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Alhamisi Agosti 30, 2007
Today's Active Study Mnemosyne (15 min.) Swahili lessons on You Tube (40 min.) Read about ½ of “Kisiwa cha Almasi” (story from book of the same name) (60 min.) Read through some more of “Swahili Learners’ Reference Grammar” (20 min.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Ijumaa Agosti 31, 2007
Today's Active Study Read “Wamarekani wajiunga na kanisa la Kenya” from BBC Swahili (5 min.) Read “Alizeti” by Gill Bond (5 min.) Read aloud Genesis ch. 1 (15 min.) Pimsleur Unit 8 (30 min.) Read “Kenya yakanusha madai ya rushwa” from BBC Swahili (5 min.) Today's Passive Study Thru the Bible Swahili (Thursday’s broadcast) (30 min.) Thru the Bible Swahili (Friday’s broadcast) (30 min.) Listened and followed along with Matthew ch. 26 & 27 (20 min.) Mambo Jambo CD (60 min.) Swahili Christian music videos on YouTube (60 min.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Jumamosi Septmba 1, 2007
Today's Active Study Read “Alizeti” aloud several times (10 min.) Read Genesis ch. 2-5 (30 min.) Pimsleur Unit 8 (30 min.) Listened to and followed along with Mark ch. 1-5 (30 min.) Mnemosyne (15 min.) Read “Bhutto aahidi kurejea Pakistan mapema” on BBC Swahili (5 min.) Today's Passive Study “Mambo Jambo” CD (60 min.) “Cinderella” (10 min.) “Sungura na Mama mwenye shamba” (10 min.) KBC Channel 1 (20min.) Music videos (30 min.) Listened to Pimsleur Unit 9 (30 min.) Notes: I had set a “mini-goal” for myself to be able to read “Alizeti” aloud and fluently by the end of the week. I read it both silently and aloud a few times a day all week but either stumbled over a few words or read some parts too slowly. Today I finally did it just right. It’s such a cute story too - much like “The Carrot Seed” by Ruth Krauss - and I can‘t wait to take it with me to the orphanage in Nairobi and read it to all the little kids. I did not, however, finish Pimsleur by the end of August as I had planned but I’m not sweating it. I figure another week or two and I’ll have it in the bag. Edited by Crissy on 02 September 2007 at 8:16am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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~Totals~
Sun. - 55min. Mon. - 210min (3 hrs. 30min.) Tues. - 245min. (4hrs. 5min.) Wed. - 270min. (4hrs. 30min.) Thurs. - 135min. (2hrs. 15 min.) Fri. - 260min (4hrs. 20min.) Sat. - 270min. (4hrs. 30min.) Total this week: 1445min. (24hrs. 5min.) Total to date: 3526min. (58hrs. 46min.) Edited by Crissy on 02 September 2007 at 8:18am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Jumapili Septmba 2, 2007
Today's Active Study Read through “Alizeti” aloud a few times (5 min.) Pimsleur Unit 9 (30 min.) Listened and followed along with Mark ch. 6-10 (35 min.) Mnemosyne (10 min.) Read Genesis ch. 6-7 (10 min.) Read “Waasi wa Ethiopia kusitisha mapigano” from BBC Swahili (5 min.) Read “Kanisa Anglikana Uganda lawa gumzo” (5 min.) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Jumatatu Septmba 3, 2007
Today's Active Study Read through “Alizeti” aloud a few times (5 min.) Read Genesis 8-10 (15 min.) Not much language learning today since I spend my entire Labor Day painting the outside of the house. Heh... I even have the sunburn to prove it. ;o) Edited by Crissy on 03 September 2007 at 8:20pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Jumatano Septmba 5, 2007
Today's Active Study Read through “Alizeti” aloud a few times (5 min.) Translated a song from Swahili to English. (45 min.) Found lyrics to Shangwe Kwa Bwana (Shout to the Lord) and sang along with the the recording on Thru the Bible several times to get them down pat (10 min.) Read aloud “Ujerumani wazuia njama za mabomu” from BBC Swahili (5 min.) Mnemosyne (15 min.) Read aloud “Mkuu wa Umoja wa Mataifa azuru Darfur” from BBC Swahili (5 min.) Today's Passive Study Thru the Bible Swahili (Monday’s broadcast) (30 min.) Thru the Bible Swahili (Tuesday’s broadcast) (30 min.) Thru the Bible Swahili (Wednesday’s broadcast) (30 min.) Listened to Mark ch. 11-16 (40 min.) Notes: I totally did absolutely not one single thing in Swahili yesterday. I didn’t even THINK one word or phrase in the language. I could list a dozen different reasons WHY but they would just be excuses. The fact is, one thing led to another and I flaked… that’s about all there is to it. To be honest it really opened my eyes though; I mean it was ENTIRELY too easy to just NOT do anything. I thought I had set myself up pretty well so that, even if I had one of those off days where I simply did not get to do anything “formal” I would still have some measure of exposure just by “being.” Yesterday assured me that I was wrong and haven’t done nearly enough to “Swahili-ize” my environment. I guess I’m going to have to work on that. I did get an interesting surprise though when I logged onto Mnemosyne this morning. There were some words, phrases and even sentences that just would NOT stick in my brain no matter how many times I went over them. This morning I found that several of them came rather easily while practicing. I guess missing a day wasn’t all bad if it meant a few new things had the chance to solidify in the old noodle. I also got an incredible rush when I was translating a song from Swahili to English today. I had copied and pasted the lyrics from the internet into Word and was looking up the words and creating coherent sentences out of them (a reward in and of itself). There were a few words that I looked up though which had no translation listed. I looked and looked at them on the screen and then a light bulb went on in my brain, duh… they were misspelled. What had been one word should have actually been two words and one or two others simply had an extra letter added to the end where it shouldn’t have been. I had never encountered these words before but somehow it just made sense. A month ago I would have looked the word up, not found it in the dictionary, got frustrated over the lack of said word and then promptly forgot about it. Being able to look at the word today though and say, “something’s wrong here, aha, this would make PERFECT sense if the word was split and made into two words or if this letter was not doubled, it must have been misspelled” THAT really illustrated to me more than anything just how far I’ve come since I started learning Swahili a few months ago. In other news, The Kamusi Project is off-line indefinitely which makes me want to cry into my pillow. I love that site and have REALLY relied on it for so many things over the past month or so. I hope they get things figured out soon. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
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Hujambo bibi. Do you talk to yourself in Swahili? I talk to myself in the language that I'm learning, especially when I'm unable to study much. I say things like: * Where is ... ? * What is this? * I need this. * Who is that? * Who are you? The last two I say when I'm driving. The more you do it, the more you will talk to yourself and find other ways. Also, you can greet your child too. Hope this helps you since they have helped me. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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