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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 33 of 48 18 July 2009 at 7:29am | IP Logged | ||
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French - Read more of Micromégas in English. Got through Lesson 28 in FWOT.
German - Worked on more of Lesson 7 for school. Indonesian - Learned half of Lesson 5 in Linguaphone. Russian - Learned Lesson 11 or RWOT. Reviewed some old stuff. Spanish - Worked on more of Lesson 4 for school. I said I'd start German Without Toil and I still haven't. I just looked through the book and it's packed with info. I'll be starting it soon. 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 34 of 48 19 July 2009 at 7:12am | IP Logged | ||
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I was pressed for time today so I decided to time myself to make sure I studied for a good amount of time. Looks like Russian takes up a lot more time than I thought, but then again, this wasn't a `normal` day. I'd usually have more time.
French - Lessons 29-35 of FWOT. (40 minutes) 40 total German - Worked on my lesson for school. (45 minutes) Went through Lessons 1-7 of GWOT. (15 minutes) 60 total Indonesian - Reviewed. (5 minutes) 5 total Russian - Reviewed and learned Lesson 12 of RWOT. (60 minutes) Practiced hard/soft consonants and other topics on pronunciation. (30 minutes) Worked on some of LL Lesson 3. (30) 120 total In other news, I'm considering adding Linguistics to Mathematics for a second major. I just have to figure out what I want to do with those degrees... 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| anamsc Triglot Senior Member Andorra Joined 6201 days ago 296 posts - 382 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Catalan Studies: Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Written), French | Message 35 of 48 19 July 2009 at 7:27am | IP Logged | ||
Oh my gosh, those are my majors lol! Sorry, it's just that not alot of people choose that combination. And it's funny, sometimes when I tell people that's what I'm studying, they go umm okay good luck getting a job :( and sometimes they're like, wow you're going to have so many opportunities :). So I'm trying not to worry about it. But anyways, good luck with your studies! Edited by anamsc on 19 July 2009 at 7:28am 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 36 of 48 19 July 2009 at 7:32am | IP Logged | ||
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haha that's awesome. What do you plan to do? I don't know myself, probably research in either field, depending on which I'm better / more interested in. Anyway, thanks!
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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 37 of 48 20 July 2009 at 3:16am | IP Logged | ||
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No 'real' studying done today except for reviewing what I learned yesterday and a little from before in most of what I'm learning. I watched TV from other countries today, and, well... it's interesting. There's a Haitian channel that I watched for a while, and I understood a lot, but it's definitely not standard French. The Russian channel was whoa. I understood a few words here and there. The Indonesian channel had some pretty cute girls. :)
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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 38 of 48 22 July 2009 at 1:21am | IP Logged | ||
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This is for yesterday, today until now, and what I'm definitely going to do for rest of today. May add more later. I'm posting this early to get some input on the two notes at the bottom.
French - Lessons 36-42 of FWOT. German - Lessons 1-14 of GWOT. Also, finished Lesson 7 for school. Indonesian - Learned the rest of Linguaphone Lesson 5. Russian - Learned Lesson 13 and the Review Lesson (14) in RWOT. Also worked on more of LL Lesson 3. Spanish - Just worked on my lesson, haven't done much with this really. I've been watching some some videos and reading stuff in Spanish but no "real" studying. *I made an Amazon purchase yesterday and some other random purchases a few days before. Hopefully they'll help! I bought... L'indonesién sans peine Teach Yourself Indonesian (book, don't think pronunciation will be an issue at all) Modern Russian 1 (book (I already have the audio already from a friend who recommended this book)) The New Penguin Russian Course Roots of the Russian Language: An Elementary Guide to Wordbuilding Russian Stories - A Dual-Language Book (this won't be touched for a while...) Short Stories in German / Erzählungen auf Deutsch (...nor will this) **I posted something in Indonesian on my Facebook "[my name] tak mau harus bangun pagi-pagi sehari-hari" and got a reply in Russian "почему?", so I tried my skills out. "моего брата сейцас для группы в школе, и я его отвожу туда" I'm not sure if either of those made sense, so if anyone can correct me, please do so! :) Edited by goosefrabbas on 22 July 2009 at 1:24am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| xandreax Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5898 days ago 142 posts - 160 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Italian | Message 39 of 48 23 July 2009 at 3:31am | IP Logged | ||
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It's really interesting, reading your log, because you're learning so many languages at the same time. I read about the New Penguin Russian Course on amazon as well and that's probably what I'll start with when I do begin learning Russian, just because people say it's *so good*!
Anyway, good luck with your studies =) 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 40 of 48 24 July 2009 at 5:27am | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks Xandreax! But it's not too hard, because I'm learning a little from each language every day, maybe an hour or two for each at the most. I'm learning slowly but surely. I got the (old) Penguin course from the library, looked through it a little, and found out why everyone raves about it. I just got in the New Penguin course today and it's even better - EXTREMELY thorough, and only $12 new. You should definitely get it when you start learning Russian, along with RWOT because it's great and free. Good luck to you too!
Here's my last two days. I've been really busy with other stuff so I haven't gotten that much done, and I've been committing a lot more time to my school courses because I want to get as much done as possible before school starts, which is in a little more than a month. French: learned some lessons from FWOT. I don't remember which ones, and the book's in my mom's car right now. German: learned some lessons from GWOT. Same situation as French. Also, started and completed Lesson 8 for school. Indonesian: Reviewed Lessons 1-5 of Linguaphone. I'll probably look through the TY book tonight. I don't think going through the first lesson will be a problem tonight. Russian: Learned Hugo's Lesson 3. Reviewed Lessons 1-14 of RWOT. The book's on the computer and I haven't been home a lot, so, yeah. Spanish: Got more of Lesson 4 done for school. Also watched some Spanish tv online. ** Today most of my books came in. Teach Yourself Indonesian, Hugo's Russian in Three Months, New Penguin Russian Course, Roots of the Russian Language, and the Russian and German readers. Also, I printed out Le Nouveau Russe Sans Peine, Russian Without Toil, and the Linguaphone's Indonesian course so I can take them wherever I go and write notes in them. It feels very weird writing in my books because I always try to keep my books as close to mint condition as possible, but I think in this case it's beneficial. Plus it looks cooler when you have a book with markings and highlights everywhere. :) With RWOT and Indonesian I used the past day to go through the courses, make notes and highlight important things, etc. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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