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| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 17 of 52 15 February 2012 at 10:19pm | IP Logged |
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French: listen to the news, 45 min
Bengali: listen to audio to the Kauderwelsch book, 30 min Russian: listen to the audio to Assimil lesson 16-22, 20 min Swedish: watch gameshow, 30 min Portuguese: read articles on DW's website, 15 min 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 18 of 52 21 February 2012 at 7:52pm | IP Logged |
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I had to take a few days off from the forum (unfortunately) - I didn't feel well and I had loads of other things to do.
So my language learning in the last few days has mainly been some listening to music and reading an article here or there. I know I should have done more but sometimes it just doesn't work out the way you want it to. Hope to be finally back on track tomorrow! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 19 of 52 22 February 2012 at 10:26pm | IP Logged |
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I'm going to travel to Moscow for a few days in May with a friend. It's my first time in Russia, so I'm really excited to go there! My friend speaks only about 3 words of Russian... That means it will be me who'll do all the talking. Let's hope my Russian will be good enough by then to get by. Besides getting some speaking practice it will also be a great opportunity to go to a bookstore and buy some Russian books.
Russian: 30 min Turkish: 30 min French: 30 min Bengali: 30 min Portuguese: 15 min Swedish: 15 min 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| DreamCH Tetraglot Newbie Switzerland Joined 4504 days ago 18 posts - 25 votes Speaks: German, Swiss-German*, French, English Studies: Dutch | Message 20 of 52 23 February 2012 at 1:12am | IP Logged |
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that`s a lot of languages mixed up, I`ll keep reading and see how you`re doing. So far it seems a bit like a counter-example of many posts here (stating that only a max. of 4 languages can be handled).
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| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 21 of 52 23 February 2012 at 9:54pm | IP Logged |
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DreamCH, thanks for your comment! Somehow I like the mix (I usually get bored easily...). I know that I could be more successful with certain languages if I restricted my learning to only a few of them but I only learn languages for fun anyway so it's ok for me that way.
Only when I know I'll be travelling to a country where one of my target languages is spoken (as Russia and Spain this year) I feel the need to do some very serious studying because it's just great to be able to communicate in your target language without having to rely on English! Spanish: write an email, listen to music, 45 min Arabic: Kauderwelsch Arabic (audio), 45 min Bengali: Kauderwelsch Bengali, 30 min Swedish: watch TV show, 30 min Turkish: vocabulary trainer, 20 min Russian: listen to the news, 15 min 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 22 of 52 25 February 2012 at 9:48pm | IP Logged |
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Today I had enough time to spend on my language learning, only I couldn't use all the material I would have liked to because I'm not at home during the weekend and I couldn't bring all my books... only my Russian textbook. For the other languages I had to stick to the audio on my Ipod and whatever the internet has to offer.
Russian: Assimil audio, Russian textbook, 65 min Arabic: Kauderwelsch Arabic audio, 30 min Spanish: listen to music, read articles online, 45 min Turkish: listen to the news, 20 min Bengali: Kauderwelsch Bengali audio, 30 min Swedish: watch gameshow, 30 min French & Portuguese: listen to songs on Youtube Thinking about it, I still need to work on Chinese tonight... Edited by Kat0 on 25 February 2012 at 9:49pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 23 of 52 26 February 2012 at 9:57pm | IP Logged |
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Yesterday night I managed to spend 20 min on Chinese before going to sleep. That's not much, especially considering that Chinese is one of my weakest languages and not exactly one of the easier ones. But it's better than nothing and I hope I'll be able to dedicate more time to it after my trip to Russia.
Russian: grammar, Assimil audio, 40 min Turkish: vocabulary, 20 min Arabic: Kauderwelsch audio, 20 min Bengali: Kauderwelsch audio, 20 min Read Wikipedia articles and listen to songs on Youtube in Spanish, French, Portuguese, Swedish 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kat0 Diglot Groupie Austria Joined 4550 days ago 89 posts - 97 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Spanish, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin, Bengali, Russian, Arabic (Written) | Message 24 of 52 27 February 2012 at 9:14pm | IP Logged |
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Russian: 15 min
Arabic: 15 min Bengali: 15 min Swedish: 30 min French: 30 min Spanish: 15 min Yesterday I bought a book on language learning (it looked interesting and I just couldn't resist...). I've only read about 80 pages so far and there are a lot of statements that I don't agree with but I still hope that I'll find some useful tips in it. Today I went to another bookstore (it's not entirely my fault, I had to wait for a friend) and found the last book of the Harry Potter series in Spanish - for way less than half of the original price. Of course I had to buy that, too... now all I need is time to read it. Maybe after I finish Stieg Larsson's "Män som hatar kvinnor". 1 person has voted this message useful |
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