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| Kegel Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6430 days ago 67 posts - 70 votes  Speaks: German*, English Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 17 of 25 01 July 2008 at 9:58am | IP Logged |
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Today I signed up at the language lab of my university. They asked me if I have "already an idea which language" I want to learn. It could have been sarcastic, if they knew that I tend to jump around between languages...
They gave me a self-studying plan for learning Spanish that is a guide through the material they have at the language lab. I went through the first two parts (of 28) of it (after the 28. you're supposed to be at an A1 level). Now Spanish seems more difficult than before... The plan starts with a lot of grammar and I became aware of many irregularities of Spanish verbs. I had not "noticed" this so much in the FSI course so far. Learning at the lab might mean some more structure, but at the same time studying has never seemed so difficult since I started about 5 weeks ago. Edited by Kegel on 01 July 2008 at 10:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kegel Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6430 days ago 67 posts - 70 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 18 of 25 23 October 2008 at 3:13pm | IP Logged |
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I have not written anything here in quite a while. I've been studying at the language lab and this week I started a regular Spanish course at my university. I didn't start with Spanish 101 (so to say), but with a somewhat higher course and so far it went quite well, although it was a little scary at first as I had hardly *spoken* any Spanish to a real person before lol.
I think I'm doing well with vocabulary and grammar, but I really really need to work on the communication aspect. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kegel Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6430 days ago 67 posts - 70 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 19 of 25 20 February 2009 at 11:35pm | IP Logged |
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I finished the regular Spanish class about two weeks ago and next week I'm going to start an intensive class.
I also want to get more into studying on my own again. So I plan on starting with the FSI Basic course volume 2. Norwegian and Czech I'm mostly trying to keep up. It's scary how much I've already forgotten though. I'm thinking about getting some new language learning material to review and refresh these two languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kegel Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6430 days ago 67 posts - 70 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 20 of 25 26 February 2009 at 7:16pm | IP Logged |
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The Spanish class is time-intensive, but nice. It's going really slowly though. So far we've had four days with four hours each day plus one or two hours of homework, but we haven't done anything 'new', grammatically.
I've learned some new words and got the opportunity to speak a little more (the class is quite small), but I hope we go on to something new very soon. It's kind of silly. The Spanish textbook we use brings up the préterito perfecto later on, but according to the language center of university, command of the perfecto is even a prerequisite for the class I took before this one and, as far as I can tell, everyone in the class knows how to use it. Edited by Kegel on 26 February 2009 at 7:18pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kegel Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6430 days ago 67 posts - 70 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 21 of 25 08 March 2009 at 12:12pm | IP Logged |
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I've finished the intensive Spanish class now. Altogether I'd say it was mediocre. The learning atmosphere was very nice and it was good to hear a lot of Spanish (both teachers were native speakers). The topics of the class were a lot of repetition though.
I plan on dedicating more time on Norwegian and Czech now. I've bought the Assimil courses "ohne Mühe" for both Norwegian and Czech. They are probably a lot repetition as well, but I really need to try a different kind of course for Czech. I've studied Czech for years (more than 5 years now, 3 of them taking classes), and I *know* a lot about Czech, but have a hard time using it. Knowing something about a language and being able to speak it are very different things here. So with Assimil I'm up to unit 15 of the Norwegian course and unit 8 of the Czech one. Edited by Kegel on 08 March 2009 at 12:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kegel Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6430 days ago 67 posts - 70 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 22 of 25 15 May 2009 at 11:55pm | IP Logged |
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By now I'm fairly far progressed in my Assimil Czech (unit 53), but I haven't continued with the Norwegian version, it's too basic for me. I've bought two Norwegian books instead. I tend to miss a couple of words a page when I read them, but altogether it's going alright.
I still like Assimil though, as I finally seem to be able to remember and use the Czech cases. When I first started learning Czech, I tried learning the cases like I had learned the cases in Latin: learning tables by heart... but if you actually want to speak the language, this just doesn't work. As I'm also still studying Spanish I wonder which of the methods is better for studying multiple languages at once: (1) studying all languages every day, but each separate (2) studying all languages every day, but together as well (like making word lists Spanish - Norwegian... I can imagine somebody who is reading this headdesking, but I've actually done that...) (3) studying all languages on separate days to avoid confusion (disadvantage: no daily study for each language) Edited by Kegel on 15 May 2009 at 11:55pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kegel Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 6430 days ago 67 posts - 70 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Arabic (Written) | Message 23 of 25 01 June 2009 at 7:56pm | IP Logged |
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Instead of following my plan to study more Spanish, I've recently mostly focused on Norwegian.
I'm still reading the first of my new Norwegian books (it's long, +500 pages) and by now I'm reading more fluently though I still have to look up words from now and then. I've also listened to Norwegian radio stations. You don't get to hear nearly enough Norwegian music though in my mind lol. I have no problem listening to the news. I've started with the textbook "Her på berget". It's the book the university of Oslo uses in the class that follows the one I finished when I was in Oslo. Apart from studying some vocabulary, I haven't done anything for Spanish. I'm so lame. I'm continuing with Assimil Czech, but it's suffering under my focus on Norwegian. I've only progressed to unit 57. Okay, I'm trying to write down a plan for the next weeks (up to June 15th) here, maybe it will remind me. Spanish: Finally finish my textbook. Read some of my Spanish reader. Vocabulary. Some grammar games. Czech: Progress at least to unit 63 of Assimil. Norwegian: Finish book. Do unit 2-4 of Her på berget. Edited by Kegel on 01 June 2009 at 8:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| madass88 Diglot Groupie NorwayRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6059 days ago 83 posts - 98 votes Speaks: English, Norwegian* Studies: Spanish, Mandarin | Message 24 of 25 01 June 2009 at 8:23pm | IP Logged |
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Vel, hvis du kan lese bøker på norsk så syntes jeg du gjør det veldig bra. Er imponert over at du har opprettholdt
motet i så lang tid, slik at du har lært deg disse språkene til et bra nivå. Norsk er et flott språk, og det blir satt stor pris på utlendinger som behersker språket. Lykke til! Mads 1 person has voted this message useful |
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