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| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5173 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes  Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 113 of 133 24 January 2012 at 12:09am | IP Logged | ||
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Very little German done since Thursday as I had a assignment to finish for a maths course I'm doing. Anyway it's
finally finished so as a treat this evening I watched a German film "Eden". It's a nice film and I managed to understand snippets here and there. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5173 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 114 of 133 30 January 2012 at 11:15pm | IP Logged | ||
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Skype Lesson 45 minutes Michel Thomas German Course Listening (2 * 30 mins) German Textbook Tagram Aktuell : Reading and Listening Vocabulary mit jdm per du sein duzen sondern FR : Skype 30 mins plus Film : Sarah’s Key (French/English dialogue) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5173 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 115 of 133 01 February 2012 at 11:17pm | IP Logged | ||
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Michel Thomas German Course (45 minutes listening)
I’m still not fully comfortable with the movement of the conjugated verb to the end of sentences containing a « weil » clause but I’m slowly getting used to it. I tried the Memrise site today. It might be useful for learning noun genders, plural forms and the spellings of long words and words with accented characters - i.e. the aspects of vocabulary acquisition that I find most difficult. I figured out why I have a major block with the German word : die Frage. It’s because the Irish word “freagra” (die Antwort). I have my Skype lesson tomorrow. It's very grammar oriented and I have to really concentrate during the lesson. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5173 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 116 of 133 02 February 2012 at 11:40pm | IP Logged | ||
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Michel Thomas German Course Listening (45 minutes)
Some vocabulary on the memrise site (working through the list of the 1000 most common German words) Skype lesson (45 minutes) Practiced linking the "Hauptsatz" and the "Nebensatz" using conjunctions like "dass"," obwohl","damit". 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Flarioca Heptaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5694 days ago 635 posts - 816 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Esperanto, French, EnglishC2, Spanish, German, Italian Studies: Catalan, Mandarin | Message 117 of 133 03 February 2012 at 11:38pm | IP Logged | ||
Maybe you have already been told to always learn German nouns with their genders. I really regret not paying as much attention to this as I should have. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5173 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 118 of 133 04 February 2012 at 3:58pm | IP Logged | ||
Yes, as a learner, I am constantly reminded to learn the gender along with the noun so I have no excuses. I find it almost as difficult to retain the gender as the word itself - maybe a daily drill with memrise will help my leaking sieve of a memory. We'll see. Also, when using memrise, I occasionally get the word exactly right except for the uppercase first letter. Watched an Austrian film last night. Understood very little. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5173 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 119 of 133 12 February 2012 at 10:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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Log Entry for the past week
Listening: „Hörkurs Deutsch für Anfänger“. It’s at A1 level. Michel Thomas German Course. Vocabulary: Daily practice of some words from the 1000 most frequent words in German list on the Memrise site. German lesson: Practised the dative endings. I don’t know all the endings off by heart yet. I was introduced to some verbs that take a single object in the dative case like gehören and helfen. As I said before there is a strong emphasis on grammar in the lesson but I do get speaking practice and my pronunciation is corrected. Films: A German comedy: Regular Guys French film: Partir 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Tournesol Diglot Senior Member Ireland Joined 5173 days ago 119 posts - 132 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchC1 Studies: German | Message 120 of 133 20 February 2012 at 8:58pm | IP Logged | ||
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Daily drill of vocabulary from the 1000 most frequent German words on the Memrise site. This is the first time I’ve used any type of vocabulary learning software. I think it’s useful at my level – i.e. at the early stages of language learning. I’m on simple words – single German word – single English equivalent (at least that what it tells me) Interestingly I find, that hearing nouns spoken aloud helps me retain the article. I’m just hanging in there with the Skype lessons. It’s all grammar really with just enough vocabulary to support the examples. My last lesson was on verbs that take a single object in the dative case. We looked at verbs like gehorchen, gefallen, schaden, antworten. I can produce the example sentences when asked but at this rate it won’t be long before I’m out of my depth. This doesn’t seem like <A1 level methinks ! A German film. Der Baader Meinhof Komplex (original title) – a chance to learn about a chapter of German history. I’m not reading any German or French at the moment. Given the choice, Jo Nesbo’s books– in English of course - win outright. I did however pick up a second hand copy of La Princesse des glaces de Camilla Läckberg last week. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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