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| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5234 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 17 of 40 11 June 2011 at 6:53am | IP Logged |
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TY Italian Ch.6: Started
Today I started Ch.6 by learning the new words and phrases. There are quite a few to each lesson, but they are easy to learn (compared to Mandarin). I also went through the dialogue a few times. I feel like TY takes very large steps with every lesson. I am very excited to start Assimil in July. On a side note, I have been able to acquire a number of resources for my next two languages, Indonesian and Russian. Indonesian will be my next language; I'm shooting for a September start date, but that all depends on how my Italian studies are doing. Chinese is going fairly well. I'm really enjoying that reader I bought. For my personal learning style, it is critical for me to have reading material that is on my level. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5234 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 18 of 40 14 June 2011 at 7:36pm | IP Logged |
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TY Italian Ch.6: Complete
I had a busy weekend, but its over now and I'm back to studying. I'm very glad I decided to put Chinese into review mode during my first month of Italian. Although Italian is a bit easier than Chinese, I find that wrapping my head around a new language takes a lot out of me. I'm also beginning to wonder how polyglots can juggle so many languages at once. I've been limiting myself to 30 minutes per language, but its just not enough some days. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5234 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 19 of 40 16 June 2011 at 6:43pm | IP Logged |
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TY Italian Ch.7: Started
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| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5234 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 20 of 40 26 June 2011 at 8:51am | IP Logged |
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TY Italian Ch.7: Complete
The past week has been hectic with traveling and such, so studying has been slow going. I am now back home and can hopefully refocus on my languages. In the time I was hoping to complete 20 lessons of TY I only completed 7. I think I will begin Assimil this week and leave TY on my bookshelf. It helped me to learn a few hundred words and practice my pronounciation, but it was too phrasebooky for my taste. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5234 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 21 of 40 29 June 2011 at 1:15pm | IP Logged |
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Assimil: Lesson 2 complete
I recently started Assimil and have completed the first two lessons. I will be doing one lesson a day, which means I will complete it in about six months. So far I like it and think it will be quite useful. In addition to Assimil, I have also acquired a deck for Anki which has about 2700 facts. I will be doing 5 to 10 a day (whatever seems appropriate). I'd like to have that deck completed by the time I finish Assimil. My earlier plans of moving into another language at the end of the summer may not happen. I think its best to focus on Mandarin and Italian for now. I have a difficult time working on those every day without having to worry about another language. I don't see any real reason in updating this log everyday, perhaps just once or twice a week. Any comments, questions, or concerns you all have are always welcome. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5234 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 22 of 40 04 July 2011 at 10:39am | IP Logged |
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Assimil: Lesson 7 Complete
Today I finished the first review. I am definitely enjoying the Assimil program. One thing that I have been considering the last few days is whether or not I will look back in 5 or 6 months and feel that it was time well spent. Would 6 months of textbook study have been more worthwhile? I think the one major difference for me is going to be the "without toil" or "with ease" approach. Assimil has not only been "without toil" but has been such an enjoyment to work through as well. My Chinese studies have dipped as of late. I, of course, use the language everyday, but I'm not really doing anything to move myself forward. Every summer I am so busy with teaching that it doesn't leave a lot of room for much else. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jasoninchina Senior Member China Joined 5234 days ago 221 posts - 306 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Mandarin, Italian | Message 23 of 40 13 July 2011 at 7:41am | IP Logged |
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Assimil: Lesson 16 Complete
I haven't posted in a while. I just completed lesson 16, and I'm still doing well with the material. My only complaint would be the lesson I had today. In the dialogue, one character asked the other to name all the furniture in the room. That right there was an info-dump that I didn't care for. Second, the person made a mistake and had to be corrected by the native. It was very complex and didn't feel very natural for learning. Overall, I'm very pleased with the Assimil approach. It is really interesting how the language is naturally being placed into my head. It will be quite interesting to see how far that can take me. That being said, I am using Anki, so there is some rote memorization taking place. And again, if I haven't said it before, Italian is so much easier than Mandarin. Haha. I love that so many words are the same or similiar. I'm not sure that I have posted this previously, but I want to have typed out my particular method with Assimil; in the event I change it, I'd like to see where I did so and why: 1. Read English and Italian line by line; comparing texts 2. Listen to Italian while following along in Italian 3. Listen to Italian while following along in English 4. Read Italian text w/o recording 5. Rinse and repeat Mandarin is not going anywhere right now. I'm currently looking for a tutor and will hopefully have one next time I post. I'm so stinkin' busy over the summer that finding time for self study is difficult. Hopefully a tutor will streamline the experience. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| strummer Diglot Newbie Switzerland Joined 4925 days ago 38 posts - 53 votes Speaks: Italian*, English Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 24 of 40 15 July 2011 at 5:18pm | IP Logged |
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Bene bene! i'm happy that you've started to learn Italian! i'm a native speaker, so if
you have any questions tell me! but anyway i think you're in good hands with assimil!. im also learning mandarin, but just the spoken language with chinese in 30 days by berlitz but adapted for Italian speakers by Langenscheidt GMBH, so it's a little different from the English version, but it has helped me to get around in Shanghai! even for really simple things. After my studies i will start assimil chinese, you could try it too when you will be a little more free. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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