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| rostocpj Pentaglot Newbie United States Joined 5495 days ago 21 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, French, Toki Pona Studies: Esperanto, Indonesian, Shanghainese, Cantonese | Message 1 of 4 01 January 2010 at 8:54pm | IP Logged |
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I'm looking forward to participating in this year's TAC!!!! I'm pretty new to the forum so I'll start off with a little bit about myself:
I'm a college student in my 3rd year studying Modern Foreign Languages (French Lit. and Mandarin) and World Religion. I've never been able to travel outside the country but I've been doing my best to find situations where I can use languages wherever I happen to be. I'm hoping that at some point I can post some videos on youtube so that I can demonstrate where I am in a few of my languages. So down to the languages: Mandarin: I’ve been studying Mandarin for about 4 months now. I finished the course work for Chinese 1, 2, and 3 while enrolled in Chinese 1 so I’ll be starting Chinese 4 in a couple weeks. I currently know around 400 characters. I love the language but haven’t been able to find much real life exposure to it so I can’t say that I have a lot of first-hand experience with it yet. I plan on working through the New Practical Chinese Readers Vol. 2 (for class), some of Teach Yourself Mandarin Chinese (for vocabulary, listening practice, cross-reference, etc.), and T.K. Ann’s Cracking the Chinese Puzzles. Spanish: I’ve been studying Spanish for about a year and a half now. I’m up to a decent conversational level. I have several friends who speak Spanish and I frequently talk with them. My plans for the year are pretty simple: to read through at least 3 of the books of the Harry Potter series in Spanish (a method that I’ve heard of that caught my attention and has helped my reading comprehension in just the first 40 pages of the first book). Thai: I love Thai but have not had much opportunity to learn or speak it. My knowledge so far includes: I can read and write the Thai script, know about 100 words, and have knowledge of basic grammar and sentence construction. I’ll be working out of Thai for Beginners and Colloquial Thai as well as using the FSI Thai course and various online sources for listening comprehension and vocabulary. French: My goals for French are merely fluency related. I plan on doing all classwork (French is my major) which will include reading several works in French along with the appropriate discussions in class. I’m hoping to increase my reading comprehension to a very advanced level and use it in translating records for my aunt’s extensive genealogy hobby. Other: I’m hoping to specialize in East and Southeast Asian languages so I’ll be doing work for at least a few minutes a day in other languages such as Cantonese, Tagalog, and Lao. I know that I don’t exactly have detailed goals with deadlines but I hope to add that when I get the time to sit down and map them out. Let me know what you think and I’m hoping you can offer me some advice along the way. Thanks. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rostocpj Pentaglot Newbie United States Joined 5495 days ago 21 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, French, Toki Pona Studies: Esperanto, Indonesian, Shanghainese, Cantonese | Message 2 of 4 02 January 2010 at 7:30am | IP Logged |
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Alright, January 1, day one:
Not terribly productive. I'm currently visiting my family in Pennsylvania and I'm leaving tomorrow so I've been driving around and visiting people before I leave. However, here it goes: THAI: I worked through half of chapter 3 of Colloquial Thai in the 15 minutes I was sitting before dinner. I also downloaded the FSI Volume 1 Thai Program to a flashdrive. TAGALOG: I worked through around 45 minutes of Pimsleur's Conversational Tagalog while driving around and am finding it quite helpful for very basic conversational elements and pronunciation practice. A little repetitive, but good. That's all for today. I've got a 5 hour drive tomorrow, of which I'll probably drive about half. Happy learning :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| rostocpj Pentaglot Newbie United States Joined 5495 days ago 21 posts - 33 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Mandarin, French, Toki Pona Studies: Esperanto, Indonesian, Shanghainese, Cantonese | Message 3 of 4 03 January 2010 at 5:18am | IP Logged |
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Day 2, January 2,
So today was filled with driving...and that was about it. TAGALOG: Listened to around an hour of Pimsleur's Conversational Tagalog. Learned a few interesting things but mostly reviewed since my sister decided to learn along with me. SPANISH: While my mom was using her Pimsleur Con. Span. for a considerable period over the car ride, I used the time to work on my Spanish accent. Fue bien. MANDARIN: Received Reading & Writing Chinese: Simplified Edition by William McNaughton from Amazon today. Just skimmed through the a few pages and it looks pretty useful. It's set up like a T.K. Ann-style book but without the storyline haha. I think it will be very useful for vocab flashcards and reference. I'm about to do some Chinese study and then get to bed while watching NCIS. Gonna be nice. PS. Can anyone recommend any good Tagalog materials? It's not exactly one of the mainstream languages. Thanks 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6474 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 4 of 4 12 February 2010 at 12:05am | IP Logged |
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你好！
How'bout an update? I'm a fellow Chinese student and I'd love to read about your progress. Also, I may take a South-East Asian language next, so any experiences and tips you can relate would be really interesting. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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