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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5511 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 105 of 158 24 October 2010 at 9:08pm | IP Logged |
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October 18 2010
Today there wasn't much to do at work, so I spent a shameful amount of "on-the-clock" time studying languages. :) I downloaded a new app for my iPod called "ChineseWriter." Its capabilities are limited (it's a free app) but I was very impressed all the same. In the bottom bit of the screen it presents you with the image of a character along with the pinyin (inc. tone), meaning in English, and sometimes an explanation of the meaning of the character components, to help you remember it. Then on a large virtual piece of paper which takes up the rest of the screen, you draw the character with your fingertip. Every line has to be done in the right direction and order, or else it won't appear on the screen. If you do it correctly, the line will appear, so you're literally virtually drawing the character. (Note aside: I think that last sentence was the first time I ever got to use the words "literally virtually" right next to each other and actually mean both of them.) Anyway, then I was supposed to look up internship info for an environmental organization in Mexico (I work in an environmental-studies graduate program), and of course all the websites mentioning this organization were in Spanish, so I spent a long time just cruising around reading them. Cool discovery of the day: the Spanish word for "environmental" is "ambiental." I guess it makes sense when you think about it, but it was a fun surprise for me. I love etymology. It's weird to me how I still find it easier to read Spanish and Italian than French or German, despite having studied the latter two far more intensely – and never having studied a word of Spanish at all. It just doesn't exert my brain to read ES/IT the way it does when I'm reading FR/DE. It'll be even crazier once I've learned Portuguese – by that point I'll probably just wake up one morning speaking fluent Spanish without any study. ;) Edited by Jinx on 24 October 2010 at 9:09pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5511 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 106 of 158 24 October 2010 at 9:09pm | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 107* (19 October 2010)
FRENCH 30 minutes: revised a French translation. 60 minutes: translated some short texts (both directions). 10 minutes: read a forum discussion about French pronunciation, in French. 20 minutes: did Assimil lesson 39. French total: 120 minutes GERMAN 60 minutes: prepared a presentation on a German poem. 10 minutes: memorized and practiced reciting to myself the poem in question. 80 minutes: German class. German total: 150 minutes MANDARIN (hanzi known: 44) 10 minutes: practiced writing hanzi with ChineseWriter app. 90 minutes: quizzed myself on producing all known hanzi (written and pronounced) when prompted with only the meaning in English; then practiced the ones I couldn't immediately produce. Mandarin total: 100 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 360 minutes (6h00) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5511 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 107 of 158 25 October 2010 at 12:58am | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 108* (20 October 2010)
FRENCH 80 minutes: French class. 60 minutes: French tutorial. French total: 140 minutes GERMAN 60 minutes: German tutorial. German total: 60 minutes MANDARIN (hanzi known: 44) 10 minutes: practiced writing hanzi with ChineseWriter. 20 minutes: quizzed myself on producing 20 random known hanzi. Mandarin total: 30 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 230 minutes (3h50) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5511 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 108 of 158 25 October 2010 at 12:59am | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 109* (21 October 2010)
FRENCH 10 minutes: did Assimil lesson 40. 5 minutes: listened to a French song while reading the lyrics. 20 minutes: did Colloquial French 2 Unit 1, exercises 1-4. French total: 35 minutes GERMAN 80 minutes: German class (today I did a presentation on a poem, mostly without using any notes!). 10 minutes: watched a video in German about biking in Berlin. 5 minutes: listened to music in German while reading the lyrics. German total: 95 minutes MANDARIN (hanzi known: 50) 15 minutes: entered all known hanzi into my new "Mandarin vocab" Anki deck. I downloaded a sound-set, but I'm unsure how to connect it to my deck… Anki is a bit confusing to me still. :/ 60 minutes: practiced writing hanzi. Mandarin total: 75 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 205 minutes (3h25) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5511 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 109 of 158 25 October 2010 at 1:00am | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 110* (22 October 2010)
FRENCH 10 minutes: did Assimil lesson 41. French total: 10 minutes MANDARIN (hanzi known: 57) 20 minutes: practiced writing hanzi (can currently write 54/57 known). Mandarin total: 20 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 30 minutes (0h30) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5511 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 110 of 158 25 October 2010 at 1:01am | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 111* (23 October 2010)
FRENCH 30 minutes: watched a short film in French ("L'amour à vingt ans: Antoine et Colette" by Truffaut) with Italian subtitles. 15 minutes: reviewed vocab in Anki. 15 minutes: did Assimil lesson 43. 16 minutes: listened to MT disc 4 tracks 6-8. French total: 76 minutes GERMAN 10 minutes: reviewed vocab in Anki. 20 minutes: read some of a Swiss story, "Romeo und Julia auf dem Dorfe" by Gottfried Keller. 30 minutes: read articles in German online. German total: 60 minutes MANDARIN (hanzi known: 61) 5 minutes: reviewed hanzi in Anki. Mandarin total: 5 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 141 minutes (2h21) OTHER: 10 minutes: reviewed Esperanto vocab in Anki. 5 minutes: reviewed the Russian alphabet in Anki. Edited by Jinx on 25 October 2010 at 1:19am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5511 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 111 of 158 26 October 2010 at 6:14am | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 112* (24 October 2010)
FRENCH 15 minutes: did Assimil lesson 44. 30 minutes: translated sentences for homework. 15 minutes: translated sentences on WordChamp. 10 minutes: reviewed vocab on Anki. 13 minutes: listened to MT disc 4 tracks 9-10. French total: 83 minutes GERMAN 20 minutes: listened to and sang music in German. 7 minutes: reviewed vocab in Anki. German total: 20 minutes MANDARIN (hanzi known: 62) 5 minutes: reviewed radicals in Anki. 5 minutes: reviewed hanzi in Anki. Mandarin total: 10 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 120 minutes (2h00) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5511 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 112 of 158 27 October 2010 at 6:34am | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 113* (25 October 2010)
FRENCH 10 minutes: did Assimil lesson 45. 30 minutes: did Pimsleur I lesson 17. 30 minutes: watched FiA 8 (Kinship). 30 minutes: did exercises 5-7 of Colloquial French 2. 30 minutes: watched the beginning of "Get Him to the Greek" dubbed in French. French total: 130 minutes GERMAN 20 minutes: listened to and sang music in German. German total: 20 minutes MANDARIN (hanzi known: 72) 25 minutes: listened to MT disc 2 tracks 4-8. 90 minutes: practiced writing hanzi. Mandarin total: 115 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 265 minutes (4h25) OTHER 10 minutes: listened to Basque. 5 minutes: listened to Persian. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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