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| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5803 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 9 of 34 04 February 2009 at 11:42pm | IP Logged |
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February 4th
Linguaphone Deutsch - Did Section 5 today. So far, what I like most about Linguaphone is the listening part. My listening comprehension is still pretty bad, but I feel like this is really helping. I'm going to get through the whole program, but this will definitely be my last "commercial system". I tried out a lot of systems to see what works for me and what I like, and I've found my answers. Michel Thomas and Linguahone are the two I'll look into for when I learn other languages. Vocab Linguaphone schiken - to send der Schalter - counter. switch, ticket window erklären - to explain das Vergnügen - delight, pleasure First German Reader ausbreiten - to spread out bedenklich - dubious die Demut - humility emsig - eager, zealous erregen - excite, agitate frech - insolent getrost - confidently die Hinsicht - respect die Krawatte - necktie, cravat merklich - audible, noticable die Pracht - splendor schleppen - to drag seicht - shallow streben - to strive ungeduldig - impatient verbreitet - widespread 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5803 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 10 of 34 06 February 2009 at 1:49am | IP Logged |
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February 5th
Linguaphone Duetsch - Did section 6 today. Vocab - back to the vocab book Linguaphone die Wohnung - flat, apartment möbliert - furnished schlimm - bad Mastering German Vocabulary der Topf - pot, saucepan rühren - to stir braten - to fry die Pfanne - frying pan gar - done schlälen - to peel ausdrücken - to squeeze the juice out of würzen - to season anbrennen - to burn das Hähnchen - chicken der Knödel - dumpling die Pommes frites - french fries die Soße - sauce, gravy das Spiegelei - fried egg der Eintopf - stew zart - tender zäh - tough 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5803 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 11 of 34 08 February 2009 at 11:27pm | IP Logged |
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Didn't do anything except sleep on Friday night (the 6th).
February 7th and 8th Linguaphone - Completed Section 7 and Section 8. Vocab Linguaphone die Verlobung - engagement das Tuch - scarf seiden - silk sich entschließen - to make up one's mind die Kollegmappe - briefcase Mastering German Vocabulary das Matjesfilet - young herring die Forelle - trout der Pfannkuchen - pancake der Kellner - waitor bedienen - to serve bestellen - to order aussuchen - to choose das Gericht - dish die Vorspeise - appetizer empfehlen - recommend lecker - tasty probieren - try, have a taste die Kneipe - bar die Beilage - side dish der Gasthof - inn 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5803 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 12 of 34 13 February 2009 at 1:10am | IP Logged |
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Didn't feel well for most of the week, and on top of that, it's been a bad week at work so I didn't do much. Finally got back to it tonight.
February 12 Linguaphone - Did Section 9 tonight. I'm starting to see a lot of words I do not recognize. Vocab - Here's tomorrow's list. Have 12 from Linguaphone, and finished it out with 8 from Mastering German Vocab. These 8 finish out Chapter 4: Eating. Chapter 5 is next, and it's on Clothing. Linguaphone begrussen - to welcome, to greet während - during Schwenswürdigkeit - sight (tourism) berühmt - well-known, famous überhaupt nicht - not at all noch lange nicht - far from, not by a long shot schwierig - difficult die Geduld - patience einladen - to invite anderhalb - one and a half (used with time) wählen - to dial (telephone) Das heißt - that is, that means Mastering German Vocabulary reichlich - ample die Bedienung - service, waitor or waitress der Nachtisch - dessert die Scheibe - slice der Wirt[-in] - innkeeper, rest. manager das Kännchen - pot die Theke - bar vorbestellen - order in advance 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5803 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 13 of 34 21 February 2009 at 3:45am | IP Logged |
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Update (Feb 13th-20th)
I didn't do a good job at keeping up with this during the week. I completed Sections 10, 11 and 12 of Linguaphone, but I dropped the ball on the vocab. I'm going to get this back on track over the weekend. I think I need to find one or two other things to do to keep me focused and motivated. Doing the same thing every day wears me down a bit and can get boring. Each Section of Linguaphone has 3 phases, and I can do 1 or two phases one a day, and the remainder the next, but it's still not enough. I need to throw something else into the mix to keep things interesting and fun for me. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5803 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 14 of 34 23 February 2009 at 2:45am | IP Logged |
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February 21st and 22nd
Compeleted Section 13 of Linguaphone Deutsch.. Did phase 1 on Saturday and phases 2 and 3 on Sunday. I also sat down with one of my Dual-Language books (First German Reader). I didn't worry about taking down vocab or anything, I simply read the German side, and then the English side 2 or 3 times. To start off, there's some poems and some paragraph or 2 long short stories. Tomorrow's Vocab, taken from the last several Linguaphone lessons tätig sein - to work versorgen - to provide sich gedulden - to wait patiently sich lohnen - to be worth it die Überraschung - surprise sich verarbschieden - to say good-bye, to take one's leave drankommen - to have one's turn gespannt sein - to wonder, be anxious to know sich zanken - to quarrel sich versöhnen - to patch up a quarrel sich ärgern - to be annoyed, angry zukünftig - future sich erinnen - to remember drehen - to curl reinigen - to clean anschließend - afterwards wahrscheinlich - probably beschäftigen - to occupy eifersüchtig - jealous entgegennehmen - to take an order Edited by sabotai on 23 February 2009 at 3:10am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5803 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 15 of 34 01 March 2009 at 5:32am | IP Logged |
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February 23rd - 28th
I completed a few more Linguaphone lessons. I am now half done with it, but I have been slowly transitioning away from it and more to spending time with a dual-language book, so I'm not sure I will actually finish it completely. Still helpful with working on my listening ability, but I feel I get a bit more out of dual-language books, as well as other methods, now. Linguaphone being the 4th or 5th system I have worked through by now, I think doing things that are more active help me out more. The problem I have now with doing a system is that I know some, or in most cases most, of what is intended to be taught by the lesson. So it makes me lazy. I quickly go through the stuff I know and my thinking and work-ethic are just not fully committed. So, I have spent more time with books and I also listen to the videos on spiegel.de (even though I still don't understand much of it). Another thing I have started to try to do is to take movie scripts and translate them into German. I wanted to start with something simple, something aimed at kids as well, so I picked The Incredibles. Still working on the first scene now. It's pretty slow going since I have to look things up (sometimes because I don't know something, sometimes to reassure my pessimistic mind). It's helped me practice sentence structure, but sometimes the characters talk in sentence fragments and trip me up a bit. Edited by sabotai on 01 March 2009 at 5:34am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| sabotai Senior Member United States Joined 5803 days ago 391 posts - 489 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Japanese, Korean, French | Message 16 of 34 09 March 2009 at 4:16am | IP Logged |
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March 1st - March 8th
Not much to report here. I've spent about 30-60 minutes each night with a dual-language book. I am putting First German Reader to the side for now, though. It's supposed to be a "beginner's" book, but it's far from. The entries are all short, but still have a lot of vocab that a beginner wouldn't know and the writing is pretty complex. I think they call it "beginner" just because of the short entries (1-2 paragraph long stories at first). I moved on to Parallel Text: German Short Stories 1. It's no more "beginner" than the previous book, but the stories are longer (typical short story length), and will keep my attention and interest far better than what was in First German Reader. Right now I am reading "Die Blasse Anna" by Heinrich Böll. For this week's vocab, I am going to take words from 501 German Verbs. Edited by sabotai on 09 March 2009 at 4:17am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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