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| Desertbandit Groupie Netherlands Joined 5091 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes  Speaks: Arabic (Iraqi)* | Message 17 of 24 29 May 2011 at 11:30pm | IP Logged |
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^kind of a waste don't you think ? I mean a weekend is like a normal weekday . EXCEPT YOU HAVE MORE FREE TIME THAN THE LAST 3 HOURS BEFORE BED TIME .
Time Management and Project Management are skills you should learn to master next to language learning in my opinion . Anyways I promise myself right here right now : NO MORE RESEARCH ON HOW TO LEARN languageS. I already did that a long time ago over and over , I mean it is so easy to walk into a language learning site...and read article and watch videos and read blogs over and over..untill you realize you just used of a hour or more . So im going to set up a perfect schedule I must not get of track from for the coming month. Japanese= Kanji+Assimil+10 sentences a day(for now) Arabic: 50 sentences + le petit prince (listen and read atleast I hope I can find Audio for it if not ill just read I guess...) Mandarin:Chinesepod a lesson a day + Easy peasy Chinese (gonna order that soon I hope) Anyways had allot to do for school today..and I already procastinated like there is no tommorrow this weekend so I only could do a bit of Assimil today..its better than nothing lets hope for a better future. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| languageguy13 Diglot Newbie United Kingdom Joined 4921 days ago 9 posts - 13 votes Speaks: Spanish, French Studies: Mandarin, Portuguese | Message 18 of 24 30 May 2011 at 12:36am | IP Logged |
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I study Mandarin at university and the books that we work from are '新实用汉语课本 Xin Shiyong Hanyu Keben (New Practical Chinese Reader) which comes in six volumes and takes you from absolute beginner to around B2/C1 and Boya Chinese but I don't know how many volumes there are of that. They come with CDs which would be useful if you are learning on your own and they are pretty good when used together for explaining grammar and helping you learn to read and write characters correctly if that is any help :)
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| Desertbandit Groupie Netherlands Joined 5091 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Arabic (Iraqi)* | Message 19 of 24 30 May 2011 at 3:53pm | IP Logged |
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I see but the problem with university textbooks sometimes is that they are very unpractical for self study...but ill look into Boya Chinese thanks for the tips
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| Desertbandit Groupie Netherlands Joined 5091 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Arabic (Iraqi)* | Message 20 of 24 31 May 2011 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
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I reviewed like 18 Assimil Japanese with ease lessons and did lesson 75 today. I can't wait till im done with Assimil . Yes Assimil is allot of fun but I want to get it over with already so that I can finally start with ''An introduction to intermediate Japanese'' .
Just now I skimmed through the first chapter and listened to the audio a bit just to see what was awaiting me and it got me extra motivated, the voices the texts the excersises were so briliant . I also found an Arabic Treasure...I found Kalila wa Dimna its a great work of classic Arabic stories all of you should read it and if youre not studying Arabic I advice you to find some kind of translation . I looked into Chinesepod some more..I think Ill do it Assimil style for now just to get the ''sounds'' of the language burned in my mind. Edited by Desertbandit on 31 May 2011 at 8:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 6031 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 21 of 24 31 May 2011 at 11:30pm | IP Logged |
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Slow Chinese this site might be useful to you though the script will possibly be a problem.
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| Desertbandit Groupie Netherlands Joined 5091 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Arabic (Iraqi)* | Message 22 of 24 01 June 2011 at 9:14pm | IP Logged |
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Haha thanks for the link this looks cool....but a bit to high level to me I think I barely know the basics of Mandarin .
So I reached lesson 76 of Assimil Japanese ...I have like 4 free days now..before I go on with the next lessons (78) I will hold a super review session of all the past Assimil lessons , with allot of listening and writing ,I want to squeze it till tis final drops before I contineu . 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| kraemder Senior Member United StatesRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5175 days ago 1497 posts - 1648 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish, Japanese | Message 23 of 24 01 June 2011 at 11:16pm | IP Logged |
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Hey, just saw your log while at work. I am impressed that you chose languages because they were hard. I
just started Japanese myself. I avoided it because it's hard but the pop culture and anime made me change my mind. So far I would say it's hard indeed but any language is after only one month. If you can already read news online that's pretty good. Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Desertbandit Groupie Netherlands Joined 5091 days ago 80 posts - 104 votes Speaks: Arabic (Iraqi)* | Message 24 of 24 02 June 2011 at 11:20am | IP Logged |
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Good luck to you to , but its just you shouldn't buy in the ''its a hard language'' idea , I do not believe any language is harder than the other..its just some languages are further from your mother tongue so it would only be obvious those take more time .
''If you can already read news online that's pretty good'' XD I am far from being able to read articles perfectly , I just try to read them I still have a difficult time reading them . 1 person has voted this message useful |
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