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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 89 of 200 21 February 2010 at 9:55pm | IP Logged |
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02/21
Russian: One Princeton lesson (35, very hard one, especially understanding it, I gave up on detailed understanding and had to look at the text. Or maybe I wasn't in it)+ listened again to all dialogues from the beginning. It's fun to see how simple the first one were. No anki, ouch! =3.5 hours Spanish: One episode (Episode 1, I found it!) of Aguila Roja+ anki = 2.5 hours Total: Russian: 98 Spanish: 56 hours It's starting to be quite impressive, isn't it? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Sprachjunge Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6975 days ago 368 posts - 548 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Spanish, Russian | Message 90 of 200 22 February 2010 at 3:54pm | IP Logged |
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They are starting to be quite impressive. :) I wrote something in my log, but thanks again for your note. Concerning your English: Yes, it is motivating because your written English is great and very natural, so if you say that you overcame a possibly weaker beginning, I believe you.
Also, I think our team is starting to specialize: we have you and Bramsterdam holding down the fort for Russian, I'm focusing most of my energy on German, and Icaria909 seems to be concentrating on Spanish. 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 91 of 200 22 February 2010 at 7:50pm | IP Logged |
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- Lesson 36 of the Princeton course + anki. The fourth chapter is definitely harder, there is more new vocabulary in each lesson and I don't master the grammar it covers, although I technically know some of it. I'm doing all right but the comprehension and dialogue learning part of each lesson is taking much, much longer than it used to. I don't actually learn the dialogues by heart, actually, but I want to be able to reproduce them looking at the English translation and sometimes actually know them for a little while. I could barely say it looking at the English translation today, and the lesson took me 3 hours to learn and do the exercises. Strarting to feel that "Princeton" is the operative word in "Princeton course". I'm hanging on though. - Some passive song listening + review of the half of "Bumajdiy soldat" that I already knew Time spent: 4 hours Spanish: - "Aguila Roja", capitulo 2. Still not understanding much but I figure if I keep watching I'll end up understanding. I don't think my main problem is vocabulary but accent comprehension. - Entered words 200-300 of frequency list+ el cuerpo humano - Anki Time spent: 3 hours Total: Russian 102 Spanish 59 Edited by joanthemaid on 23 February 2010 at 4:23pm 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 92 of 200 22 February 2010 at 8:07pm | IP Logged |
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Thanks, Sprachjunge! I don't know how I feel about specializing in Russian though. The way I'm going, I'm afraid I'll be better at Russian than Spanish by the end of the year. Then again, I think that due to the nature of Spanish, once my comprehension gets better, I'll be on the road to fluency as its mostly transparent for a French speaker. But I'll have to listen to a whole lot of it...
Oh, and I'm pretty sure that all beginnings are weak! So don't worry Edited by joanthemaid on 22 February 2010 at 10:42pm 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 93 of 200 23 February 2010 at 9:26pm | IP Logged |
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23 February:
Russian: - Lesson 37 of the Princeton course+Anki.This one was a bit easier and I feel like I'm starting to internalize the genitive declensions, although I'm not sure I wouldn't forget it writing of speaking outside of exercises. But there is definitely progress. Still having a bit of trouble with the vocabulary of lesson 35 and 36 though, but eventually I'll learn it. That's the great thing about Anki, you don't have a choice, eventually, you will learn. - Passive listening (songs from Russian course): 1.5 hours. 4 hours Spanish - Siempre hacia El Oeste, a documentary on the route to Santiago de Compostella (easy) - Aguila Roja, capitulo 3. I don't know if it's because I watched it after something easier (as if Santiago had been a warm-up), but it was easier this time. Still far from the level I want to get to, but I had more than the pictures to help me understand the story this time. I'll try watching those with or without watching something else before, to confirm the fact that it helped. - Anki, continuing to learn the vocab entered last time. There were 60 words on the human body, most of which I knew, and others, I don't know exactly how many. I went through words 200 through 300 of the frequency list, but that doesn't mean I entered them all. I am sure enough of some of them to not have to learn them. I am, however, being as thorough as conceivably necessary. 2 hours Is it me or are my sentences particularly convoluted today? Anyways: Russian: 106 hours Spanish: 61 Edited by joanthemaid on 23 February 2010 at 10:41pm 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 94 of 200 25 February 2010 at 7:45pm | IP Logged |
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24 feb 2010 (late)
- Lesson 38 Princeton course, no Anki. 1.5 hours - Episodes 4,5,6 of Aguila Roja. Who would have thought I would have to cut back on Spanish? 4 hours Total: Russian: 107.5 hours Spanish: 65 hours 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 95 of 200 25 February 2010 at 9:44pm | IP Logged |
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25 feb 2010
Russian - Review Lesson 38 - Anki 1 hour Spanish - 1 hour "59secundos", a political show with several journalists and politicians, which I think was good for working on comprehension because it had several different types of accents, ranging from very clear (the guy interviewed) to frankly hard to make out. Compared to other times I watched this kind of show a while back, though, I think I'm getting better. No Anki (it's been two days, bad!) Total 108.5 hours Russian 66 Spanish Edited by joanthemaid on 26 February 2010 at 6:14pm 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 96 of 200 26 February 2010 at 6:14pm | IP Logged |
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26 feb 2010
Spanish - End of "59segundos" - Episodes 7 and 8 - Aguila Roja - Anki (4 hours) Russian -1 hour lesson 39 Princeton course. I was too tired to study though, as I started at 7 p.m and spent all of yesterday painting my brother's apartment, so I quit. No anki. Total: Spanish: 70 hours Russian: 109.5 hours Edited by joanthemaid on 27 February 2010 at 4:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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