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 Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5645 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 41 of 118 09 February 2009 at 1:10pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hi magister, interessant die Webseite der Deutschen Welle, die kannte ich bisher noch nicht. Da hast du wirklich eine gute Quelle für das Vertiefen der deutschen Sprache, die auch die deutsche Kultur näher bringt. Seit den letzten Jahren interessiere ich mich für die Naturwissenschaften, daher habe ich gleich deinen Link zu Darwin gelesen. Gibt's dazu eigentlich auch einen Podcast? Du schreibst "listened", also gehe ich davon aus, dass man sich dazu auch noch etwas anhören kann. Den neuen Thread "Deutsch für Fortgeschrittene" würde ich sowieso sehr empfehlen, da dort auch inhaltlich interessante Themen auf Deutsch besprochen werde. Wie du außerdem feststellen wirst, wird jetzt auch in meinem TAC Log mehr Deutsch geschrieben, das mache ich ganz bewusst, um von der englischen Monolingualität wegzukommen. Auserdem habe ich jetzt einen türkischen Native Speaker in meinem Log, da kannst du, wenn du möchtest, dein türkisches Leseverständnis mal richtig auf die Probe stellen. Viel Erfolg weiterhin und lerne nicht zu viele Sprachen gleichzeitig! Fasulye-Babylonia Edited by Fasulye on 09 February 2009 at 1:32pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5680 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 42 of 118 09 February 2009 at 4:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I lived in Pittburgh, which doesn't deserve anymore to be considered an unhealthy place. Well, it is as unhealthy as most big cities, I guess.
I've printed a Russian keyboard map but, for me, the stickers work much better. However, in the future there must be another solution, if I'm really going to fulfill my plan of learning other languages. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6401 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 43 of 118 09 February 2009 at 5:36pm | IP Logged | |||||
Deutsche Welle ist ja sehr nützlich, und ich empfehle sie jedem, der die Deutsche Sprache üben will. Fasulye, beim Klick auf diesem Link kannst du die .mp3s sehen, die die Artikel begleiten. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5645 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 44 of 118 10 February 2009 at 10:23am | IP Logged | |||||
Klasse, das sind ja sehr interessante Podcasts zu aktuellen Themen. Mit ging es eigentlich um Charles Darwin, aber ich wurde danach neugierig und habe mir noch mehr Podcasts auf der gleichen Seite angehört. Danke für den Link! Fasulye-Babylonia Edited by Fasulye on 11 February 2009 at 1:37am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| magister Pro Member United States Joined 6401 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 45 of 118 16 February 2009 at 12:40pm | IP Logged | |||||
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FEB. 9 - FEB. 15
Nichts zu danken, Fasulye. Dieser Link habe ich in joshts Log gefunden. GERMAN My reading in Der, Die, Was? is going fairly slowly. I like to take in each sentence and savor it, and I'm doing the "look up every unfamiliar word" method. I'm also dumping them into Anki, along with the sentences in which they appear. I find that I am appreciating Anki more and more. I acquired the old Assimil German Without Toil from the 1960s, and I went through the first 12 lessons. I had never before seen an Assimil, so I was anxious to see what all the hullabaloo was about. It's difficult to judge this method since I already know or semi-know German pretty well; perhaps I'll get Assimil Swahili or the like, so I can get a better feel for it by using it in the context of an unknown language. In any event, I might continue with Assimil German in an effort to improve my poor active production. I listened to (and read) these Top-Themas repeatedly: Das Unwort des Jahres (die Formulierung "notleidenden Banken" wurde gewählt) Deutsch fürs Visum (dies war das erste Top-Thema, woraus ich keine neue Wörter gesammelt habe!) Nichts als leere Worte (Ich möchte eine Frage den Muttersprachler stellen: Ist die Pluralbildung von Wort nicht Wörter?) 8.0 hrs RUSSIAN A little work in Unit 17 of my textbook, and some reading in Beginner's Russian Reader. I should probably point out that I am only counting "study" time, and not incidental reading as I prowl through uz-translations.net or elsewhere. I don't have a good reason to separate the two purposes except that it would be too unwieldy to track time, and I don't want to be a slave to the clock. Rounding my study time to the nearest quarter hour is good enough for me. 1.5 hrs TURKISH My Turkish time was spent exclusively with Yusuf Mardin's Colloquial Turkish, and I'm on Lesson 14. For the most part, this was all solidification and review of material I've learned elsewhere. I'm doing the exercises, I'm doing a little scriptorium, and I'm trying to think in Turkish. In addition, my wife has been interested in learning some basic Turkish for quite a while now, so whenever we share a commute to our respective jobs I teach her some things out of the FSI and Colloquial courses. I actually spent 90 minutes this week teaching her, and I'm not counting this time for log purposes. 2.75 hrs WANDERLUST About 30 minutes were spent on the Michel Thomas Japanese Foundation Course. I don't know how a foundation course differs from their other offerings -- I'll have to look into that. I'm still unsure about this system. It seems so incredibly slow, and I can't deal with the bad acting of one of the students. It's clear that she's faking her difficulties. 1.0 hrs Cumulative time since Dec. 25: DE: 48.5 hrs RU: 26.0 hrs TR: 17.75 hrs CZ: 2.0 hrs JP: 1.5 hrs GK: 1.0 hrs IR: .5 hrs 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Fasulye Heptaglot Winner TAC 2012 Moderator Germany fasulyespolyglotblog Joined 5645 days ago 5460 posts - 6006 votes 1 sounds Speaks: German*, DutchC1, EnglishB2, French, Italian, Spanish, Esperanto Studies: Latin, Danish, Norwegian, Turkish Personal Language Map | Message 46 of 118 16 February 2009 at 1:43pm | IP Logged | |||||
Hi magister, In der Tat, das ist eine gute Frage für deutsche Muttersprachler! Es ist nämlich so, dass es zu "Wort" sowohl den Plural "Wörter" als auch den Plural "Worte" gibt, nur die Bedeutung ist unterschiedlich. Wörter = einzelne zählbare Wörter Worte = Aussprüche Das sollte ich mal an Beispielen deutlich machen: In dem Diktat hat der Schüler drei Wörter falsch geschrieben. (zählbar!) Aus wie vielen Wörtern besteht dieser Satz? (zählbar!) Der Redner benutzte in seiner Rede feierliche Worte. Wenn man sich in der Öffentlichkeit äußert, sollte man seine Worte sorgfältig wählen. Finde ich interessant, solche Fragen genau zu beantworten. Fasulye-Babylonia Edited by Fasulye on 16 February 2009 at 1:46pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| magister Pro Member United States Joined 6401 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 47 of 118 23 February 2009 at 8:27pm | IP Logged | |||||
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FEB. 16 - FEB. 22
Danke, Fasulye, dass du mir diese Frage abgeklärt. Ich hoffe, dass es dir gut geht. Leider habe ich deinen Log schon eine Zeit lang nicht besucht – neulich verbringe ich mehr Zeit damit, meine Bücher zu studieren als die Forums zu lesen. GERMAN The usual: DDW?, Anki (a lot of Anki!), some online reading, and a bit of Assimil. No writing, no speaking, no listening. I'm considering fixing this latter problem by joining the 21st century and buying an iPod. Speaking of Anki, I wrote a little "Intro to Anki" packet and distributed it to all the students in the school. I'm curious to see how many will be interested in using this as a tool in their learning. One of my high-school students latched on to it immediately, and he began inputting vocabulary and sentences in preparation for his French IGCSE. 4.25 hrs RUSSIAN I completed Unit 17 of my textbook, and I read some stories in Beginner's Russian Reader a few times. 1.5 hrs TURKISH For the first time since the beginning of the TAC, I spent more time in a single week on a language other than German. I knew that that unexpected gift of Turkish books would fuel a sudden surge in my interest in this language, but that's only one factor. My wife's growing interest in learning some Turkish is also playing a role, as well as the fact that we met a real live Turk this week! Big deal, I hear you Germans saying. Well, this ain't Germany -- finding a Turk living in my out-of-the-way, culturally homogeneous region of the US is a big deal! What's more, his colleague is a native Tajik who speaks near-native Turkish and Russian (I hit the jackpot!). Speaking with them was remarkably difficult. Agglutinating on the fly is almost as difficult as herding cats, as the old proverb goes. Fine, I made that proverb up. Still, it was hard. I acquired Assimil's Le Turc sans peine early in the week and spent some time with it, going through the first five lessons. So far I enjoy the approach. I can read French sans peine, so that's not a problem. I wish I had the audio to accompany this, however. In other news, I've completed Lesson 17 of Colloquial Turkish. 4.5 hrs WANDERLUST Spending two hours in one week on Japanese (MT and RTK) sounds like it goes beyond the scope of "wanderlust," but really, that's only an average of 17.something minutes a day. That's not much. 2.0 hrs Weekly total: 13.5 hrs Cumulative time since Dec. 25: DE: 52.75 hrs RU: 28.75 hrs TR: 22.25 hrs JP: 3.5 hrs CZ: 2.0 hrs GK: 1.0 hrs IR: .5 hrs Total: 110.75 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| JonB Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 6063 days ago 209 posts - 220 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Italian, Dutch, Greek | Message 48 of 118 23 February 2009 at 8:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Magister do you really not yet have an iPod? :-0
(I couldn't function without mine!) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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