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Spanky
Senior Member
Canada
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1021 posts - 1714 votes 
Studies: French

 
 Message 57 of 138
27 May 2009 at 9:32am | IP Logged 
Pimsleur II, unit 12 encore une fois
French,about.com - articles re: verb conjugation generally, future tense, le futur proche
FSI, unit 2.1, review

Media - morning news on the telly - Après son essai nucléaire, la Corée du Nord qui avait déjà testé trois missiles lundi a procédé mardi au tir de deux nouveaux engins. Also some more of Non, ce pays n'est pas pour le vieil homme:

- Qu'est-ce que vous savez sur Chigurh?
- Qu'est-ce que vous voulez savoir?
- Simplement ce que vous pensez de lui? En général. Quel est son degré de dangerosité?
- Par rapport à quoi? Par rapport à la peste? Il est assez malfaisant pour que vous ayez fait appel à moi.
________

Anton Chigurh, on pourrait dire qu'il a des principes.


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Edited by Spanky on 27 May 2009 at 9:35am

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Spanky
Senior Member
Canada
Joined 5715 days ago

1021 posts - 1714 votes 
Studies: French

 
 Message 58 of 138
28 May 2009 at 8:21am | IP Logged 
Pimsleur II, unit 13
FIA, unit 5
Frenchpod101.com, lower intermediate units 8, 9 and 10
french.about.com - - articles on le calendrier (les jours de la semaine, les mois de l'année, les saisons) et la date. Also, a number of articles concerning the different uses of and expressions involving an/année, jour/journée, matin/matinée et soir/soirée
Anki - adding new phrases and review

Media - morning TV news - Canada et les Ètats-Unis signent une entente pour renforcer la sécurité aux frontières. Je pense que c'est une bonne idée pour mes amis américains, parce que les canadiens sont féroces and très dangereux.    Par exemple, récemment, la gouverneure générale du Canada, Michaëlle Jean, a mangé le coeur de phoque cru. Vraiement. Je ne sais pas si elle aussi viciously clubbed to death le phoque elle-même d'abord ou si peut-etre elle a simplement regardé ça.

Study: 1.75 hours
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Edited by Spanky on 28 May 2009 at 8:36am

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Smurf36
Triglot
Groupie
United Kingdom
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57 posts - 57 votes 
Speaks: English*, Spanish, French
Studies: Mandarin

 
 Message 59 of 138
28 May 2009 at 10:28am | IP Logged 
Hi Spanky,

You've been doing so well over the last week or so.

How long is it before you move onto language number two? What is it?

Keep going?
Have you been doing this much study the entire year?
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Spanky
Senior Member
Canada
Joined 5715 days ago

1021 posts - 1714 votes 
Studies: French

 
 Message 60 of 138
29 May 2009 at 8:53am | IP Logged 
Thanks Smurf36,

Yep, been having a good week by my standards. I am hoping to keep doing something each day. The trick seems to be committing to at least starting something each day (starting is the harder part). I've been pretty inconsistent through the year, but I am prepared to cut myself some slack and just keep picking up after each falter or false start.

I am definitely moving onto German on August 11th (can hardly wait!), consistent with my original plan of learning as much as conveniently possible of a new language each year. I am hoping I will have crammed enough French language basics into my noggin by then that I can continue to expand my knowledge through non-study sources (conversation, reading, the ubiquitous television) casually on a lifetime basis.

How about yourself? You had some interesting projects going previously. Time to pick it up again?

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Spanky
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Canada
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1021 posts - 1714 votes 
Studies: French

 
 Message 61 of 138
29 May 2009 at 8:58am | IP Logged 
Pimsleur II, unit 13 (a second time) and unit 14 (twice - once in the morning and a second time in the evening).

Frenchpod101.com, lower intermediate unit 10 (again) and unit 11.

Media - tried some of Les Simpsons: Le Film, in french (no subtitles). The voices were too unusual for me to pick up much.

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Spanky
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Canada
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1021 posts - 1714 votes 
Studies: French

 
 Message 62 of 138
30 May 2009 at 6:54pm | IP Logged 
FIA, unit 6
FSI Basic, units 2.2 and 2.3
CIG, chapter 12 still

Media - not much worth mentioning, just a bit of a morning show (everyone seemed very cheerful and excited about something)

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Spanky
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Canada
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1021 posts - 1714 votes 
Studies: French

 
 Message 63 of 138
02 June 2009 at 9:13am | IP Logged 
Pimsleur II, units 15 (twice) and 16
Anki - lots of reviewing and some additions

Media: Non, ce pays n'est pas pour le vieil homme:

- Allô?
- Ouais?
- Est-ce que Carson Wells et là?
- Ça dépend ce que vous entendez par là. Il faut que vous veniez me voir.
- Qui est l'appareil?
- Vous le savez très bien. Et il faut que vous veniez me parler.
- J'ai rien à vous dire.
- Je crois que si.


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Edited by Spanky on 02 June 2009 at 8:41pm

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Spanky
Senior Member
Canada
Joined 5715 days ago

1021 posts - 1714 votes 
Studies: French

 
 Message 64 of 138
09 June 2009 at 7:34am | IP Logged 
dern'it....

I seem to have fallen off the wagon, or under the wagon, or whatever it is one does vis-a-vis a wagon in relation to having failed in an ongoing personal commitment - in my case, a short-lived undertaking to post daily so far as it was logistically possible.

Did manage to get some French in, though not as much as I had intended.

FSI Basic - units 2.4, 2.5, 2.6
CIG, chapter 12 and 13
Pimsleur II, unit 16 again
Frenchpod101.com, units 11, 12, 13 and 14 multiple times
Anki - a bit

Media: in respect of David Carradine's death, watched some of Tuer Bill, volume 1 - French audio but no subtitles.

Study: 4 hours
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Media: 5 hours

Edited by Spanky on 09 June 2009 at 7:35am



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