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 newyorkeric Diglot Moderator Singapore Joined 6384 days ago 1598 posts - 2174 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian Studies: Mandarin, Malay Personal Language Map | Message 17 of 21 02 January 2014 at 7:04am | IP Logged |
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Jeff, I had a good laugh reading your logs. Can't say that I have done much better for certain languages.
So what languages have you worked on in the past couple of years??? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5339 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 18 of 21 02 January 2014 at 9:19am | IP Logged |
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Yes, this log brought a smile to my face as well. Russian really is a tricky one :-)
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6914 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 21 02 January 2014 at 8:05pm | IP Logged |
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Haha, thanks for the encouragement!
@newyorkeric: In 2010/2011 I studied Portuguese for two semesters (but seem to have forgotten to included it in my profile). @Solfrid: Yeah, Russian is one of those wild languages. Together with Mandarin, I'd say those two are the ones that will never feel comfortable, despite the number of hours I've put in (many years ago!). Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 16 January 2015 at 4:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6914 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 20 of 21 17 January 2015 at 12:33am | IP Logged |
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Summary of 2014
The only thing I did with Russian last year was reading extensively. 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there. Some impressive 7 hours in total. (Cross-post from the Wild guessing thread) Background - two semesters (part-time) of beginner Russian at the university, further studies on my own, easy readers, LingQ, podcasts and much more. My chosen book - "Angels and demons". Did that work? Not at all. Names, places, and the core vocabulary, sure, but other than that, no. For long stretches I had no idea what was going on, or even where I was in the story. Occasionally I understood a complete sentence. OK, I honestly didn't think I had enough Russian, but still thought it could be a nice experiment. If it had worked, the books at the library would keep me busy for years. My conclusion: if I want extensive reading to work, my language must be strong enough so I can guess the meaning, know where it's OK to skim a paragraph, or even ignore it. --- After finishing "Angels and demons" a couple of days ago, I picked up "Russian as we speak it" (referred to on the previous page). What I'm doing now is reading sentences aloud, a bit like Glossika's mass sentence method (but I don't record myself). It's not "literature" but I'm using the book for reading practice so that's where the minutes go in my spreadsheet. Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 17 January 2015 at 12:35am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Straya Diglot Groupie Australia Joined 3622 days ago 57 posts - 73 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchA2 Studies: Polish | Message 21 of 21 17 January 2015 at 2:19am | IP Logged |
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I really enjoyed reading this, especially since it only contains 3 pages!
Short, sharp and to the point. thumbs up from me :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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