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| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4559 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 9 of 52 07 February 2012 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
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I am going to travel to Spain in August/September this year so I hope to be "fluent" by then. My travelling companion is a friend from Germany who just started to learn Spanish with Rosetta Stone. I have never worked with it myself but I know that most people on this forum don't think it's very effective. So I'm really curious to see how far it's going to get him until August.
My own level now is high intermediate - or at least it was when I was in Spain a few years ago to attend a language course (my speaking skills have definitely become a "little" rusty since then). I still have the textbook that I worked with there, it consists of 18 lessons with texts, grammar, exercises and so on. My plan is to do about 2 lessons a week in addition to the native materials I use. Today's work: Turkish: vocabulary and grammar, 60 min Spanish: textbook lesson 1, 30 min Arabic: vocabulary and grammar, 30 min Chinese: Anki, texts and grammar, 45 min 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4559 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 10 of 52 08 February 2012 at 9:03pm | IP Logged |
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Today I'm so tired I won't be able to do more than the minimum.
So far that's been: French: 50 min Bengali: 20 min Swedish: 30 min Portuguese: 15 min (all of them just watching videos or listening to the news) I still need to work on Russian today, though I don't really know how much good it will do when all I want to do is go to bed and sleep... 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4559 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 11 of 52 09 February 2012 at 11:01pm | IP Logged |
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Today's work:
Arabic: 90 min (evening course) Swedish: read Netdoktor.se's newsletter Turkish: 15 min vocabulary trainer Spanish: 30 min (textbook lesson 2) Chinese: 20 min Anki 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4559 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 12 of 52 11 February 2012 at 9:02pm | IP Logged |
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Today I spent a few hours on the train. I've been used to studying during train rides since my time as a university student and for me it's always been quite effective. Probably because there are not many other things to do there...
So I used the time to listen to Chinese (40 min) and Spanish (45 min) music and to continue reading my "Kauderwelsch Bengali". In the evening I finished lesson 14 of my Russian textbook (30 min) and listened to the audio to lesson 1-10 of my Arabic textbook (25 min). Yesterday I watched my favourite Swedish gameshow (30 min) and listened to the news in French (45 min). Besides that I studied Bengali (30 min) and Portuguese (Unidade 6 of my Brazilian Portuguese script). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4559 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 13 of 52 12 February 2012 at 10:10pm | IP Logged |
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When I listened to the news in Russian today I finally noticed some (small) improvement in understanding. I still can't really follow what is being said but I'm getting better at catching words and phrases here or there... That's a great motivation for me to continue my Russian studies!
Russian: 30 min (lesson 15, listen to the news) Bengali: 45 min (listen to the audio to the Kauderwelsch book) Swedish: 30 min (watch Vem Vet Mest) Turkish: 30 min (vocabulary, lesson 10) Spanish: 10 min (write an e-mail) Chinese: 20 min (Anki) Portuguese: 25 min (unidade 7, read an article about Tarsila do Amaral) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4559 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 14 of 52 13 February 2012 at 10:29pm | IP Logged |
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Russian: finish lesson 15, listen to the news, listen to lesson 33-36 of Assimil (60 min)
Bengali: listen to the news, continue with Kauderwelsch Bengali (35 min) French: listen to the news, read an e-mail (30 min) Chinese: lesson 17 of my old textbook, listen to the news (30 min) Swedish: read today's newsletter from Netdoktor.se ... and I booked my flight to Spain today! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4737 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 15 of 52 13 February 2012 at 10:46pm | IP Logged |
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Sounds like you're doing really well! It feels so good when you realise that you're starting to understand more when watching/listening to native material! :oD
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| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4559 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 16 of 52 14 February 2012 at 9:42pm | IP Logged |
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That's true, it's the moments when you actually feel that the hard work is paying off!
Though I don't feel like I'm working too hard now... when I look at what I've done recently I feel that I spend too much time on passive things like listening to audio material or watching videos. My next goal would be to be more active, write more, get to talk, etc. But as for now I'm happy if I can maintain the amount of time I dedicate to language learning every day. I know there are times to come when I won't be able to do as much as I do now. Spanish: reading and listening, 30 min Turkish: grammar and vocabulary, 50 min Arabic: sentence writing, listening, 25 min Swedish: watching gameshow, 30 min Russian: watching videos, 10 min I might also continue reading my Kauderwelsch Bengali book tonight. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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