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TAC 2011 (Team ÇÜ): The Continuing Saga | ||
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| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes  Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 121 of 135 18 October 2011 at 8:12pm | IP Logged |
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What a coincidence, I've recently seen several advertisements for Catalan classes at our university. They were held last year and the idea must have been quite successful, considering they are offering them again. Of course I thought about going but sadly I really don't have time for this. I'll rather bring my Spanish to higher level. But when I was in Barcelona last year, it was really fun to try and decipher the written Catalan quite everywhere. Have fun. And write something for me to decipher :-)
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 122 of 135 23 October 2011 at 4:09pm | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 270* (1 October 2011)
FRENCH 160 minutes: read 141 pp. (finished) HP 3. French total: 160 minutes GERMAN 10 minutes: chatted with flatmates. 80 minutes: watched "Die Zärtlichkeit der Wölfe" (EN subs). 20 minutes: watched the first two parts of a documentary called "Tabubruch: Der neue Weg von Homosexualität im Fußball" (no subs). German total: 110 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 270 minutes (4h30) --- *ENTRY 271* (2 October 2011) GERMAN 22 minutes: read 9 pp. of "Faust". 40 minutes: read 10 pp. of "Philosophie für Dummies". 10 minutes: listened to music in German while reading the lyrics. German total: 72 minutes DUTCH 10 minutes: listened to music in Dutch while reading the lyrics and getting a live translation into German from a native Dutch speaker. Dutch total: 10 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 82 minutes (1h12) --- *ENTRY 272* (3 October 2011) GERMAN 30 minutes: read 12 pp. of "Faust". German total: 30 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 30 minutes (0h30) --- *ENTRY 273* (4 October 2011) FRENCH 20 minutes: read French online. French total: 20 minutes GERMAN 45 minutes: read 24 pp. of a collection of Krimis. 75 minutes: listened to a welcome talk at the uni. 30 minutes: talked to various university officials. 20 minutes: read various official documents and information relating to starting at uni. 60 minutes: chatted with flatmates. 10 minutes: wrote a business email in German. 120 minutes: read 145 pp. of "Chimären" by Alexander Kröger. German total: 360 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 380 minutes (6h20) --- *ENTRY 274* (5 October 2011) FRENCH 15 minutes: translated a German letter into French. French total: 15 minutes GERMAN 10 minutes: wrote a letter in German. 170 minutes: started reading the fourth HP (155 pp.). German total: 180 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 180 minutes (3h00) --- *ENTRY 275* (6 October 2011) GERMAN 20 minutes: read two more chapters (13 pp.) of "Philosophie für Dummies". 14 minutes: read more (9 pp.) of "Chimären". German total: 34 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 34 minutes (0h34) --- *ENTRY 276* (7 October 2011) GERMAN 72 minutes: started reading (20 pp.) a book on horses. 60 minutes: read 56 pp. HP 4. German total: 132 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 132 minutes (2h12) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 123 of 135 23 October 2011 at 4:11pm | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 277* (8 October 2011)
GERMAN 60 minutes: read 42 pp. HP 4. German total: 60 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 60 minutes (1h00) --- *ENTRY 278* (9 October 2011) GERMAN 20 minutes: listened to an interview in German. 20 minutes: translated a letter (EN->DE). German total: 40 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 40 minutes (0h40) --- *ENTRY 279* (10 October 2011) GERMAN 15 minutes: started a book (5 pp.) on translation theory. German total: 15 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 15 minutes (0h15) --- *ENTRY 280* (11 October 2011) GERMAN 30 minutes: read the German parts of a bilingual DE-SP reader. 60 minutes: translated a short German article into English. German total: 90 minutes SPANISH 30 minutes: read the Spanish parts of a bilingual DE-SP reader. Spanish total: 30 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 120 minutes (2h00) --- *ENTRY 281* (12 October 2011) GERMAN 110 minutes: read 97 more pp. of HP 4. 50 minutes: read 20 pp. more of "Philosophie für Dummies". German total: 160 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 160 minutes (2h40) --- *ENTRY 282* (13 October 2011) GERMAN 20 minutes: read 22 more pp. of HP 4. German total: 20 minutes CATALAN 90 minutes: Catalan course. Catalan total: 90 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 110 minutes (1h50) --- *ENTRY 283* (14 October 2011) GERMAN 60 minutes: read 25 pp. more of "Philosophie für Dummies". German total: 60 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 60 minutes (1h00) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 124 of 135 23 October 2011 at 4:12pm | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 284* (15 October 2011)
GERMAN 25 minutes: started reading (14 pp.) "1001 Songs, die Sie hören sollten, bevor das Leben vorbei ist" (1001 Songs to Hear Before You Die). German total: 25 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 25 minutes (0h25) --- *ENTRY 285* (16 October 2011) GERMAN 15 minutes: read 14 pp. more of "Chimären". 180 minutes: translated an economics article from English into German. German total: 195 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 195 minutes (3h15) --- *ENTRY 286* (17 October 2011) GERMAN 80 minutes: read 95 pp. more of HP 4. 260 minutes: translated a software license agreement from English into German. German total: 340 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 340 minutes (5h40) --- *ENTRY 287* (18 October 2011) FRENCH 20 minutes: read 8 pp. short fiction by Baudelaire & Zola. French total: 20 minutes GERMAN 90 minutes: read 76 pp. more of HP 4. German total: 90 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 110 minutes (1h50) --- *ENTRY 288* (19 October 2011) GERMAN 40 minutes: translated part of a legal document from English into German. German total: 40 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 40 minutes (0h40) --- *ENTRY 289* (20 October 2011) GERMAN 50 minutes: read 29 pp. more of "Chimären". German total: 50 minutes CATALAN 90 minutes: Catalan course. 5 minutes: read a short article in Catalan. Catalan total: 95 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 145 minutes (2h25) --- *ENTRY 290* (21 October 2011) GERMAN 120 minutes: finished (158 pp.) HP 4. German total: 120 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 120 minutes (2h00) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 125 of 135 29 October 2011 at 12:27pm | IP Logged |
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DELAYED COMMENT:
I meant to say this earlier, but forgot about it: I have decided to stop logging class time (I have about 15 hours of German-language classes per week) and conversation with friends as "study" of German. I know this makes my log a bit lop-sided, because at first I WAS logging those activities. But, frankly, it would just be too much to try to keep track of all that stuff. On average I get in 1-2 hours of conversation and 2-3 hours of class (plus probably an hour of reading random stuff that I forget to log) per day. You can imagine that as being added to my total or not, depending on your own study standards. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 126 of 135 10 November 2011 at 7:46pm | IP Logged |
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Milestone: my first text in Catalan! It's pretty basic, but I like it. I haven't gotten it corrected yet, so it may have some mistakes. The assignment was to write a paragraph about our town and family. I'll add a translation below, so for anyone who wants to try to figure it out on their own: don't peek further down the page until you want to check your answers. :) I doubt you'll have much trouble, though – Catalan is a fun and easy language!
Here's my text. --- Català: Ara fa dos mesos que jo visc a Leipzig, però jo sóc d'un poble molt petit als Estats Units. Allà, jo visc a prop de Boston, al nord-est del país. M'agrada molt viure a Leipzig, perquè m'agrada Alemanya. M'agraden molt també les llengües. Però Alemanya és molt lluny dels Estats Units i Trobo a faltar la meva família. Hi ha quatre persones en la meva família: el meu pare, la meva mare, la meva Germana, i jo. Enyoro la meva Germana molt, perquè és la meva millora amica. Però no enyoro molt el meu poble, perquè és més aviat avorrit. És tan petit que tenim només una botiga. Crec que Leipzig és una ciutat molt maca! --- English: I've been living in Leipzig for two months now, but I come from a very small town in the United States. There, I live near Boston, in the north-east of the country. I really like living in Leipzig, because I like Germany. I also really like languages. But Germany is very far from the US and I miss my family. There are four people in my family: my father, my mother, my sister and me. I miss my sister a lot, because she's my best friend. But I don't miss my town that much, because it's rather boring. It's so small that we only have one shop. I think Leipzig is a wonderful city! --- By the way, any corrections are, as always, most welcome. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 5011 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 127 of 135 11 November 2011 at 1:51am | IP Logged |
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Looks like you are experiencing nice progress. Thanks for "the riddle" I guessed right quite everything but some parts made me think a bit harder. It is however not that difficult to guess from pieces, context and overall structure as it is would be impossible for me to decipher some of the words alone. But it must be much harder to write it as it could easily mix woth two languages. Congratulations to your first text! And I'm looking forward to decyphering another some time in future.
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| Jinx Triglot Senior Member Germany reverbnation.co Joined 5695 days ago 1085 posts - 1879 votes Speaks: English*, German, French Studies: Catalan, Dutch, Esperanto, Croatian, Serbian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Italian, Spanish, Yiddish | Message 128 of 135 07 December 2011 at 2:02pm | IP Logged |
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*ENTRY 291* (22 October 2011)
GERMAN 120 minutes: read German handouts, took notes. German total: 120 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 120 minutes (2h00) --- *ENTRY 292* (23 October 2011) GERMAN 50 minutes: speaking practice. German total: 50 minutes CATALAN 2 minutes: watched the weather report from tv3.cat. 15 minutes: listened to talk radio. Catalan total: 17 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 67 minutes (1h07) --- *ENTRY 293* (24 October 2011) FRENCH 130 minutes: started reading (92 pp.) HP 5 in French. French total: 130 minutes GERMAN 120 minutes: translated an economics article from English into German. 30 minutes: translated a short news article from German into English. German total: 150 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 280 minutes (4h40) --- *ENTRY 294* (25 October 2011) GERMAN 60 minutes: speaking practice. German total: 60 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 60 minutes (1h00) --- *ENTRY 295* (26 October 2011) GERMAN 60 minutes: speaking practice. 40 minutes: started reading "Quasi dasselbe mit anderen Worte" by Eco (12 pp.). German total: 100 minutes CATALAN 30 minutes: CT homework, practiced reading aloud. Catalan total: 30 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 130 minutes (2h10) --- *ENTRY 296* (27 October 2011) GERMAN 120 minutes: speaking/listening/reading in various situations. German total: 120 minutes CATALAN 90 minutes: CT class. 20 minutes: CT homework. Catalan total: 110 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 230 minutes (3h50) --- *ENTRY 297* (28 October 2011) GERMAN 90 minutes: speaking/listening with various people. German total: 90 minutes CATALAN 150 minutes: Catalan class. Catalan total: 150 minutes TOTAL STUDY TODAY: 240 minutes (4h00) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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