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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 41 of 52 14 March 2012 at 9:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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Portuguese: Assimil lesson 5
French: watch an episode of Big Bang Theory, listen to music Bengali: DSAL lesson 6 Russian: Assimil lesson 44 (+9) Swedish: watch gameshow 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 42 of 52 18 March 2012 at 9:37pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm on vacation now which is really great in general but not so great for my language learning. It's hard to find enough time for the textbooks when there are so many other wonderful things to do... but I'm doing the best I can.
I brought my two Assimil books (Russian and Brazilian Portuguese) but I had to leave my other textbooks (Arabic and Turkish) and books (Swedish and Spanish) at home. For Chinese and Bengali I use online resources now so I thought this should be no problem - I was wrong. For some reason the TargetChinese website doesn't work here, I've no idea why. At least the DSAL Bengali website works without problem and I finally even found the audio to the dialogues (yeah!). Besides that I have my Ipod with new French, Portuguese, Spanish and Swedish music on it. Today I did lesson 8 of Assimil Brazilian Portuguese and lesson 47 (+12) of Assimil Russian. Then I repeated lesson 1-3 of TargetChinese Book 1 (I copied the dialogues before I left) and lesson 1-6 of DSAL Introduction to Bengali. In the evening I watched Turkish TV for about half an hour (I can't watch any Turkish channels at home so that's a great opportunity though I don't really understand much). I wonder what everybody else does when they go on vacation and cannot bring all their language learning stuff? 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 43 of 52 24 March 2012 at 10:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've just come back home from my vacation and it was really great and relaxing but it is definitely about time to go back to normal. Tomorrow I'll enjoy my last day off from work and hopefully have time to spend it with the languages I neglected while I was away.
Russian: Assimil lesson 50 (+15) Portuguese: Assimil lesson 14 Spanish: watch an episode of Big Bang theory Bengali: DSAL lesson 7 French: listen to music 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sirkka Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 5486 days ago 35 posts - 39 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Sign Language, Russian, Dutch, Esperanto, Thai, Modern Hebrew | Message 44 of 52 24 March 2012 at 11:00pm | IP Logged | ||
Even though it's really hard for me I pick a language and allow myself to take just one textbook (ok, make that two, oh no, maybe three if it's a lightweight Assimil book ;o) ). Other than that I try to concentrate on the audio parts of studying while I'm on vacation or take my learning materials in pdf format on my smartphone. Usually, this is more than I'll ever need, but it still leaves me feeling deprived somehow. 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 45 of 52 26 March 2012 at 9:09pm | IP Logged | ||
Sirkka, you said it perfectly, that's exactly how I feel about it! I know I don't need everything but I want it to be there in case I do need it. I wonder what I'm going to do on my trip to Spain when I have to carry everything I take with me all day long (I'm going to walk part of the Camino de Santiago). Today: Russian: Assimil lesson 52 (+16), listen to the news Portuguese: Assimil lesson 16, listen to music French: listen to music Spanish: listen to music Swedish: read newsletter Bengali: DSAL lesson 8 Arabic: Usrati lesson 8-11 audio 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 46 of 52 27 March 2012 at 8:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Russian: Assimil lesson 52 (+17)
Portuguese: Assimil lesson 17, listen to music French: listen to music, read (Le comte de Monte Cristo) Spanish: listen to music Swedish: watch gameshow Arabic: Salaam lesson 1-6 audio 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| WentworthsGal Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4728 days ago 191 posts - 246 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Swedish, Spanish | Message 47 of 52 28 March 2012 at 9:40am | IP Logged | ||
Put everything you can onto an ereader, mp3player or tablet and take that with you instead...? You might have to scan some stuff in and turn into a .pdf file but will be better than carrying it all I'm sure... 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 48 of 52 28 March 2012 at 9:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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WentworthsGal, that's a great idea you've come up with! I've never thought about scanning stuff in before but it would definitely make sense. I have an Ipod touch that I take with me all the time and it's possible to read pdf files on it... not the most convenient way but in that case it won't matter (it's not going to be a convenient trip anyway...).
I was really disappointed today when I tried to access the TargetChinese website and it wasn't working here either. So it's not just a "local" problem as I supposed last week... I still hope it's only a temporary problem - otherwise I'll have to think of another resource to use for my Chinese studies. Spanish: watch an episode of Big Bang Theory, 20 min French: watch an episode of Big Bang Theory, 20 min Swedish: watch gameshow, 30 min Russian: listen to radio programme, 30 min Portuguese: Assimil lesson 18, 10 min Bengali: repetition of DSAL lesson 7 and 8, 10 min Turkish: textbook lesson 12, 15 min 1 person has voted this message useful |
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