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| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6366 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 17 of 48 04 July 2009 at 7:23am | IP Logged |
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Had a busy day today, so I didn't get too much studying done.
French - I downloaded Le Reve in French, English, and the audio. I may L-R that instead of Harry Potter because Le Reve was originally written in French. Russian - I shadowed the third lesson of Assimil, along with the first two again. Indonesian - I went through the Linguaphone Introduction again. I may start lesson 1 tomorrow if I have the time. For Russian, I plan on starting a new shadowing "step" each three lessons, as the Professor mentioned in his video. For the newest three lessons, I will listen to and speak L2, for the three before that I will also read L1, for the three before that I will listen to and speak L2 while reading L1 and checking the L2 if I have to, and for the three before that I will instead read L2 and check L1 if I have to. With Assimil this works out very well, because every seventh lesson is a review. Again, this is my first time shadowing, so I'll adjust as necessary. Also, I purchased Assimil's L'indonesien sans peine and it should be in sometime next week. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6366 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 18 of 48 05 July 2009 at 9:29am | IP Logged |
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German - Finished the rest of my fourth lesson for school.
Indonesian - Reviewed the introduction lesson again. I didn't have time to do more because, well, it's the 4th of July. Had too much other stuff to do. Russian - Step 2 for Lesson 1. Step 1 for Lessons 2-4. I also learned (most of) the Cyrillic alphabet. It makes pronunciation easier because I don't have to rely on the the transliteration to figure out nuances. Spanish - Finished the second lesson for my Spanish class which consisted of reading and answering questions / analyzing the short story "El Eclipse" and a painting. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6366 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 19 of 48 06 July 2009 at 6:33am | IP Logged |
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French - Assimil French Without Toil Lessons 1-7.
German - Started the fifth lesson for my class. Indonesian - Reviewed the intro lesson. Learned the first half of Lesson 1. Russian - Step 2 for Lessons 1-2. Step 1 for Lessons 3-5. Spanish - Really finished the rest of my lesson. I had forgotten a few parts. ^_^ I've decided to go through seven lessons of French Without Toil, and slowing down to a regular pace around a few lessons before I don't know some things. I think I'll learn a lot more here than going through the last 20 or 30 lessons of New French With Ease. I tried listening to Harry Potter and Le Rêve, but my French isn't nearly what it used to be, but I can still understand Le Nouveau Russe Sans Peine. Also, I may start the Russian in Three Months course by Hugo. I'm liking Russian a lot more than I thought I would. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6366 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 20 of 48 07 July 2009 at 6:00am | IP Logged |
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Bad day today. I couldn't concentrate at all and I may be getting sick. So I just reviewed everything from Russian and Indonesian that I've so far done. Also, I had a copy of Russian Without Toil and I found the audio on the internet, so I'm going to use that instead. Not only because it's a better course, but because it's in English and since my French isn't what it used to be, this will help.
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| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6366 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 48 08 July 2009 at 5:10am | IP Logged |
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French - Lessons 8-14 of French Without Toil.
German - Worked on some more of my 5th lesson for school. Indonesian - Finished the rest of Lesson 1 of Linguaphone Indonesian. Russian - Learned Lessons 1 and 2 of Russian Without Toil. I can already tell that this is better than Le Nouveau Russe Sans Peine. :) Spanish - Worked on my 3rd lesson, this one is on "El árbol de oro" 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6366 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 22 of 48 09 July 2009 at 6:24am | IP Logged |
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French - FWOT Lessons 15-21. I came across a few words that I didn't know... in English!
German - Worked on my lesson, finally getting some decent audio input from the course, which is about three minutes of straight German. Pretty good for a textbook. *** Indonesian - Reviewed Lesson 1, learned all of Lesson 2 in Linguaphone. I think I'll have to review Lesson 2 once or twice tomorrow, I don't think everything is yet committed to memory. Russian - Reviewed RWOT Lessons 1 and 2, learned Lesson 3. Spanish - Worked on my lesson, should be done tomorrow. Also, I suppose my learning is getting better. I'm much more productive taking a few breaks and/or switching languages after 20-30 minutes. *** Today's my lucky day! I finally found the audio for my German Without Toil book. :) I'll try to go through a lesson a day. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6366 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 23 of 48 10 July 2009 at 8:00am | IP Logged |
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French - FWOT Lessons 22-23.
German - Did more of my 5th lesson, almost done with it. Indonesian - Reviewed Lesson 2, learned about half of Lesson 3. Russian - Learned Lesson 5 of RWOT. I was feeling good and even wrote a few sentences of Russian to one of my friend's friends who's from Russia. Edited by goosefrabbas on 10 July 2009 at 8:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| goosefrabbas Triglot Pro Member United States Joined 6366 days ago 393 posts - 475 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German, Italian Personal Language Map | Message 24 of 48 12 July 2009 at 5:01am | IP Logged |
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Today and yesterday were hectic. I was barely home, and thus barely had any time to study. But, the past two days consisted of the folloing:
French - a few more lessons from FWOT, I don't remember which. German - finished lesson 5 for my class. Indonesian - Reviewed the first two lessons of Linguaphone, learned a little over half of lesson 3. Russian - Learned lesson 5 in RWOT. Spanish - Did a little more of my lesson. I've been procrastinating doing this so I'll make a point to finish it tomorrow. I went to Barnes and Noble today to look for some books, specifically on Russian and Indonesian. And, wow... it was terrible. There was nothing at all on Indonesian or Malay, and only one book on Tagalog. The only Russian there consisted of some dictionaries and phrase books. That was a waste. Then I looked for some Persian material, because it's a language that I plan to learn... all there was was a pocket-sized dictionary. There were no novels at all in French, though I did get a dual-language French reader - "French Stories / Contes Français". It contains stories written by many popular French authors, so I expect to learn a lot from this book. I also purchased "Cien años de soledad" and I will try to make my way through it once I've completed my Spanish course for school. I purchased some notebooks and looseleaf paper to write notes on. I also bought five different-coloured sticky notes, highlighters, and pens. I'm going to break my rule of keeping all my materials as new as possible and write notes, highlight, etc. in my books. :X I expect that doing this will make it easier to keep the languages organized, both in my mind and on paper. Though, I wonder how I'll keep future languages organized, if by colour. In the near future (perhaps the beginning of next summer?) I hope to begin learning one to three of the following languages: Persian, Ancient Greek, Turkish, Hindi, Tamil, and Norwegian, even if it's only at a very slow place. I was thinking that Tamil/Hindi, Turkish/Breton, and Persian would be a good combo... but alas, there are only so many colours in the rainbow. :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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