|
 |
Sprachprofi’s TAC 2013 | ||
Share with:
| ||
 Language Learning Forum : Language Learning Log |  | |
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6270 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 9 of 17 14 January 2013 at 7:30pm | IP Logged | ||
|
I started on "Το ταξίδι στη χώρα που δε βλέπουν τα μάτια" - not sure if this will be the next
book I'll finish, since I have several I started on, but it's fun at the moment. At roughly 92% known vocabulary, it's quite enjoyable to read. Still I noticed that some of the unknown words are repeated a lot, so I went over several pages marking every single word I didn't know and looked them up in order to have an even easier time reading the rest of the book. If any fellow Modern Greek student is reading this, here's the vocabulary: παρασύρω - to lure, mislead κοροιδεύω - to mock, taunt ένωση - joinder, association, liaison, union γλέντι - feast, binge απολαμβάνω - to enjoy αρνούμαι - to refuse, decline ευγενικά - gently, kindly στερεύω - to dry up συναίσθημα - emotion αναστατώνω - to unhinge πρωτόγνωρο - unprecedented έντονος - fervent, intense επιθυμία - wish, desire βασάνιζω - to harass, torment, worry ευτυχία - happiness, luckiness σπρώχνω - to push, jostle, motivate καβούκι - shell δράση - action παρόρμηση - urge, compulsion βυθισμένος - sunken, submerged τρομάζω - to alarm, intimidate οτιδήποτε - whatever, anything παράλογα - unreasonably παρορμητικός - impulsive υπόλοιπος - rest, remaining ικανός - capable, competent, efficient απόλυτος - absolute στηρίζομαι - to lean on, rest σαλπάρω - to put off διάστημα - interval, space απέραντος - infinite, immense κυριολεκτικά - literally ποιητή - poet φορτωμένος - loaded απροσδιόριστος - undefined, unascertainable ακτίνα - beam αίσθημα - feeling, sentiment απασχόληση - busyness, employment, occupation επηρεάζω - to affect, influence, induce αγναντεύω - to scan, have a bird's eye view of απολαύση - enjoyment αίσθηση - sensation, sense κατρακύλω - to tumble συνεπαίρνω - to transport δημιουργία - creation μετάλλαξη - mutation εξελίσσομαι - to evolve απορροφώ - to absorb, engross κυριεύομαι - to come upon ομολογώ - to confess, avow, profess ικανοποιητικός - satisfactory επιστρέφω (επέστρεψα) - to return νωχελικά - indolently διαμαρτυρία - protest 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6270 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 17 16 January 2013 at 7:28pm | IP Logged | ||
|
Today I attended an Italian Lunch. It's depressing how rusty my Italian had become
without my knowledge. However, the lunch lasted 80 minutes and by the end I was conversing somewhat more easily again. Note for today: "Ma che cazzo!" is an expression of surprise akin to "What the f***!" Edited by Sprachprofi on 16 January 2013 at 7:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6270 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 17 20 January 2013 at 3:21pm | IP Logged | ||
|
I found that just holding a pen underneath the line that I'm reading in Greek already
allows me to reach a reading speed of 2 minutes per page - much faster than without this tool, even though I don't consciously try to read faster and I still understand as much as before. Using the pen as a pointer to focus my eyes on each word in turn allows me to read even faster, but it's also tiring to do, so I found this compromise. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6270 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 17 23 January 2013 at 1:02pm | IP Logged | ||
|
Summary Jan 16th to the 22nd:
I studied for 19 hours this week, which is a success. I'd like to reach upwards of 700 hours this year, which would mean 2 hours / day and this week I almost managed an average of 3 hours / day. Most of it has been spent on reading my Greek book (το ταξίδι στη χώρα που δεν βλέπουν τα μάτια) and watching a Chinese TV series (步步惊心), so not activities that require a lot of focus. I did post two texts (French and Chinese) to lang-8. At the beginning of the week, I also had conversational practise every day: Japanese with my tutor, Italian with co-workers, French with Jérôme and a bit with Arekkusu, Dutch with my DutchPod101 co-host. Now I've gone three days without a foreign-language conversation (not counting English or Esperanto), so I need to make an extra effort to seize the opportunities to do so. I've also fallen behind on my Anki and I'm lacking motivation to study it. Thjs is not good... Edited by Sprachprofi on 23 January 2013 at 1:05pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| tarvos Super Polyglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member China likeapolyglot.wordpr Joined 4507 days ago 5310 posts - 9399 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, Swedish, French, Russian, German, Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Afrikaans Studies: Greek, Modern Hebrew, Spanish, Portuguese, Czech, Korean, Esperanto, Finnish | Message 13 of 17 23 January 2013 at 1:23pm | IP Logged | ||
|
I find Anki boring anyways, which is why I quit it. It's a tool, but if it's getting
boring, you can either consider dropping it, or using a lot of delete card, and making a few new decks to deal with. :) Don't worry, eventually, Anki becomes a grind. And people have learned languages just fine without Anki. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Sprachprofi Nonaglot Senior Member Germany learnlangs.comRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6270 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 14 of 17 24 January 2013 at 5:52pm | IP Logged | ||
|
In my experience, it is possible to skip Anki for Indo-European languages, because the
vocabulary is similar enough that it sticks rather easily. However, I tend to forget the vocabulary from non-Indo-European languages if I don't review it. I wasn't able to make any headway with Assimil Swahili without using Anki, and my knowledge of Chinese characters and Chinese vocabulary also noticeably gets worse when I haven't studied Anki in a while; just reading the odd pages in Chinese books is not enough. I don't generally find Anki a grind - when I was learning Chinese characters, it was really motivating to see my numbers go up and to track what percentage of the most frequent characters I had covered and the like. I also really like cards with audio, and I like studying while on the public transport because it makes this dead time more useful. I'm sure my motivation will be back. :-) Edited by Sprachprofi on 24 January 2013 at 5:58pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Arekkusu Hexaglot Senior Member Canada bit.ly/qc_10_lec Joined 5181 days ago 3971 posts - 7747 votes Speaks: English, French*, GermanC1, Spanish, Japanese, Esperanto Studies: Italian, Norwegian, Mandarin, Romanian, Estonian | Message 15 of 17 24 January 2013 at 6:14pm | IP Logged | ||
If I was there, I'd help you ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Dagane Triglot Senior Member SpainRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4311 days ago 259 posts - 324 votes Speaks: Spanish*, EnglishB2, Galician Studies: German Studies: Czech | Message 16 of 17 24 January 2013 at 7:00pm | IP Logged | ||
|
It's rather impressive the amount of languages you manage to learn. Not sure about the indoeuropean vocabulary. There're many words which are similar, but there're many which are not. Also, you can forget words you don't often use. For example, I knew some words you listed above as English partners of Greek words, but I had to look up them again.
Anyway, I wish the best with your studies. 50 books in other languages is A LOT. 1 person has voted this message useful |
|  | 
Printable version
|
| Copyright 2024 FX Micheloud - All rights reserved No part of this website may be copied by any means without my written authorization. |
