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| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6379 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 1 of 20 06 June 2009 at 12:08am | IP Logged |
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Since my motivation is somewhat less than it should be some of the time, this thread will function as a way of committing myself to concrete goals and then hopefully, encouraging myself to acheive them by the end of summer (about midway through august for me). Anyway,
Spanish: Read at least one children's chapter book all the way through (with dictionary). Learn all the 500 verbs in my verb book (I think I should already know several hundred). Finish my school textbook (its paperback, so we can keep it. This is actually a fairly useful book, as the basis is excepts from important literary figures like Gabriel Marquez and Isabel Allende.) Japanese: Finish Genki I (barely into it, but since much of it should be review, this shouldn't take long) Finish Remebering the Kanji I (at 800 as of now. I made it through 1900 last summer, but largely forgot most from lack of reviews over the year) Keep up with Kanji reviews Learn all the JLPT level 4 vocab (i know most already, but this is still as decent of a concrete vocab goal as I can set) Continue to listen to JapanesePod Read over as much of Tae Kim's grammer guide as possible Edited by Lemus on 06 June 2009 at 12:09am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Thenn88 Triglot Newbie United States Joined 5667 days ago 20 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English*, French, Arabic (Written) Studies: Spanish | Message 2 of 20 06 June 2009 at 12:40am | IP Logged |
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I'm studying those two as well. I find this to be a great site for kanji reviews; maybe you know about it already
www.speedanki.com It gives you words with an example sentence for each one. Good Luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6379 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 3 of 20 06 June 2009 at 9:57pm | IP Logged |
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Personally, I prefer Reviewing the Kanji for my reviews because its Heisig specific, but thank you for the encouragement.
So yesterday, hit 863 in Heisig, read up to adjectives in Tae Kim, and started work on the next section of my Spanish book. So far, so good. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6379 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 4 of 20 09 June 2009 at 5:47am | IP Logged |
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Heisig number 891, another two sections of Tae Kim, and two more episodes of Jpod. I'm fairly happy with my current work rate. This journal is helping to encourage me along. Still slacking on the genki and the vocab though
on the Spanish front, found an old easy reader that I'm halfway through (bearing in mind this is roughly 30 pages) and continued working through my book. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6379 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 5 of 20 16 June 2009 at 9:10pm | IP Logged |
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Moving right along. Past 1000 in Heisig, while simultaneously keeping up my reviews on Reviewing the Kanji. Still listening to JapanesePod lessons, but recently discovered you have to pay for old lessons that you used to be able to get for free. So much for their old altruistic motives of teaching Japanese.
In Spanish, i've gotten through two children's books and added a bunch of new vocab. This is the most concentrated reading i've ever done in Spanish, so I feel real progress is being made. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6379 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 6 of 20 23 June 2009 at 6:01am | IP Logged |
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On a side note, I love how if I leave this thread for two or three days it gets buried in a pile of other threads. It's nice to see everyone doing so much with their summers.
Anyhow, 1180 in Heisig, a little more Tae Kim, and assorted JPod episodes. I've kind of slacked on the pure vocab learning. it's so easy to just say "after Heisig..." In Spanish though, i've plowed through two children's books and am attemping an easy version of Treasure Island (La isla del teroso), which has been fun so far, even though my pirate related vocab is not fantastic. Still two months to go. Hopefully I can pick up the pace. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6379 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 7 of 20 25 June 2009 at 6:48am | IP Logged |
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Heisig-1230 Still haven't done my Genki lessons like I planned on...
On the Spanish side, my ability to say things like "rum" "anchor" and "gallows" has improved immensely thanks to La Isla del Tesoro. Not really sure when any of this will be useful, but that generally is the point of vocab, isn't it? Learn for future situations you can't anticipate. Hope everyone else is doing well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Lemus Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6379 days ago 232 posts - 266 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Japanese, Russian, German | Message 8 of 20 27 June 2009 at 6:31am | IP Logged |
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Heisig 1264
Finally did another lesson from my Spanish textbook and continued reading La Isla del Tesoro. About halfway done with what will be the longest Spanish book I've ever read, though there are just mountains of things I have to look up. Hopefully it gets easier as you read more. Anyway, I'll be gone for a week and am really only taking JPod and some Spanish vocab cards with. One half of me looks forward to taking a break and the other is terrified at the thought of 500 expiried Kanjis. Oh well, I'll cross that bridge when I come to it. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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