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| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5880 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 49 of 261 18 March 2012 at 10:25pm | IP Logged |
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This is just to say that I haven't studed any Turkish or Korean during the last three weeks.
I hope this year to be able, at least, to learn Hangul and Korean phonology, some basic words and grammar, however, time is getting to be a very precious commodity here. I don't regret or complain, because it also means that I've been able to study German whenever possible, never getting tired of it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5880 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 50 of 261 22 March 2012 at 2:10am | IP Logged |
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Second private study session. Beginning of "Perfectionemment Allemand" active phase, so that my translations get corrected by my tutor. I'm already in the 37th lesson of Assimil PA, so I think this may work well. I haven't memorized almost any lesson, but was happy with my text, although some recurring grammatical mistakes keep appearing. Edited by Flarioca on 22 March 2012 at 2:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5880 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 51 of 261 31 March 2012 at 3:55am | IP Logged |
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German Monthly Report
This month has been marked by the beginning of private lessons. Now I really feel to be working on both productive and receptive skills at a reasonable pace. 1 - Activities done a) Almost every day: * Anki. Nothing new. Haven't yet finished my gender deck, but hope to do that during next month. * Learn German Verbs. Great app. During my private lessons, it has soon become clear that I badly need to improve my Partizip II knowledge. b) About four times a week. * "Assimil Perfectionnement Allemand". Finished lesson 41, passive wave. Finished lesson 2, active wave (slowly done). * Alpha-Centauri. * Grammar studies. Mostly private lesson defined exercises. * Random read, mostly from Wikipedia. c) About twice a week. * Reading news (from RSS feeds). * LwT: I'm enjoying "20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer" a lot, but, unfortunatelly, cannot read it more often, because of too much work and family duties. * Phrases translation in Tatoeba. Really relaxing activity. * Etymology search. * Listening to music. 2 - Progress so far After breaking the speak barrier and starting to write more often, everything else seemed to get a boost. Edited by Flarioca on 31 March 2012 at 4:44am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5880 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 52 of 261 07 April 2012 at 12:32am | IP Logged |
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Thanks to this thread, I'm also reading Der Frauenmörder by Hugo Bettauer.
Seems to be an interesting book, whose level may be suitable for a B1/B2 learner. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5880 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 53 of 261 13 April 2012 at 3:07am | IP Logged |
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Please, if some native German speaker read this message, could you help the above mentioned "German Books Reading Group" that has just started its activities here on HTLAL? Thanks a lot!
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| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5880 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 54 of 261 15 April 2012 at 5:49pm | IP Logged |
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Last night I've got a "huge" dream with lots of German beeing spoken or discussed. I can remember some dreams where German were spoken, but I cannot remember anyone where German was at the center of the dream. I think this is a very good sign. Edited by Flarioca on 16 April 2012 at 2:15am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5880 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 55 of 261 17 April 2012 at 4:19am | IP Logged |
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I must share this etymological finding:
Venus (Roman goddess of love, beauty, sex and military victory) and wahnsinnig (German for crazy, incredibly, insane, incredible, terrible, maniacal, delirious, maniac, frenzied and demented) share the same Indoeuropean root. Makes pretty good sense :-)) Edited by Flarioca on 17 April 2012 at 4:20am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5880 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 56 of 261 29 April 2012 at 6:48pm | IP Logged |
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German Monthly Report
At this point, it feels like learning German changed from turbulent to laminar (sorry for this fluid mechanics analogy if you don't like physics). On the other hand, my private tutor is getting more strict and less tolerant about my (many and recurrent) mistakes. But I think that this is just what I need now and my focus is changing from vocabulary growth to grammar drilling. 1 - Activities done a) Almost every day: * Anki. * Random read on Wikipedia. Besides random reading, I'm choosing one subject each week to discuss in private class. So far, only astrophysics, inspired by some of Prof. Harald Lesch topics in Alpha-Centauri. b) About four times a week. * "Assimil Perfectionnement Allemand". Mixing the end of passive wave with beginning of active wave plus relistening all lessons. * Learn German Verbs. Improving on Partizip II. * Alpha-Centauri. * Grammar studies. * LwT: Besides "20.000 Meilen unter dem Meer", I'm reading "Der Frauenmörder". See this topic. c) About twice a week. * Reading news (from RSS feeds). * Phrases translation in Tatoeba. * Etymology search. * Listening to music. d) Once a week * 1 and 1/2h private class, of course! (missed in the original message). 2 - Progress so far I'm reading and listening with much greater ease. However, since I'm trying to write and speak about more complex subjects, problems arise. At this point, grammar seems to need priority over everything else. Edited by Flarioca on 29 April 2012 at 8:39pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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