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| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3953 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes  Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 1 of 64 28 July 2013 at 2:23pm | IP Logged |
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I'm spending hours in front of the computer working every day - Skype conversations,
duolingo, reading articles, watching videos, writing emails. My non-computer-aided learning is just as sedentary: reading a novel, working in grammar workbooks, watching TV or a movie. In the perfect world, I'd go out and join some Spanish-speaking clubs, or meet a Spanish-speaking friend to practice while actually DOING something. Unfortunately, I live in a village of fewer than 2000 people. And almost all of them are monoglots who speak English. If you spend a lot of time on self-study, how do you incorporate more more movement into your learning? While I do walk an hour every day, I don't feel that it makes up for all of the sitting. I'm starting to feel it in my back and neck. :/ Edited by Stelle on 28 July 2013 at 3:34pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| daegga Tetraglot Senior Member Austria lang-8.com/553301 Joined 4330 days ago 1076 posts - 1792 votes Speaks: German*, EnglishC2, Swedish, Norwegian Studies: Danish, French, Finnish, Icelandic | Message 2 of 64 28 July 2013 at 4:10pm | IP Logged |
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audiobooks
you can spend the whole day outside with these 5 persons have voted this message useful | |
| jhaberstro Senior Member United States Joined 4202 days ago 112 posts - 154 votes Speaks: English* Studies: French, Portuguese | Message 3 of 64 28 July 2013 at 4:10pm | IP Logged |
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How far is the closest city/urbanized area? Often times I'll meet up with language tandem partners to practice our
language, and in doing so, we'll meet at a well know area in the city, and then just walk the city as we talk. Another suggestion would be to find a some podcast in Spanish that you like (or a radio station, or an audiobook) and listen to them while you exercise (jogging, hiking, gym, etc.). Beyond that I don't have too many other ideas at this moment, but I too would be interested to hear other suggestions! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| darkwhispersdal Senior Member Wales Joined 5849 days ago 294 posts - 363 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Ancient Greek, French, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Mandarin, Japanese, Latin | Message 4 of 64 28 July 2013 at 4:57pm | IP Logged |
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I do martial arts and Qi Gong so I break up my study periods into half hour segments intermixed with training. Standing Post Qi Gong has been a life saver from a grammar perspective normally you count breaths I count conjugations and cases. Otherwise I have to walk the dog three times a day and taking a mp3 player with you with dialogues to listen to helps.
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| embici Triglot Senior Member CanadaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4419 days ago 263 posts - 370 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, French Studies: Greek | Message 5 of 64 28 July 2013 at 5:02pm | IP Logged |
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Exercise DVDs in Spanish?
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| Amun Triglot Groupie Netherlands Joined 4867 days ago 52 posts - 72 votes Speaks: Dutch*, English, French Studies: Spanish | Message 6 of 64 28 July 2013 at 5:47pm | IP Logged |
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You can use a treadmill desk. So, you can study and stay fit at the same time.
Here's a video showing one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fqSH9ffjmg8 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| montmorency Diglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4637 days ago 2371 posts - 3676 votes Speaks: English*, German Studies: Danish, Welsh | Message 7 of 64 28 July 2013 at 7:03pm | IP Logged |
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If you have the space (indoors, or outdoors, or both), you could get a rebounder (a mini-
trampoline - nb, not a full-size trampoline), and bounce, run, or dance (and maybe sing) along to your favourite TL audio. They need not be expensive, and are great fun. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| geoffw Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4497 days ago 1134 posts - 1865 votes Speaks: English*, German, Yiddish Studies: Modern Hebrew, French, Dutch, Italian, Russian | Message 8 of 64 28 July 2013 at 8:21pm | IP Logged |
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My answer was to stop spending as much time on language study/reading/etc. and concentrate more on physical
activities and diet, because I had gotten out of shape and gained a bunch of fat. One immediate effect was that my language log basically died. I think that's a bit sad, but I'm much healthier now, and I think I made the right decision. I still make progress with my languages, but it's not the full-time operation it used to be by any means. As it's mostly just a hobby for me, that's a sacrifice I was willing to make. Do your best to balance things, but make sure you make the right decisions for yourself for the long term. 2 persons have voted this message useful |
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