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| druckfehler Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4866 days ago 1181 posts - 1912 votes  Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Korean Studies: Persian | Message 761 of 844 16 March 2014 at 4:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hmm... The editor giving the seminar only edited non-fiction. I would guess editors don't change 90% of the text sent by their fiction authors, but I could be wrong. I do get the impression that if a fiction author has horrible style, it just gets published without that much revision :D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| mrwarper Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Spain forum_posts.asp?TID=Registered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5224 days ago 1493 posts - 2500 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishC2 Studies: German, Russian, Japanese | Message 762 of 844 16 March 2014 at 5:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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So that's why it's so difficult to find fiction that looks decent -- good one!
It's like that joke about the selection process... to get in, you just fail the test :D 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 763 of 844 21 March 2014 at 3:23am | IP Logged | |||||
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I finally have an appointment to set up a plan of undergraduate accounting courses to
take. Once I know how long that will actually take for me to finish them all, then I'll set up a starting date to study for the GMAT. From what I have gathered, I only need 6 glasses before moving onto graduate school. If possible, I want to finish by the fall (taking summer and fall classes), have an internship or two and start grad school in the fall of 2015. But nothing ever works out as one desires, so we'll see. Now as I go back to 100% input for the next couple of years and mainly relying on Anki, I'm having a good idea on how I want to do my decks. For Japanese and Korean, I will be doing grammar decks and a general MCD/vocab deck focusing on drama scripts. I'll probably throw some new articles in there, but that'll be down the road once I don't have to cloze delete every word. I plan on doing an RTK deck for kanji. I'm thinking of making this a production deck as well. For Mandarin, I'm sticking to grammar decks for the time being and will keep everything in pinyin for now (as it is still a grammar/production deck instead of one focusing on how to read). I plan on putting every sentence in my Chinese: A Complete Grammar into Anki. I may also buy Modern Mandarin Chinese Grammar by Claudia Ross and put all of the sentences in there. I'm also making decks for German and French. For German, I'll be putting every sentence with a corresponding English translation from FSI German into a deck, using the deck to learn both vocab and grammar. Same thing with French, but using Assimil. It'll probably take me over a year to finish those books, but I just want to slowly build passive fluency in those two languages before I actively study when my Korean, Japanese and Mandarin are at better levels. This time with Anki, I'm making the cards simpler, taking away a lot of grunt work that I used to put into old cards. Now in the notes section, I just put the book and page number instead of typing out the long explanations from the grammar books. With more decks, the cards will be spread out, so I'll also avoid having way too many cards to review. I'm doing this for consistency as to cut down on my manic study patterns. I would be much better in Korean and Japanese if I studied consistently instead of manically where I would try to overdo it and quickly burn out. I plan on using language study as a nice reprieve from accounting haha. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5533 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 764 of 844 21 March 2014 at 12:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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요즘 내 한국어 카드에는 거의 문법만 있어. 그래서 매일 복습할 때 전보다 훨씬 더 빨라. 근데
MCD는 가사 카드밖에 아직도 해본 적이 없어. Edited by Warp3 on 21 March 2014 at 12:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 765 of 844 23 April 2014 at 8:00pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Glad to see HTLAL back up and running.
Some notes: I have been keeping up with Anki. I have added quite a few grammar cards to my CJK decks and started doing vocab decks for the three languages again. I don't do enough extensive reading anymore, so I have to do intensive vocab study with Anki to retain new words I learn. I finally found a decent method of doing vocab with Anki now. I always listen to some music in one of my target languages while making the cards and reviewing them, so there's now a positive association with reviewing cards in Anki. Simple psychology works in instances like this. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 766 of 844 23 April 2014 at 8:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Glad to see HTLAL back up and running.
Some notes: I have been keeping up with Anki. I have added quite a few grammar cards to my CJK decks and started doing vocab decks for the three languages again. I don't do enough extensive reading anymore, so I have to do intensive vocab study with Anki to retain new words I learn. I finally found a decent method of doing vocab with Anki now. I always listen to some music in one of my target languages while making the cards and reviewing them, so there's now a positive association with reviewing cards in Anki. Simple psychology works in instances like this. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 767 of 844 30 April 2014 at 8:01pm | IP Logged | |||||
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With April coming to a close, I didn't have any goals except to be consistent with
trying to get in some time with my languages every day. At the very least, my goal was to add five new words to Anki every day. Also in April, I started writing for Soompi, so I have had to translate and then rewrite Korean articles into English. It's easier to rewrite than to directly translate, but this made me realize how unsatisfied I was with my English writing haha. Anyway, I start studying for the GMAT in earnest in May, so I will be focusing a lot on English grammar and writing, but I wanted to make some goals for Chinese, Japanese and Korean. I want to have 1,000 vocab cards in each deck. Right now, I have 65 in my Chinese and Japanese decks and 127 in my Korean deck. My goal will be roughly 30 words/day per language which is normally doable for me, but my new schedule will make it challenging. I also want to resume writing on my blog and want to have three posts in each language in May. That means I'll have to really brush on my Chinese and Japanese grammar. My views on setting goals have changed, which is why they seem intense. I believe that language, like any activity of the long-term, should be a continual process where you continue to improve. It's basically the kaizen principle. Goals should be short-term and intense to really push oneself. I don't like setting long-term goals because once you attain a long-term goal, you really stop working for something. I think weight loss goals are a good example of people giving up after attaining their goal. They end up losing 50 pounds in a year, but after reaching that goal, revert back to their bad habits instead of trying to improve their health continuously. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| The Real CZ Senior Member United States Joined 5647 days ago 1069 posts - 1495 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, Korean | Message 768 of 844 04 May 2014 at 7:56pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I started experimenting with the vocab challenge I set upon myself. I skipped May 1
because of work, but on May 2, I added 100 Japanese words and the reviews on May 3 were easy. I don't think I missed more than one or two cards. On May 3, I added 100 Mandarin cards. This morning, I missed about 20 while reviewing. While I actually don't care about missing cards, missing 20% just makes reviewing that much longer. I don't have a large enough vocabulary base in Mandarin to add 100 words a day like I can in Japanese and Korean. I'll probably revert to adding 20-30 words a day in Mandarin when possible and try to add 70 or so every other day in Japanese and Korean. I'm not sure if I'll be able to achieve these goals, but that's the fun of it. If I had set the bar at 500, I could easily do it and it wouldn't be any fun. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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