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Study Snapshot - July 2009

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DaraghM
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 Message 1 of 6
24 July 2009 at 4:54pm | IP Logged 
I thought it would be interesting to get a snaphot of a typical months study by forum members for this one particular month. I'm especially interested in those who study a number of languages, but don't keep a log.

Here's the questions,

1. How many hours roughly per week did you average this month ?
2. What resources did you use for your study ?
3. Did you make any interesting discoveries about your target language(s) ?
4. Did you have any upsets to your study plans, and what were they ?

It might be interesting to compare this snaphot, with another taken at a late date.
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gbarv
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25 July 2009 at 4:11am | IP Logged 
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Edited by gbarv on 16 August 2009 at 3:10am

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gbarv
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25 July 2009 at 4:36am | IP Logged 
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Edited by gbarv on 16 August 2009 at 3:10am

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Bao
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25 July 2009 at 4:51pm | IP Logged 
gbarv, this kind of second thoughts is uncalled for. What's important is your own progress, not the comparision to others.


Okay, I'll try, too.
1.) Japanese 15-20 hours, Spanish 8 hours of classes a week, 30 hours of work with Spanish children and the odd time that comes with living with a target language family in a target language country.
2.) TV shows and ame-piggu chat for Japanese, a textbook and immersion for Spanish :3
3.) All the time. Little discoveries like how in my different languages the words "to come/to go/to walk/to go for a walk" contrast or overlap each other.
4.) I'm having a cold (or the flu) and that seriously tampers with my mental processing capacity. And I need to sozialize more, no matter how difficult it is.

Edited by Bao on 25 July 2009 at 4:55pm

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icing_death
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25 July 2009 at 5:31pm | IP Logged 
1) 20
2) language partners, tutors, pimsleur, fia, learn in your car, textbooks, anki, vocabulary lists, novels, movies
3) yes, mostly in my newest language
4) work
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Felixelus
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25 July 2009 at 6:22pm | IP Logged 
1. How many hours roughly per week did you average this month ?
Well I try to average 30 mins a day on my target language be it formal study or just immersing myself in the language via music or whatever.

2. What resources did you use for your study ?
Michel Thomas, Linguaphone and Berlitz essential Spanish

3. Did you make any interesting discoveries about your target language(s) ?
Only that the grammar is reassuringly similar to Italian/French both languages I've studied before. So really I just need to learn vocab and pronunciation.

4. Did you have any upsets to your study plans, and what were they ?
Being a full time PhD student and training for long distance running events are my main distractions. However, once I move to the Canary Islands in September I will be fully immersed and therefore have more opportunity to practise/learn :)

PS Gbarv: People generally don't patronise around here, besides your number of studying hours are greater than mine currently! ^_^ Quality not quantity as they say!



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