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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6462 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 9 of 15 27 November 2010 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | |||||
Yes. Right now my boyfriend has a big paid project to work on. When there's a lull in incoming projects he may program that idea. Meanwhile I just spent the major part of a train ride working on word lists.
I'm making a vocabulary deck for Assimil Swahili (Swahili-French with example sentences and grammar info) and also one with the phrases and sound, Swahili-English, inspired by your model. I'm using the latter for the active wave because I want to be sure to learn everything that Assimil has to offer; it's for my experiment of how far Assimil will really get you, all on its own. I am also planning to do the same for Dutch in January. Let me know if you need them. Edited by Sprachprofi on 27 November 2010 at 11:31pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5410 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 10 of 15 27 November 2010 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
I have a good flashcard app which has a decent SRS and ability to record and playback stuff using the iPod touch/iPhone itself, Flashcards Deluxe. Much cheaper than Anki as well and very easy to use. I highly recommend it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| jazzboy.bebop Senior Member Norway norwegianthroughnove Joined 5410 days ago 439 posts - 800 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Norwegian | Message 11 of 15 27 November 2010 at 11:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
Nice one, I look forward to future updates. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| OlafP Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5427 days ago 261 posts - 667 votes Speaks: German*, French, English | Message 12 of 15 27 November 2010 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
That's similar to how I've lived over the last decade, only that languages were secondary: Ireland, France, UK, and the next change will be due next year. Either I'll go to Sweden or back to France, which I'm missing a bit. Don't concern yourself so much with hardware. A laptop and a mobile phone are enough. You cannot plan things ahead very well, because you'll find out the real difficulties only on site. The problems I had to tackle never had anything to do with the stuff I carried or might/could/should have carried with me, but it was always organisational things. For instance, in France there are mutual dependencies between working contract, lease of a flat, and bank account. You cannot get any of these three if you don't already have the other two. Well, in theory. Practially you get it sorted, but it is obvious that you need a good grasp of the language to solve such problems. Basically I possess only so much that I can carry it around with me in a suitcase. When you stay in one place for more than a year, things start to pile up, so you have to clean up from time to time. There is no point in carrying language courses or dictionaries from one country to another. If you still need a language course, you're not prepared well enough. When you need to get things organised on site, a dictionary is useless, because you cannot lookup things all the time without driving your interlocutors nuts. Buy things when and where you need them and get rid of everything when it has fulfilled its purpose. Man needs much less for a resonable livestyle than many people believe. Edited by OlafP on 27 November 2010 at 11:36pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| patuco Diglot Moderator Gibraltar Joined 7007 days ago 3795 posts - 4268 votes Speaks: Spanish, English* Personal Language Map | Message 13 of 15 03 December 2010 at 4:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
In an environmentally-friendly way, of course, otherwise it might cause other problems :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5373 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 14 of 15 03 December 2010 at 5:28pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I can't believe no one's mentioned the iPad. It's MY language lab.
Apps are the same as on the iPod. Battery lasts all day. Screen is much more suited to reading texts and pdf's, writing down notes, surfing the Internet, watching videos, etc. It's larger than an iPod, but it's relatively light and slim, so it's very easy to slip into a small backback or bag. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Marikki Tetraglot Senior Member Finland Joined 5487 days ago 130 posts - 210 votes Speaks: Finnish*, English, Spanish, Swedish Studies: German | Message 15 of 15 03 December 2010 at 8:24pm | IP Logged | |||||
If you like reading books in your target languages I would recommend you to buy an e- reader with a touch screen and good dictionary lookup functions. I think Kindle doesn't have a touch screen yet. When you'll come to Europe you shoud know that European lending libraries and bookstores have usually all the material in either epub or pdf format and they are using Adobe DRM. I have understood that Kindle has so far been pretty useless in Europe at least what comes to other than English Amazon books. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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