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 Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4997 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes  Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 113 of 143 11 January 2013 at 12:53am | IP Logged | ||
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I was hanging around on a language course website for quite some time today, to find a Swedish course for the next term. Nevertheless, I managed to finish a couple of Swedish lessons in my mini-book. And - even if it wasn't Swedish - I listened to an album of Christine Guldbrandsen. She sings in Norwegian, but I did that to get a little bit more of Scandinavia in my ear, as I've been working a lot with French, English and Spanish lately. Christine has a soft but crystal-clear voice and features folk elements in her music. You may have seen her in TV already - she was the Norwegian entrant in the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest. This is her: 
@Cavesa: Cool, I also use the Pomodoro technique... Started with GTD, using index cards, then a Moleskine. Which techniques do you use? Edited by Mae on 11 January 2013 at 12:57am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sans-serif Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 4565 days ago 298 posts - 470 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, German, Swedish Studies: Danish | Message 114 of 143 11 January 2013 at 3:56pm | IP Logged | ||
I'm curious about your maintenance routine, if you have one. My only truly fluent (foreign) language is English, which has stayed fairly sharp without any conscious effort, so I have no concept of how much work it is to keep up with several strong languages. Any secret weapons or tricks of the trade you'd care to share? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4997 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 115 of 143 11 January 2013 at 4:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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No, not really... I just got a job where I can use all my languages ;-)
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5015 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 116 of 143 11 January 2013 at 10:22pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I tried many of those pieces of advice on how to make a list of tasks, how to
sort them from the most difficult, from the least pleasant, from the least time consuming etc. I found out that they are much more suited to people working in offices and handling a thousand five minute tasks a day like "call the client, read the mail, write the report" while my lists consist of things like "learn that huge mass of things for the anatomy test, continue with exam preparation for this or that, understand how that works" and so on. These tasks are more difficult to sort and handle like that. They take a long time (some are never trully completed) so that supposedly motivating list of ticked done tasks is never long enough to motivate me :-D So, I tried pomodoro. It is still hard for me to plan ahead how many pomodoros will each activity take but just the simple rhytm 25/5 works like a miracle. I got a nice app for that but simple alarm on my phone works too. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4997 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 117 of 143 13 January 2013 at 11:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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Tala Svenska
Today I took out my old Swedish file folder and my notes on vocabulary and grammar, to refresh what we did in class last year (intensive course). After doing some writing exercises, I now feel ready to continue learning with "Tala Svenska A1". Furthermore, I did some pronunciation exercises with focus on proper intonation. Sometimes it helps to do that in front of a mirror, trying to perceive how the sound is generated. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Mae Trilingual Octoglot Pro Member Germany Joined 4997 days ago 299 posts - 499 votes Speaks: German*, SpanishC2*, Swiss-German*, FrenchC2, EnglishC2, ItalianB2, Dutch, Portuguese Studies: Russian, Swedish Personal Language Map | Message 118 of 143 17 January 2013 at 9:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Intensive course #2
I'm so happy to announce that I will be starting the 2nd intensive Swedish course soon! That gave me a small boost while revising vocabulary and grammar... :-))) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kez Diglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 4363 days ago 181 posts - 212 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English Studies: Swedish | Message 119 of 143 18 January 2013 at 8:51am | IP Logged | ||
I do this as well! Especially the 'y' was quite an annoying tone for me in the beginning. I wonder, what's the difference between a normal and an intensive course? More hours? I have 2 course books at home but I really can't be bothered working my way through them for some reason. Would've been nice if I had motivation to do it though. Keep it up! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Solfrid Cristin Heptaglot Winner TAC 2011 & 2012 Senior Member Norway Joined 5340 days ago 4143 posts - 8864 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, Spanish, Swedish, French, English, German, Italian Studies: Russian | Message 120 of 143 18 January 2013 at 8:58am | IP Logged | ||
Congratulations! I am sure you will progress rapidly :-) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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