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| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 9 of 75 08 February 2009 at 8:34am | IP Logged | ||
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Feb 06 (Fri): A bad day at work put me in a rather bad mood. I did pick up a
small verb book "Essential Verbs!". Although I have the big verb book I wanted something small to focus on the most used verbs and most used tenses. So I looked through it some. Books are cheap and fun. Feb 07 (Sat): Rosetta Stone Level 1: Finished Unit 6. Each one of these units has 11 lessons plus a review lesson. It's interesting how it teaches verb tenses: typically you are shown a picture of someone about to do something, doing the action and then having completed it. Other times it shows someone doing an action then asks later "This is the person that was doing [action]". I feel a lot of curiosity about other languages and cultures and while learning about them should not be a problem time is an issue; "Immersion" time to be more specific. To really get good at a language you need immersion time, i.e.: you need to saturate your brain with it so that it becomes trained in recognizing and reproducing its patterns. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 10 of 75 09 February 2009 at 11:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Feb 08 (Sun) Took a break from studying Italian. But I picked up Pimsleur 2
from library Feb 09 (Mon) Rosetta Stone Level 1: Finished Unit 7. One more unit to go to be done with level 1 I did "restorative" yoga today. I really needed it and it helped a lot. Not being in pain helps one study more effectively for sure. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 11 of 75 10 February 2009 at 11:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Feb 10 (tues): Was at work till 7pm today and slacked off on the language
studies. I listened to Pimleur 1B, lesson 24 while driving around but not as close as I should have. Did 1 lesson of Rosetta Stone, level 1, unit 8. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 12 of 75 11 February 2009 at 7:16pm | IP Logged | ||
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Internet Radio: at work for about 2 hours.
Movie: Finished watching last half of "Ginger & Cinnamon" on Netflix "watch instantly". Rosetta Stone Level 1: Finished! It frustrates me that I had to read the English captions (no Italian one's were available) to understand the movie. I am finding that I di recognize more words in spoken Italian. It's really interesting how this happens. It seems sub-conscious and without effort. In fact trying too hard is detrimental. Work is going well: our project has been tested properly and is ready to go. The lower stress level certainly helps with language learning Wow, nobody love me. My logbook is barren of comments from others. Edited by ChiaBrain on 11 February 2009 at 10:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 13 of 75 12 February 2009 at 11:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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Feb 12 (Thurs):
Internet Radio: 1 hour? Assimil: Listened to the audio for the first 10 lessons going to and from work. Went over the first two lessons in the book. I've listened to the audio for these several times and gone over the text briefly before. I think I'm going to try focusing on Assimil now. I feel like I need more native language material to enjoy rather than just studying all the time. Assimil is native language material in a way, even though its specifically for learning. I've been feeling rather curious about French lately. I dabbled in the French Rosetta Stone a few days ago and find that I am remembering a lot of things. I'm wondering if I can study it along with Italian. Edited by ChiaBrain on 14 February 2009 at 11:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 14 of 75 14 February 2009 at 11:15am | IP Logged | ||
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Feb 13 (Fri):
Assimil: Listened to Assimil audio driving to work and at lunch. I've listened to the entire first CD a couple times now and the first 10 or so lessons several. I did the first 3 lessons with the book in the evening: first listening and reading then reading translation. Twice each lesson as they are repeated. Michel Thomas Language Builder: listened to some of MTLB driving home from work. I am thinking of extracting the audio to make an Anki deck out of it. Feb 14 (Sat): Planning to take a break and study French instead. Everytime I've done this in the past I've come running back to Italian excited. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6443 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 15 of 75 14 February 2009 at 11:18am | IP Logged | ||
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Since you mentioned the lack of comments: good luck!
I hope both French and Italian go well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ChiaBrain Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5812 days ago 402 posts - 512 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish* Studies: Portuguese, Italian, French Studies: German | Message 16 of 75 14 February 2009 at 11:32pm | IP Logged | ||
Grazie! Merci! Thanks! It makes language learning seem less lonely. The studying goes great but I get really dissapointed when I put a movie on and can't seem to follow much without subtitles. Sadly, it seems all the ones available here in the USA only have English or Spanish subtitles. I would so love to be able to pause the movie and look up words as needed. Edited by ChiaBrain on 15 February 2009 at 7:52am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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