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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 25 of 48 13 July 2009 at 7:22am | IP Logged |
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German - Finished my 5th lesson for school. Only 16 more to go! *sigh*
Indonesian - Reviewed, and learned the rest of Linguaphone's Lesson 3. Russian - Learned the first two lessons in Hugo which were basically just pronunciation lessons. I learned about hard/soft consonants which I really needed to know before. And I reviewed and learned Lesson 6 in RWOT. The lessons are getting more difficult, not necessarily because of the content (though it is going at a much faster pace than, say, New French With Ease), but my audio isn't 100% what's in the book. Different versions I guess. So I'm still hearing almost everything, but when I see that the audio doesn't match up, I look up the word(s) in a dictionary or online and learn those as well. It's pretty fun being able to look in a Russian dictionary or type in a Russian website and be able to find what I want. :) Also, I'm taking notes in Russian to practice writing and reading the Cyrillic alphabet. Spanish - ALMOST finished my 3rd lesson... almost. I'm so bad at writing about my opinion. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Toufik18 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Algeria Joined 5742 days ago 188 posts - 202 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, Arabic (classical)*, French, English | Message 26 of 48 13 July 2009 at 12:52pm | IP Logged |
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Hello :)
I find your passion to languages very motivating, if you can cram 6 languages at the same time, I think I can do it for 2 :) I wish you all the best in your learning path and stay focused, keep your log alive and do not lose your perseverance . 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 27 of 48 14 July 2009 at 4:07am | IP Logged |
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French - I plan on doing L-R with the French stories since I found audio for at least one of them. Today I read the first chapter of "Micromégas" by Voltaire, listened to the audio while reading the French, then listened to the audio while reading English. I did that twice. I'll do another pass or two tomorrow followed by shadowing. It's only three pages so it shouldn't be that bad. Ideally I'd do three passes (one chapter) per day, but today I was rather busy.
German - Nothing, but I'd like to note that I've received A+'s on my first four lessons, and I sent out my fifth today. Indonesian - Reviewed lesson 3. Russian - Reviewed the first six/seven lessons of RWOT. Learned Lesson 1 of Living Language's Ultimate Russian. Spanish - I spent most of the time for Spanish reviewing what will be on my midterm in a few weeks, which was mostly author biographies and cultural notes today. I finished up the night watching 30 minutes of Spanish television with subtitles in Spanish. Edited by goosefrabbas on 14 July 2009 at 7:30am 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 28 of 48 14 July 2009 at 4:12am | IP Logged |
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Thank you Toufik! I appreciate your stopping by. I do hope that I can continue at this pace for some times. The last time I tried to learn this much I didn't do well, but it was during school. I still have about 1.5 months of summer before I have to start so I want to fit in as much studying as I can before that. And I wish the best of luck to you as well! :) Edited by goosefrabbas on 14 July 2009 at 7:33am 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 29 of 48 15 July 2009 at 9:08am | IP Logged |
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French - Did two more passes of chapter 1, then analyzed the text. I'm starting to think it may be more beneficial to do the whole story at once. As audio, it's a little longer than 50 minutes total, so it's a pretty reasonable length to be able to do one pass a day, and I can finish the story and be "fluent" in it within a week or two, depending on my schedule.
German - Worked on lesson 6 for school. Indonesian - Had a pretty good review of first three lessons. I wrote all the dialogues down and translated them and took notes on them. I also learned the first third of Lesson 4. Russian - Learned Lesson 8 of RWOT. It took a long time because the audio matched up until the title of the lesson. :P Spanish - I found out that I got A's on my first two assignments. :) So I just realized that today I wrote about a page in German, a page in Russian (I wrote down the Assimil lesson and whatever I could make out from the audio), and three in Indonesian. Lucky for me, stuff tends to "stick" when I write it down. 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 30 of 48 16 July 2009 at 5:30am | IP Logged |
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French - Listened to the first chapter of "Micromégas" and understood almost all of it. :) I'll start reading the rest of the story either later tonight or tomorrow so I can L-R the whole ~40 pages at once.
German - Finished Lesson 6. Indonesian - Learned the rest of Lesson 4. I'll probably have to do a good review tomorrow to make sure I remember all of it before starting on Lesson 5. Russian - Reviewed the past few lessons, learned Lesson 9 of RWOT. No audio for this lesson either, so it's taking a little longer than it should, else I would've done another lesson from LLUR or Hugo. Spanish - Finished Lesson 3, finally. It took me a while to figure out what I thought of the story. Started on Lesson 4, centred about the story "El hombre muerto" written by Horracio Quiroga. 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 31 of 48 16 July 2009 at 6:21am | IP Logged |
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Wow, a few minutes ago I found the thread on this site that had links for the audio for the 1951 version of RWOT. Turns out they match perfectly. :D
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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 32 of 48 17 July 2009 at 5:35am | IP Logged |
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French - Started reading the whole of Micromégas in English. Depending on my schedule (I should be a bit busy tomorrow...) I should finish it tomorrow and be able to start doing L-R with audio.
German - Started on Lesson 7 for school. Indonesian - Reviewed Lesson 4. I decided not to learn new material until I know Lesson 4 better, because yesterday I went through it rather quickly and I didn't get to review it that well today. Russian - Learned Lesson 10 of RWOT. It's starting to get interesting. Started and finished Lesson 2 of LLUR. Spanish - Started on Lesson 4 for school. Woke up late and was busy with other stuff most of the day, so I didn't get a lot done. I'm going to have to start putting my Assimil / LL / Hugo / Micromegas audio on my computer to listen to while I do other work. Unfortunately, my tv broke the night I watched the Spanish-language channel before I went to sleep, so I can't watch it for extra Spanish input. Shame. Edited by goosefrabbas on 17 July 2009 at 6:35am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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