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| jables Newbie United States Joined 5374 days ago 30 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 17 of 32 29 March 2010 at 5:31pm | IP Logged |
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Long weekend with lots to try to drag me away from study. Saturday I didn't get as much
as I wanted in, but Sunday was a great day. I'm still out on my main computer, and still in queue for the Pimsleur from the library, so I've been enjoying Germanpod101 over the last few days. I started from the beginning of the Newbie series, and even though I'm not learning a ton of new things, I'm still learning new vocabulary, and cultural aspects. Overall I'm really enjoying the series. I'll probably continue on it along with MT and Pimsleur just for enjoyment sake if nothing else. Saturday: 30 minutes of Anki 40 minutes of Germanpod101 Sunday: 20 minutes of focused vocabulary study. I'm trying out the 7 word list idea on some of the words I'm having a hard time committing to memory. 40 minutes of Anki 60 minutes of watching a movie (Das Leben der Anderen) Had to stop half way in for a previously planned party :( 135 minutes of Germanpod101 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jables Newbie United States Joined 5374 days ago 30 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 18 of 32 31 March 2010 at 5:29pm | IP Logged |
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Still moving forward! I've probably been studying a bit too much in terms of balancing
my time with other activities. I make video games for a living, so it doesn't leave me a ton of free time outside of work, and with my wife on her spring break I'll be spending more of that free time with her :) Once she's back in school, I should be back up to 2.5+ hours a day though. The walk to work helps a lot as it allows for 70 minutes of audio time per day. I've also started getting up earlier as that gives me 30-60 minutes of study time. I'm really loving the language still, and having a blast learning it. Thinking of getting a couple of die Drei ??? books for my steps into reading. I figure they'll be way over my head to begin with, but I'm assuming that I'll start seeing the same words a lot and should get better at it as I go. I need to order the Assimil book from Amazon.de anyways (US amazon is sold out), so I can just add them to the order and eat the international shipping cost just once. Monday: 30 minutes of Anki 60 minutes finishing the movie (Das Leben der Anderen) 30 minutes of Germanpod101 Tuesday: 70 minutes of MT 20 minutes of Anki 30 minutes of Germanpod101 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jables Newbie United States Joined 5374 days ago 30 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 19 of 32 02 April 2010 at 5:43pm | IP Logged |
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Another busy day and into the night making video games. Luckily I woke up early
yesterday and got some extra studying done to keep up! Today should be a good day for study as well, unless the plans for this evening change. Yesterday was a good bit of MT. I finished CD 4 and listened through CD 5. There near the end of 5 he just kept adding in new words. My instinct tells me to listen to it again at the least, and I really want to make vocabulary cards for Anki out of all the new words, but I'll follow his instructions and not do any of the above. I'm assuming they will be repeated enough to stick in the long run. So following this, I'll be moving on to CD 6 today :) I'm also trying to simply listen to more German, even though I don't understand 98% of it. I figure it can't hurt to get used to hearing the language. I won't be listing this under my times, but I'm spending a lot of time with NDR streaming tv in the background on my computer as well. Maybe it'll help! Mittwoch: 55 minutes of MT. 20 minutes on Anki. 30 minutes non-Anki vocabulary review. Donnerstag: 120 minutes of MT. 10 minutes of Anki. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jables Newbie United States Joined 5374 days ago 30 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 20 of 32 06 April 2010 at 12:51am | IP Logged |
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Easter weekend fun with my wife. Less time on German than I had hoped, though I did
watch Abenteuer mit der Tarnkappe which was awesome and odd, even if I only understood a word here and there. I also restart my classes tonight, which I'm really looking forward to. It'll be interesting to see what I've forgotten, and what I've learned new. I've continued to study since the class, though I've studied using MT and Pimsleur, so very different than what the teacher covers. Should be a lot of fun :D Freitag: 15 minutes MT 50 minutes Anki 66 minutes Abenteurer mid der Tarnkappe Samstag: 60 minutes Anki Sonntag: 75 minutes Anki 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jables Newbie United States Joined 5374 days ago 30 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 21 of 32 06 April 2010 at 5:56pm | IP Logged |
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Well day one of class complete! There are 6 people total in the class, 3 at around my
current level, 1 much higher than me, and 1 was absent. I remembered most things after the initial bit of dust was knocked off my memory. I had a bit of trouble coming up with answers to questions that the others were having no problems with. Then again, they finished their last quarter of German last Wednesday, whereas mine was 9 months ago. Hoping to catch up quickly and then use the syllabus to stay at least 1 lesson ahead in terms of studying. I also finally found the book for Assimil German with Ease in the US. I've ordered that, and hopefully it matches up with the audio cd's I got from the library. I've also ordered 2 books from Die Drei Fragezeichen series. I used to love these in English as a kid, and just found out that they were way more popular in Germany. So, taking Pyx's advice here and going to jump into some reading :) Montag: 90 minutes of German 102 class 45 minutes of MT 70 minutes of Anki review (mainly everything covered in class) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jables Newbie United States Joined 5374 days ago 30 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 22 of 32 07 April 2010 at 5:13pm | IP Logged |
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Not much of interest yesterday. I was able to translate a bit of text that a friend
wrote, which I could not have done a month ago. Progress is visible already! I've also started poking a bit at the dativ case, and MT has started some past tense on his "handle words". Still having a blast, and will be going to day two of the class today. Dienstag: 20 minutes of Class homework/study. 125 minutes of MT (I love that 70 minute roundtrip walk to work ;) ) 55 minutes of Anki (mainly class review) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jables Newbie United States Joined 5374 days ago 30 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 23 of 32 08 April 2010 at 5:30pm | IP Logged |
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Yesterday was a great day for my German study. I had a hour and a half set aside as a 2
person lesson with my teacher to try to catch up with the class, but the other guy didn't show up, so it ended up being 1 on 1. We also realized that I was already more or less caught up with the class, so it had 1.5 hours of open time to ask any questions I had and review anything I had come up with. Was really great! I got to go over prefix verbs and even review some dativ stuff before she officially teaches it to us. She also gave me some pages in the textbook to read over that she said she wouldn't be hitting this quarter, but that would help me with my readings of die drei fragezeichen once they come in. She was also interested in the books and asked to see them once I got them in. Great use of time and I really feel like I got a ton accomplished. I wish I had 1.5 hours of 1 on 1 face time with a native speaker every week :p After that I had my normal class, which went much more smoothly than Monday. I have a feeling that it will feel a bit slow, but it's also a guaranteed 3 hours a week of verbal practice, with a German native that will correct all mistakes. I'm happy with that. Mittwoch: 180 minutes of class time (90 1 on 1, 90 full class) 60 minutes of MT 20 minutes of Anki 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jables Newbie United States Joined 5374 days ago 30 posts - 30 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German | Message 24 of 32 09 April 2010 at 5:39pm | IP Logged |
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Finished MT Foundations course yesterday! I started the Foundation Review course for my
walk home, and was pleasantly surprised with how well everything stuck in my head. I really like the course quite a bit. My only problem so far was with the last lesson or two on Foundation, where it felt like he ran out of time and crammed in a ton of things all at once. I'll see how he handles that on the review session. Maybe those words all get hit in the Advanced bit. The rest of yesterday was a bit lacklust as I had to spend the rest of the evening doing taxes. Still! very excited about finishing Foundation, and looking forward to seeing what's in Advanced. Still no sign of Assimil book, or my Die Drei Fragezeichen books. They should start showing up over the next few weeks. Donnerstag: 70 minutes MT (Foundation course finished, Foundation Review course started) 30 minutes Anki (reviews only, no new words) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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