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| -Kupo- Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6071 days ago 84 posts - 84 votes  1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian | Message 9 of 30 04 December 2009 at 5:09pm | IP Logged |
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04/12/09
Japanese: Two hours of audio listening. Picked up a couple of new words...not much though. Will watch some drama later. German: Unfortunately only found the Aristocats with German audio so will try this one. 45 minutes of audio listening. Not much not too little. Spanish: One hour of audio listening learning the tenses and some new vocab and whatnot. Dug out about 10 DVDs which I hope have some simple Spanish (mainly Disney so should be :P) and will work on putting the audio and subs up and see what happens. Russian: Only did an hour and a half of russian today because I am having difficulty pronouncing 'hello'. Kind of a sore point that I seem to be able to pronounce everything else at the moment but that. Will have to keep repeating the audio until I get it. Edited by -Kupo- on 05 December 2009 at 2:12am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| -Kupo- Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6071 days ago 84 posts - 84 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian | Message 10 of 30 05 December 2009 at 4:09pm | IP Logged |
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05/12/09
Japanese: 30 mins of audio listening. Will be watching some more of Tokyo Dogs starting tomorrow. German: Watched about 30 mins of the Matrix and was amazed that I understood most of it. Even if most was just passive rather than active. Spanish: Started dictionary reading Crepesculo... I may be a beginner however I hope to build my vocab quickly. Watched a bit of Shrek in Spanish, only about 15mins. The subtitles were so different to the speech I was completely astounded. Read through 4 chapters in TY Spanish. Was easy and already knew it all, so recap. Russian: Done about 2 1/2 hours of Russian audio already today. Finding pronounciation easier as I keep repeating the words many many times. I am confident I will get there eventually. Am just about understanding grammar at the moment. Read through a couple of chapters of TY Russian, mainly about grammar. Been slacking a bit during the day as I am major movie buff so will make sure my language study is done this evening. Also, does anyone have some recommendations for easy Russian reading books, I feel it will help (I have Harry Potter and the DiVinci Code. HP should be OK so am hoping for some more recommendations) Time spent today: Japanese: 30 mins (Ultra bad) German: 30 mins (Eeeek) Spanish: 2 hours Russian: 3 1/2 hours Edited by -Kupo- on 06 December 2009 at 1:43am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Anya Pentaglot Senior Member France Joined 5797 days ago 636 posts - 708 votes Speaks: Russian*, FrenchC1, English, Italian, Spanish Studies: German, Japanese, Hungarian, Sanskrit, Portuguese, Turkish, Mandarin Studies: Ancient Greek, Hindi | Message 11 of 30 05 December 2009 at 5:18pm | IP Logged |
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http://wet.by.ru/kds/dragunski11-1.shtml
There are some short stories for the children by Victor Dragunski (Виктор Драгунский "Денискины рассказы") 1 person has voted this message useful | |
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6440 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 12 of 30 05 December 2009 at 5:50pm | IP Logged |
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Hmmmm.. Perhaps reducing the number of your languages might be quite constructive in your case? I'm planning on adding another language, making a total of TWO target languages, and the thought of doing it really scares me. Will I have enough time and motivation for both German AND Spanish? o_O
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| -Kupo- Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6071 days ago 84 posts - 84 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian | Message 13 of 30 05 December 2009 at 6:15pm | IP Logged |
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Anya: Thank you for the link :)
Jiwon: Yes I probably will go back to doing that eventually but I won't give up as I am only at the start of my experiment. Also I study Spanish and German at uni and would be unwilling to stick with just those two. As much as I love German, I don't like Spanish and have been trying to watch films in Spanish to create a bigger interest in the language. I think it is more lack of motivation when it comes to German and Spanish. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| -Kupo- Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6071 days ago 84 posts - 84 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian | Message 14 of 30 06 December 2009 at 6:40pm | IP Logged |
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06/12/09
Japanese: Spent about an hour on audio blogs. Watched episode 2 of Tokyo Dogs :D German: Received my first uni grade for my German today and achieved 96% so I am pretty chuffed with myself. Started reading Harry Potter und der Feuerkelch. Audio blogs. Spanish: General audio blog listening. 1 hour. Spent half an hour reading Crepesculo. Russian: Downloaded Princeton Russian again to work through, will start this later today when there is some peace in the house. Completed chapter 1 of Princeton russian. Length of time spent on study today: Japanese: 2 1/2 hours. German: 2 hours Spanish: 1 1/2 hours Russian: 3 hours. Total time spent: Japanese: 3 hours German: 2 1/2 hours Spanish: 3 1/2 hours Russian: 6 1/2 hours Edited by -Kupo- on 07 December 2009 at 2:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6440 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 15 of 30 06 December 2009 at 7:27pm | IP Logged |
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Well done on your German exam! Kudos! :)
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| -Kupo- Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6071 days ago 84 posts - 84 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, Spanish, Russian | Message 16 of 30 06 December 2009 at 9:40pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks Jiwon :) I hope your German is coming along well too!
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