 'is' 'what' 'where' etc...Once I've finished this one, I'll definitely buy another one. Plus, they look great in a foreign language! Pimp your bookcase! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4083 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 12 of 43 04 March 2014 at 2:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just downloaded the series. You're right, it is just manageable with extensive help
from a dictionary. I think I will finish Hugo first, and Assimil. And then onto native German media. **Technically, Tintin in English IS in a foreign language. The original was in French :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| kimb1 Newbie United States Joined 3923 days ago 12 posts - 17 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 13 of 43 06 March 2014 at 4:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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I just found out that Tintin is a comic! I've obviously never read a Tintin book before, and I thought it was just a children's series with text and maybe some illustrations. Comics are probably great learning tools.
I'm going to look into getting a book or two. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 4083 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 14 of 43 06 March 2014 at 6:28pm | IP Logged | ||
The German version is very expensive at amazon.com It would be less expensive to buy it from amazon.co.uk/amazon.de and have it shipped. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4803 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 15 of 43 09 March 2014 at 7:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Sometimes Ebay is worth a look. My Harry Potter in German has just arrived. One for the
future admittedly. It cost around £5/$7 including postage from Germany. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| yantai_scot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4803 days ago 157 posts - 214 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 16 of 43 09 March 2014 at 9:56pm | IP Logged | ||
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Week 4 completed! w/e 9th March 2014
Study time:15 hours 30 mins total 2 hours class lesson, 3 hours 40 mins listening (including Assimil), 2 hours 20 mins reading, 7 hours 30 mins text book study/writing. Work covered: Hugo Chapter 9, Assimil to lesson 17, Tintin to page 26/64 Thoughts: I managed to reach my 14 hour target despite having a full day off due to illness. If anything, maybe I need to make sure I spread the textbook learning and class revision over several days and overlap materials rather than having one solid stint at doing class revision, one day doing just Hugo etc. I aimed to watch an old film but couldn't find the enthusiasm this week. This has been a harder week mentally. Not the workload but being very aware of how little I know and that perhaps the B1 goal for September might be too high. Taking the DW online level test for A2 today, I got 69%, a 9% improvement on a month ago. 'Very good! You have reached the CEFR A2 competence level.' Attempting the B1 level test today, I got 44% 40% - 59% Not quite! Your German is still at A2 level, but if you enroll for a format that is already halfway towards B1, you should soon achieve B1 competence. So, not quite a disaster but I was doing a lot of guessing. I've still got 5 weeks before I should be finished my Hugo book 1/my class textbook and that's only A2. So maybe B1 isn't completely out of the question... Goals for the next week: Assimil lessons 18-23, Hugo Chapter 10, to use each learning source for no more than 1 hour a day to learn to spread things out over a week. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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