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| grwn Groupie Netherlands Joined 5852 days ago 79 posts - 80 votes  Speaks: Dutch* | Message 1 of 16 15 March 2010 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
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Hello again!
It's been a while since I've studied any languages, but I've recently had the sudden urge to start again and it's managed to stick this time. Right now I'll be doing German, French and Japanese, but "insert X wanderlust language here" will also be posted here. German. Current level: Probably A1/A2 - I have a fair bit of passive knowledge, because of earlier school classes and similarities to Dutch and English, but I would rank my active knowledge to a near absolute beginner. I can sometimes get the gist of Wikipedia pages, but sometimes I see sentences and don’t have a clue what it means. Goal: C1/C2 Materials: - Michel Thomas German - Pimsleur German 1, 2, 3 - Linguaphone German - Teach Yourself German (1956) - Langenscheidt Standard Dictionary German French. Current level: A1 - As with German I’ve had two years of French at school, but contrary to German, I’ve forgotten most of it, except for some things I’ve really had to drill. I can order in the restaurant, but that’s about it. Goal: C1/C2 Materials: - Michel Thomas French - Pimsleur French 1, 2, 3 - Assimil New French with Ease - French in Action - Teach Yourself French (1960) - Langenscheidt Standard Dictionary French - Several Tintin comics Japanese. Current level: A1 – I know the Hiragana, and a couple Katakana. I also know how to say thank you and please. That’s about it. I bought plenty of materials, but haven’t used any of it yet. *chuckles* Goal: C1/C2 Materials: - Michel Thomas Japanese - Pimsleur Japanese 1, 2, 3 - Tae Kim's Guide to Japanese - Smart.fm - Japanese for Everyone - Assimil Japanese with Ease Vol. 1 & 2 - Kodansha Kanji Learner's Dictionary - Kodansha's Furigana Dictionary - A Guide to Remembering Japanese Characters - Remembering the Kanji I - Breaking into Japanese Literature - A Dictionary of Basic Japanese Grammar Wanderlust! And then there are the other languages I’m interested in. I’ll probably be dabbling in some other languages, while focussing on the three major ones. Let’s hope I don’t get in over my head. *grins* Wish me luck, again! Gerwin 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| grwn Groupie Netherlands Joined 5852 days ago 79 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Dutch* | Message 2 of 16 15 March 2010 at 9:12pm | IP Logged |
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15th of March, 2010
日本語 Remembering the Kanji [20/2042] And that's it for today, I should be able to get in a lot more tomorrow. I'll also add a "progress bar" of sorts to the main post later on. Gerwin 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5384 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 3 of 16 15 March 2010 at 9:32pm | IP Logged |
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What is your timeline? I'm especially curious about your expected timeline for C2 in Japanese. I made B1(reading)/B2(oral) in 18 months so far, whereas B2/C1 in German had taken me roughly 8 months. Edited by Arekkusu on 15 March 2010 at 9:33pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| grwn Groupie Netherlands Joined 5852 days ago 79 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Dutch* | Message 4 of 16 15 March 2010 at 10:58pm | IP Logged |
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C2 is merely a goal, and a long term one at that. I don't intend to reach C2 in any language, anytime soon, especially Japanese. So far I have yet to gain C2 in English and I've been studying/working on that for quite a few years. German will obviously be quicker than French, but I'm quite certain that French will also be exponantially quicker than Japanese.
I have a long list of languages I intend to study, but these three are the languages I intend to become completely fluent in. Gerwin 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| grwn Groupie Netherlands Joined 5852 days ago 79 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Dutch* | Message 5 of 16 16 March 2010 at 9:20pm | IP Logged |
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16th of March, 2010
日本語 Remembering the Kanji [30/2042] Deutsch Teach Yourself German - Lesson 1, Excercise 1 & 2. I'm still waiting for Teach Yourself French to arrive, so I haven't been able to do any French yet. I did however receive my final Teach Yourself in the Scandinavian languages. I now have TY Danish, Swedish, Norwegian and Icelandic, all from the 70's, so all of them are from the grammar/translation method, which really suits me more than the phrasebook style TY's from today. Gerwin 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| grwn Groupie Netherlands Joined 5852 days ago 79 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Dutch* | Message 6 of 16 17 March 2010 at 11:03pm | IP Logged |
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17th of March, 2010
日本語 Remembering the Kanji [40/2042] Deutsch Teach Yourself German - Lesson 1, Excercise 3 & 4. I also printed out some reading material, which I'll be working through tomorrow. Gerwin Edited by grwn on 17 March 2010 at 11:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Spanky Senior Member Canada Joined 5959 days ago 1021 posts - 1714 votes Studies: French | Message 7 of 16 18 March 2010 at 4:21am | IP Logged |
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Best wishes Grwn with the study plan. We are studying similar languages, with apparently a roughly similar approach in terms of materials, so I will be following your log with interest. Looks so far like you are ploughing through Heisig at the rate of 10 kanji per day - that is what I am hoping for as well.
Regards, Spanky 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| grwn Groupie Netherlands Joined 5852 days ago 79 posts - 80 votes Speaks: Dutch* | Message 8 of 16 18 March 2010 at 9:08pm | IP Logged |
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18th of March, 2010
日本語 Remembering the Kanji [50/2042] So far I seem to be handling ten kanji a day quite fine, so I'm thinking of upping it to twenty a day. That way, I'll be done in about three months, give or take. Deutsch Teach Yourself German - Lesson 1, Excercise 5. I read through the first five paragraphs of one of the Märchen by die Brüder Grimm: Allerleirauh. I actually surprised myself with how much I understood. There are still quite a lot of words I have to drop into Anki, but so far I got most of what I read. I still have to work hard on the grammar of German though, 'cause even though I can understand it, I still can't form correct sentences. I also ordered some new books, Remembering the Kanji III, Icelandic: Grammar, Texts, Glossary, and the two Langenscheidt dictionaries listed in the first post. Gerwin Edited by grwn on 18 March 2010 at 9:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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