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| glossa.passion Triglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6119 days ago 267 posts - 349 votes  1 sounds Speaks: German*, EnglishC1, Danish Studies: Spanish, Dutch | Message 49 of 118 26 February 2009 at 5:49pm | IP Logged | |||||
Congratualtions! You really did hit the jackpot! And your wife's growing interest in Turkish is also a fine thing. Have a good time on the bright side of language learning :-) 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 50 of 118 28 February 2009 at 8:54pm | IP Logged | |||||
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 magister Pro Member United States Joined 6401 days ago 346 posts - 421 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Turkish, Irish Personal Language Map | Message 51 of 118 03 March 2009 at 6:47pm | IP Logged | |||||
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FEB. 24 - MAR. 1
Ich wundere mich, warum Jar-Ptitsa spurlos verschwunden hat... This will be ridiculously brief and uninformative. I don't have much time. GERMAN Working in the same ol' materials. 6.25 hrs RUSSIAN Worked in Unit 18 of my textbook, and read a few pages of Beginner's Russian Reader. 1.75 hrs TURKISH The usual. 3.25 hrs Weekly total: 11.25 hrs Cumulative time since Dec. 25: DE: 59.0 hrs RU: 30.50 hrs TR: 26.0 hrs JP: 3.5 hrs CZ: 2.0 hrs GK: 1.0 hrs IR: .5 hrs Total: 122.0 hrs 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 52 of 118 10 March 2009 at 3:41pm | IP Logged | |||||
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MAR. 2 - MAR. 8
Nur zwei Stunden habe ich ja beim Studieren verbracht! Es geht ganz und gar nicht um einen Verlust der Motivation; lange Rede, kurzer Sinn, meine beruflichen Verantwortigkeiten sind plötzlich angestiegen. Zum Glück ist diese Situation vorübergehend... I only spent two hours studying this week! It's not at all a question of motivation; to make a long story short, my responsibilities at work have suddenly increased. Fortunately this is a temporary situation... GERMAN Der, Die, Was? .75 hrs RUSSIAN Beginner's Russian Reader. .5 hrs TURKISH Lesson 19 of the old Colloquial Turkish by Yusuf Mardin. .75 hrs Weekly total: 2.0 hrs Cumulative time since Dec. 25: DE: 59.75 hrs RU: 31.0 hrs TR: 26.75 hrs JP: 3.5 hrs CZ: 2.0 hrs GK: 1.0 hrs IR: .5 hrs Total: 124.0 hrs 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Jar-ptitsa Triglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 5696 days ago 980 posts - 1006 votes Speaks: French*, Dutch, German | Message 53 of 118 10 March 2009 at 5:06pm | IP Logged | |||||
bin zurück. Nett von dir zu merken, dass ich nicht hier war. Danke. Ich hoffe, dass es dir gut geht und Spaß beim Sprachenlernen macht und andere sachen auch. 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 54 of 118 17 March 2009 at 7:55pm | IP Logged | |||||
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MAR. 9 - MAR. 15
I find that my interest in each of my three target languages waxes and wanes. Right now I spend the majority of time with Turkish, and the only reason I spent half an hour this week on Russian was out of a sense of obligation. At other times during the TAC, German has been the primary object of my focus whereas Turkish has found itself with "third wheel" status. I haven't really had any wanderlust urges the last few weeks. One reason is that my available time has still been relatively limited, and also the time I spent with Japanese last month got the wanderbugs out of my system. For a while, anyway... GERMAN DDW; Anki; Mastering German Vocabulary; random website reading. 3.75 hrs RUSSIAN Beginner's Russian Reader. .5 hrs TURKISH Lessons 20-22 of the old Colloquial Turkish by Yusuf Mardin, supplemented with a particular chapter of Hugo's Turkish in Three Months. I've been grappling with the bizarre way that Turkish expresses "as soon as," which functions as a subordinate clause. It's the aorist and negative aorist -- in succession -- of the verb used in the subordinate clause. Examples: Kar yağar yağmaz.. . (snow falls doesn't fall...) As soon as the snow fell... Sen ilaç alır almaz uyudun. (You / medicine / take / don't take / fell asleep) As soon as you took your medicine, you fell asleep. 4.75 hrs Weekly total: 9.0 hrs Cumulative time since Dec. 25: DE: 64.5 hrs TR: 32.0 hrs RU: 31.5 hrs Wanderlust: JP: 3.5 hrs CZ: 2.0 hrs GK: 1.0 hrs IR: .5 hrs Total: 133.0 hrs Edited by magister on 17 March 2009 at 7:58pm 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 55 of 118 09 April 2009 at 12:26am | IP Logged | |||||
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MAR. 16 - APR. 6
It has been three weeks since I have updated my log. I had made the decision early on to update my log once per week -- every Monday -- but two weeks ago I was simply too busy at work to even think about spending the time to do it. And last week I was out of state visiting an old Army buddy of mine who, like me, does not have Internet access in the home. Seven days without visiting these forums, seven days without checking my work email, seven days without checking my personal email. I tell you, that was a liberating experience. Those seven days of spring break did afford me a good amount of time to read in German, however. I brought along a book (hard-boiled crime fiction) which I found in a thrift shop, entitled "Happy Birthday, Türke!" by Jakob Arjouni. Definitely not my usual reading fare, but the point was reading practice -- and, as I think I've said before, everything is more interesting to me when it's written in another language! Three months into the TAC, my total study time since it began was 133 hours. That's divided between three languages (and a few hours tossed in for wanderlust excursions), as you can see on my previous post. That might sound like a lot, but a sobering thought struck me: when I was at DLI, I had 133 hours of exposure/study to Czech in about two weeks' time. I'm not sure that I am satisfied making glacial progress in three languages when I could make much more rapid gains in one or two. Given the responsibilities in my life, I will not be able to increase my study/reading time, which, so far, has maxed out at 14 hours a week, I believe. So for the time being, I will drop Russian as an "active" study language in order to concentrate my limited time on German and Turkish. I've also decided that tracking my time has served its purpose, and I will cease doing so. GERMAN I belong to the obsessive-compulsive camp when it comes to vocabulary: I have never been able to resist looking up every single word I don't know. But when I was in Tennessee for a week, I deliberately left my German dictionaries at home in order to force myself to read the Arjouni novel without it. I knew from leafing through it before my departure that overall comprehension would not be difficult -- my vocabulary recognition met or exceeded that magic 80% threshold, or 95%, or whatever they say that threshold is. For the first fifty pages or so, reading in this fashion drove me totally nuts – it was a constant irritant, like an elusive mosquito buzzing around my head. But I eventually became somewhat comfortable with it. I’m trying out a compromise for my next book, which will be Quintus geht nach Rom, an easy juvenile/young adult novel I picked up from World of Reading when they set up a booth at a state language teachers’ conference some time ago. I’ll read one or two chapters without a dictionary, and then go back later to look up the new words I could not safely understand through context. These I will add to Anki. TURKISH I did no Turkish on spring break; only German. But I did receive some goodies. A huge thank you to the forum member who dug three old issues of “Bizim English” out of his basement and mailed them to me! It’s a monthly magazine from the 1980s whose aim was to teach beginning-intermediate English to Turks, mainly through parallel bilingual articles. Anyone familiar with it? I also finally ordered A Dictionary of Turkish Verbs in Context and by Theme, a behemoth of a reference work recommended to me by daristani as well as former forum member iieee. I haven’t figured out how best to utilize it yet, but it’s been fun leafing through it randomly. Edited by magister on 09 April 2009 at 12:30am 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 56 of 118 16 April 2009 at 12:00am | IP Logged | |||||
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APR. 6 - APR. 12
GERMAN Quintus geht nach Rom 20/265 Dieses Roman, das ich mit einen anderen Methode angehe, richtet sich an jugendliche Leser vielleicht ab zwölf oder dreizehn Jahre. Ich finde es zwar leicht; obwohl es ja viele neue Wörter gibt, sind die meisten davon wegen des Zusammenhang vollständig nachvollziehbar. Ich lese ein Kapitel auf einmal ohne Wörterbuch – um die Geschichte zu folgen – und dann später lese ich sie noch einmal aber intensiver, mit Wörterbuch. Bisher nicht schlecht, aber dieses Buch interessiere mich noch nicht. Ich komme in Versuchung, davon abzuzweigen zu einem anderen Buch... Heute abend treffen meine Frau und ich einen deutschen Freund in einem mongolisches Restaurant. Ich freue mich sehr daran, mit voller Begeisterung, weil er einen Freund mitbringen will, der kein Englisch spricht. Ich nutze diese Gelegenheit mein Deutsch zu üben! TURKISH On Lesson 26 of the old Colloquial Turkish book. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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