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| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5281 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes  Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 81 of 200 19 February 2010 at 8:01am | IP Logged |
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Dantalian, thank for the vote of confidence, but I'm really not at that level yet. Sure, I understand some of those sentences, but I think I'll wait a bit. Thanks though, it will definitely be useful one day.
Bramsterdam, I'm on holiday right now, that's why I'm studying a lot. Besides I've almost completely given up Spanish and even in Russian, I'm behind schedule. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5281 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 82 of 200 19 February 2010 at 8:02am | IP Logged |
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- One lesson Princeton course (32) Russian: 2 hours Total: Russian: 89 Spanish: 51 Edited by joanthemaid on 19 February 2010 at 8:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5281 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 83 of 200 19 February 2010 at 10:27pm | IP Logged |
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-Lesson 33 Princeton course (review)+ Anki
- Spanish TV 30 minutes Russian: 2 hours Total: Russian 91 Spanish 51.5 Edited by joanthemaid on 19 February 2010 at 11:47pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kinan Diglot Senior Member Syrian Arab Republic Joined 5377 days ago 234 posts - 279 votes Speaks: Arabic (Written)*, English Studies: Russian, Spanish | Message 84 of 200 19 February 2010 at 11:47pm | IP Logged |
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Keep it up Joan, and never feel you are behind in schedule, learning languages should be fun and not duty, so just enjoy.
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| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5281 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 85 of 200 20 February 2010 at 10:20pm | IP Logged |
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Russian: 3 hours (lesson 34: beginning of Chapter 4: The genitive case)+ Anki -Spanish: 2 hours: 5 min LingQ + Anki + TV (Aguila Roja, Capitulo 20). I'd like to start at the beginning, unfortunately I couldn't find other episodes. I'm pretty sure they're somewhere though because once I found the beginning of another series. I don't understand everything but I'm managing to follow the story. - One Russian text on Lang8, here it is, as promised (30 minutes): Я девушка из Сант-Этиеня, в францся. Я учителница а когда кончала учиться два года назад, я думала, что это было очен трудно, потому что я учила учеников но я ничего не учила. Поэтому я хотела учить языки, хочу учить каждый ООН язык - англиканский, французский, испанский, русский арабский и китайский. Я знаю французский и английский, которим я учу учеников в школы, а я учу испанский и русский. Но в февраре я была чуть-чуть ленивая потому что я очень много смотрела телевизор. Смотрела Баффи протиф вампиров. Это очень хороший американская программа. Баффи - девушка которая ходитьт на школа с другов. Но она не девушка как девушка. Каждая ночь она убить вампиров. Я думаю, это очень смешная программа, и очень приятная. Но когда я начинаю она смотрнть, я не могу кончать и чуствую как я молодая девушка. Поэтому очень трудно работать, А меня надо кончать до конца каникул. Можеть выть, вы думаете, какая странная! Но что же делать? Russian: 94.5 Spanish: 53.5 Edited by joanthemaid on 21 February 2010 at 10:36am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5281 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 86 of 200 21 February 2010 at 10:52am | IP Logged |
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Oh, and I'm very happy with my progress in Russian, even if it's still completely broken. I can say way more things badly than I could last month!
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| Sprachjunge Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6976 days ago 368 posts - 548 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 87 of 200 21 February 2010 at 3:07pm | IP Logged |
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Hey! Thanks for your message. It's funny; we always seem to post just when the other is undergoing a swing in the other direction--right when you were commenting on my regularity, I skipped a day and was delayed in posting my entries. :)
On a positive note, your message inspired me to do some "end of the week reflections," which address some of your questions. But to address yours specifically: I changed my schedule a little while back so that I do German for three days (T,W,Th), Spanish for two (M, F), and Russian on the weekends with Pimsleur, because I have 4-5 hours blocks on Saturday and Sunday when I'm working. The work is cleaning bathrooms, so I'm by myself and it's not mentally challenging: perfect for Russian Pimsleur study! Well, yesterday I didn't work, so that plan was chucked. Today I will work though. But you can read more about how I feel about Russian in my post. About switching languages--I surprisingly don't have a problem with passive understanding. It does take a little while for my mouth to "set" itself for Spanish coming from German, but overall it's fine. I just like staying in one language; it's my preference. But I can go through three languages in a row if I focus. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| joanthemaid Triglot Senior Member France Joined 5281 days ago 483 posts - 559 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish Studies: Russian, German | Message 88 of 200 21 February 2010 at 9:45pm | IP Logged |
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I'm like you, I don't have a problem with switching between languages for passive understanding, only for production. I guess you don't really need to "switch" for passive understanding, your brain just grabs on to what's there and understands, whereas for production you need to sort out which is what languages and avoid saying things like:
Ya werde ochen mnogo bailar at the fiesta. (ok, exaggerating here, but that's what happens to me, although with only two languages, when i try to say something at the end of the day.) Plus, Russian and Spanish both omit parts of speech, and not the same ones (Determiners and the verb BE for Russian, subject pronouns for Spanish), so that's a big mess when I start trying to speak or write one or the other. It all sorts itself out in the end, but I can feel the sorting going on in my head. Edit: I might do some cerebral spring cleaning at some point: more production in all languages to build barriers. It's really a mess in here Edited by joanthemaid on 21 February 2010 at 9:50pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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