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Ramblurr
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30 posts - 34 votes
Speaks: English*
Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), German

 
 Message 9 of 10
28 October 2013 at 10:54am | IP Logged 
25-10-2013

Albanian
Two hours with my language helper. We did an activity I designed to help me learn the
possessives. I took the pieces of paper with lots of nouns I've learned (animals, people,
family, etc) and divided them between us on opposite sides of the table. Then we gave
eachother commands like "where is your goat? give me your goat?", "put your pillow on my
frog".

That was all I did today :| I've been slacking a lot on Albanian. It's easier to study Arabic
or Spanish because I've more fun activities I can do (talking, reading, listening, etc). I
need to step it up ASAP.


2 hr    language helper


Arabic

Took an italki session today. I really enjoyed the session, it felt great to stretch that
conversational muscle. We talked for about an hour about my travels, the tutor correcting me
occasionaly. I really liked how she corrected me, instead of interrupting me whenever I made
an egregious error, she must have been taking notes. Then, in a lull or after a thought was
finished, she'd turn around and ask me questions about how to say something. Either it would
be sentence I had said, and she'd ask "is this sentence correct, if not, where's the error?"
Or she would give an example of something I said and provide more suitable words (سبت مصر" بدل
هن "جرجت مصر", مثلا").

Then I did about 30 min of Anki adding+reviews.

1hr    italki skype session
30min Anki adding+reviews


Spanish

Procrastinating :|

26 & 27 -10-2013

Ya rabbi! I barely studied at all over the weekend. I did a few Anki reviews, that's it. :|

30 min    Anki (albanian+arabic)

Edited by Ramblurr on 28 October 2013 at 11:42am

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Ramblurr
Newbie
United States
binaryelysium.com
Joined 4341 days ago

30 posts - 34 votes
Speaks: English*
Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Egyptian), German

 
 Message 10 of 10
28 October 2013 at 11:38am | IP Logged 
Expugnator wrote:
Looking What a nice pool of languages you've chosen, Ramblurr! Looking
forward to hearing
more about your studies.


Thank you! It's mysterious how life works out, each one of these languages has always just
fallen in my lap given whatever circumstances I happen to find myself in out in the world. To
be honest, I'm not sure what my long term goals are for the languages in my list. I may never
meet another Quechua speaker again, or come back to Albania once I leave here. But for now I
know, I want to maintain - nay, improve-them, as I find them all irresitebly fascinating in
their own way.

Vos wrote:
Hola Ramblurr, bienvenido al foro y como ya ha dicho Expugnator, ¡qué interesante
tu lista de lenguas! Como tú, me
interesa mucho Quechua y espero que algún día tenga la oportunidad de aprender un poco. A
propóstio de
Quechua, hace algunos meses encontré un podcast que hace la universidad de nueva York que se
llama Rimasun -
Quechua Language Podcast
, si lo buscas en iTunes puedes descargar una buen cantidad de
podcasts. No sé si
son de buena calidad en cuanto a las lecciones, pero me parecen que sí. De todos modos, son
gratis así que
siempre puedes echar un vistazo y ver lo que piensas. Bueno, mucha suerte con todas las
lenguas que has elegido y
tengo muchas ganas de leer tus experiencias.

p.s. Acabo de encontrar su página web -
Rimasun:
Quechua Podcasts


Hola Vos! Muchas gracias por la bienvenida y por expresar interés en mis estudios. Si, Quechua
es una lengua hermosa y extraordinaria. Desde el momento en que oír la Quechua en Ecuador,
sabía que iba a tener que aprender en poco de este lengua y su gente.

Yo encontré este podcast tambien cuando estaba estudiando Quechua en Peru. Verdad, es de bien
calidad y tal vez sea el mayor fuente de audio Quechua en el internet. Los partes cuando
hablan las señoras y señores Quechua son las mas util, porque hay tambien estudiantes que
hablan con algúnas errores.

He empezado un proyecto para poner mas recursos de Quechua en el internet, pero unfortunamente
la vida me ha distraído (??). Lo poco que ya puse esta aqui
http://quechua.binaryelysium.com. Pero tengo muchas horas mas de audio original,
cuentas y entrevistas que grabé cuando estaba en los Andes. Ojalá que encuentre el tiempo para
completarlo.
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