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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6259 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 9 of 85 09 December 2009 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
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Yes. I didn't, somebody else did and wrote about it on the Anki discussion group. To get this deck, go to "Download Shared Decks" within Anki and look for "20,000+ Mandarin HSK Sentences v.2". The v.2 is important so that you can sort the sentences by HSK level.
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 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6698 days ago 4250 posts - 5710 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 10 of 85 10 December 2009 at 12:39am | IP Logged |
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Thanks! I hadn't thought of the shared decks.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6259 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 11 of 85 25 December 2009 at 8:11pm | IP Logged |
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I got "Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone" in Modern Greek this Christmas! This has boosted my interest in Greek, especially since I noticed I can already understand the gist and most words of every sentence. I read 6 pages today and it's slow-going but possible. I also looked into Assimil Greek again a week ago, and noticed that not all of it is known and boring. I believe I have my work cut out for me.
I also got Foucault's Pendulum in Italian, a welcome addition to my resources as well. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6259 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 12 of 85 29 December 2009 at 4:14pm | IP Logged |
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Today I finished the first volume of T.K. Ann's "Cracking the Chinese puzzles". It really helped me make sense of and memorize Chinese characters. However, I'm still short about 180 characters short of last TAC's goal of 3000 - I can theoretically achieve it by the end of the year, the question is if I should and if I want to, because I'm at an Esperanto event and having fun.
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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6259 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 13 of 85 03 January 2010 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
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I finished the year with 2953 characters because I couldn't efficiently cram that many and I wanted to hang out with my Esperanto friends as well. However, I have added all 3000 characters to my Anki already and I shall continue to study this deck, to learn those characters and review the others. Other than that, I'll mostly switch over to the deck with 20,000 sentences.
A list of my 2009 achievements can be found at in my previous log. Tomorrow I'm flying back to Berlin and will begin my TAC in earnest. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6259 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 14 of 85 04 January 2010 at 11:12pm | IP Logged |
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I'm back in Berlin. I arrived late and too tired to do much, but I managed to review all Assimil lessons in the plane. Also, I mapped out what I want to do. I believe that going after all languages at once will be too distracting when I'm thinking about what to study now. I want to concentrate on two languages each season and mostly just do maintenance on the rest. My tentative plan is:
January to March: focus on Chinese and French. April to June: focus on French and Greek. July to September: focus on Italian and Arabic. October to December: focus on Arabic and Swahili. I will listen to Assimil Swahili lessons throughout the year, hoping to do at least 3 new ones per week. This should allow me to finish Assimil by October, and then I can work on Swahili more intensively using other materials. Even while not focussing on Greek, I will move ahead with Assimil Greek too and finish my current reader, so that the language stays in my head. The French is mandatory, not something I'd choose to do, because of my upcoming graduation from university. If I can get it over with faster, I will be glad to move another language up, probably Italian or Spanish, so that I still have the mix of one easier language and one harder one. I believe this focus will be more effective. I want to keep language-learning fun though, so I won't regret spending time with languages other than the focus ones. I will combat wanderlust to start on any language I haven't studied at all yet. I will need to work 30-35 hours every week on GermanPod101, teaching, programming, university stuff and the like. Because of this, I am aiming for a minimum of 23 hours of language study a week. I am keeping track using Doviende's spreadsheet solution. In December, when I first tried it out, I achieved 84% of what I set out to do, and more as I got used to the method. Edited by Sprachprofi on 04 January 2010 at 11:25pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6259 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 15 of 85 05 January 2010 at 7:00pm | IP Logged |
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Some French words and phrases I learned from the game Albion:
marrant = funny, fun trafiquer = to fiddle with; (slang:) to be up to sth. culotté = cheeky crocheter = to pick a lock répudier = to renounce avoir des ennuis = to be in trouble assommer = to knock out, to bore une maison close = whorehouse prendre congé = to take leave, beg leave tenir parole = to keep one's word débaucher = to corrupt; lay off; tempt sb. away sciemment = knowingly un hic = a catch (to a plan etc.) livide = deathly pale voué à la mort = doomed, destined to die (GER: todgeweiht) (me passer) sur le corps = over my dead body une voie de garage = side-track pourvu qu'il ait raison = let's hope that he's right / provided that he's right QUESTIONS: il ne dédaigne pas une partie de leur savoir = he doesn't despise ANY part of their knowledge OR he doesn't despise some part of their knowledge? je connais par contre quelques candidats comme Alzheimer, qui... = ? nous n'avons que faire de vos sales intrigues = ? mourir la mort de 3 ans = ? 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| ellasevia Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2011 Senior Member Germany Joined 5931 days ago 2150 posts - 3229 votes Speaks: English*, German, Croatian, Greek, French, Spanish, Russian, Swedish, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian Studies: Catalan, Persian, Mandarin, Japanese, Romanian, Ukrainian | Message 16 of 85 05 January 2010 at 9:25pm | IP Logged |
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I shall be following your progress as well and wish you luck in all your endeavors. I am especially intrigued in your idea of focusing on two languages for a three-month period of time. I had thought of dividing up my own year of study in this way, but decided against it because I thought that I would end up forgetting more during the "off-periods" than what I learned in the "on-periods."
My usual approach in since this past summer has been to assign each of my languages a day of the week: Monday is Portuguese, Tuesday is French, Wednesday is Italian, Thursday is German, Friday is Greek, Saturday is Japanese, and Sunday is Swedish. For this set-up, I would write down a list of weekly goals that I wished to attain (a bit lofty, but still attainable if I apply myself). Lately, however, I have found that giving myself a larger time period and a general list of goals works better. This is because on some days, I simply don't want to study the assigned language--for example, today is Tuesday and according to my schedule, I should be studying French, but instead I have been studying Swedish and Japanese. (I congratulate you if you have successfully made it this far in my post without getting confused...) In any case, I will be interested to see how your method works out for you. If you find it to be effective, I might just implement it in the future. Good luck! --Philip 1 person has voted this message useful |
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