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| jedimindtrick Diglot Groupie United States 8monthsinukrain Joined 5221 days ago 90 posts - 119 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian | Message 81 of 92 11 November 2012 at 6:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Weeks 13 & 14
Russian: 3 hours, 10 minutes (total: 21 hours, 55 minutes) *Anki *chatting with the вахта and my friend's свекровь *this sticky song: Если у вас нету тёти (lyrics) and [/URL]video *began studying out of an old textbook again All 3 hours and 10 minutes are from this week. Last week's total was 0. Latin: 0 hours (total: 4 hours) Spanish: 5 hours, 43 minutes (total: 25 hours, 43 minutes) *attended the final 2 Spanish classes *Anki *listening to podcasts I decided to not enroll in another semester of classes. They were really useful and helped motivate me to study, but I feel like I got what I was hoping for- that boost of motivation- and won't have time to take them this semester. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jedimindtrick Diglot Groupie United States 8monthsinukrain Joined 5221 days ago 90 posts - 119 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian | Message 82 of 92 19 November 2012 at 5:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Week 15
Russian: 2 hours, 21 minutes (total: 24 hours, 16 minutes) *Anki *watched чебурешка (first time!) *Eralash - Little Beggars, Pt 1 & 2 *Busuu *studied from a textbook Latin: 0 hours (total: 4 hours) Spanish: 1 hour, 5 minutes (total: 26 hours, 48 minutes) *Anki *Busuu Also, in random news, I got a little motivational boost from these two great articles: The SHAPAL method and Unscheduling Language Acquisition. Has anyone else read them? 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| reineke Senior Member United States https://learnalangua Joined 6449 days ago 851 posts - 1008 votes Studies: German | Message 83 of 92 21 November 2012 at 1:25am | IP Logged | ||
Teacher Talk "I can also say with a high degree of certainty that anyone who chooses not to adopt this Method will be doomed to failure." "Success in learning a foreign language requires many hundreds of hours of dull, often confusing study. It also demands many thousands of hours of embarrassing, frustrating, and often highly stressful practice of using the language to communicate." Meh. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jedimindtrick Diglot Groupie United States 8monthsinukrain Joined 5221 days ago 90 posts - 119 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian | Message 84 of 92 25 November 2012 at 5:25pm | IP Logged | ||
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Reineke, he does sound rather gloomy but I still agree with him. Language learning isn't always exciting and glamourous... rather, it's glamourous perhaps only in retrospect. You have to put in some time and effort and elbow grease to make progress. Yes, sometimes things happen as if by magic, but at other times you want to throw your hands up and surrender. Hopefully the "embarrassing, frustrating, and stressful" stuff will be limited but at some point everyone bound to feel one of those ways. I like his article quite a bit because it's a good reminder of all these things.
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| jedimindtrick Diglot Groupie United States 8monthsinukrain Joined 5221 days ago 90 posts - 119 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian | Message 85 of 92 25 November 2012 at 5:43pm | IP Logged | ||
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Week 16
Russian: 1 hour, 5 minutes (total: 25 hours, 21 minutes) *Anki *long conversation in Russian with the вахта Recently I've been feeling really good about Russian. All that Anki practice is paying off because I'll hear myself using those new words and phrases in conversation. When I think back to how (poorly) I spoke Russian last November, I feel really proud of how far I've come. The biggest change has come in the last several months after actually beginning to study and not just speak the language on the street. It seems like it would be the opposite- speaking would lead to more improvement than studying- but I was missing a lot of vocab and grammar and my level wasn't high enough to pick it up through conversation. Back then I would literally go weeks without learning a single new word. Now that I do more studying, everything is more interesting overall. It's like- learn it at home, go out and get it reinforced in the real world. Latin: 30 min (total: 4.5 hours) *grammar exercises and translation from Latin Made Simple Spanish: 52 minutes (total: 27 hours, 40 minutes) *Anki *podcast *wrote potential penpal This week I signed up for italki and checked out Verbling. It's time to find someone to chat with. The idea behind italki (5 min one language, 5 min the other) sounds really appealing. Edited by jedimindtrick on 03 December 2012 at 12:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jedimindtrick Diglot Groupie United States 8monthsinukrain Joined 5221 days ago 90 posts - 119 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian | Message 86 of 92 03 December 2012 at 12:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Week 17
Russian: 2 hours, 31 minutes (total: 26 hours, 47 minutes) *Anki *more чебурешка *Eralash - Tick Tock *read words 51-150 from Russian frequency chart *talked with the вахта *browsed RIA Novosti *read the first page of The 12 Chairs Latin: 0 hours (total: 4.5 hours) Spanish: 20 minutes (total: 27 hours, 08 minutes) *Anki 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jedimindtrick Diglot Groupie United States 8monthsinukrain Joined 5221 days ago 90 posts - 119 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian | Message 87 of 92 10 December 2012 at 1:24pm | IP Logged | ||
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Week 18
Russian: 2 hours, 24 minutes (total: 29 hours, 11 minutes) *Anki *watched some Айболит and холостяк *continued studying the Russian frequency chart *read more from The 12 Chairs Latin: 0 hours (total: 4.5 hours) Spanish: 1 hour, 22 minutes (total: 28 hours, 30 minutes) *Anki *podcast *set up profile on italki to find native speakers and wrote a journal entry Also, enjoyed this article Why The Best Language Learners Focus On More Than Just Language. Edited by jedimindtrick on 10 December 2012 at 1:36pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| jedimindtrick Diglot Groupie United States 8monthsinukrain Joined 5221 days ago 90 posts - 119 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish Studies: Russian | Message 88 of 92 17 December 2012 at 6:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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Week 19
A pretty unspectacular study week and the nightmare that just happened on the east coast is all I can think about. Poor, poor families and communities! Russian: 40 minutes (total: 29 hours, 51 minutes) *Anki Latin: 0 hours (total: 4.5 hours) Spanish: 13 minutes (total: 28 hours, 43 minutes) *Anki *busuu 1 person has voted this message useful |
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