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maya_star17 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5907 days ago 269 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English, Russian, French, Spanish Studies: Japanese	Message 1 of 4 18 October 2008 at 11:01pm \| IP Logged
	My Hebrew materials finally arrived from amazon(.ca) today, so I'm finally starting to study Hebrew with a writing/grammar focus (before this I was focusing exclusively on the spoken language). The series I'm using is called Ivrit: A language course. It's pretty good, but doesn't have audio - I'm hoping to get a native speaker to help me with this. Anyway, today I did half of Chapter 1. I learned about a dozen words, as well as some basic grammar points: masculine vs. feminine nouns, singular vs plural nouns, and the definite article (ha-). I entered the dozen or so words into Mnemosyne (sp?) along with a few sentences. Will do more tomorrow. EDIT: for simplicity's sake, I've decided to also make this my Spanish log. Edited by maya_star17 on 18 October 2008 at 11:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful
maya_star17 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5907 days ago 269 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English, Russian, French, Spanish Studies: Japanese	Message 2 of 4 20 October 2008 at 6:51pm \| IP Logged
	OK, I finished the chapter and reviewed everything. An interesting thing that I found was that I remember what all of the words sound like/how they're pronounced, but only vaguely remember how to spell them. This is to be expected - not only have I already had more exposure to spoken Hebrew than to the written language, but I"m also an oral learner. Nothing new here. I've given it some brief thought and decided to move on. If I OCD about learning to write every word perfectly, my progress is going to be impossibly slow. My goal is to learn the spoken language primarily, at any rate. As always, reading and writing are of secondary importance. 1 person has voted this message useful
maya_star17 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5907 days ago 269 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English, Russian, French, Spanish Studies: Japanese	Message 3 of 4 21 October 2008 at 1:42am \| IP Logged
	Did a good chunk of chapter 2 today. In the next day or two I'll finish up the chapter, review all of the vocabulary taught thus far, and review sentences from the first 2 chapters via SRS. I have to say, I'm quite pleased with my progress. The first book only has 9 chapters, so if I continue at a pace of about 3 chapters per week (which is very feasible and realistic), I'll be done the entire book in 3 weeks. After that, I'll probably take a week off to review everything before continuing on to the 2nd book. 1 person has voted this message useful
Aquedita Triglot Senior Member Poland myspace.com/aqueda_v Joined 6006 days ago 154 posts - 164 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin	Message 4 of 4 21 October 2008 at 2:36am \| IP Logged
	Keep up the good work! The most important thing is to have some kind of system, and you seem to have developed your own, focusing on speaking not writing. And that's ok. Thanks to your other language blog (the Japanese one) I started using Mnemosyne yesterday for learning kanji :) 1 person has voted this message useful

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maya_star17 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5907 days ago 269 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English, Russian, French, Spanish Studies: Japanese	Message 1 of 4 18 October 2008 at 11:01pm \| IP Logged
	My Hebrew materials finally arrived from amazon(.ca) today, so I'm finally starting to study Hebrew with a writing/grammar focus (before this I was focusing exclusively on the spoken language). The series I'm using is called Ivrit: A language course. It's pretty good, but doesn't have audio - I'm hoping to get a native speaker to help me with this. Anyway, today I did half of Chapter 1. I learned about a dozen words, as well as some basic grammar points: masculine vs. feminine nouns, singular vs plural nouns, and the definite article (ha-). I entered the dozen or so words into Mnemosyne (sp?) along with a few sentences. Will do more tomorrow. EDIT: for simplicity's sake, I've decided to also make this my Spanish log. Edited by maya_star17 on 18 October 2008 at 11:04pm 1 person has voted this message useful
maya_star17 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5907 days ago 269 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English, Russian, French, Spanish Studies: Japanese	Message 2 of 4 20 October 2008 at 6:51pm \| IP Logged
	OK, I finished the chapter and reviewed everything. An interesting thing that I found was that I remember what all of the words sound like/how they're pronounced, but only vaguely remember how to spell them. This is to be expected - not only have I already had more exposure to spoken Hebrew than to the written language, but I"m also an oral learner. Nothing new here. I've given it some brief thought and decided to move on. If I OCD about learning to write every word perfectly, my progress is going to be impossibly slow. My goal is to learn the spoken language primarily, at any rate. As always, reading and writing are of secondary importance. 1 person has voted this message useful
maya_star17 Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Canada Joined 5907 days ago 269 posts - 291 votes Speaks: English, Russian, French, Spanish Studies: Japanese	Message 3 of 4 21 October 2008 at 1:42am \| IP Logged
	Did a good chunk of chapter 2 today. In the next day or two I'll finish up the chapter, review all of the vocabulary taught thus far, and review sentences from the first 2 chapters via SRS. I have to say, I'm quite pleased with my progress. The first book only has 9 chapters, so if I continue at a pace of about 3 chapters per week (which is very feasible and realistic), I'll be done the entire book in 3 weeks. After that, I'll probably take a week off to review everything before continuing on to the 2nd book. 1 person has voted this message useful
Aquedita Triglot Senior Member Poland myspace.com/aqueda_v Joined 6006 days ago 154 posts - 164 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Japanese Studies: Mandarin	Message 4 of 4 21 October 2008 at 2:36am \| IP Logged
	Keep up the good work! The most important thing is to have some kind of system, and you seem to have developed your own, focusing on speaking not writing. And that's ok. Thanks to your other language blog (the Japanese one) I started using Mnemosyne yesterday for learning kanji :) 1 person has voted this message useful