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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 1 of 54 31 December 2009 at 7:18am | IP Logged | ||
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December 31, 2009
Levi's TAC 2010 Log Languages: Mandarin Chinese, Japanese, German, French, Spanish Special powers: Grapheme-color synesthesia, good memory, an intense enthusiasm for languages, a bachelors degree in linguistics Weaknesses: Procrastination, distraction, wanderlust, mostly monolingual social environment Team M(andarin) Teammates: milootis10 and dashed All right! It's the last day of 2009, and I'm preparing to go on an epic linguistic journey of learning and understanding. I will be tackling five languages this year, five languages I intend to reach advanced fluency in some day. That will not happen this year, but I will make as much progress as possible in pursuit of that goal. The most important step will be getting in the habit of scheduled daily study. By that, I don't mean studying at specific times, as my work schedule is too chaotic for that to work; I will simply have certain languages assigned to certain days. I acknowledge that there will be some days which are more productive than others, and some which are less productive, but I intend to study each of my allotted languages at least a little bit if it is on my schedule for that day. This will begin tomorrow; I will study Chinese and Japanese every day, plus a third language which will alternate between German, French and Spanish, for a total of three languages per day. Language levels as of present: French - advanced, but needs work Spanish - intermediate German - intermediate Mandarin - upper beginner Japanese - complete newbie My current goals are to work through James Heisig's Remembering the Kanji and Remembering Simplified Hanzi I, with the aid of the totally awesome character practice website Skritter. I have been making swift progress (I just completed Part II of both volumes today) and expect to finish them before March. Further specific goals will be made down the road as I deem necessary. I don't believe in planning details too far in advance. I have a wealth of materials to work with, and for now I'll just work with whatever I feel like working with. As far as long-term general goals go, I want to master the basics of Japanese and Chinese, and work on my grammar and vocabulary in German/French/Spanish. This will be complemented, of course, with lots of reading and listening! I'm really excited and just filled with absolute confidence that I can achieve success in all my languages with enough time and effort wisely spent. Good luck to everybody participating in TAC 2010, and everybody learning languages anywhere for whatever reason! Good luck especially to my teammates milootis10 and dashed! P.S. Happy New Year! 新年快乐！ よいお年を！ Frohes Neues Jahr! Bonne Année! ¡Feliz Año Nuevo! Feliĉan Novjaron! P.P.S. Feel free to comment on anything at any time! Even if you don't have anything to say except that you're reading my log, it would be nice to know if people are actually paying attention to this thing. :) Edited by Levi on 03 January 2010 at 7:25am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 2 of 54 02 January 2010 at 1:05am | IP Logged | ||
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January 1
Mandarin: did Lesson 20 of Remembering Simplified Hanzi (42 characters), practiced on Skritter Japanese: finished Lesson 21 of Remembering the Kanji (63 characters), practiced on Skritter German: listened to Deutsche Welle radio for a while Could have been more productive with German, but I'm happy with my progress in the characters. I expect my European languages to get a little less attention while I cram the characters, but when I'm done with both Heisig books I hope to make up for it by drilling lots of German, French and Spanish vocab via SRS. Edited by Levi on 03 January 2010 at 6:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dashed Newbie Canada Joined 5453 days ago 6 posts - 7 votes Studies: Mandarin | Message 3 of 54 02 January 2010 at 2:40am | IP Logged | ||
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I'm impressed with your goals of learning five languages. Good luck. =]
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| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 4 of 54 03 January 2010 at 3:43am | IP Logged | ||
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January 2
Mandarin: did Lesson 21 of Remembering Simplified Hanzi (37 characters), practiced on Skritter listened to an episode of ChinesePod (Qing Wen - Rhetorical Question Marker 难道) Japanese: did Lesson 22 of Remembering the Kanji (59 characters), practiced on Skritter French: listened to France Inter for a while listened to an episode of FrenchPod (Emotions : la culpabilité comme moteur) read some of Il était une fois nos ancêtres (a translation of The Ancestor's Tale by evolutionary biologist Richard Dawkins) Not bad for an 8-hour work day!
Thanks, I'll need it! Edited by Levi on 06 January 2010 at 8:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 5 of 54 04 January 2010 at 6:40am | IP Logged | ||
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January 3
Mandarin: did part of Lesson 22 of Remembering Simplified Hanzi (69 characters), practiced on Skritter listened to an episode of ChinesePod (Getting Taller Not Fatter) Japanese: did part of Lesson 23 of Remembering the Kanji (80 characters), practiced on Skritter This is a really long lesson...I'll finish it tomorrow. Spanish: read Chapter 1 of Soy Ateo by Gustavo Adolfo Lanza Ordóñez listened to two episodes of SpanishPod ("Labios compartidos" - Mana and El español y el árabe) I haven't really practiced my Spanish much since taking it in high school, but the language is still pretty transparent. Although I find myself looking up a few key words per page, I'm maintaining a decent reading speed. Edited by Levi on 04 January 2010 at 6:47am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 6 of 54 05 January 2010 at 1:48am | IP Logged | ||
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January 4
Mandarin: finished Lesson 22 of Remembering Simplified Hanzi (35 characters), practiced on Skritter Japanese: finished Lesson 23 of Remembering the Kanji (50 characters), practiced on Skritter Phew...the longest lesson in both books is over. My hand hurts. German: listened to Deutsche Welle radio for a while watched a 45-minute documentary on Google Video 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Levi Pentaglot Senior Member United States Joined 5570 days ago 2268 posts - 3328 votes Speaks: English*, French, Esperanto, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Mandarin, Japanese, Italian | Message 7 of 54 06 January 2010 at 7:44am | IP Logged | ||
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January 5
Mandarin: did Lesson 23 of Remembering Simplified Hanzi (15 characters), practiced on Skritter listened to an episode of ChinesePod (Medicine Doses) Japanese: did Lesson 24 of Remembering the Kanji (29 characters), practiced on Skritter and on Reviewing the Kanji. I have been using this Reviewing the Kanji site before, but for some reason I wasn't mentioning it in my logs. And in case you're wondering, the reason the numbers of the lessons I'm studying is different is because Heisig's Japanese book has an extra chapter that the Chinese book doesn't have, so Lesson 23 in RSH corresponds to Lesson 24 in RSK. French: read "Le pèlerinage commence" in Il était une fois nos ancêtres Edited by Levi on 06 January 2010 at 7:46am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5850 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 8 of 54 06 January 2010 at 9:59am | IP Logged | ||
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Good luck for your TAC 2010! I will keep an eye on your log, this seems to be interesting here. It may happen that I dont react in English but in one of your target languages.
Fasulye Edited by Fasulye on 06 January 2010 at 9:59am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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