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TAC 09 / Szprecham i wogóle... (#lal) | ||
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| Aquedita Triglot Senior Member Poland myspace.com/aqueda_v Joined 6018 days ago 154 posts - 164 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 1 of 12 24 November 2008 at 5:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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So here I am... decided to enter the New Total Annihilation Challenge. What the hell, you only live once, right?
Motto: All is fair in war and... language learning! :) My target languages: JAPANESE - I'm majoring in Japanese Studies and I'm in my 4th year. I studied hard, starting with absolutely no level at all. And I can't tell that I am fluent. Sure, I can do a normal every day conversation and I was be able to survive in Japan. I know about 1400 kanji with compounds and that enables me to read and understand about 70%-85% of a newspaper (depends on the topic). I am able to get about 60%-80%of a television show. But I still don't have confidence in using keigo, I don't know that much idioms and proverbs. I would have much trouble with understanding dialects. MANDARIN CHINESE - I understand quite a lot when I see the written text, thanks to my Japanese. But I'm somewhat afraid to speak, I get stressed. Which is not good since I'm applying for a scholarship to go to China. Goals: Improve my level in both languages by reading, watching TV shows and listening to music and audiobooks. I have to pass my exams in the end of the next semester so it would be nice to get good grades as well, a kind of bonus. I definitely need to write more and speak more, maybe I should do some silly recordings in my target languages? To make a long story short: no, I do not have a method. I could spice things up a bit with adding some Spanish or Russian to the list, but... why bother? No one will read this stuff anyway, hahaha! I have a log for each target language, you can check them out if you fell like it or have nothing better to do. PS.I do hope nobody is able to understand the title of my log :P Edited by Aquedita on 10 December 2008 at 10:52am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Volte Tetraglot Senior Member Switzerland Joined 6443 days ago 4474 posts - 6726 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto, German, Italian Studies: French, Finnish, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 2 of 12 24 November 2008 at 6:29pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I'm reading it!
Mind explaining the title to me? My Polish isn't up to understanding it, sadly. Good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Aquedita Triglot Senior Member Poland myspace.com/aqueda_v Joined 6018 days ago 154 posts - 164 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 4 of 12 10 December 2008 at 12:03pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Volte: don't worry about it, the title was stupid anyway ^^'
I had to make it shorter so now it means more less: "I speak in tongues and all..." ("szprechać" is a word I made up from "sprechen") <in the longer version it was: "and I'm cool!" XD> I've just spent the whole day with all the crazy people on our unofficial IRC channel. It was awesome and I will be back, so that's why I used the word "our". I was seriously so impressed with The Elven Lord's explanations on how he memorizes vocabulary! I might actually bring myself to post something on Lang-8 tonight. I feel so motivated since I've added a couple of you #lal guys to my friends list (cheers ExtraLean and Leopejo!). Anyone here actually using livemocha.com? Edited by Aquedita on 10 December 2008 at 12:06pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| TheElvenLord Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6084 days ago 915 posts - 927 votes 1 sounds Speaks: Cornish, English* Studies: Spanish, French, German Studies: Portuguese, Mandarin | Message 5 of 12 10 December 2008 at 12:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
Crazy people make the world go round!
I will post it on my log some time, as well as my technique for memorizing other stuff lol. Thanks! TEL 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Leopejo Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 6113 days ago 675 posts - 724 votes Speaks: Italian*, Finnish*, English Studies: French, Russian | Message 6 of 12 10 December 2008 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | |||||
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And let's remind all that #lal actually is #learnanylanguage on freenode.
Oops, was forgetting! Good luck, Aquedita! Edited by Leopejo on 10 December 2008 at 12:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| dmg Diglot Senior Member Canada dgryski.blogspot.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 7015 days ago 555 posts - 605 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Dutch, Esperanto | Message 7 of 12 10 December 2008 at 7:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
Getting into the LearnAnyLanguage Wiki would be great too, once you've written it. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Aquedita Triglot Senior Member Poland myspace.com/aqueda_v Joined 6018 days ago 154 posts - 164 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin | Message 8 of 12 24 December 2008 at 1:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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And it begins... Since today is the official opening of TAC, I feel I need to post something.
As some of you know - I'm already addicted to our IRC channel. I seriously need to cut down on the time spent there since that messes up my study timetable :P Motto #2: "Every single language on this planet is a deep swamp in a dense jungle." [Iversen] Ok, so let's get serious. My short term goals<that's the only way I can keep myself motivated and keep track of what actually has been done>: Japanese - do my December homework (writing a short paper and doing exercises in my workbook - chapters 8 to 12) - review all the kanji I am suppose to review, do flashcards/notes and input them into Mnemosyne - read at least two short stories by Edogawa Ranpo and start writing reviews and analysis on that... (thesis) - watch at least 2 episodes of some new drama - get some novels in Japanese for my own "Japanese through literature" challenge :) DUE DATE: January 5th Mandarin - finish reviewing this semester's materials, learn the vocab, finish writing my own sentences and send them over for correction - start doing Pimsleur and get as far as I can while doing different exercises using; continue doing my other textbooks whenever I can - review my current flashcards and make a bunch of new ones - memorize the extracts from my textbook I wanted to memorize - get my hands on some books for children DUE DATE: January 10th Other than that, I really need to buy a microphone and set up Skype on my computer!! Please feel free to bitch about my slacking off, it will be a good motivation trick :) Speaking of which... I intend on using TEL's method (he insisted on calling it his name, so there you go ;)) of rewarding myself with points for every bit of studying that I do. And so it could be 1 point for doing revision, preparing flashcards or writing out some kanji, 2 points for watching a drama/movie or doing some bigger reading/translation, 3 points for completing a lesson from my textbook. And of course I will continue to mark dates at http://dontbreakthechain.com Ok, I guess that's all for now. I'll keep you guys updated, promise. Edited by Aquedita on 24 December 2008 at 3:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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