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Timmy’s Log - TAC 2015 (César & 東亜) | ||
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| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4669 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 17 of 36 25 December 2014 at 6:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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I think the forum stops you posting for a while when you first join to cut down on spam.
Thanks for the link. I'll try working through some of that stuff as my current dramas come to an end. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Woodsei Bilingual Diglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Woodsei Joined 4801 days ago 614 posts - 782 votes Speaks: English*, Arabic (Egyptian)* Studies: Russian, Japanese, Hungarian | Message 18 of 36 27 December 2014 at 8:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hello Timmy! Nice to see you working out for yourself what you'd like to do. I hope you
accomplish your goals for 2015! 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| TimmyTurner93 Groupie United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3671 days ago 45 posts - 58 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 19 of 36 03 January 2015 at 12:40am | IP Logged | ||
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It has been over a week since I posted an update. I haven't put anywhere near as much
work as I should have due to me feeling sleep deprived for absolutely no reason. Then whenever I actually got out of bed to do work I'd waste time on YouTube and likes (mostly watching Brazilian music videos). Pimsleur is starting to become boring so I'm putting it on pause for a while and going to complete Michel Thomas in the meantime. It shouldn't take me too long to complete especially with the goals I'm thinking of aiming for. I couldn't find quality subs in the limited focused time I had on the PC so I just used 2 songs i managed to get stuck in my head from the Brazilian Portuguese version of the movie Frozen (which I only just watched in English 2 days prior) I think I wrote it before but seeing how it has helped others around the forum I've decided I need goals to help keep me focused and stop me wandering around aimlessly. I just nee to figure out how I'm going to break it down from the humongous distant goal which seems almost impossible to achieve, into major milestones and further into minor tasks with estimated completion times. I'm also going to use rewards of fun things I actually enjoy doing in to motivate myself. Anyway that is enough negativity I think. Time for some positives. I seem to built a sort of habit of reviewing Anki throughout the day and jumping on LyricsTraining just before bed as a sort of relaxation/wind-down. I've downloaded two series from DW (one about football in Africa and another about youth) as well as downloading season 1 of X-men: the animated series. If anyone is young enough to have actually watched it they would remember how great it was and I'm genuinely excited to start watching even with limited comprehension. (I'm a big kid at heart). I'm also on the lookout for some other childhood cartoons such as Dragon Ball Z, Jackie Chan Adventures and the Rugrats to save for the future. Starting tomorrow I'm going to make sure I get work done as well as Start to time my active study times as it will make it easier to keep a track of time spent as well as make it easier to keep anyone reading updated. Next post will be tomorrow in which I will add the start of TAC as well as a list of resources & an early draft of the goals I mentioned earlier. Edited by TimmyTurner93 on 03 January 2015 at 12:40am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| TimmyTurner93 Groupie United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3671 days ago 45 posts - 58 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 20 of 36 03 January 2015 at 4:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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This post officially confirms the start of my TAC 2015.
I have a fair few resources bookmarked but for now I'll just add what is in current use in both languages & link you back in future posts regarding any updates to the list. I'll also do a review on any resources I use and complete as well as put a link to the specific page next to the name. Portuguese Resources:
sorted and straightforward. Portuguese on the other hand is proving a little more tricky. Most of what I've thought up so far seem to revolve around the resources so hopefully in the future I'll be able to think of some that are more precise. Like with the resources this will be continuously updated to reflect progress & if anything new comes to mind. Portuguese Goals (as of 29/06/15):
Japanese Goals (as of 03/01/15):
Edited by TimmyTurner93 on 29 June 2015 at 3:17pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| TimmyTurner93 Groupie United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3671 days ago 45 posts - 58 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 21 of 36 03 January 2015 at 4:54pm | IP Logged | ||
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Reserved for films watched etc and their reviews
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| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5539 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 22 of 36 03 January 2015 at 6:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I can't rightly laugh about you using Peppa Pig for Portuguese when I'm using Chi's Sweet
Home and Sailor Moon as some of my beginner material for Japanese. Chi's Sweet Home is focused at such a young audience that I've never seen Kanji displayed at all, even on the title sequences, but rather just pure hiragana. Sailor Moon does have Kanji but always includes furigana except for things like names in the credits. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| TimmyTurner93 Groupie United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3671 days ago 45 posts - 58 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Portuguese, Japanese | Message 23 of 36 03 January 2015 at 6:45pm | IP Logged | ||
I won't lie I have spent some time watching this show. I find it funny at times and actually quite enjoyable even though I'm almost 2 decades older than it's target audience. It's probably due to my love of cats & the way he's (I'm assuming he) always getting into trouble. I suspect he has similar characteristics to a young Garfield but with less lasagne. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Warp3 Senior Member United States forum_posts.asp?TID= Joined 5539 days ago 1419 posts - 1766 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Korean, Japanese | Message 24 of 36 03 January 2015 at 7:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Having that show available also readily invalidates claims of "no time to watch any
Japanese media" since the episodes are literally 3 minutes each. I usually end up watching them in batches though. I can't recall watching less than say 4 at a time. Even watching 8 in one sitting is still only roughly the length of a 30 minute TV show without ads. One thing I have found strangely difficult about the show, though, is that despite the fact that Chi's lines are very simple compared to the human characters in the show, his overly "cute" pronunciation makes him more difficult to understand. This is particularly notable in the intro song where they show the Kana for the lyrics and Chi's pronunciation throws me on words I already know well. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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