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| Icaria909 Senior Member United States Joined 5582 days ago 201 posts - 346 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 9 of 15 09 January 2011 at 3:09am | IP Logged | |||||
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@Canada38 Thanks. I can't wait to see how much you advance in your studies as well.
I haven't been very good this last week in writing down what I've been doing. I just started a new job selling Knives and I haven't had as much time to devote to studying like I wanted to. For Catalan though, I've been studying the pronunciation chart and Chapter 1 every other day switching off. I like having a good idea of pronunciation before I start but I find I don't learn pronunciation very well until I've seen it in more practical examples. For Spanish I've spent a few hours this week watching Física o Química fan blogs in Spanish. I know it's a really strange way to find things to read in Spanish, but at least I'm reading something about a topic I know a lot about. I'm going to try and work on putting on up my progress more frequently and be more consistent with my studies but otherwise I've been doing well for the first week of 2011. Hope the team feels good about their studies as well! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Icaria909 Senior Member United States Joined 5582 days ago 201 posts - 346 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 10 of 15 11 January 2011 at 4:41am | IP Logged | |||||
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In the last two days I've basically holed myself up in my room and just watched episode
after episode of Física o Química with the subtitles. I can't decide if watching movies or shows in Spanish counts as studying considering I spend so much of that time reading the English subtitles, however, I feel like I pick up more and more of the conversations naturally as I listen and I'm getting a hang on the slang used. I think it's helping, but I have start focusing on grammar again soon, else I forget more of it before school starts again. I'm going to listen through Chapter 1 of Teach Yourself Catalan before I go to sleep. I'm looking for more songs in Catalan to listen to, so if anyone knows of any that would be great to find out. I also am looking at this great grammar guide I found online. http://www.orbilat.com/Languages/Catalan/Grammar/index.html Also, I'm just curious to know if anyone thinks the Eastern dialect is more beneficial to learn than the Western dialect. Hey, comrades in Team é, are you guys going to keep posting? Edited by Icaria909 on 11 January 2011 at 5:16am 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 11 of 15 11 January 2011 at 5:01am | IP Logged | |||||
Yes, I promise. =) I have been sick with bronchitis and my daughter just got over a bout with a really nasty (hand-foot-mouth) virus. Needless to say, studying has not been a priority over the last week. I'm mostly keeping up with Anki, and listening to Spanish music while I'm at work, but that's about it. Hopefully my house will be healthy again soon. No puedo soportar más enfermedades. I am going to have to check out this show you're talking about, though. It's on youtube? There are a lot of times I'd rather sit and "veg" and watch something in Spanish than actually actively study. I usually watch Stargate, though. I have some in Spanish, French, Portuguese, and German. hehe 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Icaria909 Senior Member United States Joined 5582 days ago 201 posts - 346 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 12 of 15 11 January 2011 at 5:15am | IP Logged | |||||
I was just checking. Last year one of our teammates just stopped posting entirely, so I was just curious to know if you guys were continuing (not that I've been much better. I haven't exactly been very regular with updates lol). I hope your daughter gets better. Yah, I haven't felt like doing any active studying with Spanish which is why I've been watching this show all the time. You can watch it on youtube, but the youtbue version only has the plotline for two characters and doesn't tell the story of all the characters. However, all the episodes are listed here on Antena3 if you want to watch the series. http://www.antena3.com/series/fisica-o-quimica/momentos/temp orada1%20/ 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Icaria909 Senior Member United States Joined 5582 days ago 201 posts - 346 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 13 of 15 14 January 2011 at 4:55am | IP Logged | |||||
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Lately, I've been experimenting with adding a lot more exposure to my L2 languages. So
far I'm switching off between a lot exposure to Spanish one day and a lot of exposure to Catalan another day. So for example, two days ago, I spent a few hours watching my favorite Spanish TV show but I was studying Catalan from my book along with Catalan grammar. Today, I spent a few hours watching my favorite Catalan show and then spent the rest of the time reviewing the difference between por and para. I'm going to keep trying this for the rest of January and February and then I'll judge to see how well this worked for me. On another note, my favorite Catalan show, EL Cor de la Ciutat, doesn't have many episodes online with subtitles. So, I am in the process of trying to figure out how to write a letter in Catalan to the editors of the show to ask if they sell Dvds with English subtitles (however, I haven't learned enough to write it yet lol). It's weird because the show has an almost cultish following online but so few of the fans actually speak Catalan (I'm just talking about the fans online). Hopefully I'll find more episodes with the English subtitles. On another completely unrelated note, I'm still off on vacation from school (school starts Tuesday...). I love having all this time to study and just hang out with my dog (friends all left for school a week ago), but I'm having a hard time sticking to just Spanish and Catalan these last few days. In the last three days alone, I've alternated between studying Dutch, Russian, Catalan, Spanish, Dutch, Romanian, Akkadian, Italian, Catalan, Hungarian, and then back to Catalan and Spanish. I kind of can't wait for school to start so I have less time on my hands and less chance for wanderlust to take over. Oh well, the first month of TAC is done I like how much studying I've been doing. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| canada38 Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5486 days ago 304 posts - 417 votes Speaks: English*, Italian, Spanish, French Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 14 of 15 13 March 2011 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey Icaria, how are your studies of Spanish and Catalan going?
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| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5461 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 15 of 15 23 March 2011 at 5:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Hey Icaria. I gues you've been busy lately. Why not stick to a couple of languages? I hope everything is fine and we'll see you back soon, even if it's out of the TAC!
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