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| july22_m Newbie Australia Joined 5894 days ago 19 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, German, Italian | Message 1 of 5 20 October 2008 at 11:09am | IP Logged |
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I acquired MT Japanese today - I flew through the first 5 CDs like a knife through butter! I admit most was revision - but what a wonderful pace to review at. I will finish it this week and wait for the advanced in Feb 09.
I will go back to my MT German - the pleasure of the new MT courses is the teacher does not get frustrated like Michel Thomas, and the students are not dumb!!! Maybe they should redo all of the original Michel thomas courses... Barry 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5986 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes  Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 2 of 5 20 October 2008 at 2:24pm | IP Logged |
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Dear Barry,
It is nice to see that you are going well with your studies. Though I must ask if there is a reason why you keep starting new threads each time you have a topic to post? I believe that the point of your log is to keep it all in one place, or even one thread a language, so it is all nice and tidy. Keep up the work, Thom. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| july22_m Newbie Australia Joined 5894 days ago 19 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, German, Italian | Message 3 of 5 23 October 2008 at 10:16am | IP Logged |
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Hi Thom,
Sorry I never thought of writing again in the same post - I thought it would be like talking to myself. I have finished the full 8 CDs. The only new stuff I really learned was nagara - a verb ending to join to actions: Hon o yominagara asagohan o tabemashita - I read a book whilst I ate breakfast. The only issue I had with the instructor was at the point of introducing imasu and arimasu. She said imasu is 'animated' things - living things, but because of her little memory tricks both of the students were saying arimasu as animated. I believe she caused this link accidently. Arimasu and imasu both mean 'there exists' Barry 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5986 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 4 of 5 23 October 2008 at 10:24am | IP Logged |
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No worries,
Why did you take up japanese and German? And where are you situated in Australia? and what are you doing up so late? Thom. Edited by ExtraLean on 23 October 2008 at 10:29am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| july22_m Newbie Australia Joined 5894 days ago 19 posts - 22 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, German, Italian | Message 5 of 5 24 October 2008 at 8:24pm | IP Logged |
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Hi,
I took up Japanese because my sister lives there. She has been there about 8 years. She did a degree with Japanese as her Major, then a teaching course. She then moved to Japan on the JET Program - Teaching English to Japanese school children. She has now married a Japanese Guy - Hideki. I have worked through Japanese for Busy People 1. When they came for a visit I tried to only speak Japanese with Hideki, since his English was bad anyway. I took up German because we get a lot of Germans visiting who don't speak much English. I live in Alice Springs, Australia. My wife is a General Manager of a large Hotel so we live onsite. I am always up late! I find I have better focus late at night; I don't get distracted as easily. I can stay on task. I used to study Italian 20 years ago when I lived down south. I was in an area where there were a lot of Italians. I never got very good. Cheers Barry 1 person has voted this message useful |
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