shyopstv Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6560 days ago 86 posts - 91 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Esperanto
| Message 9 of 28 18 June 2007 at 7:32pm | IP Logged |
Day four: (18/06/2007)
Much more progress today as I finally met my target of 3 hours of work in a day. Completed the final three lessons of Mi estas komencanto. I have the mp3 versions of all 11 lessons which I have been listening to in order to focus the course more on speaking and listening while I use Ana Pana as a more general course. The course was based around the context of an Esperanto meetup which means that some of the vocabulary learned is not particularly useful to me ("get-acquainted evening" springs to mind) but there are still a lot of helpful phrases in there
Also gone through lessons five and six of Ana Pana. Only two more remain which will be the first thing I do tomorrow.
After that I will be using lernu's Gerda malaperis! and Ana renkontas courses to progress further. If anyone wants to learn Esperanto, lernu is an amazing site. I have just posted on their forum in a thread about learning other languages. Some things never change
Edited by shyopstv on 28 June 2007 at 8:28pm
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shyopstv Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6560 days ago 86 posts - 91 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Esperanto
| Message 10 of 28 21 June 2007 at 9:48am | IP Logged |
Day five & six (19-20/06/2007)
Computer crashed so I lost all my flashcards. I am not happy. I have now finished Ana Pana and have started on Gerda malaperis the first lesson of which I completed yesterday. I have also listened through the whole of the mi estas komencanto course on mp3. Spent about 3 hours in total over the last two days
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shyopstv Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6560 days ago 86 posts - 91 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Esperanto
| Message 11 of 28 21 June 2007 at 9:10pm | IP Logged |
Day seven (21/06/2007)
A good day to end my first week. I went through lessons 2-11 of Gerda malaperis. Each of the 25 lessons consists of a chapter of a story which is available as text or as an audio file. There are also a few simple questions at the end of each chapter to test your comprehension of the text. The way I am going about the course now is to listen to the lesson text once then go through the text using a dictionary to gain full understanding.
The lessons increase in both difficulty and length as the course progresses and therefore so does the amount of time I have to spend on them. Lesson 1 took 10 minutes to complete whereas 10 and 11 took half an hour each. So far I have not attempted to absorb any of the new vocabulary taught because it is repeated in later chapters so with the repetition, the words sink in naturally
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| Message 12 of 28 22 June 2007 at 4:39am | IP Logged |
I'm very sorry to hear about you computer crash. It happened to me about two months ago, and I had collected A LOT OF flashcards (in fact, mainly in Esperanto). But life goes on.
I found GM to be a great exercise for reading comprehension, and just as you say, the difficulty and length increases.
Good luck with your Esperanto studies!
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shyopstv Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6560 days ago 86 posts - 91 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Esperanto
| Message 13 of 28 23 June 2007 at 4:22pm | IP Logged |
Day eight: (22/06/2007)
Lessons 12-16 of Gerda malaperis
Day nine: (23/06/2007)
Lessons 17-20 of Gerda malaperis
I now only have 5 more lessons left of Gerda Malaperis but I will also need to review this course as I currently only understand about 60-70% of the the texts and some parts I can only read by using a dictionary. Despite this, my comprehension has improved a lot.
I will be out for most of tomorrow so I am not sure if I will be able to do any studying. If I do, it almost certainly won't be for three hours.
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shyopstv Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6560 days ago 86 posts - 91 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Esperanto
| Message 14 of 28 25 June 2007 at 7:42pm | IP Logged |
Day ten: (24/06/2007)
I did nothing. I was very busy
Day eleven: (25/06/2007)
Hit my three hour target. Completed the final 5 lessons of Gerda malaperis, I also read the epilogue which suggests that I may have to read through the story again to gain full understanding which I was planning to do anyway.
So far I have not studied the grammar of Esperanto very far. I am now using another course from lernu, La puzlo Esperanto to learn the grammar rules. There are 45 short lessons and I completed the first 10 today
Also, I have looked at the first lesson of Ana renkontas and will be doing the correspondance exercise tomorrow
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shyopstv Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6560 days ago 86 posts - 91 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Esperanto
| Message 15 of 28 28 June 2007 at 10:50am | IP Logged |
Day twelve: (26/06/2007)
Lessons 11-20 of La puzlo Esperanto
Lessons 1-3 of Ana renkontas
Day thirteen: (27/06/2007)
Re-read the first 13 chapters of Gerda malaperis. I understand pretty much all of this through context now. Next task will be to be able to understand it by just listening
Lessons 4-7 of Ana rekontas, this is actually slightly easier than I was expecting. A couple of the dialogue exercises are quite difficult
I may be well on the way to totally annihilating Esperanto but I would be lucky to be causing minor damage to the updates forum even if it was made of tissue paper. There just isn't a great deal to report
Edited by shyopstv on 28 June 2007 at 8:27pm
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shyopstv Groupie United Kingdom Joined 6560 days ago 86 posts - 91 votes ![](/images/pokal.2.jpg) 1 sounds Speaks: English* Studies: German, Esperanto
| Message 16 of 28 28 June 2007 at 8:46pm | IP Logged |
Day fourteen: (28/06/2007):
Worked for about 150 minutes today
Completed the final lesson of Ana renkontas
And lessons 21-26 of La puzlo Esperanto
I then spent some time studying the grammar aspects I am currently finding hardest, correlatives and suffixes. These are two very important grammar areas so I spent an hour on this alone to ensure that I have as much confidence as possible with them
I am currently working through another lernu course called Jen nia IJK. It is a bit like Gerda Malaperis but it seems to have easier dialogues but more exercises. I completed the first two lessons today
Also, I have finally found a good site for Esperanto audio. www.radioverda.com I can understand isolated words within the podcasts but no more at the moment
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