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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes  Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 1 of 63 01 December 2009 at 2:44am | IP Logged | ||
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I know that TAC is supposed to start on New Year's, but I just can't wait. I guess I will follow the same track as everyone else, I'll just start a little earlier.
My current skills: German- Basic fluency, I can express myself with a limited vocabulary. I have a strong grammatical base and only need to brush up on a few things rather than extensive grammatical study. I think I'm going to read in German to build vocabulary and reading fluency. I will also be writing a few journal entries here in German. My back round is speaking with my mom's stepdad, who is from Germany and a little here and there with my mom who can understand. Russian- I can read Cyrillic, I have a basic vocabulary, and I can inflect singular nouns in the prepositional and the accusative. I will be studying this as a beginner with the Penguin Russian course and living language ultimate. It may be apart of my TAC but I think I'm just going to keep track of it in my Russian log. I am not going to be doing Croatian, but Czech instead, as I already have a solid base in Czech, and I do not want to lose it or have to start all over again later. Plus I did not have enough resources for Croatian. Edited by ruskivyetr on 19 January 2010 at 3:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| FVerschoor Bilingual Diglot Groupie United States Joined 6353 days ago 44 posts - 44 votes Speaks: English*, Dutch* Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 2 of 63 01 December 2009 at 2:47am | IP Logged | ||
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Best of luck with Russian, Croatian and German. I know you'll do great, I'm especially looking forward to reading about your Russian studies. :)
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 3 of 63 01 December 2009 at 6:56am | IP Logged | ||
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I am switching Croatian to Czech. I realize that I do not have enough resources, so I decided that it would be better to continue on with a language I know better.
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 4 of 63 01 December 2009 at 7:03am | IP Logged | ||
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I have just reviewed the accusative case and I am going to continue on with inputting words into my SRS. I am using ANKI and it works VERY well. I really like having it just there so I can upload them online and study when I'm at a different computer or something. I think after I look at the next chapter for Czech, I'm going to do some Russian.
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| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 5 of 63 01 December 2009 at 8:06pm | IP Logged | ||
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I am thinking of buying the CDs for Colloquial Czech so I can shadow, but I might as well buy a whole new course as my old Czech book is all torn and ripped up. I think I might buy a dictionary as well, but I can suffice without. My Czech friend often helps me and we speak a little here and there....
Any suggestions for a good Czech course that could supplement Colloquial Czech??? Much appreciated. Na shledanou. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 6 of 63 05 December 2009 at 11:44pm | IP Logged | ||
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Haven't studied for a few days. THIS HAPPENS ALL THE TIME!!! I watched a movie in Swedish instead of German. HONESTLY!!! I am going to start reading Harry Potter and the Philosophers Stone in German (it's the only Harry Potter book I have in German). Hopefully I'll be able to enjoy it as well as get a language lover's high out of it :).
I think I might just do my TAC Russian log right here. My goal: Master basic conversation and @ least 3 cases (nominative, accusative, and genitive in both singular and plural). I hope for a vocabulary of at least one thousand by the end of the year, and I hope to be able to start reading Гарри Поттер и тайная комната (Harry potter and the chamber of secrets) by that time. I have a book of Russian classics that should keep me occupied for now. It has stories from authors like Tolstoy etc., but I don't think the language will be too aged for me to read. I just ordered Schaum's Outline of Russian grammar. I have the Chinese version (random, I know) and I think that it is very good and I need a solid grammar book other than just the Penguin Russian course, etc. I want to get the movie Day Watch (it's in Russian), but I think that it's best I wait for the holidays. For Czech I haven't studied in a while, but I am officially setting goals. I want to be able to use the nominative, vocative, accusative, and genitive forms without problems or having to think in the next year. I want to have about the same vocabulary as Russian, and I want to be able to carry on basic conversation with my Czech friend. I might get a harry potter book in Czech, but I'm not sure yet. I'm going to do some practice with the Russian plural in the nominative on Practice Russian (the website) and maybe post something after that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Splog Diglot Senior Member Czech Republic anthonylauder.c Joined 5673 days ago 1062 posts - 3263 votes Speaks: English*, Czech Studies: Mandarin | Message 7 of 63 05 December 2009 at 11:59pm | IP Logged | ||
I have just about every course available for learning Czech. It depends a lot on how deep you want to go. Many of the popular courses (e.g. Czech Step by Step) are very gimmicky, and padded out with cartoons and silly games that I just find annoying. I think Colloquial Czech is quite good to start with, and at that level of study an excellent supplement would be the introductory grammar book by the same author: "Czech: an essential grammar, by James Naughton". You can find it on Amazon. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| ruskivyetr Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5485 days ago 769 posts - 962 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Russian, Polish, Modern Hebrew | Message 8 of 63 06 December 2009 at 10:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you Splog. Colloquial Czech is very good. It is definitely one of the better books in the colloquial series (it's very well structured). I need some good native material to help me get a little more immersed, but my Czech friend can always help with that :D.
I did a lot of plural practice yesterday. I have a headache right now so I might just take some aspirin and just take a little nap. I hope that my Russian grammar book comes quickly (I want to get started on the accusative case). I'm going to add to my SRS later but right now I just need to get rid of this headache. For Czech I'm almost done with the accusative case in the singular and I hope to continue on with the next lesson. I wish that the plurals would come with their respective cases instead of in just one lesson :P. Oh well. Na shledanou... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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