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| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes  Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 97 of 115 22 September 2009 at 10:10pm | IP Logged |
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Quelle belle journée!!!!! Je suis sur un nuage.
I swear I'll update later today with some actual language progress... ---------------------- Alors, j'ai menti. J'ai un examen après-demain, puis une interro, donc je ne pouvais pas étudier les langues aujourd'hui....MAIS, à partir de ce week-end, j'aurai beaucoup de temps libre! J'étudierai le français et le swahili et le latin bientôt. Croix de bois, croix de fer... Edited by Rhoda on 23 September 2009 at 6:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 98 of 115 26 September 2009 at 4:50am | IP Logged |
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FRENCH:
Read a good deal of Harry Potter et L'Ordre du Phénix. LATIN: Reviewed pronunciation...I'm getting better I think! Starting to get the hang of things. Also went over the first chapter again, all the way through. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 99 of 115 27 September 2009 at 5:42am | IP Logged |
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FRENCH: Read a lot more French Harry.
LATIN: Went all the way through Wheelock Chapter 2. SWAHILI: It's been a while since taking a look at Mfalme Twiga, so I went back to the beginning and read the first few pages (no dictionary). Will return to it tomorrow and finish it off. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 100 of 115 29 September 2009 at 3:58am | IP Logged |
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done a little Swahili.
Been buried in Latin and have made some progress, though it's a slog. I've been into Wheelock Chap 3 and have a good grasp on Chap. 1 and 2 though! Stuff like: Fortuna puellae est magna. Puella fortunam patriae tuae laudat. O puella, patriam tuam serva. Fama est nihil sine fortuna. Iram puellarum laudare non debes. Quid est vita sine philosophia? Edited by Rhoda on 29 September 2009 at 5:40am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 101 of 115 02 October 2009 at 4:30pm | IP Logged |
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FRENCH: read some more Harry Potter 5, lots of it out loud, I've noticed a huge increase in how fast I can read aloud now without stumbling over words...at first, there was slight hesitation, now I can rattle off most of it just as fast as I would be able to in English.
LATIN: Been all the way through Chapter 4 in Wheelock, need to review that as well as Chapter 3. Pretty confident with pronunciation and Chapters 1 and 2. SWAHILI: Have picked up some new vocab and being in class is, of course, a big review of everything. Honestly, it's a little maddening...we've spent the last week and a half on the locative, so I'm getting kind of frustrated...but I guess it's my fault for being such a nerd over the summer! Here are some random made-up sentences just for practice: Anapenda kitabu alichokinunua jana. Nataka shanga zinazotoka dukani. Afadhali nisome Kirumi. Je, nikusaidie? Unafanya nini? Nilimwona Ali akifanya kazi. Chausiku na Sengo wamo barazani wakisoma magazeti. ~~~~~~~~EDIT~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Went over Wheelock's Latin Chapter 4 and plan to review it again tomorrow as well as diving into Chapter 5, which introduces the Future and Imperfect tenses. It's been kind of tough studying, since I'm trying to avoid writing stuff down at the moment--I've had a lot of exams and papers lately and my hands are rebelling and like to cramp up whenever I type or especially write. So inconvenient. I really really really need to get more serious about this, because I am in a major time crunch... So, Plan of Attack for Tomorrow: 1) Swahili: Finish Mfalme Twiga. Honestly, it's taken me long enough... 2) French: Read another chapter or two of Harry Potter et L'Ordre du Phénix. 3) Latin: Review Chapters 1-4 (especially 3 and 4). Go into Chapter 5. Do all the Chapter 4 and 5 exercises in the back of the book. Also, review and commit to memory all the vocab from the first 5 chapters. Maybe listen to some Latinum as well. Edited by Rhoda on 03 October 2009 at 5:33am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 102 of 115 05 October 2009 at 9:17pm | IP Logged |
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SWAHILI:
Nimemaliza kusoma Mfalme Twiga!!! Since it was taking me forever, I ended up ditching the dictionary and just reading straight through, no hesitating, no stopping to puzzle out the grammatical structures. And...I understood the essentials of what went on. !!! Sure, I didn't know a lot of the vocab, and some sentences I just skipped over, but I got the gist of it and I think I could give a rough summary if I had to. FRENCH: Reading more Harry Potter, which is speeding along quite nicely! 417 pages and counting! LATIN: .........I'll go do some now. Although, the biology homework situation is becoming quite desperate. I should probably do that instead. This sort of thing is a major drag on my overall productivity, and it is really stupid. I end up thinking, "Should I do my homework or learn a language for fun?" and then I end up messing around doing neither. Until the day before the homework/paper is due and it is a scramble and then when the next day I have glorious free time, I am way too stircrazy and mentally drained to focus on, say, Latin. But NOT TODAY. No, I am going for a walk, studying lots of Latin, and then settling down with Biology around dinnertime. It's decided. Edited by Rhoda on 05 October 2009 at 9:23pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 103 of 115 07 October 2009 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
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Update on Latin: I went for a walk, studied some Latin, then quasi-did Bio.
Did some more Latin today as well. I've got the future tense down, and I know imperfect as well, cementing them in will take another day. I've also been reading Harry Potter in French, and doing some basic Swahili stuff. Anyway...my poor brain is officially backed up from extreme information overload. I just went to classes, then went to a lecture for fun, and am about to leave for class again and then go voluntarily take in another lecture. At least two exams and a quiz and a paper are approaching. And my just-for-fun reading list is 20 miles long... I love feeling like this. This is what I missed last year when everything was going wrong and my intellectual curiosity was at zero. So it's nice to be back :) GOALS for tonight: -More French Harry -Wheelock -Study for exams and revise paper -Reread a Hadithi ya Esopo 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Rhoda Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5604 days ago 166 posts - 196 votes Speaks: English*, French Studies: Latin, Swahili, Ancient Greek, German | Message 104 of 115 08 October 2009 at 5:44am | IP Logged |
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Read another chapter of French Harry Potter.
And that's all for languages, since I had a ton of other stuff and was running around all day. Tomorrow and the entire weekend are also going to be insane, as well as next week since there is this exam I really really really want to ace. But basic goals for the coming days: 1) Review Wheelock Chap. 1-5 2) Move into Wheelock Chap 6 3) Read 3 more chapters of French Harry 4) Reread Hadithi za Esopo 1 person has voted this message useful |
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