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TAC 2010: Jinx Succumbs to Glossophilia | ||
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5491 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes  Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 17 of 158 08 January 2010 at 11:21pm | IP Logged |
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4 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) 52 minutes: did TY lesson 11. FRENCH (passive study) French total: 52 minutes (52 active/0 passive) GERMAN (active study) GERMAN (passive study) 96 minutes: watched "Finding Nemo" in German. German total: 96 minutes (0 active/96 passive) ITALIAN: none. ESPERANTO: none. LATIN: none. TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 148 minutes (2h28) Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 1:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5491 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 18 of 158 08 January 2010 at 11:22pm | IP Logged |
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5 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) 55 minutes: did TY lesson 12. FRENCH (passive study) 5 minutes: listened to various French audio files. (Bible readings, I think...) French total: 60 minutes (55 active/5 passive) GERMAN (active study) 25 minutes: read aloud 10 pp. of "Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen." GERMAN (passive study) German total: 25 minutes (25 active/0 passive) ITALIAN (active study) 25 minutes: read LP CC lesson 6 aloud, looked up all unknown words and entered them into SRS. 35 minutes: copied LP CC lesson 6 by hand, reading it aloud again. ITALIAN (passive study) Italian total: 60 minutes (60 active/0 passive) ESPERANTO: none. LATIN: none. TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 145 minutes (2h25) Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 1:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5491 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 19 of 158 08 January 2010 at 11:23pm | IP Logged |
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6 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) 60 minutes: did TY lesson 13. FRENCH (passive study) French total: 60 minutes (60 active/0 passive) GERMAN: none. ITALIAN (active study) 28 minutes: read LP CC lesson 7 aloud, looked up all unknown words. 32 minutes: copied LP CC lesson 7 by hand, reading it aloud again. ITALIAN (passive study) Italian total: 60 minutes (60 active/0 passive) ESPERANTO: none. LATIN: none. TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 120 minutes (2h0) Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 1:59am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5491 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 20 of 158 08 January 2010 at 11:24pm | IP Logged |
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It's still just as hard as ever to fend off my wanderlust. I thought recording every step of my work on these five languages might slake my thirst for constant new beginnings, but no, I've already strayed several times in the past few weeks. I subscribed to one Norwegian podcast and one in Chinese, I read a quick grammatical intro to the Northern Germanic languages plus Dutch, and I watched a couple of Turkish music videos. All of these forays were quickly reined in, however, and I've generally been very successful in redirecting my hunger for new languages into a new intensity of focus on my current five. So things aren't really quite as bad as I'm making them out to be, I suppose.
I guess my main area of frustration right now is simply that I'm not making progress as fast as I'd like to be. In Italian and French especially, I'm probably making progress as fast as my brain can possibly handle it, and German's going quite well too, but I still feel dissatisfied with my hour or less of study per day per language. I know if I just had the time to use multiple resources (e.g. textbook/audio/video) for each language every day, my progress would be even more rewarding. But I imagine this is always the linguaphile's lament, and don't we all want more hours in a day? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5491 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 21 of 158 14 January 2010 at 3:29am | IP Logged |
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7 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) FRENCH (passive study) 10 minutes: listened to the podcast "Le journal en français facile." French total: 10 minutes (0 active/10 passive) GERMAN (active study) 30 minutes: did Pimsleur German Plus lesson 1. 5 minutes: read a short article from Deutsche-Welle, looking up all unknown words. 16 minutes: wrote an entry in my German practice journal. GERMAN (passive study) 10 minutes: listened to "Deutsche Welle Nachrichten" podcast. 15 minutes: listened to an interview with two authors from the "Das Literatur-Cafe" podcast. German total: 76 minutes (51 active/25 passive) ITALIAN: none. ESPERANTO (active study) ESPERANTO (passive study) 32 minutes: listened to half a radio program from the "Radio 3ZZZ" podcast. Esperanto total: 32 minutes (0 active/32 passive) LATIN: none. OTHER 8 minutes: watched some Turkish music videos. TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 126 minutes (2h06) Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 2:00am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5491 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 22 of 158 14 January 2010 at 3:30am | IP Logged |
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8 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) 20 minutes: read six pp. of "L'Étranger." FRENCH (passive study) 6 minutes: listened to lessons 1-5 of Assimil French without Toil. French total: 26 minutes (20 active/6 passive) GERMAN (active study) GERMAN (passive study) 10 minutes: listened to the podcast "Deutsche Welle Nachrichten." 14 minutes: listened to the podcast "Fußballpodcast mit Henry und vielen anderen." German total: 24 minutes (0 active/24 passive) ITALIAN (active study) 16 minutes: did tracks 1-5 of LP Italian allTalk, Unit 2. ITALIAN (passive study) 2 minutes: listened to the podcast "Radio Feltrinelli." Italian total: 18 minutes (16 active/2 passive) ESPERANTO: none. LATIN: none. TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 68 minutes (1h08) Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 2:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5491 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 23 of 158 14 January 2010 at 3:31am | IP Logged |
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10 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) 20 minutes: listened to Assimil French without Toil lessons 1-5 while reading along in the book, then listened to the audio again while shadowing it. FRENCH (passive study) 10 minutes: listened to the podcast "Le journal en français facile." 12 minutes: listened to the podcast "Learn French by podcast." 18 minutes: listened to Assimil lessons 1-5 three more times. French total: 60 minutes (20 active/40 passive) GERMAN (active study) 10 minutes: did FSI tape. GERMAN (passive study) 10 minutes: listened to the podcast "Deutsche Welle Nachrichten." 20 minutes: listened to the podcast "Das Literatur-Cafe." 30 minutes: listened to German pop music (the Wise Guys). German total: 70 minutes (0 active/70 passive) ITALIAN (active study) ITALIAN (passive study) 10 minutes: listened to the podcast "Repubblica." 5 minutes: listened to the podcast "Radio Feltrinelli." Italian total: 15 minutes (0 active/15 passive) ESPERANTO: none. LATIN: none. TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 145 minutes (2h25) Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 2:02am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5491 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 24 of 158 14 January 2010 at 3:32am | IP Logged |
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11 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) 25 minutes: did FSI French Phonology (FP) 1.1. 30 minutes: did Assimil lessons 6-8. 20 minutes: did tracks 1-3 of Michel Thomas (MT). 5 minutes: wrote an entry in my French practice journal. 11 minutes: read aloud 3 pp. of "L'Étranger," finishing chapter 3. FRENCH (passive study) 12 minutes: listened to Assimil lessons 1-5 twice. 10 minutes: listened to the podcast "Le journal en français facile." 12 minutes: listened to French pop music. French total: 125 minutes (91 active/34 passive) GERMAN (active study) 10 minutes: did FSI tape. 30 minutes: did Pimsleur German Plus lesson 2. 7 minutes: listened to & shadowed Assimil German lesson 1 four times, read the transcript. 4 minutes: finished the next chapter of "Harry Potter und der Stein der Weisen." 10 minutes: wrote an entry in my German practice journal. 10 minutes: translated some lyrics to a Bach piece for my dad. GERMAN (passive study) 10 minutes: listened to the podcast "Deutsche Welle Nachrichten." 4 minutes: listened to German pop music (Die Prinzen). German total: 85 minutes (71 active/14 passive) ITALIAN (active study) 7 minutes: did tracks 6-7 of LP Italian allTalk, Unit 2. 5 minutes: wrote an entry in my Italian practice journal. ITALIAN (passive study) 10 minutes: listened to Italian pop music (Ligabue). 10 minutes: listened to various Italian podcasts. Italian total: 32 minutes (12 active/20 passive) ESPERANTO: none. LATIN: none. TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 242 minutes (4h02) Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 2:03am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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