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| AnaV Diglot Newbie Denmark Joined 4337 days ago 20 posts - 21 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: Danish | Message 49 of 91 03 February 2013 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Yes, I would like to see your list, when you are done. Thanks!
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| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4358 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes  Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 50 of 91 04 February 2013 at 8:39am | IP Logged | |||||
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@Anav I'm still working on it at the moment, which is the reason why I have less
minutes of actual speaking these days. I've prepared a document with sentences now (which I'm still going to make bigger). I'll have more time next week and then i'm going to "finish" it. Maybe watch some talking shows to add more and more content, i'll keep you up to date! 30 DAY CHALLENGE - DAY 22, 23, 24 & 25 - Read 64 of my book - Watched 2 hours of series - Spoke Swedish for 1,5 hour - Read 42 news articles - New words learned: 30 That brings the total to: - Pages read of book: 358 - Watched series/movies: 21 hours 08 minutes - Swedish spoken: 11 hours 45 minutes - News articles read: 273 - New words learned: 185 I'm still quite happy with the progress i've made the past weeks, especially since i've been so busy with university and work. Just 5 more days and my 30 day challenge is over and I already have some ideas of how I'm going to continue learning Swedish. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4358 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 51 of 91 05 February 2013 at 11:03am | IP Logged | |||||
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January
Okay, time for me to write a small summary of the past month. It’s been a very busy month for me but I was very motivated to do as much as I could. Some days were hard, some days were very easy. I can really notice that i’m progressing in the language and I love the feeling. The past month i’ve been doing a bit of everything. I’ve started reading my first Swedish books and it went better than expected. I read my books out loud to get used to the prenounciation of the words. I have a Swede sitting next to me while i’m doing this, and she’s correcting every mistake I make. In the beginning she had to correct me quite alot, but now she only needs to correct me 1-2 times per page. I’m almost done reading my second book and there are already 3 more books waiting for me. At the moment one of my most favourite things to do in the language. I’ve also been watching some movies/series. This is a more relaxed way of “learning” for me. I watch a movie when I’m not really motivated to do anything. It has no use for me to watch this with English subtitles, because i’ll be too busy reading the English subs that I almost forget to listen to the Swedish they speak, so i’ve switched to Swedish subtitles. I’ve also been listening to the Skype conversations my girlfriend has with her parents. And I think that this is one of the best ways to practice my listening. I just hear them talk about casual things every day. This works way and way better than watching TV. Speaking… oh oh speaking. Time to focus on speaking. Ofcourse i’ve also been reading the news everyday and i’ve been learning words on Memrise. Nothing special here, just routine. Reading books out loud has been the best thing i’ve done this month. Reading helps me with vocab & prenounciation. And I’m getting used to the flow of the language. February I’m going to have more time in February. I’ll be done with my education (YAY!) and I’ve found a programming job (Double YAY!). And from now on i’m going to focus more on speaking. I’m going to Sweden in the end of March and I just want to be able be part of conversations instead of just sitting next to it. BUT HOW? I guess there is just 1 way… just speak it. I’ve already made a whole document with questions, answers and sentences I normally use quite alot. I’ve translated sentences I would use when I go to the supermarket, so when I’m actually going to the supermarket I can just speak Swedish with my gf. I’m going to do this with my whole daily routine. I’m just going to try and slowly change my day from English to Swedish. I’ll also dive into Benny’s Fleunt in 3 months blog, since he’s focused on speaking. I’m also thinking about covering a Swedish song with my guitar (+ my awfull singing) and upload it on Youtube for the fun of it. But not sure if I have the balls for it yet ;) (If anyone has a request, tell me and i’ll think about it hehe). 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5348 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 52 of 91 05 February 2013 at 7:12pm | IP Logged | |||||
Well, it seems that January was a very productive month for you and your Swedish and I’m sure that if you keep working so hard on your language skills as you’ve done so far, you’ll see even more impressive progress in the coming weeks. Your trip to Sweden next month must be a very effective stimulus to keep studying and keep improving, and I must confess that I envy you a little for that! ;-) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5335 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 53 of 91 05 February 2013 at 10:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Personally I get a longing expression in my face at the thought of a native speaker at hand all the time. I
wonder if my husband would agree to a temporary divorce while I find a Russian native to practise with for a while :-) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4358 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 54 of 91 06 February 2013 at 9:34am | IP Logged | |||||
Hopefully i'll see even more improvements the upcoming weeks. The trip surely is a great stimulus.
It's very great to constantly have a native speaker around. But still not as easy as it sounds, because it's hard to speak Swedish with eachother since we're used to speaking English. But i've explained my plans for the upcoming weeks and we agreed that we're going to focus on speaking the language a lot. She's a big help in this. 30 DAY CHALLENGE - DAY 26 & 27 - Read 20 of my book - Watched 1 hours of series - Spoke Swedish for 1 hour - Read 12 news articles - New words learned: 15 That brings the total to: - Pages read of book: 378 - Watched series/movies: 22 hours 08 minutes - Swedish spoken: 12 hours 45 minutes - News articles read: 285 - New words learned: 200 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4358 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 55 of 91 11 February 2013 at 1:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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30 DAY CHALLENGE - DAY 28, 29 & 30
- Read 32 of my book - Watched 2 hours of series - Spoke Swedish for 2 hour - Read 17 news articles - New words learned: 45 That brings the total to: - Pages read of book: 410 - Watched series/movies: 24 hours 08 minutes - Swedish spoken: 14 hours 45 minutes - News articles read: 302 - New words learned: 245 Yay I made it, I've learned alot but now it's time to start speaking! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4358 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 56 of 91 20 February 2013 at 8:12am | IP Logged | |||||
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I've been busy past ~10 days with learning for a Microsoft Exam which i'm doing tomorrow.
After that I can finally continue with Swedish again! Can't wait. Only thing i've been doing the past days is "water" my words on Memrise and read other peoples logs. New update coming soon. Edited by Kez on 20 February 2013 at 8:13am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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