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| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6472 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes  Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 89 of 200 02 June 2009 at 7:34pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well damn you, now I feel like I'm doing next to nothing!
What was ineffective with learning French? Didn't you learn it rather quickly? 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5788 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 90 of 200 03 June 2009 at 3:12am | IP Logged | |||||
You know this isn't true, who just got back from visiting the place where her target language is spoken? You've a higher level of accomplishment in your languages than I do, in fact you are one of the people I strive to emulate. In both language learning, and wine consumption ;)
Hmm well as they say, "Haste makes waste". I've still got some distance to go before I am happy with my French, but I can't say that it wasn't efficient what I did. Rather that the process still isn't finished, and is suffering from my time in Australia and my focus on Spanish and German. I'm finding it hard to put the extra effort in to get that 5% extra which is missing. Too much work for so little pay off perhaps. Thom. Edited by ExtraLean on 03 June 2009 at 3:14am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5788 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 91 of 200 03 June 2009 at 3:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Today, I only did lesson 57 of Assimil Espagnol. I also read through the dialogue and notes of lesson 58.
I have remarked that I tend to swing between the two languages. Doing a stint of one before going back to the other. Otherwise, I did some work work and some gardening. Oh and watched the Queenslanders thrash NSW in State of Origin. I write this because I hope someone from NSW will read it, and feel sad. :D Thom from Queensland. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| zenmonkey Bilingual Tetraglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6346 days ago 803 posts - 1119 votes 1 sounds Speaks: EnglishC2*, Spanish*, French, German Studies: Italian, Modern Hebrew | Message 92 of 200 03 June 2009 at 5:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
That sometimes happens, I see logs of someone speeding along (today's read was the Chinese blog) and I am impressed and find it motivating (and sometimes counter productive - we need to hit the right balance there) but tricoteuse certainly is one to emulate. I speak the language fluently but I wish I had her ease of writing! Perhaps we can mix and match brain parts? 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6472 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian | Message 93 of 200 03 June 2009 at 8:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I also find it motivating to read about what others do when I do nothing. It makes me feel too guilty to continue being lazy. And I'm really bad at doing useful immersion since I talk so little, but still, being in Russia was surely helpful.
And I would very much like some more French speaking ease ;) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5788 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 94 of 200 05 June 2009 at 11:58am | IP Logged | |||||
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So, what have I done these last few days?
Lots of radio listening. Atleast three hours in both German and Spanish, and I think even a bit more for Spanish. I did a Lang-8 post in Spanish today. Keeping up with my vow to match Zammy blow for blow. It's probably the first decent sized thing I've written in Spanish. So I'd love for some native speakers to pick it to pieces. My focus this week has shifted back towards Spanish. It's probably the one I prefer the most, and is ofcourse my focus for the year. I'm happy to continue clicking over with German, waiting to explode next year. But this year, I'm intent to focus on Spanish. Did a couple of assimils I think. Moving along. *Edit* I'm now up to Lesson 60 of Assimil. Had a browse ahead and read lesson 63 which is the next revision session. All about suffixes and what not. Thom. Edited by ExtraLean on 05 June 2009 at 1:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5788 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 95 of 200 12 June 2009 at 4:48pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well it's been a busy week for me. Went out on the weekend, so got nothing done language wise. Made the decision to come back to Paris as a tourist for personal reasons. Bought a ticket and flew back. Arrived yesterday, slept. Had some stuff to do today. Will get the language learning back on track soon. Probably Monday. I am happy to have slipped back comfortably into the francophone world. Had a bit of trouble getting started speaking french again, but that ironed itself out fairly quickly.
I think that my listening skills in both Spanish and German are coming along nicely. I am understanding more of the radio, and even the songs that I listen to. I downloaded a bunch of German ebooks which I will be looking through this afternoon. So I'll try to find a nice easy one to boost my reading skills in German. Thom. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5788 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German | Message 96 of 200 14 June 2009 at 9:23pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Readers Mine,
Have reached lesson 64 of Assimil L'espagnol. I also wrote a lang 8 post today. Being back in France has made my french come back shining better than before. Not much else to say, signed up to Shared Talk, though I've not yet used it. Thom. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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