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| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 105 of 706 22 February 2013 at 5:30am | IP Logged | ||
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@expugnator - Unbelievable! This is so awesome, and very much appreciated. Thank you very much! Let my Brazilian music journey begin!
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| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 106 of 706 22 February 2013 at 5:41am | IP Logged | ||
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Just some quick notes:
Using DLI is going well so far for my Portuguese studies, but there are some things that bug me - and I don't mean the old spellings (although they do give me a bit of trouble. Anything that goes into Anki has to be double-checked at a dictionary or spell-checker online first. But like iguanamon said, "Free ain't easy."). First, sometimes the accents are on the wrong letter, although usually they are in the right place elsewhere in the book. That's a small problem for me, but what is a big problem is that DLI will often introduce new vocabulary without giving a definition in the word list at the end of the lesson, nor in the glossary in the back! If I'm studying on the train, I have to wait until I get in front of a computer to look up the meaning! Sometimes those words are cognates, but I am cautious about false friends. EDIT: That big problem is now a miniscule problem, because yesterday I bought an Android Sony Walkman MP3 Player. That means I can get any application that is available for Android phones and tablets. I cannot connect to the Internet outside my home, but I found some Japanese and Portuguese dictionary apps that I can use offline. Now I can look up those "mysterious" words in DLI that pop up from time to time. I also downloaded AnkiDroid, so I can do my flashcards while standing on the train, or even while at the gym! Another benefit is that I can put my PDFs, including DLI, on my MP3 player. The screen is a bit small, but still readable. That means I don't have to carry around a lot of printouts. If I can scan my heavy Japanese textbook to PDF, that would be fantastic for my back. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 107 of 706 26 February 2013 at 1:40am | IP Logged | ||
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KUJI'S WEEK IN REVIEW: 18 February - 24 February 2013
I unfortunately did not do much studying after Thursday, when I bought a new Android Walkman music player (F-series, for you techies). Since then the only studying I've done is Anki reviews, and I don't really consider that studying. But I've been testing the capabilities of my Walkman, looking for dictionary apps and other useful things to help me with my language journey. However, I think now I know what my Walkman can do (and can't do), so I hope to get back on track this week. One of the things I want to do this week, if I have time, is go through the Brazilian music information that Expugnator kindly posted on this thread and find some singers or groups that I like. Hopefully, I can share some YouTube links or other things. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 108 of 706 26 February 2013 at 2:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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You guys are making me want to learn Portuguese :(
How can you do flashcards at the gym? I guess while riding a bicycle or something. I can't imagine anything else you could do without injuring yourself. Or perhaps I should say that I can't imagine anything else I could do without injuring myself, and I'm not even entirely sure about that bicycle thing. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| kujichagulia Senior Member Japan Joined 4845 days ago 1031 posts - 1571 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Portuguese | Message 109 of 706 27 February 2013 at 12:56am | IP Logged | ||
Yeah, the only way I could do flashcards at the gym is on a stationary bike. It's better than watching the TVs they have mounted on top of the bicycles. Note to myself: don't try to do them during my aerobics class. Something bad could happen. :) Yes, join the Portuguese bandwagon! Dump your other languages! Hahaha! I have no idea why, but I find Portuguese fascinating. I'm not exactly sure what I will do with Portuguese; maybe it will be useful in the future. But it is fun to study so far. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5260 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 110 of 706 27 February 2013 at 2:30am | IP Logged | ||
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You can practice your Japanese while you learn some basic Potuguese in this 40 lesson multimedia Brazilian Portuguese Course from Tokyo University of Foreign Studies. Edited by iguanamon on 27 February 2013 at 2:31am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 111 of 706 27 February 2013 at 11:55pm | IP Logged | ||
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yees Brun Ugle come to our side, we have cookies!
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| Brun Ugle Diglot Senior Member Norway brunugle.wordpress.c Joined 6618 days ago 1292 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English*, NorwegianC1 Studies: Japanese, Esperanto, Spanish, Finnish | Message 112 of 706 28 February 2013 at 7:29am | IP Logged | ||
What kind of cookies? Actually, I shouldn't ask that, I'm getting a bit too pudgy already so maybe I should stay away. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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