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| pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5054 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian | Message 1 of 20 17 December 2011 at 6:13pm | IP Logged |
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TAC 2012(Go Team Žá)! I'm a super excited to begin a new year of language learning, so I have set some really ambitious goals. I plan on updating this weekly, maybe bi-weekly during the Marching Band season (July-November). Anyway, the following are my goals, study plans, and reasons for learning each language:
French French culture has a certain charm that has always appealed to me. So, while I am a newbie at this language, I have no doubt that I will be able to stay motivated. I am going to use Michel Thomas, followed by Assimil. After that I will rely on the internet, mostly. I hope to get to a B2 level by the end of the year. Russian This is another new language for me. But, again, motivation shouldn't be a problem, with Russia's rich history and fascinating culture. Michel Thomas and Teach Yourself are going to be my main resources, along with some great websites I have found. B2 is my goal for this language as well. Japanese I'm an intermediate learner of Japanese, but I really want to step it up this year. I am going to continue my current activities (listening to podcasts and watching J Dramas) and add some more practical ones(reading books and articles, using Anki, writing at Lang-8) BY the end of the year, I would really like to be at C1 level in this language. Perhaps these aren't the most realistic goals, but I am extremely motivated to study. We'll just have to see how it turns out. Thanks for reading! Edited by pineappleboom on 02 January 2012 at 7:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5054 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian | Message 2 of 20 17 December 2011 at 7:40pm | IP Logged |
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I forgot to mention, if anyone knows of good sites for French, please
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6398 days ago 9753 posts - 15779 votes 4 sounds Speaks: Russian*, English, FinnishC1, Latin, German, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese Studies: Danish, Romanian, Polish, Belarusian, Ukrainian, Croatian, Slovenian, Catalan, Czech, Galician, Dutch, Swedish | Message 3 of 20 17 December 2011 at 7:49pm | IP Logged |
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Good luck!
added the link to the first post of our team thread, there are also some resources links there! btw please copy Team Žá in the title of your log (by editing the first post of it) :)))) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4810 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 4 of 20 17 December 2011 at 7:56pm | IP Logged |
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Good luck with your languages. Your plans are ambitious, sure, but you look really dedicated so I believe you will get at least most of your goals. I'm looking forward to reading you.
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| pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5054 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian | Message 5 of 20 18 December 2011 at 4:50am | IP Logged |
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Thanks, Serpent! I've fixed the title.
Hi, Cavesa! Thanks for reading. I'll make sure to update. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Kerrie Senior Member United States justpaste.it/Kerrie2 Joined 5196 days ago 1232 posts - 1740 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 20 28 December 2011 at 2:41am | IP Logged |
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Hello, pineappleboom. Welcome to Team Žá! I'm looking forward to watching your progress in 2012 and being part of your team!
Japanese and Russian are both on my hit list, but I am trying to refrain for the time being, as I'm already studying too many! Once I have a solid foundation in Bosnian/Croatian, I will probably start work on Russian. But one thing at a time, right? (Or six or seven, in my case!) Good luck this year with all your language endeavors! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5054 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian | Message 7 of 20 29 December 2011 at 4:04am | IP Logged |
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Well, I haven't technically started my Russian and French studies yet(I'm waiting til January 1) but I have been learning Cyrillic. I'm feeling as giddy about Russian as I did with Japanese when I started learning Hiragana!
Also wanted to update that instead of Teach Yourself Russian, I'm going to use Russian without Toil from 1951. It may be pretty dated, but overall I think it will give me a better start on the language. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| pineappleboom Groupie United States languageloft-ashley. Joined 5054 days ago 66 posts - 76 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Japanese, French, Russian | Message 8 of 20 02 January 2012 at 7:43pm | IP Logged |
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So I had computer trouble yesterday, which set me back one day already! No worries, though. I just have to do some overtime today. So my strategy is to complete 2 lessons of Russian without Toil, and 2 lessons of New French with Ease daily. I also have a book called Introduction to Intermediate Japanese which is full of texts/dialogues. They are a bit longer than the Assimil lessons so I think one per day should suffice. Although my computer wasn't working, I still had my Ipod, so I listened to the audio for all three of these courses.
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