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| girlonthewing Newbie United States Joined 4365 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine), German | Message 1 of 10 12 June 2012 at 7:13pm | IP Logged |
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Hi! I'm a student currently living in the US. I've lurked on this forum for several
years, but I'm hoping making a log will help me keep up my motivation over the summer. Arabic At my university, I'm a Middle Eastern Studies and Religious Studies major and study Arabic. Two weeks ago I returned to the US after almost four months of study in Jordan. I took 16 credit hours in Arabic, which was really overwhelming but my Arabic improved a lot. (When I first arrived I could barely string a sentence together, despite a year and a half of study, and when I left I felt I could comfortably get around doing almost anything I needed in Arabic). I am still very far from anything resembling fluency in Arabic and will continue to study MSA in my last year of school, which begins in the fall. I also hope to maintain the Levantine dialect I picked up and (hopefully!) build on that. I plan to review grammar and vocab I learned last semester over the summer and focus on improving my Arabic more in the fall when school starts again. We used Al Kitaab, so I'll be focusing on reviewing vocabulary from that. German In just ten days, I'll be joining my boyfriend in Berlin for the summer! I lived in Germany for a few years as a child but never learned any German. Since I'll be there for a month and a half, I want to see if I can pick up some German and continue to self-study once I'm back in the US. Right now I have Pimsleur, Living Language, and Assimil to use. I'm going to do my best to go through one lesson of each every day before I arrive. My boyfriend (who's fluent and speaks German at home with his mom in the US) is willing to help me practice as well. Edited by girlonthewing on 09 August 2012 at 12:15pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| girlonthewing Newbie United States Joined 4365 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine), German | Message 2 of 10 12 June 2012 at 7:21pm | IP Logged |
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Here's what I've been able to do the past week or so. I visited some friends in another
city for a few days, so it's been pretty pathetic. I'm home till I leave now and I'm hoping to stick to my schedule better :) May 31 German LL Lesson 1: 45 minutes June 1 German Anki reviews: 10 minutes June 3 German Pimsleur Lesson 1 + 2: 55 minutes June 6 German Anki reviews: 10 minutes Pimsleur Lesson 3: 30 minutes Total: 40 minutes June 7 German Pimsleur Lesson 4: 30 minutes Total until now: 3 hours Edited by girlonthewing on 12 June 2012 at 7:22pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| girlonthewing Newbie United States Joined 4365 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine), German | Message 3 of 10 13 June 2012 at 6:53pm | IP Logged |
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June 12
German Anki reviews: 10 minutes Pimsleur Lesson 5: 30 minutes Total: 40 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| girlonthewing Newbie United States Joined 4365 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine), German | Message 4 of 10 14 June 2012 at 4:27pm | IP Logged |
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June 13
German Anki reviews: 10 minutes Pimsleur Lesson 6: 30 minutes Total: 40 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| girlonthewing Newbie United States Joined 4365 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine), German | Message 5 of 10 19 June 2012 at 5:01am | IP Logged |
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June 15
German Anki reviews: 10 minutes Pimsleur Lesson 7: 30 minutes Living Language Lesson 2: 50 minutes Total: 1.5 hours 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| girlonthewing Newbie United States Joined 4365 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine), German | Message 6 of 10 03 July 2012 at 5:13pm | IP Logged |
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Well I've been in Berlin now for more than a week and haven't studied any German! I'm
hoping now that I've gotten a handle on my internship and my schedule here that I'll get back into a decent routine. I have been practicing a tiny bit with my boyfriend. He teaches me new words a lot and I have a notebook now to carry around to write them down in. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| girlonthewing Newbie United States Joined 4365 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine), German | Message 7 of 10 08 August 2012 at 11:52am | IP Logged |
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Aug 7
German Living Language Lesson 3: 30 minutes Total: 30 minutes 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| girlonthewing Newbie United States Joined 4365 days ago 11 posts - 11 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Arabic (classical), Arabic (Levantine), German | Message 8 of 10 10 August 2012 at 12:59am | IP Logged |
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Aug 9
German Deutsche Welle Warum Nicht? Chapter 1: 12 minutes Deutsche Welle Warum Nicht? Chapter 2: 13 minutes Deutsche Welle Warum Nicht? Chapter 3: 14 minutes Deutsche Welle Deutsch Interaktiv Lektion 1 Teil 1: 20 minutes Total: 1 hour I've been having some major computer troubles this summer and haven't been able to access my Pimsleur lessons on iTunes, Anki Deck or my Living Language CD (because it's in my dead computer). I decided to try to study today using some free materials online. I thought the DW Warum Nicht? series was way too easy for me and had way more English than necessary but decided to go through the first few chapters because they're so short. I'm not sure if I'll continue or not. I also tried DW's Deutsch Interaktiv course, which I really liked. I'll definitely continue this course. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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