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| marvelgirll Newbie United States Joined 5134 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine) | Message 1 of 37 21 December 2010 at 10:13pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm excited to finally start a log and hopefully take my language studies more
seriously. A little about me: I'm a 19-year-old (20 next month!) college student in the US double- majoring in Middle Eastern and Religious Studies. Arabic: Studying Arabic is very important for my major at school. I started learning Arabic in June, when I attended an intensive language program for 7 weeks that covered two semesters worth of Arabic. Over the fall semester I took the first semester of the second level of Arabic and we ended at the beginning of chapter 17 in the first Al-Kitaab book. This year, I'd really like to supplement my school studies and learn more Arabic on my own. I especially want to improve my listening. Dutch: I actually spoke Dutch as a child when my family lived in the Netherlands for a few years. I don't remember any of it, but my dad still speaks the language at a near-native level (someone to practice with!). Sometimes he'll speak to me in Dutch slowly and I'll understand the meaning of what he's telling me, just not a translation of each individual world, if that makes any sense. I don't know if this is because I used to be able to speak it or if it's just due to the large number of cognates. I'm participating in the January Dutch Challenge and I'd really like to study as much Dutch as I can over my winter break before school starts again (Jan 19) and then study a bit each day when I'm back at school. Materials: For Arabic, I plan on going back through my notes from the semester and inputting all of the vocab my teacher gave to us that is not in Al-Kitaab into an Anki deck. I also want to do 30 minutes of active listening practice each day. For Dutch, I have a pretty good little collection of resources, so I think I'll start going through Assimil and if I get bored, let myself try out the different books and CDs I have. Edited by marvelgirll on 21 December 2010 at 10:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Whitefish Diglot Groupie Canada Joined 5245 days ago 49 posts - 72 votes  Speaks: English*, French | Message 2 of 37 21 December 2010 at 10:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hey marvellgirl. Your major(s) sound pretty interesting, and I think it's cool that you're studying Arabic outside of
school. Good luck with TAC and I look forward to following your log! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| marvelgirll Newbie United States Joined 5134 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine) | Message 3 of 37 24 December 2010 at 6:46am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the support!
Yesterday, I did the first chapter in Assimil's Dutch with Ease and today I did the second one. I put in the words from both along with some words and phrases from the first chapter of Teach Yourself. I also went through over 500 bacaklogged cards on my Arabic Anki deck. Dutch: 2 hours (1 yesterday, 1 today) Arabic: 30 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Préposition Diglot Senior Member France aspectualpairs.wordp Joined 5107 days ago 186 posts - 283 votes Speaks: French*, EnglishC1 Studies: Russian, Arabic (Written), Swedish, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 4 of 37 28 December 2010 at 6:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello teammate (and fellow uni student)! Good luck with learning Arabic, I'll be keeping an eye on your log :)
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| Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5602 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written) | Message 5 of 37 29 December 2010 at 11:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello :) Another team mate checking in! Wishing you all the best for the year, sounds like your studies are very interesting!
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| ReneeMona Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5328 days ago 864 posts - 1274 votes Speaks: Dutch*, EnglishC2 Studies: French | Message 6 of 37 30 December 2010 at 2:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Marvelgirll, good luck with your studies and I look forward to reading your log this year. If you spoke Dutch fluently as a child, than you probably have a good accent, right?
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| marvelgirll Newbie United States Joined 5134 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine) | Message 7 of 37 31 December 2010 at 4:30am | IP Logged | ||
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Christmas and having family friends visiting us really threw off my studies, but today I
got back on track. I managed to get through all 800 of my Arabic Anki cards and did the second and third chapters of Assimil. Dutch: 2 hours Arabic: 1 hour 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| marvelgirll Newbie United States Joined 5134 days ago 37 posts - 37 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Dutch, Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine) | Message 8 of 37 31 December 2010 at 4:33am | IP Logged | ||
Hello to my fellow teammates! I'm really looking forward to following your logs! :)
Thank you! I'm not sure how good my accent is yet. I feel like the sounds aren't very difficult like I initially did with Arabic, but I'm sure it is still far from perfect. My dad corrects my pronunciation if I say something wrong to him, so that should hopefully help. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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