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TAC 2010, Team K, Teango - GE SP SW RU | ||
Tags: Kanji | Turkish | Listening-Reading (L-R) | Swedish | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Russian | German | French | Spanish | ||
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| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5376 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes  Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 161 of 185 10 October 2010 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | ||
It's just one of a myriad of loving terms for a bacon sandwich. And you're right, I'd never heard of a "chicken bog" either until now. In British English, the first thing that comes to mind is a convenience for chickens (i.e. some fowl toilet) lol...but after further research, I'm glad to discover that it's actually something much more appealing. You know, I feel like I'm missing out by not being at Loris' annual Bog-off right now! Thanks for the good wishes with the move, and I'll be sure to catch up with some wayward wanderlusting later on. ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5376 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 162 of 185 18 October 2010 at 1:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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PROGRESS IN SWEDISH, WEEK 41/52 OF THE 2010 TAC CHALLENGE
SUMMARY Active study over the last week: 10 hours' study-and-click. Total study for Swedish so far: 50 hours. WANDERLUST CONFESSION BOX Just runaway thoughts about learning Greek or Hungarian, little more. TEANGO’S WORD/PHRASE OF THE WEEK Swedish: "Har du din padda kvar?" (Still got your toad?) - a bizarre example taken from Harry Potter (no surprises there), but what I liked about this sentence is that "kva-kva" is also ironically the noise for toads in Russian. German: "gehoppt wie gedoppt" (kommt aufs gleiche raus; it's all the same to me/I have no preference) - a little phrase I picked up in a café this week. And for those interested in some more local phrases from this area of Germany, here's a Hessisch - English - Deutsch dictionary I found on the Web along the way. NOTES This week has flown by and proved to be one of my busiest this year. I still managed to get some Swedish done, but not nearly enough to push beyond an average hour or two basic maintenance per day. On a more positive note, I did several reading tests for German, just out of interest, and consistently scored in the 95-98% range. This is exactly where I'd like to be with Swedish. However, it's not just a matter of how many words and phrases I know, but more importantly, how well rooted these are in my mind to render reading more or less comfortable and effortless. This, I guess, really just takes time and plenty of exposure. These extra few per cent may be a sheer devil to climb, but I'm resolutely focused on the summit, and it's only been a couple of weeks so far. Onward and upward! Edited by Teango on 18 October 2010 at 1:17pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5376 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 163 of 185 25 October 2010 at 1:09am | IP Logged | ||
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PROGRESS IN SWEDISH, WEEK 42/52 OF THE 2010 TAC CHALLENGE
SUMMARY Active study over the last week: 5 hours' study-and-click. Total study for Swedish so far: 55 hours. WANDERLUST CONFESSION BOX I was toying with the idea of learning Vietnamese last week, simply in order to send some friends a postcard and keep in touch, but soon woke up and smelt the coffee after I realised how much Russian study I've got left ahead of me this year. TEANGO’S WORD/PHRASE OF THE WEEK Swedish: "klumpeduns" (clodhopper, klutz, Klumpe-Dumpe) - this word aptly describes how I felt after knocking over a pitcher of water at a restaurant whilst craning to listen to the people on the table next to me speaking Polish. NOTES What a week I've had! One moment I'm sipping Hefeweizen outside the local Ratskeller discussing Jugendstil; the next, I'm watching swans sweep under weeping willows on an English lock, indulging in a magnificent cream tea and contemplating a new chapter in both my life and "Harry Potter och de vises sten"... The most amazing language learning thing that happened to me this this week is that I managed to hit 95% reading scores within 19 days of study (that's just 55 hours, averaging 2-3 hours a day overall) for my little Swedish experiment "Dreams of Valhalla". And all this whilst packing up my bags, refurbishing a flat, and relocating lock, stock and barrel to another country. I'm still a bit in shock over how well it's all worked out so far! And as the study-and-click method has proved so efficient and intuitive for me, I've decided to continue using it until I've clicked 8000 words over the coming weeks and built up a really comfortable passive base for vocabulary. Following this, the aim will be to continue listening and reading (with some repeating and natural listening too) into next year until I reach 1,000,000 words of new Swedish material, and work on leveling up my listening and pronunciation skills, reading fluency, and ability to "deal with missing data given context". I'll post weekly updates for Swedish here from now on, and have Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy in my sights once I've finished Harry Potter. Edited by Teango on 25 October 2010 at 1:16am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5376 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 165 of 185 30 October 2010 at 10:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the lovely comments, Buttons. I've just got back to my little hotel room after spending the day shopping in Kingston, and this was a nice surprise.
I feel a bit guilty though, as I haven't had any real time to do further language study this week. Although, to be fair, I've managed to find a new house to rent during this time (from mid-December - wahey!), and will be moving my suitcases and stolen hotel toiletries (lol) into a temporary serviced appartment tomorrow in the meantime. I've also booked some seats to view Inception in London tomorrow (whilst I still can on the Big Screen), all part of my master plan to catch up after being almost 2 years in Germany. For example, I didn't even know that Take That were back together again...I just switched on the hotel tv and thought, hey, those guys in the boat with Robbie look familiar. Heaven knows what else I've missed...hope Moyles is still on in the morning... ;) I'm also pretty impressed with all the hours you've managed to put in recently. I think you should definitely hit that DELE exam next year and try to bring home the C1 prize! Adrean's on his way with French, you could try out Spanish, and I could have a go at German too - just think, we could score a hat trick for forumkind and corner the Continent by teatime! Edited by Teango on 30 October 2010 at 10:54pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Teango Triglot Winner TAC 2010 & 2012 Senior Member United States teango.wordpress.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5376 days ago 2210 posts - 3734 votes Speaks: English*, German, Russian Studies: Hawaiian, French, Toki Pona | Message 167 of 185 05 November 2010 at 12:05pm | IP Logged | ||
First Kilimanjaro, then X-Factor...and now this. I'm just waiting for the fitness DVD to come out next...(in several languages, of course)... ;) Edited by Teango on 05 November 2010 at 12:07pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| DaraghM Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5971 days ago 1947 posts - 2923 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: French, Russian, Hungarian | Message 168 of 185 11 November 2010 at 5:50pm | IP Logged | ||
How do you feel you did with your original goals, considering you added a few others to the mix ? How hard do you feel it is to predict a years language study in advance ? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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