Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 41 of 88 01 May 2012 at 12:29am | IP Logged |
April 2012 Hours
English 2
French 31
German 58
Spanish 3
Vietnamese 9
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 42 of 88 04 May 2012 at 10:35pm | IP Logged |
German
Most of the time spended on exspanding and maintaininge the vocabulary.
Have Skype conversation once a week.
To be honestt I need a lot of conversation practise.
Not much shadowing, haven't had time.
French
Mostly maintained vocabulary.
Vietnamese
Upgraded, so now I'm studying 3 langauages.
I will use about 25 per cent of my studytime to learn Vietnamese.
Team VietFreutsch :-)
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Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5001 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian
| Message 43 of 88 05 May 2012 at 8:53am | IP Logged |
I finally caught up with your log! And I'm glad I did. You're wonderful. And you seem to
be the most active member of the team now.
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 44 of 88 11 May 2012 at 6:50pm | IP Logged |
Thank you Cavesa for your kind words.
German
Expanded my vocabulary, now I have 4500 words,idioms and sentence.
I will now take a break and only maintaining it.
Concentrating more of speaking German, conversations and shadowing.
Also LR and maybe some grammar on a good day.
I also hope to have time to read a book og two this summer.
Have a small collection of real books in German by norwegian author Jo Nesbø:
Der Fledermann
Der Erlöser
Rotkehhlchen
Das fünfte Zeichen
Kakerlaken
Headhunter
Leopard
French
is a bit on the backburner now because I need some time with Vietnamese.
Have restarted French With Ease by Assimil and hope to finish passive wave before I leave for holiday. Keep it floating and do the active wave after holiday.
Vietnamese
I find Vietnamese pronunciation difficult, no surprise there :-)
I prefer readymade flashcards, I trust my brain to correct things underway.
But for Vietnamese I will made my own flashcards. Mostly because I have a teacher and also that is not much out there. My teacher test me on every lesson. So it's better to be a good student and do the homework
Either I will use Anki or Mental Case. Not sure yet.
Edited by Bjorn on 11 May 2012 at 6:50pm
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 45 of 88 12 May 2012 at 7:57pm | IP Logged |
I needed a break yesterday from studying languages. So I got drunk with some friends.
Today I'm watching Youtube videos to get some inspiration.
So far on You Tube Channel:
Favourites
ProfASAr's channel
FluentCzech's channel
Interesting
poliglotta80
NJLIversen
lingosteve
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 46 of 88 16 May 2012 at 9:52am | IP Logged |
Vietnamese
This is a hard language, at least for me. Not only is the pronounciation difficult. The vocabulary is also hard. Nothing to relate it to. It is total strange. So for now I just trying to learn vocabulary by brute force with a flashcard programme. Don't know what else to do.
The teacher seems quite happy with my pronounciation (for a newbie). I have been using the shadowing technic. Maybe the vocabulary will sink in after I have done more Shadowing. I hope so.
25 per cent of my studytime to learn Vietnamese is not enought. I will now use half of my studytime for Vietnamese.
French
Up to date with flashards repetitions, my french vocabulary is 650
Nice and easy with French Assimil.
German
A backlog 1300 repetitions :-)
Been a naughty boy, no shadowing.
Studying 3 languages at the same time is really to much. I hope I can handle it.
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ReQuest Tetraglot Senior Member Netherlands Joined 5024 days ago 200 posts - 228 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, German, French Studies: Spanish
| Message 47 of 88 16 May 2012 at 7:54pm | IP Logged |
You could take a break from one, just watch a newsbroadcast every other day.
Better focus on 2 then having too little time for 3.
Edited by ReQuest on 16 May 2012 at 7:56pm
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 48 of 88 16 May 2012 at 8:38pm | IP Logged |
Thanks for the advice, I might do that.
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