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| lorinth Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4275 days ago 443 posts - 581 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Latin Studies: Mandarin, Finnish | Message 57 of 408 09 May 2013 at 10:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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A very busy day - but not for languages.
ZH In addition to the usual vocabulary drill (review of HSK5 words - not HSK4-, plus the most frequent 汉字, plus random words collected while reading), I did a "three- dictionary session". I found an interesting article about 钻石劫案 (diamond robbery) committed in Brussels airport in February. Today31名嫌疑人被拘留. This goes to show that the vocabulary learnt while reading the comic 名侦探柯南, last month, was in fact very useful. I had no time to read the entire text, I may continue tomorrow. The article. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lorinth Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4275 days ago 443 posts - 581 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Latin Studies: Mandarin, Finnish | Message 58 of 408 10 May 2013 at 8:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Vocabulary: HSK4 and HSK5 (review only), characters (review + 2 new characters), vocabulary collected while reading (review + 20-30 new words). Finished reading the article about 比利时5000万美元钻石的劫案. It reads like a written version of Guy Ritchie's picture « Snatch » which, it's no coincidence, also starts in 安特卫普，素以“钻石之都”享誉全球。 Read another article about a subject that is currently jeopadizing the commercial relations between the EU and China: 关于中国的光伏板，委员会计划采取行动解决 所谓的倾销问题。 FI Reviewed my vocabulary queue in LWT. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| cacue23 Triglot Groupie Canada Joined 4300 days ago 89 posts - 122 votes Speaks: Shanghainese, Mandarin*, English Studies: Cantonese | Message 59 of 408 10 May 2013 at 8:59pm | IP Logged | ||
If it was written in the 1990s, then it's not that weird. Mainstream writers don't usually put sexual stuff in their book, unless it's for comic relief. Books like 金瓶梅 are not taken seriously, but rather were manually copied and spread around for sharing purposes only. Anyway, despited being officially banned for centuries, 金瓶梅 still exists, so no matter what dynasty it is, people like to read books with sexual content - human nature I guess. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lorinth Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4275 days ago 443 posts - 581 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Latin Studies: Mandarin, Finnish | Message 60 of 408 13 May 2013 at 9:32pm | IP Logged | ||
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ZH Vocabulary: HSK4 and HSK5 (review only), characters (review + 2 new characters), vocabulary collected while reading (review + 20-30 new words/day). While shopping, I listened to all 25 chapters of FTRP Graded Readers, level 3B, 好一朵 茉莉花。 As expected, I'll have to listen to it again while reading. ES Mientras leía cuentos de Bolaño, subrayé palabras que no conocía. Hoy, busqué dichas palabras en mi diccionario para hacer una lista del tipo « Gold Book ». Sobre tres o cuatro páginas, parece increíble el número de palabras que aparentemente no están en los diccionarios en línea que utilizé, incluído el mismo diccionario de la Real Academia, por ejemplo: rechuchas, canita, culiado, canterano, mediopunta (los dos últimos creo que entiendo, seguramente términos futbolísticos). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lorinth Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4275 days ago 443 posts - 581 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Latin Studies: Mandarin, Finnish | Message 61 of 408 14 May 2013 at 9:06am | IP Logged | ||
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Chinese vocabulary: HSK5 (review only), characters (review + 2 new characters), random vocabulary (review + 20-30 new words). On BBC News in Chinese, read an article saying that 通过贷款在英国读书的海外学生不能在毕业之 后逃避还债的义务 (foreign students who have borrowed money to study in the UK cannot avoid reimbursing after they have finished studying). And another short one about the interesting subject of 高温承压用合金钢连钢管, imports of which are doomed because 中国要进行反倾立案调查 (an antidumping investigation will be initiated by China concerning some kind of alloy steel tubes). 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lorinth Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4275 days ago 443 posts - 581 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Latin Studies: Mandarin, Finnish | Message 62 of 408 15 May 2013 at 8:53am | IP Logged | ||
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Chinese vocabulary: HSK4 and HSK5 (review only), characters (review + 2 new characters), random vocabulary (review + 20-30 new words). Read chap. 8 of 《中国进行时》, about the new (when the book was written) opportunities offered to Chinese people who wish to travel abroad. That chapter is way easier than the previous one. Read almost all of a long article about 欧盟委员会进行的调查 concerning 两个中国网络设备供应商的不公平贸易行为。 (an investigation (that might be) initiated by the EU Commission concerning the (allegedly) unfair trade practices of two Chinese network equipment suppliers ). And, finally, read a fairly long article about an event organised in Brussels by 法轮大法学员 on the occasion of 法轮功创始人李共志先生的生日。 LA Reviewed part of my vocabulary queue in LWT. FI Reviewed part of my vocabulary queue in LWT. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lorinth Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4275 days ago 443 posts - 581 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Latin Studies: Mandarin, Finnish | Message 63 of 408 15 May 2013 at 10:21pm | IP Logged | ||
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Yesterday was my birthday and my wife offered me a subscription to ChinesePod, wow, thanks sweetheart. Now I have to think about how I will integrate some regular ChinesePod-related activities in my learning routine. My elder daughter offered a comic in Chinese called 蜡笔小新, which I'd never heard about before. It's written in traditional characters, so I'll have to familiarise myself with at least some of them if I want to read the book. I confirmed my registration to HSK4. From now on, I'll probably read and listen less random (read: interesting) stuff and concentrate on unexciting HSK mock tests. As I don't have the time to do entire mock tests (it takes 1 hour + the time necessary for analysing my results), I intend to use my commuting time to listen to the oral parts while reading their transcriptions. Quite a minimal preparation, but hey, doing unsatisfactory stuff beats doing nothing. So I started listening to/reading a mock HSK4 test, no 10 in a book called 新汉语水平考试 － 四级 － 模拟式题集, Beijing Language and Culture University Press. I did the usual vocabulary drills (HSK4, HSK5, frequent characters, random vocabulary) but it took longer than usual, as it seems I'm playing catchup with my SRS queues. A big cleanup is being envisaged for the near future. I'd rather review my vocabulary while reading interesting texts than by using spaced repetition systems. I tried the ChinesePod interface on a computer and on my phone, just to start exploring, and ended up listening to one intermediate level dialogue about 租车见客户。 FI Cleared up the vocabulary queue in LWT. LA Cleared up the vocabulary queue in LWT. Listened to some older nuntii latini news for about 20 minutes. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lorinth Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4275 days ago 443 posts - 581 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Latin Studies: Mandarin, Finnish | Message 64 of 408 16 May 2013 at 10:07pm | IP Logged | ||
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Vocabulary: HSK5, HSK4, frequent characters, random vocabulary. Listened to the ChinesePod lesson I had started yesterday, read the transcript, did the exercises, glanced at the vocab, did some chorusing with the help of the great Android app (and Audacity, to slow down some sentences that were too spoken too fast for my mouth and tongue). Read 2 pages of 天下无贼。 I had seen the picture 2 or 3 years ago. Although I wouldn't have understood much were it not for the subtitles, I found it was a good movie. Then, a few months ago, I read the Chinese version of the short story which inspired the movie. I thought it was even better: the movie is action-packed and freely develops and distorts many aspects of the story, while creating some subplots that are absent in the story - which doesn't mean it's a bad thing. But the short story itself is a literary jewel, much more poetic and moving than the film. I had read the short story within Pleco reader a few months ago. Today I opened the paper version and was pleasantly surprised by the fact that I could actually read it for the pleasure and mostly without dictionary. ES As I had read in Mike245's log that the Instituto Cervantes offered an online test to assess one's level in Spanish, I immediately took it and was told that "según esta prueba, Usted puede realizar los niveles C 1.3-C 1.4 del AVE". Acabo de leer los cuentos de Bolaño titulados "Putas asesinas". Parece que los Chilenos que se fueron de su país en 1973 huyeron un mal concreto, directamente violente y personalizado para encontrar, en todos los rincones del mundo, el Mal absoluto, aún más terrible e indicible ya que se halla en cada de nosotros. El último cuento, en particular, es una obra maestra. LA Listened for about 30 minutes to the audio version of Comenii Vestibulium (read by Molendinarius). 1 person has voted this message useful |
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