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| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6544 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes  1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 17 of 47 26 January 2012 at 10:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today at lunch time, a co-worker asked me if I was Croatian - I'm going to guess that this is not a significant improvement on my usual accent.
Activity Completed  German
Assimil 87 - Reviewed Text Lunch conversation Anki - 579 behind  Arabic
Assimil 6 now in Anki. Reading Lesson 8. Anki Edited by zenmonkey on 27 January 2012 at 12:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5874 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 18 of 47 27 January 2012 at 12:39am | IP Logged | ||
Também entendo muito bem o espanhol, falo razoavelmente, mas escrevo mal. Para melhorar, comprei uma boa gramática e fiz cartões para o Anki com os "falsos amigos", algo importante para não cair no ridículo :-)) Infelizmente, ainda não peguei nisso seriamente ... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6544 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 19 of 47 27 January 2012 at 8:09am | IP Logged | ||
Sou capaz de ler isso, mas não produzi-lo! Buena suerte con el español! Espero leer cómo resolviste los problemas con idiomas similares en tu "log". Para mí ese es el punto más grande, como estudiar un idioma en el que me distraigo con facilidad y ya tengo un conocimiento pasivo alto, pero no la capacidad de producir? Edited by zenmonkey on 28 January 2012 at 11:07am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6544 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 20 of 47 28 January 2012 at 1:01am | IP Logged | ||
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Long ride back to Munich let me get some listening time in.
Activity Completed German
Assimil 86 now in Anki, 87 L/R and shadowing, 88 L Anki - 450 behind 3 pages from my book. DW Themen reading and listening with LwT. Arabic
Assimil 6,7, 8 L, L/R - I need to do some scriptorium with these, probably review some of the letters than have gone woosh! Anki Beginning to feel that I'm actually beginning Arabic. Point nada. A podcast on saying the basics greetings... (really point zero). Edited by zenmonkey on 28 January 2012 at 1:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6544 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 21 of 47 28 January 2012 at 10:58am | IP Logged | ||
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2 Week Status - End of January
How am I doing with the tasks I set for myself? Time to review the last two weeks while the girls are making pancakes in the background with lots of flour, French and German flying about. The little ones are reading my cookbook and counting cups in English. Nice Babel. German
Check Overall an active learning period, I'm quite happy with it. - Activate busuu - 10 lessons: Really did not achieve 5 full lessons a week. Closer to 3. What I don't like was some of it was mechanically zipping through to get it done. So I'll go for 3 but focus more on getting unkown words in Anki or writing them out. - Complete reading my current book: Struggling, it's a D reader, many put it back on the shelf and grab something a little lighter. - 5 exercises: Done+, good learning tool. - Activate ASSIMIL or podcasts: Got a lot of Assimil done and well. Continue with that and DW - Cards: Back at them, quickly unstacking. Activity next 2 weeks Would like to focus on reading. I'll be traveling a lot so that gives me down time to work in the plane but it is also tiring. - Finish a reader - LwT: 2 texts? Need to figure out the exporting function so as to not create duplicates. - 5 grammar exercises - Assimil - do not rush to finish but rather complete each lesson with cards, writing etc. Arabic
Great start! Need to get the script into a more active phase, couple of slips in passive. check - Finish with the Alphabet (all letters, all words in TAAHTRWI entered in Flash my Brain and learned): completed - 5 ASSIMIL exercises : completed Activity next 2 weeks Kicking off 6WC - so I'll focus with at least a complete Assimil lesson per day + a podcast when I have time. - consolidate script: make sure I have all the FmB pronuciations in Anki, work on the letters I sort of learned and which need reinforcement - 14 Assimil - 3-4 Podcasts Edited by zenmonkey on 28 January 2012 at 11:08am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6544 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 22 of 47 29 January 2012 at 10:29am | IP Logged | ||
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So I've put back my reader and have picked up Till Eulenspiegel. Much better and also available on the internet. Some uncensored stories here about farts and practical jokes. Not necessarily the nicest, but historical. My book is more bowlderized.
I've been having issues with German pronouns and particularly with some possessive ones. Strange after several years of study, so I decided to map them out in my visual tools -- aha, moment followed. My translation from German to English or French was screwing up a little. Now posted on the fridge: 
Activity Completed German
Anki - 450 behind 17 pages from my book. Eulenspiegel with LwT. Arabic
Anki Edited by zenmonkey on 29 January 2012 at 1:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6544 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 23 of 47 30 January 2012 at 9:43am | IP Logged | ||
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Morning lesson time was lost to a programming request on a forum I administrate. These little time eaters kill my small time slots allocated to lessons. So now, instead of doing a lesson, I'm writing here. I find this useful, not only to record, but also to get my head around what I plan to do. I guess I could just grab a coffee and write my list for the day but this is more fun and a little better to look at when I get back to reviewing my weeks.
Our morning ride to school, when I drive the girls, is dedicated to languages - the girls will work with me - today we did variations on "How are you?" and the colloquial "How is it going?" -- they young ones don't know where that comes from - "Ca va?", maybe something to explain - they would probably enjoy the scatological reference. We worked on answering that question - I'm happy/sad/angry/hungry/fine/great. L asked to do it Spanish and then we talked about places that speak Arabic (they have traveled to Jordan). Talked about other trips and how P. can strengthen her English. The girls often enjoy listening to a podcast in the morning but we just chatted along - I learned that the girls have schoolmates that speak (aside from the 5-6 major European languages) Japanese, "Mandarine" (sic), Wolof and Serer. A quick read on Wolof tells me that verbs are not conjugated but that pronouns are. Wow. I. will. not. spend. more. time. on. that. Ride back was spent listening to Slow German and Schlaflos in Munchen, as well as some of The Moth. I wish there was an equivalent podcast in German. Today will be time to organize for the 6WC for Arabic - my material will be primarily Assimil but I think I'll pull the Living Language off the shelf and maybe the "for Dummies" CD - the book is horrid. Activity Completed German
Anki - 297 behind 6 pages from Eulenspiegel Slow German and Schlaflos podcasts Assimil Lesson 87 now in Anki Arabic
Anki Reviewed the entire alphabet and aligned the Anki/FmB cards. Assimil 9 L/R, Rx2, Lx2 and in Anki Living Language off the shelf and into the ipod -- I'm not so happy with the dialogs as part of that is just lists of words. Anyway it is a good time to double up on the starting material -- lesson 2 into Anki it goes! Learning the -ki( ـكِ ) suffix for feminine possessive and the bi- ( بِـ ) prefix for "with". Haha! Getting the endings of subject, direct or indirect objects is not going to be a stroll in the park. But I'm enjoying the script! وَجَدَ اُاْوَلَدُ اُلْبِنْتَ وَقَالَ Edited by zenmonkey on 31 January 2012 at 1:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6544 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 24 of 47 31 January 2012 at 12:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've been discussing grapheme-color synesthesia with my daughter P, who has it and we tested her little sisters and found A experiences it also. This led me to show her the video about Daniel Tammet and I've also challenged her to think about how to use it for vocabularly learning and visualisation of words. She has a few days before she is to get back to me on this. We'll see what she comes up with. She's seen some of the math mnemonics we played with before but knows nothing about mnemonics so I expect her to come back with something simple, or she'll forget all about it.
This got me to reading about Moonwalking with Einstein and the Josh Cohen's blog. Which led me to memrise. That is a great site based on mnemonics for vocabulary learning. I tried it out and liked it, but it is a little buggy (as I ignored all the words on the list I was trying out, it got stuck) and i think I like something a little less graphic. But overall it seem to be an excellent site. If I can get a list that is up to my speed and not too basic I might use it. German = too easy. Arabic = too hard. But the whole thing got me to thinking about mnemonics for words learning. I think I will have to try for certain words and even articles. My method? Placing nouns in place (words with Das will be placed in the car - Das Auto, Der in ocean - Der Ozean and the river Isar for Die Isar.) We'll see if that helps. Activity Completed German
Eulenspiegel to page 30 Schlaflos podcasts Assimil Lesson 88 R/L and 89 Lx2, R. A little memrise.com learned scheuen (shhh! u and n avoid each other) Anki - behind by 214 Arabic
LL 2 Assimil 10, reviewed 9 Anki Tomorrow is the start of 6WC (!!) - I plan to complete 30 lessons in this time, let's see if we can achieve that.  Italian
Did a Pimsleur lesson in the background while preparing this. It popped onto the ipod. :) Edited by zenmonkey on 31 January 2012 at 2:53pm 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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