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| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6281 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 17 of 55 04 February 2010 at 12:10am | IP Logged |
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Go you!
Yes, definitely understandable. The typical term used for cookie is "kekso" (German root) or sometimes "kuketo", though that could also be a muffin or the like. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5639 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 18 of 55 04 February 2010 at 9:06pm | IP Logged |
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:) Thanks Sprachprofi! I guess I am still a little unreasonably nervous about the affix system. ^_^;
I still don't know very many words for foods, so they present an especially good opportunity to practice describing things! I forgot to mention in my last update- I now have the entire audio of Gerda Malaperis on my iPod, and I listen to it on bus rides. This is helping me a lot. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5639 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 19 of 55 26 February 2010 at 6:24pm | IP Logged |
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Well, its been a long time so I figured I ought to check in here again!
I had to take about a week off from actively studying, due to a crisis, but I kept on doing a few passive reading and listening things even then, and right now I am back on track with my active studies. I'm excited to say that my reading and listening comprehension in Esperanto has skyrocketed! While I still can't speak or write in it very well, I can understand at least 85% of what I read, often closer to 95%, and about 70% of what I hear. I've taken to listening to the same episode of Radio Verda over and over again until I can make out most of it- when I do this, I can get up to about 90% comprehension, so clearly there's no obstacle in terms of vocabulary or grammar, just my listening ability. Since I've achieved this high level of understanding, I now have switched my studies over to almost exclusively reading blogs, forums, etc. and listening to whatever audio I can get my hands on. When I encounter new words, I look them up in the dictionary, but I am not actively studying vocabulary. If I find I'm not absorbing new words that well, I may start drilling lists of new words I find, though- we'll see. To improve my writing, I've decided to take up working on Esperanto Wikipedia. I've been a Wikimedian for many years (operating primarily on Wikiversity, but sometimes on Commons or Wikipedia) so it's a project that appeals to me, and it offers more opportunity for variety and correction than lang-8 does (where there is one person who corrects me very well and almost no other commenters at all). Eo wiki says right up front that they welcome even komencantoj with very limited grasps of Esperanto, so my mistakes shouldn't upset anyone (I hope). Japanese isn't progressing nearly as well, but I'm still pleased with my progress. I find I can now understand about 65% of what's said in the average drama (I just finished watching Zettai Kareshi yesterday!). I'm especially pleased that words which I had a lot of trouble remembering from my vocabulary studies are now firmly cemented in my brain since I have heard them said repeatedly now, such as 責任、参加する、喜ぶ、and 頼む. I still haven't purchased a skritter pro account, so I haven't made any progress on kanji- I'm still hovering around 290 or so of them. However, I should have some money soon so I will be starting that again. One place I'm still lacking in Japanese is regular reading practice. This is going to be hard to solve, though, since I need something with lower intermediate-level vocabulary and not a lot of kanji. Any suggestions would be more than welcome since I really don't even know where to look! Ĝis revido! 頑張ります！ 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| genini1 Senior Member United States Joined 5279 days ago 114 posts - 161 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Mandarin, Japanese | Message 20 of 55 26 February 2010 at 10:22pm | IP Logged |
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If your looking for easy books in Japanese you could check your local library, usually the selection isn't great but most of them contain at least one children's book in a dozen major languages.
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| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5639 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 21 of 55 13 March 2010 at 9:27pm | IP Logged |
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Well, it's been three weeks so I'm updating here again.
I seem to be having a problem with the forum's notifications- while I still get e-mails about replies to some threads, I haven't gotten any from my own thread or my team mates' threads, and some other threads I watch, even though I know they've been replied to. I don't know what could cause that. Anyway, I'm still making steady progress in both my languages. Although my studying is a bit more sporadic, I still can see myself progressing each time I do it. I finished the fourth step of the Core 2000 vocabulary list on Smart.FM, and am 78% of the way through the fifth step. I'll be starting the sixth soon. When the fifth one is finished, that will mean I have studied the first thousand most common words in Japanese- and while I have not fully learned all of those, I have fully learned most of them. I'm working on thinking up a good way to go back and firmly cement the ones I still have trouble with, but I am not sure when I'll get around to doing that. For now, I am continuing to do pretty much nothing but studying vocab in Japanese. I plan to wait until summer begins before I add more grammar and kanji study to my schedule, and after finishing the Core 2000 series I'll stop studying vocabulary at all until I've met my goal of learning 2000+ kanji. Then I'll be able to do a lot more reading so I'll start a more balanced study schedule, doing a little of everything. Esperanto isn't progressing as rapidly for me anymore as it was for a while. I feel a little bit unhappy with my knowledge of eo right now; even though I can understand quite a lot, I feel like my learning of this language has been rushed, sloppy, and disorderly, and I think I need to go back to the beginning and really drill the basics into my brain to give myself a more solid base to work from. In addition to doing this, I'm going to try to listen to as much eo as possible; hopefully the increased input will help my brain organize things correctly. Right now, my biggest problem (other than time) is that I'm really itching to try other languages. I had planned to sample some other languages come summer, but I don't want to wait! I'm most excited about Mandarin, right now, although I also really want to try German and to take up my old French studies again. However, I don't want to take away from my Japanese and Esperanto studies! I may have a look through Mandarin resources when I have the time, and try just dabbling in it a bit in the hopes that it will help me lose interest; but it could have the opposite effect and encourage my interest. If I had more time, that would be fine, but I'm not sure I want to risk it now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5639 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 22 of 55 21 March 2010 at 6:41pm | IP Logged |
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Just a short update since I have little to report.
Still haven't bought a Skritter account because my mom refuses to sit down and talk to me about buying things, and right now I still have to rely on her for funds. :/ Still plodding along with Smart.FM, should be finishing Step 5 in a few days and am almost halfway through Step 6, which means I'll be starting Step 7 soon... I like to have them overlap somewhat. I've gotten into a rhythm of sorts with this tool, now that I'm used to using it I seem to get more out of it than before. Not really doing any Esperanto lately except a little listening or reading here and there. I did pass the Lernu Level A exam recently though, which is nice. However, doing that test rammed home for me that I really don't understand the grammar as well as I had thought and definitely need to do something like sentence drilling or grammar exercises to help me internalize it. That's about it for this past week. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| global_gizzy Senior Member United States maxcollege.blogspot. Joined 5514 days ago 275 posts - 310 votes Studies: Spanish | Message 23 of 55 23 March 2010 at 7:18pm | IP Logged |
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Keep it up Luai! I know you can do it. I'm sorry to hear about the bad-incident, hope things are going well now, or atleast getting better.
I'm glad that you're progressing in Esperanto. I definitely want to get back into studying it but I dont know when I will be able to do so. Right now I've got my hands full with Spanish and Japanese (or the thought of Japanese) *sigh* Reading your log makes me feel better though, that someone out there is struggling and perservering anyway so that maybe I can to :). 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Luai_lashire Diglot Senior Member United States luai-lashire.deviant Joined 5639 days ago 384 posts - 560 votes Speaks: English*, Esperanto Studies: Japanese, French | Message 24 of 55 23 March 2010 at 9:00pm | IP Logged |
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Don't give up, gizzy! You can definitely do it! It's hard work, but just managing to do a little bit every day (or every
other day, or whatever you can fit) you will slowly progress! :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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