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| Marchal Diglot Senior Member Germany christian-renner.deRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6076 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Latin | Message 1 of 4 15 February 2008 at 3:47pm | IP Logged |
This is what I have got (or at least expect to arrive by next week) for "conquering" Italian:
My projected time frame (although I have no idea at all whether this is anything near realistic): I want to go through the basic "Italienisch in 30 Tagen"-Kurs in eventually about 30 days. I know this will not be to easy, but I will use this old cassette course just to browse throught the basics of Italian. (This will take me to mid-March). I want to take the Langenscheidt beginners´ course until the end of April - and try to have memorized about 3000-4000 words with my Crammy electronic trainer by then.... hmmm...very ambitious, we´ll see. I want to go through Langenscheidt´s refresher course in 4 weeks until the end of May - and have learnt another 1000 words by then (and practiced and rehearsed whatever words I will have learned until then). I want to go through my grammar book in that time, as well. I want to take the Max Hueber advanced Italian course in another weeks until the end of June (first run) and go on practicing with the crammy trainer. I will not have too much time in the first two weeks of July, but train with my crammy and perhaps listen to one or two of my audio CDs. Second run of Hueber advanced Italian: mid-july to mid-september, along with going through my medical Italian book and my holiday+eating Italian book, as well as training with my crammy. mid-september till mid-october: crammy, grammar, phrase book! and idiomatic expressions (and a few days in Rome :-), where I will buy a few books with accompanying unabridged audiobooks - although audio libri do not seem to be too popular in Italy as far as my www-researches took me). More daily study until December 31st. I hope to pack 500-600 hours of Italian training into that time frame - and that that will be enough to allow me to take on things like subtitled films, magazines, books... In January 2009 I will take on learning Spanish, come what may ===:-), and I will have to stop intensive-active Italian training for the time being. But I ordered a monthly magazine for training Italian along with a monthly audio trainings CD, Adesso, which will start to arrive in March. I am going to work through the monthly issue for a long time to come (using my Franklin Bookman electronic dictionary on the way). And then, hopefully, I will start on trying to read books from authors like Collodi and Lampedusa.... My advantages: I like words and languages, I learnt Latin at school for 7 years (although by now I have forgotten almost everything about it), I am ambitious and motivated. My disavantages: I do not have too much time and my discipline is just terrible, shocking and awful.... help! And of course this is a very optimistic and ambitious plan... So, I will see - and report - where this takes me... Oh, I forgot to list my goals:
Edited by Marchal on 16 February 2008 at 2:00pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6413 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 2 of 4 15 February 2008 at 4:23pm | IP Logged |
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Wow! So many materials! Considering that there is quite a lot online too, I'm not sure you'll need nearly as much.
For example, you can also use http://www.kom.tu-darmstadt.de/eurocom/index.php?p=selecttex t&lng=42 to get some passive knowledge in. It is made for people who already know French or Spanish, but I think with Latin and a dictionary you may have also have a good chance. http://academic.brooklyn.cuny.edu/modlang/carasi/site/pageon e.html is another online course. http://www.bbc.co.uk/education/languages/italian/issimo/inde x.shtml is another. http://www.mangolanguages.com and another. http://www.cyberitalian.com/html/grammar.htm - detailed student's grammar Use WordChamp to read Italian websites and newspapers even if 50% of the vocabulary is unknown - you only need to hover over a word to get the translation. Get a collection of Italian movies on DVD and watch them initially in Italian with German subtitles and then in Italian with Italian subtitles. You will be amazed how many words and expressions just stick because you are encountering them in emotional situations. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Marchal Diglot Senior Member Germany christian-renner.deRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6076 days ago 12 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Latin | Message 3 of 4 15 February 2008 at 4:32pm | IP Logged |
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@Sprachprofi:
"Wow! So many materials! Considering that there is quite a lot online too, I'm not sure you'll need nearly as much." Thanks for pointing out the online resources - they will be very helpful, thank you. Perhaps I spent too much money on my equiment (it´s a bad habit of mine when starting to deal with a topic), but I don´t like learning with my computer (otherwise there would have been CD-ROM courses to consider) - I wanted to be flexible and not bound to any one place or desk. As for the Italian movies this is a very good idea - indeed I have been searching around a bit on Amazon. I guess I will be able to profit from movies only when I have aquired some basic initial knowledge of Italian, though? Again, the online resources are a very good hint, thank you! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| BelgoHead Senior Member Belgium Joined 6246 days ago 120 posts - 119 votes Studies: French, English* Studies: Esperanto | Message 4 of 4 15 February 2008 at 9:04pm | IP Logged |
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Good luck!, quite the amount of resources you have there.
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