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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5547 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 9 of 27 04 January 2011 at 6:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Nice goals! Hope you make progress in leaps and bounds this year, Kerrie.
(...and I sympathise about your growing collection of Harry Potters...this time last year, I'd never read any of the Harry Potters (or The Little Prince for that matter) in my life, and now look...I've got a flippin' shelfful of them lol!) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 meramarina Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5958 days ago 1341 posts - 2303 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: German, Italian, French Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 27 04 January 2011 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Kerrie, you have the same set of languages I do! I just did a very effective Spanish review with the first Harry Potter and the Practice Makes Perfect verb book, plus a whole lot of podcasts. It worked really well! Good luck with your language work - I'm a little worried about how I'll keep the Romance languages distinct and apart. You know how Romance languages are when they're together . . . they can't leave each other alone!
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| Monte_Cristo Newbie United States Joined 5188 days ago 27 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 11 of 27 04 January 2011 at 8:38pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Kerrie. I'm on the Ñ team, but all us Spanish learners need to stick together! Your Spanish resources are almost the same as mine, though I'm giving myself the whole year to work through them. I'm really impressed that you caught up on 2000 Anki reviews in just a few days. I was only behind 350 words and it will still probably take me another couple of days to catch up!
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| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5386 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 27 05 January 2011 at 4:40am | IP Logged | ||
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@Teango - I have more than a shelf full. It's more like a whole bookcase. =) Here's my list: Chinese (1-7), Spanish (1-6), Russian (1-6), Japanese (1-6), French (1-4, 6), Polish (1-5), Italian (1-3), German (1-3), Dutch (1, 2, 4), Turkish (1, 5, 6), Korean (1-3), Portuguese (1, 5), Czech (2, 4), Hungarian (1, 2), Ukrainian (1-2), Swedish (1, 3), Welsh (1), Catalan (1), Arabic (1), Urdu (1), Vietnamese (6), Finnish (3), Slovak (2), Lithuanian (2), Danish (1). Wow, I think that's 64 of them. Ouch. To be fair, one of the Portuguese and 5 of the Japanese are not here yet, but they will be in the next week or two. Is there a word for people like me? LOL @Meramarina - Yes, my main languages are the same as yours. I copied you. (Just remember: Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery, right?) Okay, maybe we are both just strange. Actually, I'm pretty sure of that, but that's a good thing, right? =) @Monte Cristo: Yep, I'm following you, too. Not in a stalker kind of way, I promise. Who knows how many of us will be left by the end of the year? Maybe we will all make the Éñ team next year. LOL As for Anki, I was not adding anything new, just catching up. I have about 2600 words in there right now, and almost all of them were due. Many of them are 6-8+ months out now, though, so hopefully I will not get that far behind again any time soon! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6133 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 13 of 27 05 January 2011 at 4:58am | IP Logged | ||
OMG. That's insane! I now feel very insignificant with my 12-book Harry Potter collection. I have all seven in English (which you didn't even count!), and then German (1), Greek (2), Japanese (3), French (4), and Portuguese (5). Where did you find so many? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5386 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 14 of 27 05 January 2011 at 5:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Yes, I am insane. Thank you. =)
Oh, yea. I forgot about English. LOL I have most of those, too. Most of them I've gotten off eBay. I have saved searches, and if someone lists them, I watch them. A lot of times, people will list them for a dollar or two. I got the Japanese, Polish, Chinese, Russian, Korean and Italian ones as sets. I actually have a few extras because of that. (Chinese, Polish, Korean and Japanese. If you are looking for any of those four, send me a PM if you want.) Most of them I only paid $5-8 a piece, though. I like to find good deals. LOL. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5386 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 15 of 27 17 January 2011 at 2:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Well, even having survived about a half-dozen different bugs and viruses in my house over the last two weeks, I feel rather embarrassed that I didn't get as much done as I wanted to. Oh wait! That's life. It happens. (To everyone, I'm told.)
Oh, well. Let's see. What have I actually accomplished in the last two weeks? I finished working through El Principito, and LR'd it two times through. I got about half-way through #3 so far. I started working on the Practice Makes Perfect: Pronouns and Prepositions grammar book. I've only done a few pages, and it's all pretty easy so far, but I will look at it as a good review until I get up to por and para and start pulling my hair out. =) It's a library book, so I only have it for three weeks. Maybe six, if no one else requests it. So, that's a pretty good incentive to get my butt moving. LOL I've mostly kept up with Anki, with maybe 200 to do right now. I haven't been adding any, but I will start doing that this week. I've also started LR'ing Harry Potter y la Piedra Filosofal. I've gotten half-way through Capítulo 5. I prefer to do a chapter at a time, but I had four little girls come in from playing in the snow that wanted hot chocolate, and they didn't want to wait 20 minutes for it! I worked through about half of the first Michel Thomas Polish Foundation CD. I remember the words a lot better if I write them down a few times. Hopefully, it will start sticking (better) soon. I am getting frustrated with myself for not being able to remember everything after hearing it the first or second time. And I really don't like getting frustrated with myself. I've reviewed the first three CDs of the MT German course. I'm going to try to set up a reasonable schedule for adding vocab to Anki for each language. Anyone have suggestions? I feel that if I add more than 10 or 15 a day, I will quickly get overwhelmed with reviews, and that's the kind of thing that stresses me out. I was thinking that if I do even 3-5 a day or my secondary languages and 8-12 of my primary ones (Spanish and German right now), that should give me steady progress without frying my brain. Japanese has been calling to me very loudly lately, since I got my Harry Potter set in the mail last week. I'm trying not to listen, but it's really hard. LOL. Has anyone used the Michel Thomas course for Japanese? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 6133 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 16 of 27 17 January 2011 at 2:48am | IP Logged | ||
I've used both the foundation and advanced courses for Japanese, and I thought they were a pretty good introduction. They covered a good amount of grammar, but I do remember them only using the polite verb forms and completely omitting the plain forms, and I don't think they ever taught the particle へ and only used に. They covered some vocabulary, but no more than a couple hundred words, if that. The teacher isn't a native speaker, but they do have a native speaker on the recording to say the sentences afterwards so you can hear the correct pronunciation. The teacher in the foundation course has a nice voice, but it's a different woman in the advanced course and she has some sort of weird speech impediment which was really aggravating to listen to. What else did you want to know? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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