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| Bastet Diglot Pro Member United Kingdom Joined 5913 days ago 28 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 17 of 19 29 January 2010 at 10:00am | IP Logged |
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Yesterday's Work:
1.5 hours - translated French flashcard definitions from English to Spanish 1.0 hour - studied Spanish verb flashcards 1.0 hour - updated my labels (most of my flat has a label now) with French (threw in Latin and Italian, too) Yesterday I had to do a lot of planning and organizing for my studies. While I added French back into the mix, I also had to take stock of the rest of my goals for this year and figure out a priority. In no particular order, my goals: -finish a second undergraduate degree in Computer Science this May. -apply to graduate programs in linguistics, and I want to have the applications complete by March/early April. -take the DELE in Spanish in August. -finish my self guided studies in undergraduate linguistics -bring French to conversational level -to NOT lose my mind I'm going to have to tighten up my daily schedule to fit all of this in. This means I also need to FOCUS, which has been a problem for me of late. I realized yesterday that with so much on my plate, I'm not going to be able to immerse myself in Spanish and French as much as I would like. It just isn't realistic. I have a huge stack of linguistics and computer science text books - all in English. Still, I'm hoping that a steady, daily study routine will keep me moving forward in my languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bastet Diglot Pro Member United Kingdom Joined 5913 days ago 28 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 19 01 February 2010 at 12:50pm | IP Logged |
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I'm behind in my posts - I came down with the flu on Friday. It is difficult to study when you feel this ill!
Friday's Work The only work I did Friday was listening to "Learn in Your Car" Spanish for the 45 minutes I was driving to and fro. I'm still listening to the expressions and past tense verb sentences. Saturday's Work Spanish 45 minutes - LingQ (read text and studied vocab, read text aloud, listened to audio) 60 minutes - Read from my Spanish language novel French 60 minutes - Converted 1 vocabulary deck of English-French to Spanish-French Sunday's Work Spanish 85 minutes - Watched La Señora (rtve TV show) French 60 minutes - Converted 1 vocabulary deck of English-French to Spanish-French Hopefully I can get more done today, but I only woke up an hour ago from a cold medicine induced sleep. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Bastet Diglot Pro Member United Kingdom Joined 5913 days ago 28 posts - 29 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 19 09 February 2010 at 12:56pm | IP Logged |
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So I haven't posted in a week! I finally surrendered to the flu - it was awful. Yesterday was my first day up and out of the house.
LAST Monday... 60 min - studied Spanish verb flashcards 75 min - watched La Señora on rtve 60 min - reading about La Señora in the forum NO French LAST Tuesday... 80 min - watched La Señora on rtve 30 min - LingQ - studied vocab, L-R Don Quixote 30 min - studied Spanish-French flashcards on Flashcard Exchange 30 min - made Fr/Sp/It/Latin labels for desk area 30 min - LingQ L-R easy French Podcast and studied vocabulary After last Tuesday, I don't think I touched my language studies. I had a lot of reading for my new computer science courses, so I guess that was all of the energy I had to spare - for those courses in which I'm required to produce. Yesterday's Work Spanish 90 min - LingQ - studied vocabulary and L-R Don Quixote French 2 hours - French Class (we reviewed grammar points and practiced listening with videos and comprehension exercises The LingQ's are great fun, but the Spanish is a little slow. I don't mind so much when L-R pieces such as Don Quixote, which has a lot of vocabulary, and I'm sure it is still good practice. The LingQ's are perfect for my beginner French. The beginner podcast is read three times: two times at a slow speed and one time at a normal speed. This is a nice feature as it allows the beginner ear to follow along, but it also gives you the chance to hear how real French sounds with the same selection. I think I will use it more for French, but we shall see. I haven't really explored all of of the passages available - I don't know if there is enough advanced Spanish to be very useful. A few of my vocabulary label words have cropped up in reading. I don't think I'll every forget the words for apron, pot, to notate, bookshelf, etc. Just two weeks until my Spanish vacation. I think I've made some progress, but I'm curious to see if I feel a difference while in Spain. I mean, I've certainly not advanced my level. If anything, I may have refreshed my Spanish. I would also like to get a vocabulary list of menu words before we go. I used to know the words for most of the seafood and fish types (trout, bass, sea bass, monkfish, eel, etc.). That was one of my paper flashcard files, which I sadly don't have anymore. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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