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| vjeko Newbie United States Joined 4992 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Croatian, French | Message 1 of 4 17 March 2011 at 10:49pm | IP Logged |
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Hello everybody! If you read my introduction in the Member Profiles section of the forum, you will see that I
was brought here by my friend on this forum, who is known here as Ruskivyetr. I'm very glad he brought me to this forum, and he's currently making me start a log so he can keep track of my learning :). He's introduced me to Anki and quite a few books, so I'm going to use his advice to get far with all my languages. I'm very familiar with language learning already, seeing as I've self studied a few, although I'm excited to finally make goals and accomplish them. I'm still 15, so I have plenty of time before I die to learn all the languages I want :). My goals of 2011 will be outlined using mostly the CEFR language assessment scale, although the completion of certain language books will also be a measure of goal completion. Seeing as how I usually don't have time, I'm going to take the advantage of the few days I have before track and field practice starts to do a little more work than normal. After track and field starts I still have time, although it's less than normal. Before I begin officially, I'd like to write a bit about my languages and my goals that I intend to accomplish before 2011 is complete. Croatian: My father is from Croatia, and he therefore speaks it as his mother tongue. He did not speak it to me when I was younger, so I do not speak it, although I've always had an intense fascination with the language. I intend to learn to speak it as best as I can, and hopefully one day be able to speak it like a native speaker. Ruskivyetr helped me find Living Language's Spoken World: Croatian, so I intend to purchase that as soon as possible. Ruskivyetr showed me his Spoken World Polish book, and I got an overview of what the lessons look like, so I hope to complete Spoken World Croatian by the summer, before I leave for Croatia. I THINK that's enough time, but if not, I can always bring it along :). Once I finish Spoken World Croatian, I'd like to work through a grammar, seeing as Ruskivyetr explained to me that Spoken World is not absolutely complete grammar wise. After that, I'd like to just speak to my dad and my family. My goal for the end of the year is B1. German: I started self studying German in middle school, and I can safely say I am at a high B1 low B2 level by now. I started taking it as a class in high school, although those didn't help too much. Ruskivyetr has given me endless amounts of books that I intend to use to perfect my German. He suggested I buy Assimil German with Ease. I've been using Assimil with French, and I love it so far. I purchased German with Ease about a year ago, although I didn't think it was very good. However, now I see the value in it. I intend to do at the pace of a lesson a day. At that rate I should be done in the summer. Once I begin the active wave, I'd like to work through a book that Ruskivyetr gave me called German Grammar drills. I really like the look of it :). He also suggest I purchase a book called "Mastering German Vocabulary," which we actually found here at the library, so I'm just going to borrow and renew :). Once I begin the active wave of Assimil, I'd like to begin working through that vocabulary book, and hopefully make tons of progress. In German class, we read a lot, so I'll try and read books, news, prose, and all that good stuff to make my German improve. It's my best language, so I really want to get high up. I'd like to speak with Ruskivyetr more and more, and hopefully I can make it to a C1 level by the end of the year (apparently he wants to be C1 by the summer). I hope that it's possible! Russian: Ruskivyetr INSISTS I learn Russian :). In actuality, I've actually wanted to learn the language for a while now. It's closely related to Croatian, so I should have some fun seeing the similarities :). Ruskivyetr introduced me to the Princeton Russian Course, which I've downloaded. I printed out the first chapter and put it in my language learning binder, and I put all of the lessons on my iPod :). It looks like a fantastic course, and I'm so excited to begin to use it. Ruskivyetr actually wrote up for me a method of completion regarding both the use of the course and what I should do when I complete certain years, etc.: Go through the Princeton Russian course. Enter all vocabulary into Anki, review it, then L-R the dialogs. Do all the exercises. Once you have finished the 1st year of the Princeton Russian course, buy Schaum’s Russian Vocabulary and Schaum’s Russian Grammar. Begin the second year of the Princeton Russian course. Once you have finished working through Schaum’s Russian Grammar and the second year of Princeton Russian, begin the third year of Princeton Russian. Once you have finished all three years of Princeton Russian, get the advanced grammar book, and work through that, fintetuning all of your skills. You should start reading articles and books after you are done with the second year of Princeton Russian. Once you start this, you should also translate Russian books with which audio is available, translate them, and do L-R. So that's that I suppose. I'm going to follow it to the best of my ability. I suppose I'll start out with a lesson every two days for Princeton Russian (they don't seem that long), although I'll make a decision as to wether or not I'll make it longer or shorter. I don't know how long this will take, but I'm aiming for at least a high A2 level by the end of the year. French: I just recently started French and I LOVE it! I've always wanted to learn French, and strangely enough I've never thought of self study before (despite having self studied German). Ruskivyetr gave me his Assimil French to use until I can get my own copy. After I complete Assimil (I intend to do 1 lesson per day), I would like to get the Assimil Using French book. Ruskivyetr suggested after that I go through Schaum's French Grammar, and perhaps the accompanying grammar book, but I do not know yet if I will do that. I'm already up to lesson 8 in Assimil French. I'm super excited to start, although I'm a bit nervous about taking on all these languages :). I've only had 1 or 2 languages max, but I see how Ruskivyetr can speak Russian and Polish really well already with random people at our school, so I don't think it should be THAT difficult :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5472 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 2 of 4 18 March 2011 at 2:54am | IP Logged |
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HALLO VJEKO :)!
Wir sollen hier ganz auf Deutsch schreiben. Ich bin so glücklich, dass du meinen Rat befolgt hast, obwohl du keine Wahl hattest ;). Ich bin so aufgeregt deinen Log zu lesen. Ich hoffe, du schreibst hier jeden Tag, um über deine Ziele und Leistungen zu schreiben. Ich schreib in meinem Log jede Woche (aber leider nicht vor kurzem), und es hilft so viel damit. Viel glück beim Sprachenlernen! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vjeko Newbie United States Joined 4992 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Croatian, French | Message 3 of 4 18 March 2011 at 4:33am | IP Logged |
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Danke Ruskivyetr :),
Ich gehe spät ins Bett, weil ich so viel Hausaufgabe habe. Ich muss noch für Chemie studieren. Ich muss auch die Tagebucheinträge für Deutsch schreiben, und wir habe es in der ersten Stunde! Also ich kann es spät im Tag nicht machen :(. Bis morgen! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| vjeko Newbie United States Joined 4992 days ago 4 posts - 4 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Russian, Croatian, French | Message 4 of 4 19 March 2011 at 6:11pm | IP Logged |
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Unfortunately last night I didn't do my Assimil French or German seeing as how I was busy, however I'm going
to get to it today, pretty much in about five minutes. I spoke with Ruskivyetr in German on the phone last night, so I guess that counts somewhat as studying :). So today I'll be reviewing lesson 8 of Assimil French, and I'll be doing lesson 9. I'm going to also review lessons 1-3 of Assimil German. I still have yet to order the Croatian book, however I hope to do it soon. I have begun the Princeton Russian Course, and I'm so excited now :). The dialogs are really fun, and I have been learning much of the alphabet in such a short time. I'll try and post later on my progress! :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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