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| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 17 of 55 23 December 2009 at 6:30am | IP Logged |
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Wasn't feeling well the last few days. Did a bit here and there, but spent most of my time laying in bed. Made use of it though by watching some anime and movies (a few Japanese and a few German).
Over the last few days I've done Kanji SRS Japanese in Mangaland chapters 21 and 22 Japanese Sentence Patterns 7, 8, 9 and 10 I hope to get back on schedule tomorrow. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 18 of 55 24 December 2009 at 8:04am | IP Logged |
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trong>Wednesday, December 23, 2009
Kanji SRS and Review of 728-778 - ~45 minutes Japanese in Mangaland - Chapter 23 - 30 minutes Japanesepod101.com - Quick review of the Newbie Season 1 Episodes 1-10 - 30 minutes Teach Yourself German Conversation - Finally got around to giving this a try. Like I said before, this is for beginners. This seems like it would be a decent, cheap (less effective) alternative to Pimsluer or a nice supplement for the Teach Yourself beginner's course. Did the first conversation. Not really sure I'm going to get much out of this, though. 20 minutes Total Time: 125 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 19 of 55 25 December 2009 at 12:20am | IP Logged |
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Testing out my patchwork German (corrections welcome)
Guten Tag! Mein Name ist Sabotai. Ich bin 32 (zweiunddriezig) Jahre alt, und ich mag Fremdsprachen zu lernen. Ich lerne gegenwärtig Deutsch und Japanisch. Deutsch für ein paar Jahre und Japanisch für ein Monat. Ich fange auch Franzörsisch bald an. Ich liebe deutsche Filme. Ich mag "Das Leben Der Anderen" am meisten. Kürzlich sah ich "Die Welle". Es war sehr gut. Ich mag auch Japanisch Filme und Anime. Ich spiele das Klavier gelegentlich, aber ich bin nicht gut. Ich lese sehr oft. Zur Zeit lese ich "Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen". Ich lese auch viele Sachbücher. And a short Japanese introduction. 初めまして。私はサボタイです。宜しくお願 いします。 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sei Diglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5945 days ago 178 posts - 191 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Japanese | Message 20 of 55 25 December 2009 at 3:46am | IP Logged |
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It seems the patch is working? With my limited knowledge I didn't notice any mistakes.^_^
I was also happy to see I could understand the general meaning of most of what you said! =P Of the German that is. The Japanese was quite easy of course. ^^ Thanks for the lift in motivation from that! Good luck with your studies! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 21 of 55 25 December 2009 at 5:56am | IP Logged |
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Thanks, and thanks for reading sei!
trong>December 24, 2009 Japanesepod101.com - reviewed Newbie season 1 epidoes 11-20. - 30 minutes Kanji review and SRS - 45 minutes Japanese in Mangaland - chapter 24 - 30 minutes Total time: 105 minutes Been thinking about my immediate future with Japanese. I'll continue to review the podcasts, but only the newbie lessons. I'll do a bunch of review this weekend and get back to doing the podcasts on Monday, but just the Newbie lessons. Doing 3 a day and spending a bit more time on each one. When I'm done with Season 3 (should take a little over a week), I'm going to get back to doing the Beginner series. When I'm done with Beginner season 1 (170 episodes, 150 to go, 3 a day = 50 days), I'm going to put aside the podcasts and begin on Assimil Japanese. When I am done with Assimil Japanese (1 and 2 - will probably take about 4 months), I'll go back to the podcasts and begin on the Intermediate ones. Also, when I get to the end of February, wherever I am with Remembering the Kanji is where I'm going to stop with it. At the rate I'm going, I should get to around 1200, maybe even closer to 1500. I'm even thinking of just giving it one more month, which will probably put me at 1000-1100. With the kanji that I learn here and there with the podcasts, Japanese in Mangaland, Japanese Sentence Patterns and eventually in Assimil, I think 1200-1500, or even just 1000, is pretty good. My other resources can fill in the rest as I get to them (as they are already doing now with pronunciation of the ones I "know"). For instance, I haven't gotten to 私 yet in RtK, but I know that kanji thanks to all of my other sources, as well as 何 and others. Kanji takes about 30-60 minutes a day. By the time I get to March or even February, I'm going to want that block of time to do other things in Japanese. I don't really "like" doing the kanji (don't hate it either), but I know the more I do the easier learning to write and read will be. But there comes a time (geez I ramble a lot in text) when enough is enough and it's time to jump into the deep end. Perhaps I'll switch it up and learn kanji in a different way, and just do a couple a day taking about 15 minutes or so, just to keep me ahead of the game.... That's the plan anyway. One more week until I begin French! Frohe Weihnachten! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 22 of 55 27 December 2009 at 7:20am | IP Logged |
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trong>Saturday, December 26, 2009
The day after Christmas, I took it easy. Watched a few movies and ate way...way too much leftovers. Got a some work done, though. Kanji SRS - 30 minutes Japanesepod101.com - Reviewed Newbie Season 2, Episodes 1-7 - 60 minutes. Japanese in Mangaland - Chapter 25 - 30 minutes Total Time: 120 minutes A few days after saying I was going to give Remembering the Kanji one or two more months, I realize I want to give it a rest for now. I'm suffering from a bit of Heisig fatigue. I've been doing this for several months (stopped once, started over another time). So I'm going to stop for the rest of this month and see what I feel like doing at the beginning of January. In the meantime, I'm going to replace that time with doing the first several Assimil lessons over the next week in place of the Kanji study. After the week is up, I may continue doing the Assimil along with the podcasts. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 23 of 55 28 December 2009 at 7:13am | IP Logged |
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Sunday, December 27, 2009
Japanesepod101.com - Reviewed the rest of season 1, episodes 8-25 - 120 minutes Assimil Japanese - Lesson 1 - 30 minutes Japanese Sentence Patterns - Pattern 13 - 15 minutes Teach Yourself Improve Your German - chapter 1 (listened to the first dialogue a few times without the book.) - 15 minutes Also read a few pages of Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen. 4 pages and 15 words I had no clue on that I wrote down to look up later. There were plenty of words that I was fuzzy on, but I (think that I) was able to understand most of it. - 15 minutes Total Time: 195 minutes How I use Assimil is probably how a lot of people use it. I first listen to the recording for the lesson a few times, then a few times while following the left side (Japanese) and then a few times following the right side (English). I then turn off the recording, write out the Japanese, read all of the grammar points, and then listen to the lesson one or two more times with the book. Instead of SRSing sentences, I'm just going to regularly review previous lessons. Tomorrow I'll start off with a 5-10 minute review of Lesson 1 (basically, repeat the first part where I listen to the recording a few times, and then a few times with the written Japanese and a few times with the English) and then do Lesson 2. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5886 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 24 of 55 29 December 2009 at 7:13am | IP Logged |
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Monday, December 28, 2009
Japanesepod101.com - Newbie Season 3, Episodes 1-3 - 45 minutes Assimil Japanese - Lesson 1 review (5 minutes), Lesson 2 (20 minutes) - 25 minutes Japanese in Mangaland - chapter 26 - 30 minutes Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen - Looked up the words I didn't know and reread the first 4 pages. Had a better idea of what was going on this time, but I read the English version afterwards and I didn't do as well as I thought. At least now I have clear idea of what is going on and will hopefully be able to infer the meaning of more words and phrases. So I guess this is how I will keep doing it. Read until I get 15-20 words written down, next day look them up and reread the pages I read the day before, and then read the English to see how well I comprehend the German. 60 minutes Total Time: 160 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful |
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