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| magic9man2 Diglot Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6632 days ago 149 posts - 153 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: Arabic (Written), Mandarin, French, Cantonese, Russian, Korean, Taiwanese, Arabic (Levantine) | Message 17 of 40 25 December 2007 at 7:52pm | IP Logged |
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You're making good, steady progress. You should try to stick with just one language more though lol. GL with furthered studies
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| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6450 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 18 of 40 07 February 2008 at 6:01pm | IP Logged |
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Played with Japanese, Russian, Italian and German. Japanese mostly vocabulary, and "Learn Basic Japanese". German and Italian mostly movies. I have "sampled" so much Russian that I might as well say I'm studying it.
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| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6450 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 19 of 40 07 March 2008 at 12:34am | IP Logged |
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A lot of Russian. Vocabulearn, random reading, often just titles of well-known classics and book reviews. Some listening. I saw several children's movies, Ilya Muromets etc and a crime miniseries Brigada. Picture dictionary. I should do some Pimsleur... Hmgrmble.
German - movies, documentaries. A pinch of French - watched an entire animated series. Italian - very little. Japanese - ALMOST NOTHING. Vocabulearn. Spanish - bought more material. The DK picture dictionary and two collections of children's stories. May 2-4 2008 Oxford Picture Dictionary, Vocabulearn, Pimsleur, Teach Yourself Russian Grammar, a limited number of Russian movies repeated ad nauseam, children's books, picture books etc. and young adult literature. Internet Radio. Very limited time. Unlimited willingness to cut corners. During the last few days I've been looping the Russian movies and listening to Russian vocabulary. I am learning vocabulary out of context and thinking of ways to tackle Japanese. One of the movies is Skazka o poteryannom vremeni (The Tale of Time Lost) which is appropriate punishment for my laziness. I am also checking out Steve's (Zhuangzi) LingQ. I am sort of out of exercise with language learning. Ahem, actively, using "real" grammars and textbooks. I will try to refresh what I have already learned as far as Japanese is concerned, but I will tackle Russian first and likely Spanish. I can afford to make mistakes, lose time there. Making mistakes with Japanese is similar to steering a large ship, it takes a long time to notice and go back on course. May 24 2008 Yawn. Well, so far so good. Most of my study time was really dead time or someone else's time lol. In the evenings I am too tired to pay attention, but I've been tugging at it and I can see the results. It's difficult to judge, language sort of creeps up on you. I need to sleep more. Seriously. Pimsleur Russian I 1-16 done 16-26 need one more sweep Vocabulearn I some 70% done. Ridiculously inefficient, at first glance. Basic vocabulary needs overlearning. 1 chapter of a Russian book - audio + Russian text 2x times Picture dictionary + random Russian audio Russian movie "Skazka..." - looping it over and over. It's near perfect for language learning. A few scenes with chases etc and no talk but otherwise great. My other expeditions into Russian cinema were not so successful.I'll probably turn to cartoons - the few that I can find. Later to documentaries. Slim pickings there as well, but enough for my purpose I suppose. Bought the largest, most up-to-date dictionary I could find (Oxford). 08 September 2008 Stopped doing Pimsleur soon after my last post. Finished Vocabulearn I. I didn't do much during the past few months but I kept tugging at it - like grandpa and grandma with that turnip. Maybe I'll pull it out by January. Tonight I finished my first Russian book. Edited by reineke on 12 December 2008 at 1:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6450 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 20 of 40 12 December 2008 at 3:12pm | IP Logged |
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My “plan” for 2009
Russian: meh Italian: uh, I guess I’ll do something French ugh Spanish: uh, oh German: aarrgh! Japanese: d’oh! 1 Sleep more 2 sleep less but use the time wisely 3 try to relax; if unsuccessful, see no.4 4 try not to burst a vessel 5 stop posting Edit: I managed to write my 500th post. Posts 470-500 were reserved for the TAC. SOMEONE HELP ME, PLEASE!! Aaaahh! Edited by reineke on 13 December 2008 at 3:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6450 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 21 of 40 18 December 2008 at 8:19pm | IP Logged |
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I don't have a chance in heck to start Japanese in 2009. Or 2010. Sigh.
Italian: TV, reading etc. French/German maintenance/possible upgrade Movies, books... German: bonus points, sugar plums and treats for every major reading effort Russian/Spanish Continue with vocabulary experiments Continue with Russian. I'm not sure I will have much time for Spanish, but I'll try. Edited by reineke on 02 January 2009 at 12:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6450 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 22 of 40 01 January 2009 at 12:58pm | IP Logged |
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Japanese is going in the slow cooker.
The TAC goal remains the same - get a lot of work done in 2009. I will periodically provide updates on my blog (link on the left side). Or not, lol. I will stop posting here. Edited by reineke on 02 January 2009 at 12:01am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6450 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 23 of 40 03 January 2011 at 4:16am | IP Logged |
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Mehehe, I'm a bit late. I originally stopped with my 666th post, and then after a short
relapse on the 699th. Japanese has been cooking so slowly it's by now a delicious sukiyaki. My German is awesome. French - if Japanese is sukiyaki, then French is... something else. Yeah. I rock. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6450 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 24 of 40 09 January 2011 at 9:01am | IP Logged |
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I think I will continue with this log. Or not. The best way to ensure failure is to make
a firm plan about something. I was able to reconstruct some of my recent efforts mainly thanks to some of my other wailings of discontent here and that's one reason why I'm bumping this up. My most recent efforts were related to German so I suppose I should provide a short intro. I picked up German in the 1990's purely by accident - watching TV from time to time. After a multi-year break I resumed consuming German content in 2009 and 2010. I am not a big believer in any method. I respect grammar and give it wide berth. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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