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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 25 of 30 16 December 2009 at 1:47am | IP Logged |
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15/12/09
Today was pretty bad for my Japanese. My Kanji reading is awful and I don't think I can even manage Harry Potter, well not without looking up my friendly radicals. I will manage it! But it is definitely going to take longer than I am imagined. Meanwhile Anki is going reasonably well with my Kanji. Just need to get around to putting some more in. I plan to only manage to get some German reading done today. Tonight I will hopefully start on 'Biss zum Morgengrauen'. Done Anki as well for German. Spanish, I have started reading Las Brujas. Simple story that I am pretty sure I remember the film to from when I was younger. Keep having to resort to the dictionary even though I don't really want to. But felt like the reading went well. For Russian I am continuing with Princeton Russian course. Sincerely like it and think it is a great resource for beginning learners. Also found my Harry Potter 1 in Russian today so will start that up once I complete Princeton, or maybe before. Haven't decided yet. Total Time spent: Japanese: 18 hours. German: Spanish: 10 1/2 hours. Russian: 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 26 of 30 28 December 2009 at 2:00am | IP Logged |
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Just to let everyone know, I have by far not abandoned TAC　however during the Christmas period was pretty busy and unable to get online the other half of the time. I will be definitely starting soon and will make sure I am already in ready for 1st Jan.
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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 27 of 30 03 January 2010 at 6:00pm | IP Logged |
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My TAC is really going out the window, apart from writing some emails I have not managed much... due to the good ol' winter flu. Am spending most of my time curled up with boxes of tissues. Will resume when well enough.
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| Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5736 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 28 of 30 03 January 2010 at 6:25pm | IP Logged |
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It's okay, I had a similar problem during the holidays too. Come on man, we're still following you and you can do it :) Even if you're not putting in your usual 10 hours per day, put in one or two just to get in the swing of things again.
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| doviende Diglot Senior Member Canada languagefixatio Joined 5990 days ago 533 posts - 1245 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Spanish, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Hindi, Swedish, Portuguese | Message 29 of 30 03 January 2010 at 10:01pm | IP Logged |
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Ya, don't burn out. Just do whatever you can that's interesting or fun. Try to avoid thinking of certain activities as "mandatory". I actually really like Khatsumoto's phrase "there's no such thing as 'boring but necessary'".
Lately for my Esperanto studying, I thought I had to follow a certain set of lessons, but I couldn't get motivated to do them. Instead I ended up reading Esperanto Wikipedia and I had much more fun, and learned a lot too. As for your Kanji, I know how hard it can be to read a real novel. When I was trying to upgrade my Chinese reading skills last year, what I would do is pick one page of the novel and go through it to find all the individual characters I didn't know, and I'd write them down. Then I'd pick one and look it up. In the dictionary entry, if it listed any other words that used that same character, I'd read about those. If those words had another character I didn't know, then I'd go look up that character too. I'd "surf" through the dictionary looking at whatever was interesting until I hit a dead end, and then I'd go back to my list of unknown characters and pick a new one as a starting point. It was never a requirement to do absolutely all the characters, but it meant that I always had a list of starting points for investigation. In other languages I might keep a list of wikipedia articles or anything else really. It helps to just have that list of possible starting places that can get you going when you want to start studying. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Astrophel Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5736 days ago 157 posts - 345 votes Speaks: English*, Latin, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Cantonese, Polish, Sanskrit, Cherokee | Message 30 of 30 28 January 2010 at 4:27pm | IP Logged |
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Hey Kupo I don't know if you're continuing your studies still or not, but I thought I'd post to say I'm cheering you on :) Even if you can't maintain that rigorous schedule, don't give up! Study for just an hour or a half per day, or even every other day. Anything is better than nothing! :P
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