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| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 5128 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes  Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 9 of 17 03 July 2015 at 6:23pm | IP Logged | ||
I also love these little insights :) The stories of individual words almost always reveal something fascinating about the language, and sometimes even history. Since I've started looking into Sanskrit roots of Thai, I've found all kinds of connections back to our language family, sometimes even recognizable cognates to languages I know. As you also say, it makes me love the language even more! And sometimes it's not the similarity but the difference which is interesting... Edited by Bakunin on 03 July 2015 at 9:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5781 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 10 of 17 17 July 2015 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | ||
Thank you for your kind words. The volunteering thing is a great idea, can you give me some examples as I wouldn't know where to start with that kind of thing. The Deutsche Well thing isn't a bad idea either, but I'm a bit sick of Spanish TBH. I actually studied German last time with a Spanish base but this time have actually shelled out money for the English Assimil book just to avoid that. Nevertheless thanks for reminding me about Deutsche Well again, I had forgotten about that excellent resource and have started using it again. Edited by Random review on 17 July 2015 at 3:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5781 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 11 of 17 17 July 2015 at 2:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well it's been two weeks since my last update, sorry.
I am now on lesson 72 of both Assimil courses and will start an active (translation) wave this week. I am now on the second set of sentences of level 2 of the Glossika package, which amounts to 1,100 sentences so far. I started doing to the Antosch and Lin (now known as "learn with Oliver") SRS programming and so far have accumulated over 720 sentences in just over 2 weeks. Finally I have watched a couple more episodes of The Simpsons, started Terry Pratchett's " The 5th Elephant" in German audiobook form and have started listening to Deutsche Welle's "Top Thema" podcast again (thanks to Iguanamon for reminding me about Deutsche Welle!). Regards Spanish maintenance, I couldn't bring myself to do any of the things I planned yet. Returning to German has made clear to me what a joyless slog Spanish was this last time around. I listened to a few songs in Spanish, I don't seem to mind doing that and it'll have to do until I get my mojo back. Edited by Random review on 17 July 2015 at 3:01pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5781 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 12 of 17 31 July 2015 at 5:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Another two weeks since my last updated, this time not my fault. The forum was offline last week.
Slower progress now. I've reached lesson 82 of both Assimils, I expect to start lessons 83 and 84 today. Nearing the end now. I still haven't started the second active wave (translation). Now on sentence set 9 (of 20) for Glossika German level 2. Together with level 1 that's 1450 sentences and almost halfway to the 3000 in the 3 levels. I'm still very happy with this product. The reason progress has been slower is because I've been spending more time on the Antosch and Lin site. At least for German, it's a really good product IMO and I heartily recommend it. I've got a little addicted and am now on 1351 sentences! I'm finally starting to feel a difference in my German 2 months in and am starting to feel this B1 goal for the summer might just be feasible! I found out the Megabus goes from London to Cologne and have booked a 3-day trip for the end of the month! Return trip and 2 nights in a hostel cost £90 and I've never been to Germany. Should hopefully be a nice reward and chance to practise. Finally I have listened to some more Spanish music every day. Unfortunately it's the only maintenance I can stand for the moment. I'd be really grateful for any song recommendations. That's it till next week. I'm fairly happy with progress. Edited by Random review on 31 July 2015 at 5:28pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4509 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech | Message 13 of 17 31 July 2015 at 8:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi Random review. I just spotted your log. It's interesting to see you're tackling German with very different resources to the ones I use.
I read about your experience in Spain. You know, it's the same for me here in the UK. It's quite hard to break the Spanish bubble even though I work in English. I owe London a normalisation of my vocabulary, some fluency and overall a huge improvement of my passive skills. However, I sometimes feel frustrated because I think my vocabulary has reduced and I am unable to utter proper sentences many a time. This hardly happened before I came here. How could this be possible? I hang out with Spanish speaking people quite a lot. Occasionally I hang out with British friends only. When this happens I feel my English becomes correct instantly! Anyway, I will follow your log. Hope to pick up some good tips from you! 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 14 of 17 31 July 2015 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can recommend a couple of artists you may like with different styles. The first is Mi guitarra y vos (voz) por Jorge Drexler. He's Uruguayan but lives in Spain now.
I love Rubén Blades- El Padre Antonio y su Monanguillo Andrés. Rubén Blades is a salsero from Panamá, with a degree from Harvard. It's a song of its time and beautifully written and sung. What a shame I can't post the videos here. They come with the lyrics. I think people underestimate just how useful music can be for learning, and even for rekindling interest in a language, hopefully. Edited by iguanamon on 31 July 2015 at 11:37pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5781 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 15 of 17 09 August 2015 at 2:19am | IP Logged | ||
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Again slow progress this week, but not because I'm working less hard! On
lesson 86 of both Assimils now. Only 4 new lessons for each edition (for a total of 8) this week. Now on set 11 of level 2 with Glossika, only two new sets this week. The reason for the above slowdown with Assimil and Glossika is as follows. Firstly, as with last week, I've been spending time on the Antosch and Lin website. Secondly the Glossika sentences have been really hard, I've had to repeat them several times a day in order to master them which has really eaten into my study time and stopped me taking on more than two new sets (up till now I've usually done 4 new sets a week) or more than 4 new lessons for each Assimil. Nevertheless I feel good about the fact that some progress has been made, especially given that I'm really tired from an unpleasant week at work. I'm now on about 1530 sentences on Antosch and Lin and have completed the full sets of Basic and Very Basic sentences. I'm now working on the intermediate "deck", which is noticeably harder. Their SRS software of course keeps checking I remember the sentences I have studied before from the easier "decks". This may not sound that impressive but in fact the decks at Antosch and Lin are, unlike most commercial products, accurately named and the" Basic" deck includes sentences such as "we have to reduce our energy consumption". Most companies would (incorrectly) advertise sentences like that as " advanced". The big news is that not only have I listened to Spanish music every day, I've been using the Lyrics Training site. I'm happy with that for maintenance TBH. That's it. Hopefully next week will be more inspiring ha ha. Edited by Random review on 09 August 2015 at 2:23am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Random review Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 5781 days ago 781 posts - 1310 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin, Yiddish, German | Message 16 of 17 09 August 2015 at 2:25am | IP Logged | ||
That's awesome, mate. I really liked them both a lot. Thank you so much! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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