Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 49 of 88 19 May 2012 at 6:44am | IP Logged |
I had 2 Skype lesson in Vietnamese last week. And that is to much. I'm not able to learn in such short time. So I will only have one lesson a week.
I record the Skype lessons. So reviewing the lesson and making flashcards from it take some time. And I convert videofiles I receive so I also can watch it on AppleTV and iPhone.
And sometimes I make my own video there I take some text and audio I get from the teacher.
So far I have enjoyed doing Shadowing in Vietnamese, and I think I will do it for French also. Assimil method seems a bit boring now in this time of the year.
I have tried out Shadowing while going for a walk and it went quite good.
Did a test on
vocabularysize.com
and got: You know at least 10,400 English word families!
I'm quite happy with the result.
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 50 of 88 20 May 2012 at 8:39pm | IP Logged |
Ok, I have to adapt my learning style more to the vietnamese teacher's style.
So far the teacher have tested my vocabulary, tested my pronounciation, so far so good. But the teacher also tests my reading skill, and speaking skill. So I have to start practising reading load, speaking: be able to formulate sentences on the fly.
So this is old school learning, lot of drills :-)
I'm testing out a interesting software for Mac, its called Pear Note.
Another interesting chanel on YouTube:
albertosanag
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 51 of 88 24 May 2012 at 1:38am | IP Logged |
Up to date with German Flashcard repetitions!
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 52 of 88 30 May 2012 at 10:32pm | IP Logged |
It is summertime now.
Sometime it is harder to study in this time of year.
So I have changed to more easy activities like listening, LR, watching TV, also shadowing is nice to do.
And I will reduce studytime.
And this log will be less frequently updated.
Have a nice summer!
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 53 of 88 01 June 2012 at 5:25am | IP Logged |
Hours Mai 2012
English 3
French 15
German 73
Spanish 1
Vietnamese 35
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 54 of 88 15 June 2012 at 4:15pm | IP Logged |
Language activity is relative low.
Not sure which way is best for me to improve talking.
So I have been reading a bit to find a way which suits me.
Especially trying to read about shadowing.
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 55 of 88 01 July 2012 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
JUNI 2012
English 1,5 hours
French 20,5 hours
German 26 hours
Spanish 0,5 hours
I have been reading/viewing about languagelearning from books, forums and Youtube.
I believe I'm inspired again.
Still on holiday so not much studying language until I'm back again.
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Bjorn Diglot Senior Member Norway Joined 4860 days ago 244 posts - 286 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, English Studies: German, French
| Message 56 of 88 15 July 2012 at 1:28pm | IP Logged |
I'm back home, from Bulgaria, nice country.
Tomorrow off to France for a week.
Mostly listening to audiocourses. Paul Noble's French.
I like this course a lot. Also good, Instant Immersion: French.
Both courses comes with a PDF-file. Which is a big plus.
Edited by Bjorn on 15 July 2012 at 1:29pm
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