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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 33 of 158 23 January 2010 at 4:25am | IP Logged |
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19 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) 15 minutes: read some LingQ texts, getting "known words" to 1000+. 13 minutes: listened to two LingQ audio files while reading the transcripts. 12 minutes: watched a music video by a French band thrice while reading the lyrics. FRENCH (passive study) French total: 40 minutes (40 active/0 passive) GERMAN: none. ITALIAN: none. ESPERANTO (active study) 20 minutes: started TY chapter 4. ESPERANTO (passive study) Esperanto total: 20 minutes (20 active/0 passive) TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 60 minutes (1h00) Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 2:25am 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 34 of 158 23 January 2010 at 4:26am | IP Logged |
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20 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) 25 minutes: started TY lesson 18. FRENCH (passive study) 36 minutes: listened to six LingQ audio files. French total: 101 minutes (25 active/36 passive) GERMAN (active study) GERMAN (passive study) 10 minutes: listened to the podcast "Deutsche Welle Nachrichten." 95 minutes: watched the movie "Alles auf Zucker!" German total: 105 minutes (0 active/105 passive) ITALIAN (active study) ITALIAN (passive study) 10 minutes: listened to the podcast "La Repubblica." Italian total: 10 minutes (0 active/10 passive) ESPERANTO: none. TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 176 minutes (2h56) Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 2:25am 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 35 of 158 23 January 2010 at 4:28am | IP Logged |
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21 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) 20 minutes: read aloud 3 LingQ texts, getting known words up to 1200+. 30 minutes: finished TY lesson 18. 10 minutes: did a lesson of my French course on LiveMocha. FRENCH (passive study) 10 minutes: listened to the podcast "Le journal en français facile." French total: 70 minutes (60 active/10 passive) GERMAN (active study) 10 minutes: did a lesson of my German course on LiveMocha. 30 minutes: spoke German around the house, practicing colloquial usage. 72 minutes: watched the first two-thirds of "Max und Moritz Reloaded," which I had seen once before. GERMAN (passive study) German total: 112 minutes (112 active/0 passive) ITALIAN (active study) 10 minutes: did a lesson of my Italian course on LiveMocha. ITALIAN (passive study) Italian total: 10 minutes (10 active/0 passive) ESPERANTO (active study) 30 minutes: finished TY chapter 4. 10 minutes: did a lesson of my Esperanto course on LiveMocha. ESPERANTO (passive study) 11 minutes: listened to an interview in Esperanto. Esperanto total: 51 minutes (40 active/11 passive) TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 143 minutes (2h23) 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 36 of 158 23 January 2010 at 4:51am | IP Logged |
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Reflections at this juncture
I've officially taken Latin off the curriculum for the moment. I'm making too much progress with my other languages, and finding them too rewarding as I reach the level of really being able to use all four of them, to keep slogging through Latin at the same time. I'll tuck away Wheelock's and return to it when the mood strikes me, perhaps this summer. Esperanto is going wonderfully, thanks to the TY book. It's the perfect level for me, exactly what I need right now. I've also rediscovered LiveMocha and am doing exercises there for all four current languages. The online courses they offer are pretty pathetic, but the chance to get feedback on your written and spoken language skills is priceless. I've received a few really helpful comments, although most of them were in the "perfect, good job, wow" vein. I'd like to take that to heart, but I'm afraid most people on that site are just being nice. I refuse to believe my skills are that... skillzy. Another Internet resource I've rediscovered is LingQ. The limit on the number of words you're allowed to enter in your flashcards annoyed me so much that I quit using the site entirely a while ago, but now I've deleted all my wordlists and am starting again, flagging only the words that I a) don't recognize; b) can't figure out as a cognate; AND c) don't think I'll remember even after looking them up. That way I end up only marking two or three words in every text, and after I've encountered them several times I can delete them from my flashcard collection and make room for new ones. (I never use the flash cards qua flash cards – that method of learning without context just doesn't do it for me.) I feel that I've reached a new level with my French pronunciation. It doesn't come entirely naturally yet, but I've been reading aloud my LingQ texts and also the texts for translation in the TY book, and I'm definitely more confident and braver about clear enunciation. It's still a conscious thing, and I need to get it down on a subconscious level, the way I have with German. Speaking of which: I also seem to have reached a new level with German production. I tend to talk to myself around the house a lot (luckily the cats and the dog are just as crazy as I, so there's no mutual judgment going on), and I've been finding it easier and easier. This was demonstrated to me the other day when I found myself writing an email in quite natural, formal but friendly German, to someone in Berlin from whom I hope to rent an apartment. Before I would have shuddered at the idea of writing a business letter in German, but I rather enjoyed it now, which I take to be a very good sign. Italian is the only place where I don't feel I've had a recent breakthrough worth writing about, although I have been able to create actual conversations for the first time while doing my time-honored trick of talking to myself in my target language. The other day I improvised a short thank-you-I'm-so-honored speech in Italian, and delivered it to an audience of four bored cats and an adoring poodle. Who said learning a language can't be fun? ;) 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 37 of 158 23 January 2010 at 5:23pm | IP Logged |
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22 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) 25 minutes: started TY lesson 19. FRENCH (passive study) French total: 25 minutes (25 active/0 passive) GERMAN (active study) 7 minutes: wrote an entry in my German practice journal. 10 minutes: talked to myself in German around the house, using a few recently-learned words and expressions. GERMAN (passive study) German total: 17 minutes (17 active/0 passive) ITALIAN: none. ESPERANTO: none. TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 42 minutes (0h42) Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 2:27am 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 38 of 158 02 February 2010 at 7:40pm | IP Logged |
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23 January 2010
FRENCH: none. GERMAN (active study) 30 minutes: read some of "Der Struwwelpeter" by Heinrich Hoffman. GERMAN (passive study) German total: 30 minutes (30 active/0 passive) ITALIAN: none. ESPERANTO (active study) 60 minutes: did TY chapter 5. ESPERANTO (passive study) Esperanto total: 60 minutes (60 active/0 passive) TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 90 minutes (1h30) Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 2:28am 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 39 of 158 02 February 2010 at 7:41pm | IP Logged |
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24 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) 15 minutes: read a heated forum argument about Esperanto, in French. FRENCH (passive study) French total: 15 minutes (0 active/0 passive) GERMAN (active study) GERMAN (passive study) 60 minutes: watched Falco music videos and looked at the lyrics/watched German interviews in various dialects. German total: 60 minutes (0 active/60 passive) ITALIAN: none. ESPERANTO (active study) 60 minutes: did TY chapter 6. 10 minutes: read an article in Esperanto about Interlingua. 15 minutes: read the lernu! forums. ESPERANTO (passive study) Esperanto total: 85 minutes (85 active/0 passive) TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 160 minutes (2h40) OTHER 30 minutes: practiced reading Cyrillic. Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 2:28am 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 40 of 158 02 February 2010 at 7:42pm | IP Logged |
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26 January 2010
FRENCH (active study) 30 minutes: finished TY lesson 18. FRENCH (passive study) French total: 30 minutes (30 active/0 passive) GERMAN: none. ITALIAN (active study) 30 minutes: read my Italian reader "Letture Varie." ITALIAN (passive study) Italian total: 30 minutes (30 active/0 passive) ESPERANTO (active study) 50 minutes: started TY chapter 7. ESPERANTO (passive study) Esperanto total: 50 minutes (50 active/0 passive) TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 110 minutes (1h50) Edited by Jinx on 29 October 2010 at 2:29am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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