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Sprachprofi’s TAC 2012 - Team ’Ne Nur’ | ||
Tags: Swahili | Finnish | Multilingual | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Mandarin | Japanese | French | ||
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6595 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 9 of 13 19 February 2012 at 3:31am | IP Logged | ||
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Awwww! :)
That's pretty good! Note that Berlin has a Finnish name - Berliini :) Also, some of your o's sound like u's - I'd assume you have a Swedish/Scandinavian accent if I didn't know. (And btw that would be Duisburgista - most case endings aren't directly added to words ending in consonants. Won't bother you with more grammar corrections - this will probably be in the coming lessons anyway). For some reason your t's sound "too dental" to me. I wonder if it's easier for you to pronounce them the Romance way as unaspirated? Also, pay attention to r+consonants, ss, tt. Have you done any shadowing? And what, you didn't say "puhun esperantoa"? :))) 3 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 10 of 13 23 February 2012 at 4:12pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the advice, Serpent. I'm working on these issues.
Here's a text I just wrote in Finnish and it's probably full of mistakes:
I'd appreciate if someone could correct this. Edited by Sprachprofi on 23 February 2012 at 6:43pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 11 of 13 19 December 2012 at 1:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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So what happened?
The Accelerated Finnish Challenge in February was a success. The results of the written exam can be found on page 5 of the following thread and those of the oral exam on page 7: http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=30352 Following this challenge, I gave up Finnish and re-dedicated myself to Mandarin, also practising my Dutch while creating a series of podcasts for DutchPod101. I averaged a little over 1 hour of language study per day in March/April. This successful period came to an end when I had to take a sudden trip to the USA because of a family emergency. Back in Germany, I started to work full-time as a computational linguist for Wooga, which also cut into my language-learning time, especially as it was a mentally-draining job. In the 5 months I worked for Wooga, I only did 100 hours of language-study total, and only 4 hours towards my May 6 Week Challenge language Indonesian (also because I couldn't do the method I originally wanted to pursue with Indonesian). I stopped working for Wooga in time for the August 6 Week Challenge, which I completed with Japanese - stats at http://6wc.learnlangs. com/stats/earlier_user/Junesun/201208 . I had a really important 4-hour written French exam at the end of August, so I'm quite proud I still managed to put in almost 50 hours of Japanese in that time, and I did it with a new approach: focussing exclusively on listening comprehension, using Subs2Srs and Anki. It proved successful: after this time, I was able to understand new episodes of Hikaru no Go (a Japanese anime) without subtitles. Find the blog post about this method at http://temp.learnlangs.com/step-by-step/understand_TV_in_30_ days , which also includes a progression report at the bottom. Following the 6 Week Challenge, Japanese has continued to play a big role in my studies, along with more Mandarin, which I also chose for my Super Challenge language. When I study Japanese now, I focus on conversational ability, because I am happy with my listening comprehension for now. Since October I've been meeting a Japanese tutor two-three times a week for 40 minutes each. I've also had to focus more on French for a bit again, because I had an oral exam on French youth language and French in Quebec on November 20th. In mid-November I took part in the italki challenge (8 hours of tutoring before the end of the month) and temporarily had a lot of tutor lessons, which has had the good effect of re-activating my Greek. At the beginning of October I had had a shock: I was looking at my spreadsheet and saw that I had only put in 359 hours of language study until then. Previous year's 712 hours total seemed unattainable then, so I settled on a new goal of 600 hours, averaging to 3 hours / day until the end of the year, a number that I had previously been unable to hit. I must have gotten better because I actually managed to hit an average of 3 hours / day (peaking at 5 hours on Oct 19th alone) for two months. Then Christmas stress and the preparation for the JES (I'm an organizer) set in and I'm currently behind on hours and I doubt that the Christmas days themselves or the JES will lend themselves to above-average study hours, since I'm not counting hours spent on Esperanto. I shall post the final number at the end of the year as usual. Meanwhile I'm already thinking about my battle plan for the next year. I recently found some interesting Greek books, and I still got a lot of Mandarin to read for the Super Challenge... More updates and observations on my blog: http://temp.learnlangs.com/blog/1 Edited by Sprachprofi on 19 December 2012 at 1:42pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 12 of 13 20 December 2012 at 10:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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I decided to sign up for the January Tadoku challenge with Greek. I'm dying to read the
Greek books I found during my latest trip to Café Tasso: Το ταξίδι στη χώρα που δε βλέπουν τα μάτια - Αντώνης Καλογήρου (273 p.) Θέλει και λίγη τύχη η ζωή - Γιάννης Xατζητράκοσας (271 p.) There's also a book I bought a while ago, in case those aren't enough: Τα ταξίδια του Σώκρατη - Dan Millman (387 p.) Considering I'm in the Super Challenge with Chinese, I probably should be reading Chinese instead, but my reading speed feels so limiting, especially when compared with other Tadoku readers. I really don't know how some participants manage to read Japanese so fast... anyway, the first Tadoku will focus on Greek (maybe a little Chinese reading on the side) and for the next ones we'll see. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6468 days ago 2608 posts - 4866 votes Speaks: German*, English, French, Esperanto, Greek, Mandarin, Latin, Dutch, Italian Studies: Spanish, Arabic (Written), Swahili, Indonesian, Japanese, Modern Hebrew, Portuguese | Message 13 of 13 14 January 2013 at 10:25am | IP Logged | ||
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I have started a new log for TAC 2013:
http://how-to-learn-any-language.com/forum/forum_posts.asp?T ID=34973&PN=1 Also, here are my final stats for 2012, with the numbers for 2011 in parenthesis: 122 hours of French (111) 177 hours of Chinese (220) 44 hours of Modern Greek (47) 12 hours of Swahili (26) 16 hours of Italian (31) 30 hours of Dutch (118) 35 hours of Finnish (0) 115 hours of Japanese (0) 4 hours of Indonesian (0) 10 hours on other languages (9) -- 569 hours total (712) My most important goal for 2013 is to get back to 2011 levels of study time... 1 person has voted this message useful |
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