tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6458 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian
| Message 89 of 172 05 March 2009 at 9:24am | IP Logged |
HUNGARIAN
Trying to piece together a post. It's very hard, cause all the things I wanted to say I had no idea how to construct :P
RUSSIAN
I managed to write and post a lang-8 post! Yay!
FRENCH
Finished "Ombre Sultane". Preferred "La disparition de la langue francaise". That one is about an algerian man, and that sure is more uplifting than reading about algerian women...
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tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6458 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian
| Message 90 of 172 11 March 2009 at 9:54pm | IP Logged |
HUNGARIAN
I finished and posted my lang-8 post, and it made me a bit more motivated to spend more time on Hungarian. I quickly did the review lesson and half of lesson 36 today. I really want to get Assimil over and done with so I can start reading something instead and work with the FSI easy reader and an exercise book I got.
RUSSIAN
Quite a lot of reading and some new words. I will be writing some small emails tomorrow.
FRENCH
I've been reading "Le roman d'une impératrice: Catherine II de Russie" by Waliszewski, not in a very coherent fashion though. Just flying through it. I bought Troyat's Catherine la Grande, which I will read from cover to cover. I loved his book on Peter the Great. I also bought the books for April's book club, "Segou". I LOVE EBAY. Well, can't more folks join the book clubs? They are suuuuch an excellent idea, but if no one says anything…
NORWEGIAN
I wrote an email that was probably full of Swedish.
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ExtraLean Triglot Senior Member France languagelearners.myf Joined 5774 days ago 897 posts - 880 votes Speaks: English*, French, Spanish Studies: German
| Message 91 of 172 11 March 2009 at 10:48pm | IP Logged |
tricoteuse wrote:
NORWEGIAN
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LOL.
Aside from that keep up the good work.
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tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6458 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian
| Message 92 of 172 18 March 2009 at 11:30am | IP Logged |
Thanks ExtraLean!
HUNGARIAN
I've done Assimil 36, 37 and 38. So now I'm supposed to review the lessons? I guess that's a good idea. I will start going through them from the start tonight. My Hungarian sometimes feels like it's standing terribly still, but sometimes I just read a phrase and realize I can figure it out without the translation and things are good again.
RUSSIAN
I decided to start doing exercises to perhaps get some noticeable improvement. The book I have chosen is "Intermediate Russian: A grammar and workbook" by Routledge Grammars. Has anyone used it? I'll see if 3 exercises/day is appropriate.
I wrote a short lang-8 post and got the idea I should go through all my old posts and copy them into OneNote in their corrected versions and read through them. I'll do just one a day.
I've also written some small letters.
FRENCH
More reading and a lang-8 post. I've also started reading Gaston Miron's "L'homme rapaillé" (and thus lots of stuff about him and the book as well) and decided to do a "literary musings" series of texts on lang-8 while trying to get under the skin of poetry in general. I've never got the hang of it, to be honest.
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tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6458 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian
| Message 93 of 172 22 March 2009 at 9:58am | IP Logged |
HUNGARIAN
I've done Assimil 39 and half of 40, and repeated the first 17 lessons. Repeating means I read them out loud and add words I didn't remember to Anki.
Anki words: 891
RUSSIAN
Some reading, plus I started on a lang-8 post. I've done 13 exercises so far from the book, and I think it was a great idea. I make loads of mistakes but they repeat the same things a couple of times so by the 2nd or 3rd time I usually get it right. Yay.
Anki: 2514
FRENCH
Reading and writing a lang-8 post and some other things for my classes. I got my Segou book yesterday!
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tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6458 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian
| Message 94 of 172 24 March 2009 at 8:28pm | IP Logged |
HUNGARIAN
Struggling with Assimil 40. I've added so many old Assimil words that I haven't learned the new ones, and the exercises went catatrophically bad. Slightly depressing. I really want to work more with texts and grammar exercises, so I want to speed up Assimil, yet I can't speed it up much more cause then I don't learn anything. Argh. And I want to finish the damned thing this time around.
At least it seems like I have no problems with pronouncing any of the Hungarian vowels, so that's good.
RUSSIAN
Finished my lang-8 post which turned out to not contain that many errors this time. Yay!
Listening to some news podcasts --> fall asleep every time. I got some more audiobooks, this time with loud background music (Tom refused to call it music and just went with "noise" and a disgusted facial expression). Got yet another one which is normal speech, however it is paused after every sentence or in the middle of them. Quite annoying, but better than the previous ones. I found the text plus a translation online, and listened to the first chapter. I'm not really sure how to go about it, whether I will listen and read in English, or just go with the Russian and check with the English if I really understand *nothing*. I don't have the time to do a parallel text, nor will my hands put up with it.
I also did six exercises in my grammar book.
FRENCH
I skimmed through a Russian book in French and analyzed a poem by Gaston Miron (whose book I have finally managed to read).
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tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6458 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian
| Message 95 of 172 27 March 2009 at 10:44pm | IP Logged |
HUNGARIAN
Not much work really, just trying to "catch up" with new anki words. I did read through the first FSI Easy Reader texts and for once it was a rather easy read! I also answered some more of the never-ending questions that accompany the text.
RUSSIAN
LR:ing! But that belongs in my other log.
Six new exercises in my grammar book.
FRENCH
Just the ordinary reading and writing on never-ending essays.
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tricoteuse Pentaglot Senior Member Norway littlang.blogspot.co Joined 6458 days ago 745 posts - 845 votes Speaks: Swedish*, Norwegian, EnglishC1, Russian, French Studies: Ukrainian, Bulgarian
| Message 96 of 172 01 April 2009 at 10:44pm | IP Logged |
HUNGARIAN
Assimil 41 and 42, starting on 43. All good so far! And again, the annoyingly condescending-towards-women attitude. I've also finished the exercises for the first FSI ER text and had one of them (3 altogether) corrected.
1073 words in Anki.
RUSSIAN
A bit of LR:ing and exercises in my book, and some messaging on Interpals.
2740 words in Anki.
FRENCH
I've been writing on my essays and reading about Catherine II. I hope I will have time to read Segou for the Book Club :/
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I spend 1h a day on Anki altogether, according to the stats. 257 words a day for Russian, 177 for Hungarian. Hungarian takes much longer since I have tons of long sentences. The other day I woke up and immediately thought "Veszek ajándékot Áginak" (I'm buying a gift for Agi) and "fizetnek nekem egy sört" (they are buying me a beer).
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