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| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5280 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 73 of 200 15 February 2010 at 8:29pm | IP Logged |
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Lol, I think one of these days I'll try summing up the story in both new languages to punish myself. Now I feel a Star Trek: DS9 craving coming, it's a good thing I don't have it! I have to take care of those things during the holidays though, because they make me way too teenagey to teach.
I guess I should count some of the series I watch as study time though. Like, lately I watched The Wire, excellent for accents comprehension and the whole global comprehension thing. Also I like how sometimes they don't bother to say things, just sort of hum them (I used to be really careless about intonation, not anymore!) So, who do I have to meet now? Qubazaa? Who else? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5280 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 74 of 200 15 February 2010 at 10:38pm | IP Logged |
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Monday, 02/15
- Lesson 30 of Princeton course+ anki catch-up (on schedule now) - One lesson in LingQ (didn't do it yesterday) + anki catch-up (after more than a week, I had two hours worth, I did one. Tomorrow I should get back on schedule) - 3 hours Russian - 1.5 hour Spanish Total: 49 Spanish 85.5 Russian (I really have to learn from my textbook too, as that's the new grammar stuf, Princeton being mostly review, comprehension and accent practice. Edited by joanthemaid on 15 February 2010 at 11:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Quabazaa Tetraglot Senior Member United States Joined 5419 days ago 414 posts - 543 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, German, French Studies: Japanese, Korean, Maori, Scottish Gaelic, Arabic (Levantine), Arabic (Egyptian), Arabic (Written) | Message 75 of 200 15 February 2010 at 11:46pm | IP Logged |
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Hey wow how did I miss your log! I keep seeing you posting to other people I read here so thought I would drop in to say hello :D Funnily enough it seems to be all an evil plan of Sprachjunge!
Yay for Buffy binges! Luckily my Buffy DVDs are 20,000km away so the temptation is lessened XD 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5280 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 76 of 200 16 February 2010 at 6:13pm | IP Logged |
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02/16/2010
- Russian: 1 Princeton course (course 31 according to the file, 30 according to the audio), very short: 1.5 hours counting anki learning. It's a good thing it was so short, actually, as I started language study at 4:30 p.m. - Spanish: Vocabulary from one LingQ lesson + catch-up + one hour of TV: one science show, Tres14, and one cartoon, "Las Tres Mellizas" (2 hours) Edited by joanthemaid on 16 February 2010 at 9:40pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| dantalian Diglot Senior Member Bouvet Island Joined 5492 days ago 125 posts - 156 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 77 of 200 16 February 2010 at 8:34pm | IP Logged |
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Hi Joanthemaid!
You are really taking great strides forward! But if you try learning new parts of Grammar every day I’m afraid you'd sooner “annihilate” yourself than Russian. I studied it eight years at school and a year at university and still make occasional mistakes form time to time. Be patient. And by all means you need some more time to “digest” the former lessons. Anyway, IMO it's much more important for you not to forget adding a bit of new words on a regular basis than to speak / write without making mistakes and know all the rules right now. When you begin reading or/and listening even very simple children’s stuff you’ll see much more grammar patterns in action and will be able to recognize them in grammar courses afterwards as well. I can look for something funny for you if you like, by the way.:) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5280 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 78 of 200 16 February 2010 at 9:38pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks, Dantalian. Right now I'm not really worried about actually using grammar well, but more about knowing it at least in a passive way, i.e., understanding why things are the way they are, recognizing cases and aspects, not yet speaking without making mistakes myself. Basically my little manual is what gives me this knowledge, and the Princeton course teaches me to actually use these rules well as it has a lot of repetitive exercises that begin making things automatic. If you have interesting authentic material for me though, I'll be happy to try it. I'm not sure I understand enough yet to listen to random stuff though...
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| dantalian Diglot Senior Member Bouvet Island Joined 5492 days ago 125 posts - 156 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 79 of 200 16 February 2010 at 11:50pm | IP Logged |
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Well, why don’t you start with «Чебурашка» then?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sICgWJ46_4E The story is funny enough and it’s the first soviet animated soup opera as it is.:)) Later on you will probably understand why I call it so. The vocabulary is not too difficult. Also you can see yourself here a sample of "notorious" cursive handwriting :)) First five minutes: -Оражес (illit. oranges). Апельсины. -Опять чебурахнулся (coll. fell down). Фу ты, чебурашка какой. -Что же мне с тобой делать? -Не знаю. (sign:закрыто, ушел в зоопарк) -Вот. -Не, эти-тo не пойдет. Неизвестный науке зверь (however, you should learn "этот не пойдет"). -Не знают куды его садить ( however, you should learn "куда его посадить") -Мне нравится этот зверь. Он, ты знаешь, похож, так сказать, на бракованную игрушку. -Будешь работать у нас. Стоять в витрине и, так сказать, привлекать внимание прохожих. Понятно? -Понятно, а где я буду жить? -Жить?Где будешь жить? Да хотя бы вот здесь. Это и будет твой, так сказать, дом. Понятно? -Угу.(coll. Да) (В городе жил крокодил по имени Гена. Работал он в зоопарке...крокодилом) (sign: зоопарк закрыт) ---------------------------- If I were you I would try to identify the main forms of all unknown words and add them to Anki. Feel free to ask any questions and don’t forget to correct my mistakes, please. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| bramsterdam Bilingual Hexaglot Senior Member NetherlandsRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5237 days ago 106 posts - 113 votes Speaks: Dutch, French*, English*, German, Spanish, Russian | Message 80 of 200 17 February 2010 at 4:45am | IP Logged |
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Joan you are kicking my ass heh. I´m lucky to get like 1 hour of Russian per day, which is usually just Pimsleur. Keep it up though
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