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| johntothea Senior Member United States Joined 6620 days ago 193 posts - 192 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, French | Message 1 of 6 12 June 2007 at 5:27pm | IP Logged | ||
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Goals:
Almost advanced, if not advanced, fluency in Spanish. High-Intermediate - Basic Fluency in french and italian. Intermediate Knowledge of Polish. At least High-Beginner in Russian, Afrikaans, and Swedish. Start Date: June 23rd [my first day of summer] 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| johntothea Senior Member United States Joined 6620 days ago 193 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, French | Message 2 of 6 06 July 2007 at 3:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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I'm feeling overwhelmed with my current language schedule.
I'm realizing that I'm not managing my time as well as I could, so here is the schedule that I think I can fit in. It fulfills my wanderlust and it's not TOO demanding. I think I can handle it. New Schedule: Spanish=Everyday Russian=Every other day Italian=Everyday French=At least every other day Afrikaans=At least 3 times a week Polish=Everyday Swedish=At least 3 times a week German[New Addition, high motivation]=Everyday Romanian; Portugese= Once or twice a week. Just flirting. When I say study I'm talking about at least half an hour. Hopefully an hour or more. I was doing pretty well before my vacation, I'm pretty sure I can get 'back into the swing of things' on sunday. Edited by johntothea on 06 July 2007 at 3:26pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| johntothea Senior Member United States Joined 6620 days ago 193 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, French | Message 3 of 6 14 July 2007 at 8:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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So, I've gotten next to zero language study done since I made that post.
Other than learning a little more than 100 words in Spanish, it hasn't been going too well. But fortunately it wasn't my fault, so I don't have to feel bad about it and tomorrow can start like it's a new day for my language studies. I still have time before summer's over! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| sergiu Diglot Senior Member Romania freewebs.com/invata_ Joined 6431 days ago 105 posts - 108 votes Speaks: Romanian*, English Studies: German | Message 4 of 6 16 July 2007 at 10:57am | IP Logged | ||
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"So, I've gotten next to zero language study done since I made that post. "
That's because you're thinking way too much about what you have to do ,scheduling everything. I had this problem too,of being a perfectionist and making all sorts of plans and schedules,but let go of them and see what good it can do. Just set yourself,let's say, 4 uninterrupted hours a day for your languages. I think it's also the problem of having too many on your hand ,thus comes the ease of losing focus. But once you go down to the real study,you'll just know which ones to keep and which ones you really don't want in your life for the moment. Procrastination can also be a sign of depression.But I won't discuss that issue. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| johntothea Senior Member United States Joined 6620 days ago 193 posts - 192 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish, Russian, Norwegian, Polish, French | Message 5 of 6 16 July 2007 at 4:11pm | IP Logged | ||
I was actually sick, and had a lot of work to do around the house. Thanks for your concern though! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| foreignwords Triglot Newbie Taiwan hebrewexperiment.blo Joined 5947 days ago 3 posts - 3 votes Speaks: English*, Mandarin, Russian Studies: Cantonese, Japanese, Thai, Vietnamese, Taiwanese | Message 6 of 6 06 August 2008 at 10:04pm | IP Logged | ||
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Kudos for your organization, though... seriously. I've been studying Mandarin for the past year and use it hours every day in my line of work. It's wonderful because I'm actually in the community here, but...
I haven't had the diligence to study my other languages like that. KEEP UP WITH RUSSIAN. It's an amazing language. I don't know why, but I love it. It was my first foreign language (if you don't count Latin). I need to get a schedule of study down. I've recently started studying Thai, Lao and Vietnamese in conjunction with Cantonese. I really enjoy Thai, and have a good friend that speaks all three, but there seems to be so few useful resources that my studying is very haphazard (read: based on how patient i can be searching for hours on Google for the vocabulary I need, etc.) As to the schedule vs free-form study, there are tons of precious little moments of language learning (like reading the warning message at a gas station in Spanish and learning how to say 'portable container') and those are REALLY what make people speak a language, but you can't count on those moments of bliss... unfortunately. In any case, props for a busy language schedule. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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