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| blindsheep Triglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6364 days ago 503 posts - 507 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 73 of 119 28 May 2008 at 8:05pm | IP Logged |
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I wanted to study German a little longer tonight, but couldn't handle anymore HP, so I read through the grammar explanations and learned the few vocabs words I didn't know clearly from FSI German units 1&2. Perhaps 50 min doing that.
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| blindsheep Triglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6364 days ago 503 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 74 of 119 29 May 2008 at 7:51am | IP Logged |
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CH13 44 min
CH14 48 min ----------- 1 hr 32 Edited by blindsheep on 29 May 2008 at 4:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| blindsheep Triglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6364 days ago 503 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 75 of 119 30 May 2008 at 6:44am | IP Logged |
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CH15 44 min
CH16 49 min ----------- 1 hr 33 min I should note I've been doing the last 5 chapters or so with a 20% speed increase... this serves two functions... first it acclimatises me to following more rapid conversations, and second it makes the third time through the same book a little more tolerable... it may being having a minor negative impact on vocabulary acquisition (since unlearnt words fly by faster, but I feel it's worth it. I've been using the PaceMaker plugin for winamp... it works quite well and allows you to adjust the tempo without altering the pitch... this was an idea from Volte originally, although I couldn't get the program she mentioned to work. Edited by blindsheep on 30 May 2008 at 7:49am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| blindsheep Triglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6364 days ago 503 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 76 of 119 03 June 2008 at 12:03pm | IP Logged |
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CH17 51 min
CH18 49 min CH19 48 min ------------ 2 hrs 48 min I've decided to start keeping count of flashcard additions (using supermemo and similar programs) now since specifically with French I've been adding flashcards rather intensively since I finished Assimil May 20th.. As of June 3rd I have 114 + 200 + 7 + 18 = 339 German flashcards in four sets. Edited by blindsheep on 03 June 2008 at 3:52pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| blindsheep Triglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6364 days ago 503 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 77 of 119 04 June 2008 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
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| blindsheep Triglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6364 days ago 503 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 78 of 119 08 June 2008 at 11:30am | IP Logged |
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CH22, 23, 24: 2 hrs 24 min
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| blindsheep Triglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6364 days ago 503 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 79 of 119 09 June 2008 at 10:05pm | IP Logged |
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| blindsheep Triglot Senior Member Spain Joined 6364 days ago 503 posts - 507 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 80 of 119 10 June 2008 at 7:42pm | IP Logged |
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CH28 29 min
CH29 43 min CH30 41 min ----------- 1 hr 53 min Well after 80 days of LRing I finally finished HP6 3rd pass, I had expected this to take less time, but unavoidable circumstances cropped up. Still over all I managed 77 hrs 26 + 22 hrs 21 min on this recent pass for 99 hrs 47 min total. New material listed to stays of course the same since the last pass *(the variation lies in the part of Metamorphosis I did at the beginning of this experiment) 31 hrs 54 min (32 hrs 30 min)* I'm now going to conduct some tests on my listening + reading comprehension... I did over half of book 1 with a parallel text, but for book 6 I only used English text. In the 3rd pass of HP6 I sometimes increased the speed 20% through the slower parts, perhaps for 4-5 chapters total. When I go to a random page in the book (german copy of HP6, which I had previously not looked at), I know exactly whats happening and following it isn't a problem... from another stand point I took a random page of hp6 and have noted the words I didn't know or didn't become apparent from context (out of 338 words on the page-not unique words though): Händchen* Kerzengerade Gerausche Vorhangen schützend* Truhe Schoss* Wäschekorb anschielen Duft Geruch beträchtlich gewidmet *were immediately apparent once I looked them up... just not quite familiar enough to have been fully committed to my memory yet* 13/338 96% recognition of words based on context and having listen read the book three times... I tried the same with page of a Brothers Grimm story... recognition dropped to 90% (again of words total, not unique ones)... this was enough to follow generally whats happening but not enough to really enjoy reading it as too many details are missing. In any case, I'm relatively pleased with these results... I'd also like to make a comparisson with HP7 which I haven't listen-read, but I don't have a German copy at the moment. I intend to drop my LRing in German to about 40 minutes a day (5 days a week), and not to read any story beyond the point where it stops holding my interest (thus probably the same story 3x is not likely) I would like to start listen-reading in French, but I'm going to hit 1000 new flashcard words added since I finished Assimil first. More comments likely to follow when I'm more awake. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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