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| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4534 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes  Studies: German | Message 289 of 295 05 July 2015 at 9:46pm | IP Logged | ||
I was just reading to get an overview before I started writing. I have tried adding grammar cards to Anki before and while it works to learn 'grammar facts' I didn't that the facts really helped with production. I've heard good things about using Anki with cloze deletion cards to learn grammar, but I've never done this. At this point I am just going to keep hitting the reading with the hope that in six months or so something will stick. :) I am also speaking German on a daily basis so it's not that I am getting no output practice. I'll certainly use this grammar when I start writing. It's a great resource. I just don't have time/desire to study it now. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4534 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 290 of 295 13 July 2015 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Just a short update: Over the last few weeks I have been reading the daily newspaper Suddeutsch Zeitung on my phone. The first two weeks were free, and then I bought a 20 euro/month subscription (the free version is limited to 10 articles/week).
I am finding it really helpful to build up vocabulary/grammar as well as an understanding of German culture/politics. I am now at a level where I can read the paper pretty easily. I look up perhaps 1-2 words per article by highlighting words (in Android) and then automatically looking them up via Google Translate. It's not a perfect system, but it works well enough. Although I can more or less read articles straight, it's also quite obvious to me how far I am from reading in a completely transparent fashion. There are occasional sentences I don't understand, and more importantly while I understand most of the words/grammar, it's just not yet completely utterly automatic. I have the feeling when I get to that point (in the next year or two?) my speaking should also be quite fluent. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| patrickwilken Senior Member Germany radiant-flux.net Joined 4534 days ago 1546 posts - 3200 votes Studies: German | Message 291 of 295 04 August 2015 at 5:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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July 2015
In July I read 0 book pages and watched 37 films. I simply haven't had a lot of time to read books over the last few months. I am continuing to read Suddeutsche Zeitung on a daily basis, but didn't read a book this month. I am going to step up the book reading this month so that I can hopefully finish off my current goal of reaching 25000 pages and 1000 films. It would be nice finish off this goal this month as I am not totally into the changes occuring at HTLAL and am not sure how much longer I will active here. After this I guess my medium-term goal (which will presumably take around 3-5 years) is to get to 50000 pages and 2000 films. 
Books No books read this month. Films 978. The Big Lebowski (1997). Amazon Prime. 8/10. 977. L.A. Confidential (1997). Netflix. 8/10. 976. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988). Amazon Prime. 7/10. 975. Serenity (2005). Amazon Prime. 6/10. 974. Kingsman (2015). Amazon Prime. 7/10. 973. Adaptation. (2002). Amazon Prime, 7/10. 972. Inherent Vice (2015). Amazon Prime. (4€). 8/10. 971. Kingsman (2015). Amazon Prime (4€). 7/10. 961-970. Arrow (2015) - Season 3 - 23 Episodes. Amazon Prime (25€). 7/10. 951-960. Arrow (2014) - Season 2 - 23 Episodes. Amazon Prime (25€). 7/10. 950. Chappie (2015). Amazon Prime (4€). 7/10. 949. Event Horizon (1997). Amazon Prime. 6/10. 944-948. Penny Dreadful (2015) - Season 2 - 10 Episodes. 7/10. 943. Jackie Brown (1997). Netflix. 8/10. 942. Vampires (1998). Amazon. 5/10. Edited by patrickwilken on 04 August 2015 at 5:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Bakunin Diglot Senior Member Switzerland outerkhmer.blogspot. Joined 5131 days ago 531 posts - 1126 votes Speaks: German*, Thai Studies: Khmer | Message 292 of 295 04 August 2015 at 6:49pm | IP Logged | ||
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Patrick, I would very much regret to see you leave the HTLAL community. I always appreciated your thoughtful contributions, and I'm certainly not the only one.
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| Serpent Octoglot Senior Member Russian Federation serpent-849.livejour Joined 6598 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 293 of 295 04 August 2015 at 6:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Me too!!! The latest news is that if FX doesn't reply by mid-August, the mods will be ready to move on to the new forum.
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| iguanamon Pentaglot Senior Member Virgin Islands Speaks: Ladino Joined 5263 days ago 2241 posts - 6731 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Portuguese, Haitian Creole, Creole (French) | Message 294 of 295 05 August 2015 at 3:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Patrick, I add my voice to the chorus. I have been reading your log for a very long time. I always look forward to seeing it. I hope you will stay with the community of which you are such a valuable part. Some day, I may start learning German and I'm going to need your help.
None of us like what's happened. I am sorry that the administrator isn't in contact with us and doesn't seem to be interested in updating the forum to keep it relevant for the future. I wish he would. I hope to see you with us wherever we end up. I also hope that the administrator will get in touch and we can cooperate to make HTLAL the best it can be. 7 persons have voted this message useful | |||
 jeff_lindqvist Diglot Moderator SwedenRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 6910 days ago 4250 posts - 5711 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English Studies: German, Spanish, Russian, Dutch, Mandarin, Esperanto, Irish, French Personal Language Map | Message 295 of 295 05 August 2015 at 6:10pm | IP Logged | ||
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Patrick - I'll read your log wherever it is.
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