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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 673 of 1702 02 January 2013 at 8:12pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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About that dyslexia thing, I have the same problem with Japanese. I'll remember the kanji for a word, but get them in the wrong order. I notice it when I'm doing iKnow. I also notice that my fingers don't seem to understand the difference between things like し and じ. And in any language, they seem to think that any vowel will do, so they will type e instead of a or whatever. It's weird.
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 674 of 1702 03 January 2013 at 1:08am | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yeah I'm really happy they fixed iKnow so you can override the response and make it correct. I would get so frustrated with it before over typos and it was frustrating enough I pretty much just went back to pure SRS. Now all they need to do is to add info on kanji and I'll love their app. Right now I'm balancing it with my SRS cards I have that include some info on the kanji. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 675 of 1702 04 January 2013 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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Going through the decks and playing a bit of catch up since it's the weekend. I hate doing my grammar
sentence cards which is no surprise. I made the cards for chap 4 more of a fill in the blank thing so they would be easier and they are easier. I didn't do that with chap 5 honorifics and humble language and they're a big pain. I am going to have to modify the cards a bit to make it easier. It's good to challenge myself to produce complex sentences but not so much that I don't get through my cards on a daily basis. Skipping days and doing it every other or every third day is killing me here I think. On a side note I'm writing this on my android phone with swiftkey and it's clearly the best input method but it's still not catching all the spaces I miss (hitting a bottom row button like N or B instead). Their big thing is putting spaces in for you so that's a little let down. Really wish they supported Japanese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 676 of 1702 05 January 2013 at 7:34am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I wanna make a new goal..watch x amount of anime over the
weekend. I'm on Bleach episode 197. My goal is to reach 220 before going to bed Saturday nite... (edit for mobile phone typos) Edited by kraemder on 05 January 2013 at 8:45pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 677 of 1702 05 January 2013 at 9:00pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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There was an opening in Spanish 102 and I grabbed it. I've felt bad about ignoring Spanish every time a Spanish speaking customer asks me if I speak it. I definitely enjoy German more but I'm convinced the course would have been too easy. I was looking through the table of contents and it was a lot of here's a new preposition for you to learn... and, well, I learned the prepositions SO long ago and while I haven't mastered any of them in terms of collocations with every verb etc., what I would need to learn would be more at an intermediate level at least. It would be neat being an all-star in the class but I think that would wear off.
So I'll be in Spanish. Overall I'd put myself beyond beginner level at Spanish too but definitely not advanced - German I might say I'm advanced for an American. I'd like to speak Spanish better and really going over the grammar thoroughly would be good. I started to take 102 Spanish a couple years ago and got distracted and didn't go beyond a few classes (I learned to ride a motorcycle and got hung up making videos riding it and the class was at like 6 am and that was way early). So I'm also pretty excited about Spanish. The class is going to have a ton of students (35). Lots of people to meet - yeah I know it will mean less opportunity for the professor to interact with me but that's ok. I'm holding off getting the text book because from what I read there's some sort of online component that doesn't come with Amazon's version and feedback from other students say that their class required it and it cost an additional 94$ for them or something. I'd love to get the kindle version though - their textbooks look gorgeous on the iPad and they're really cheap. I'm hoping I can use it. I've got some Spanish ebooks collecting dust (figuratively but the kindle itself is pretty dusty) and I'm gonna brush one off and read it to get going. This is a kindle e-ink touch (last years). I don't know why but you can't seem to get bi-language dictionaries to work with iPad or on your PC for kindle. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5980 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 678 of 1702 05 January 2013 at 9:38pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm not biased or anything, but German is way cooler than Spanish :)
Well, Spanish actually sounds like a good bet, especially if you are interacting with Spanish speakers as part of your day job. I'll be interested to see how you balance Spanish class with Japanese class. The first challenge is not getting distracted! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||||||||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 679 of 1702 05 January 2013 at 10:14pm | IP Logged | ||||||||
Yay! Then we'll both be learning both Japanese and Spanish :)
Aren't you the guy who gets up at 4:50 AM? Or am I confused?
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| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5182 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 680 of 1702 06 January 2013 at 6:14am | IP Logged | ||||||||
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I'm surprised anyone would remember that post from way back. Yeah I'm the guy that wakes up way too
early to go to work. But it wasn't always that way. I used to start work at like 10 o'clock and this was back then. As for juggling Japanese with Spanish... I dunno what I'm gonna do either. I was thinking of watching anime with Spanish subs lol. The subs are silly though and don't really push your language much. I think it's better to just focus totally on Japanese when I'm watching Japanese. I'll post about it. I would say Japanese has the priority for me since I'm so determined to learn it. Edited by kraemder on 06 January 2013 at 6:18am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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