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| fmmarianicolon Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4355 days ago 28 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Sign Language Studies: Japanese | Message 9 of 25 05 January 2013 at 5:01am | IP Logged | ||
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My Progress between January 1 and January 4
American Sign Language I have done no formal studying with my ASL this week. However, today I realized I have been doing informal study. Since my tonsilletomy on Dec. 31, I have not been able to talk. My husband only knows a few signs of ASL. Our communication has been mostly gestures and facial expressions. This is actually great practice. Not all Deaf people are fluent in ASL, especially here in San Diego which has a large population of immigrant Deaf (not only from Mexico but from Asian and Africa as well). To communicate with "High Visual Oriented" clients, topics may need to be broken down into using gestures and grammar from facial expressions. In essence, my recovery has helped me in ASL. I have another week before I will be able to talk, so let's see how this improves. Spanish I'm still reviewing the reference materials, so I do not yet have a plan of attack. The FSI materials are interesting, so I may start there. I have also written an entry in Lang-8 each night except yesterday. I need to push through the pain and write a bit each day before I go to bed. Japanese On Memrise, I am working through the "Introduction to Japanese" course. On the first lesson, I have planted and harvested the first eight words. I'm learning of so many other materials, I don't know where else to start! Should I combine Genki with Memrise? Should I try to burn through the JapanesePod101 lessons before the trail week runs out? I am sorely lacking a plan of action. The plans that some of the other TAC participants have put together sound great, and hopefully I can do so as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6629 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes  Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 10 of 25 05 January 2013 at 9:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I think it's possible to download the lessons from Jpod, so you could spend the week downloading like crazy and then listen later.
I haven't used introductory materials for Japanese for a while, and I'm not familiar with those you're using, but in general, I like to use more than one course at once. It gives me different perspectives and explanations, and they serve as reviews to each other. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5991 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 11 of 25 05 January 2013 at 11:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I would get started on Genki as this will introduce you to both basic grammar and the writing system in a fairly systematic way. How is your kana at the moment? Will you be learning that from scratch or do you already know it?
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| fmmarianicolon Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4355 days ago 28 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Sign Language Studies: Japanese | Message 12 of 25 05 January 2013 at 8:49pm | IP Logged | ||
Pretty close to scratch. Visual mnemonics work well for me (the cute ones in Memrise for the Intro to Japanese course are helpful!) so I need to find and use ones to help me get going on the kana. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5991 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 13 of 25 05 January 2013 at 9:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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The thing I liked most about Genki was the way that the first two chapters have all the text in both romanised form and kana. This gives you plenty of time to get used to kana, using whatever methods suit you best, before switching over to using kana only for the rest of the book.
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| fmmarianicolon Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4355 days ago 28 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Sign Language Studies: Japanese | Message 14 of 25 06 January 2013 at 8:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Log for January 5
American Sign Language No formal practice today. Visited friends again ... tried to use work on facial grammar and gestures again but to no avail. They preferred that I write everything out. Spanish I reviewed a lot of corrections from my Lang-8 entry* yesterday. Some corrections were suggestions to help my writing sound more natural. Other corrections were simple gender agreement and verb conjugation mistakes I should not have made. I wonder if writing at night (right before bed) leads me to make more mistakes. To test this, I will start writing entries in the morning. * Entry link: http://lang- 8.com/524978/journals/28485757997255736543157466117423885845 1/El-dolor-de-cabeza- %25C2%25BFqu%25C3%25A9-es-la-raz%25C3%25B3n%253F Japanese In the "Introduction to Japanese" course on Memrise, I have completed the first lesson and started the second lesson. Eight more words to learn. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6629 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 15 of 25 06 January 2013 at 8:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I definitely have more mistakes if I write too late at night, even in English. I also try to write my entry in Word and then let it sit for a few hours and check it again to see if I find any new mistakes before I paste it in lang-8 and post it.
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| fmmarianicolon Diglot Newbie United States Joined 4355 days ago 28 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Sign Language Studies: Japanese | Message 16 of 25 10 January 2013 at 2:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Log for January 6 - January 9
American Sign Language No update. I've decided to focus on Japanese and Spanish until I return to work next week. Spanish I realized I hadn't checked out the Spanish section of Memrise. I just assumed it would be full of courses for beginners. Wrong! There are so many courses with vocabulary for intermediate and advanced learners of Spanish. I have marked several courses I want to use for study. I'm debating whether to study both the medical terminology course and the law enforcement terminology course first or to undergo the Intermediate Spanish series of courses. The former would be applicable for work which is nice, but they are short courses. That might be best actually. I think I'll start there. Aside from that, I've written more entries in Lang-8. I also saw a movie trailer for the Lord of the Rings in Spanish. It was so well done that I want to find the movies and watch them in Spanish! Japanese I'm continuing to work through two courses on Memrise in the Japanese area. In the Introduction to Japanese course, I'm partway through the third lesson. This lesson has a few longer words so I think it will be more difficult. I'm also working through the hiragana course, partway through the lesson on K & G syllables. Once I learn the kanas, I want to practice writing the words I'm learning. Edited by fmmarianicolon on 10 January 2013 at 7:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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