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| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6140 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes  | Message 1 of 2 30 April 2008 at 11:55am | IP Logged |
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My goals for the remainder of the year:
-Be fluent enough in spoken and written Mandarin to talk about science, religion and history. (Mainly I'm lacking in active vocabulary and confidence) -Same as above in Japanese -Be able to read in Japanese without referring to dictionaries for kanji readings in a given novel, particularly historical, fantasy or science-fiction, which use more kanji AFAIK. (No dictionaries AT ALL) -Read Homeric Greek with the aid of a dictionary or parallel text -Read Classical Latin with minimal reference to a dictionary. (At most 2-3 per page) My "it'd be nice if I could do this too" list includes: -Passable German to read topics of a general nature. (There is a school trip to Germany in August that I'm interested in, so I guess knowing a bit of German could come in useful; I'd also like to read Mozart's Letters, Hermann Hesse in the original; according to Wikipedia, German also seems to be the language with the most translations being conducted through, both into it and out of it, so it could be useful for a listenin-reading base language as well) -Enough French to read Casanova's memoirs, Rousseau, Camus and Marcel Proust in the original. My interests follow that order. -Polish to read "Wiedzmin" and Henryk Sienkiewicz (Quo Vadis and Krzyżacy in particular). Some of these secondary goals might replace my primary ones if I feel bored at the pursuit of those. I'll be reading Mandarin translations of Anna Karenina and a Japanese novel for these 2 weeks. I haven't read anything in Mandarin for quite a long time; my slow reading pace realative to English or even Japanese quite discourages me, but I'll know I'll get faster with more reading. I'm aiming for a minimum of 32 pages a day in Mandarin, I believe I can surpass this number quite easily, but I shall just put it to ensure I'll do it even on days when school ends at 2030. After that, I shall tentatively read through Lingua Latina Per Se Illustrata at a minimum of 1 lesson a day until I complete both volumes. Then I'll proceed on to Regulus (The Little Prince) and Harrius Potter et Philosophi Lapis, and on to some neo or mediaeval Latin. Throughout it all, I shall be doing Japanese SRS reps, watching anime, reading manga, reading interesting material and listening to Japanese music. After my Chinese reading speed boost phase, I might schedule a bit of L-R for one of my secondary goals to get a feel of it before Lingua Latina 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Alkeides Senior Member Bhutan Joined 6140 days ago 636 posts - 644 votes | Message 2 of 2 01 May 2008 at 10:26am | IP Logged |
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After a reading a few pages, I found my reading speed in Mandarin accelerating. I haven't read anything longer than a newspaper article (even that very infrequently) in Mandarin for a year, and I'm pleased to note that my character recognition hasn't deteriorated in the slightest, possibly due to Japanese.
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