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| jessikt Triglot Groupie Austria ichestudiolangues.co Joined 5838 days ago 98 posts - 102 votes  Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: SpanishA2, Swedish | Message 1 of 25 29 December 2009 at 8:03pm | IP Logged |
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General info:
My name is Jessica, I´m 21 and I am a student from Canada currently living in Austria. I´m going to be studying at the University of Vienna beginning in March. I will be studying Transkulturelle Kommunikation which is the new name for the Translation and Interpretation program. For this program I will need very high levels of German (C1) and Spanish (B2). I loooove learning languages and look forward to participating in the Team O TAC! To read more about my language learning adventures in Austria, check out my blog: Ich Estudio Langues! Main languages and goals for the end of 2010: German Current level:B2 Goal: Since I will be in Austria for the entire year, I am hoping to be at a near native level (C2) by the end of the year. Spanish Current level: B1 Goal: I lived in Madrid last year and learned a lot of Spanish, but it has really been slipping lately. Since I will be studying Spanish in my Translation program at school I hope to achieve a level of C1 by the end of the year. Side projects: Hungarian Current level: Nearly absolute beginner Goal: My boyfriend is Hungarian and we visit Hungary a lot (I am in Kiskunfélegyháza right now!) I would like to achieve a level of Hungarian by the end of the year that is good enough for me to hold simple conversations with his Grandparents who do not speak English and to get around on my own when we visit Hungary. French Current level: I have a certificate of French as a second language from the University of Ottawa, because I grew up going to a French immersion school and so I did almost all of my studies completely in French. However, I have not spoken it except for a few brief trips to France and it has nearly gone completely! Goal: I would like to revive it to as high of a level as possible mostly through reading and watching movies by the end of the year. Italian Current level: Absolute beginner Goal: This is just for fun! I figure since I have pretty good levels of French and Spanish, I shouldn't waste my free gift of Italian! ;) (Just kidding, I know it won't come so easily!) I'd like to learn enough to take a trip to Italy and do the basic tourist things. Swedish Current level: Absolute beginner Goal: This is also just for fun! I'm doing sort of a personal project seeing how much Italian and Swedish I can learn using LingQ. I'm blogging about it on the LingQ Central English blog. I have no real goals for Swedish, I guess similar to Italian, just learn enough to get by on a trip to Sweden. Edited by jessikt on 09 January 2010 at 9:57pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| global_gizzy Senior Member United States maxcollege.blogspot. Joined 5707 days ago 275 posts - 310 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 25 29 December 2009 at 9:04pm | IP Logged |
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Wow, lucky you :). Best of luck with your studies in 2010.
Question, if you did all your schooling PreK-Highschool in French then how have you lost most of your ability? What was your language at home and in the community growing up--I'm just curious. Also, you should edit your title (edit the Original Post and adjust/change the topic) because you have this as 1010 which was like...1,000 years ago...O-O. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jessikt Triglot Groupie Austria ichestudiolangues.co Joined 5838 days ago 98 posts - 102 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: SpanishA2, Swedish | Message 3 of 25 30 December 2009 at 4:08pm | IP Logged |
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Ooops! Thanks for noticing that! :)
My language at home and with friends was English. We were forced to speak French in class and were punished with detention if we spoke English too many times, so we all sort of got sick of French. I never watched any French TV or movies and I lived in an English speaking region in Canada. If I could do it all over again I'd make more of an effort to include French outside of the classroom! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jessikt Triglot Groupie Austria ichestudiolangues.co Joined 5838 days ago 98 posts - 102 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: SpanishA2, Swedish | Message 4 of 25 05 January 2010 at 6:21pm | IP Logged |
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I'm working away on my language learning even though I haven't posted lately! I would like to systemize my
language learning a bit more so I can make this log nice and neat and then look back at the end of the year and see how much I have done! So far today: German - 1.5 hours working with Schaum's German Grammar outline. - Listening to Ö1 Liveradio in the background Edit: - I went out with my boyfriend and two friends and made a real effort to only speak German, which is getting a bit easier all the time. The hardest part is getting the people who are so used to speaking English with me to speak German! So I count last night as about 5 hours of listening and one hour of speaking! :) Edited by jessikt on 09 January 2010 at 9:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jessikt Triglot Groupie Austria ichestudiolangues.co Joined 5838 days ago 98 posts - 102 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: SpanishA2, Swedish | Message 5 of 25 09 January 2010 at 9:56pm | IP Logged |
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I've moved to Team O so I can have a teammate buddy (Katie) who is also learning Hungarian! :)
German Yesterday I went to my preparation course (17:30 -20:00) in Vienna for my German exam that I have next weekend! There will be a lot of German speaking and listening tonight as I am going out downtown with friends, especially since I have to practice for my oral exam on the 23rd and since I am slowly but surely eliminating my English speaking!! Edited by jessikt on 09 January 2010 at 10:02pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| jessikt Triglot Groupie Austria ichestudiolangues.co Joined 5838 days ago 98 posts - 102 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: SpanishA2, Swedish | Message 6 of 25 11 January 2010 at 1:13pm | IP Logged |
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Yesterday:
German 4 hours various studying: Some exam preparation exercises, reading, watching news videos, listening to podcasts 1 hour TV Today I am going to Vienna to register for an intensive German course that I need for University. I am going to try to get into the highest (or one of the highest levels!) After that I'm going to sit in on my boyfriend's Uni class to see how I'll be able to handle going to University entirely in German next semester! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Katie Diglot Senior Member Australia Joined 6722 days ago 495 posts - 599 votes Speaks: English*, Hungarian Studies: French, German | Message 7 of 25 12 January 2010 at 3:56am | IP Logged |
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Good luck! I look forward to hearing how it goes! :)
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| jessikt Triglot Groupie Austria ichestudiolangues.co Joined 5838 days ago 98 posts - 102 votes Speaks: English*, GermanB1, French Studies: SpanishA2, Swedish | Message 8 of 25 12 January 2010 at 4:54pm | IP Logged |
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German
I got into the level I wanted! (Not the absolute highest but high enough to prepare me for University!) The lecture was long and the lecture hall was so full that I had to sit in the aisle for the first half (90 minutes) and then we found a place in the very front row for the second half. It was really hard to hear in the front row because we were positioned awkwardly behind the speakers but close to the professor so it was creating a sort of echo, even my boyfriend couldn't understnd him! Most of what I did hear, I understood, which made me happy! When I got home I did some reading and vocabulary work with a copy of Deutsch Perfekt magazine. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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