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| neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5974 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes  Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish | Message 169 of 206 26 September 2009 at 2:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Italian,
I've been listening to lots of podcasts, reading my Italian Vanity Fair (the "Italian Vogue" from an earlier post was a mistake), and did the 2nd lesson in my grammar book. I did fall behind on my anki review, but started it up again yesterday... Since I'm not adding any more words at the moment, I should catch up soon German, In a busy week, this is what sort of got left behind. I'm thinking that I'll be able to do better next week. Pimlseur 10 (did first 10 minutes twice): 36 mins Pimlseur 11: 26 mins Total time: 1343.5 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5974 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish | Message 170 of 206 26 September 2009 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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German,
Did Pimlseur 12 right after writing my previous post. :) Pimsleur 12: 25 mins Total time: 1368.5 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5974 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish | Message 171 of 206 28 September 2009 at 5:25am | IP Logged | ||
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Italian,
Anki, plus finished the third chapter of my grammar book 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6247 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 172 of 206 28 September 2009 at 11:16am | IP Logged | ||
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Do you only make use of Pimsleur during your German studies? Any native materials?
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| neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5974 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish | Message 173 of 206 28 September 2009 at 7:11pm | IP Logged | ||
The excuse used to be that German was just complete gibberish anyway, so listening / reading it would have just been an exercise in frustration and a waste of time. But after reading your question, maybe I will start listening to a bit of "natural" German for the sake of getting used to the natural language. Hmmm... Maybe that "German news read slowly" podcast would be a good halfway house here! I'm sure that I can find it... Do you have any suggestions? The last thing I want is rapid-fire German with lots of weird vocabulary. Your question definitely gave me some food for thought! Anyway, formally: German/b] Pimsleur 13: 24.5 minutes Total time: 1393 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6414 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 174 of 206 28 September 2009 at 7:38pm | IP Logged | ||
I found that the podcast you mention above was so slow that it hindered comprehension. I'd recommend Annik Rubens' "Slow German" instead, but it's certainly worth trying both. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Jiwon Triglot Moderator Korea, South Joined 6247 days ago 1417 posts - 1500 votes Speaks: EnglishC2, Korean*, GermanC1 Studies: Hindi, Spanish Personal Language Map | Message 175 of 206 29 September 2009 at 10:09am | IP Logged | ||
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You can find the slowly read German news on dw-world.de. I prefer Annik Rubens though. And Pukka German is also quite hilarious.
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| neonqwerty Bilingual Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 5974 days ago 229 posts - 239 votes Speaks: French*, English* Studies: Spanish | Message 176 of 206 29 September 2009 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you to both; I wasn't aware of the Annik Ruben podcast. I did listen to the slow newscast yesterday, and I though that it was worth doing on a daily basis, even though I didn't understand much. :)
Italian, Same ol', same ol'... but today I was lazy; I didn't incorporate the new words from the articles I read into my anki list. But on the list of "deadly language sins", it's pretty minor. ;) Listened to about 50 minutes worth of podcasts while going to and fro German, As I mentioned, I listed the the slow newscast. Twice, in fact. I also needed to re-do Pimlseur 13. So... Pimsleur 13: 24.5 minutes Total time: 1417.5 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful |
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