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 songlines Pro Member Canada flickr.com/photos/cp Joined 5019 days ago 729 posts - 1056 votes  Speaks: English* Studies: French Personal Language Map | Message 17 of 35 08 October 2013 at 7:57am | IP Logged | |||||
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Update: Someone else has an adapted version of the tables from French Noun Gender Endings.
www4.ncsu.edu. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jayjayvp Tetraglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 3886 days ago 26 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, German, Afrikaans Studies: French, Spanish | Message 18 of 35 08 October 2013 at 8:53am | IP Logged | |||||
The protestant church of Paris at the Louvre (Oratoire du Louvre) posts 30 minute services as podcasts, also with transcription. I occasionally listen to one, but as I listen to sermons, admonitions, reflections, readings and scripture every single day I find I`m not overly motivated to hoist even more religion on board. Also I fear the sceptre of "niche vocabulary", that quaint phenomenon which - as noted before - allowed me to read Hegel in German, but left me struggling with the Bildzeitung! Also, I pray my breviary in French during week-ends and holidays, and during daily meditation I now read from the Bible de Jérusalem, I needn`t worry about religious vocab buildup :D Edited by jayjayvp on 08 October 2013 at 8:56am 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jayjayvp Tetraglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 3886 days ago 26 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, German, Afrikaans Studies: French, Spanish | Message 19 of 35 08 October 2013 at 8:39pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Update 9 october 2013
I added a teensy bit to Anki, but nothing like twenty cards, so I`m still fighting the glut. Not adding anything is harder to do than it looks, so I`ll just add those words which seem of the most desperate importance. Also I continued mining the frequency dictionary and can safely say I have anything north of 1,250 nailed down. I also converted my previous Teach2000 files to Anki, and set it to feed it five cards a day for Latin, 3 a day for Afrikaans. Extensive but durable studying will prove useful in the end, one hopes. Neither of them have priority, but I can`t afford to let them rust either, especially not Latin. I read exactly 20 pages in "La bataille de la Somme", some pages I got through with circling no more than 2 words. I might just actually finish the book in about ten days. I shall have to wonder about what to read next! Also six exercises of Grammaire Progressive - which I find boring and try to do first thing in the morning so as to avoid allowing my creative brain to come up with excuses for not "having to" do Grammaire Progressive today. No radio or TV today. No time. Tomorrow's not going to be much better I`m afraid. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jayjayvp Tetraglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 3886 days ago 26 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, German, Afrikaans Studies: French, Spanish | Message 20 of 35 09 October 2013 at 5:05pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Being stuck in a Class from Hell I discreetly mined another ninety words out of the
Frequency Dictionary and shoved them straight into Anki. The backlog will have to sort itself out at some point. Doing something constructive with my time is more important now, I feel, then dealing with backlogs. I will be ordering new books soon and will set myself a "five book challenge". Five interesting - but serious - French books to be set within a suitable timeframe. Also, perusing the logs of more experienced Elders on this forum I`m going to shell out €70 for the "Buffy Contre les Vampires" set. 144 episodes. Subtitled for starters, dubbed for later on. My current book would call that "Artillerie Lourde à Grande Puissance" ! Edited by jayjayvp on 09 October 2013 at 5:12pm 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
 emk Diglot Moderator United States Joined 5342 days ago 2615 posts - 8806 votes Speaks: English*, FrenchB2 Studies: Spanish, Ancient Egyptian Personal Language Map | Message 21 of 35 09 October 2013 at 5:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
A very cool idea! Please let us know if you discover anything especially interesting. (And if you find yourself tempted to include a light, fun book or two, just tell yourself it's for broadening your vocabulary!) If you're looking for reviews, both Amazon.fr and SensCritique are quite helpful.
You've probably already seen this link, but if not: Almost complete & word-for-word transcripts of Buffy's French dub. 3 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jayjayvp Tetraglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 3886 days ago 26 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, German, Afrikaans Studies: French, Spanish | Message 22 of 35 09 October 2013 at 9:51pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Currently at page 64 of the Somme book, managed to watch the France 2 news today, and an
episode of the Simpsons with french subtitles. No Grammaire Progressive, but I`ll have more time coming Friday and I`ll try and plug some grammar holes then. Also as mentioned above, have now covered everything north of the most used 2,000 words according to the Frequency Dictionary. The Anki french deck now consists of 500 cards, 400 of which unseen. And so to bed! 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Cavesa Triglot Senior Member Czech Republic Joined 4819 days ago 3277 posts - 6779 votes Speaks: Czech*, FrenchC2, EnglishC1 Studies: Spanish, German, Italian | Message 23 of 35 10 October 2013 at 9:14am | IP Logged | |||||
You are obviously on the right path and progressing awesomely! And your log is really exciting, thanks.
Very true. Especially the French BDs and crime novels or thrillers are a gold mine. And if you have trouble with doing grammar exercises, there are basically two ways. Either give up and find another strategy to defeat the grammar. I don't think that is necessary, but that's up to you. Or give yourself some motivation. Like 1 grammar page, 10 pages of fun. It works for me when I'm not feeling like doing serious work. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| jayjayvp Tetraglot Newbie Netherlands Joined 3886 days ago 26 posts - 40 votes Speaks: English, Dutch*, German, Afrikaans Studies: French, Spanish | Message 24 of 35 11 October 2013 at 8:26pm | IP Logged | |||||
Thank you! I very much appreciate the comments people leave. Very helpful. A quick update. Well at page 108 now in the Somme book, about halfway, some pages I`m reading with relative ease, albeit slowly. The Anki Glut is expanding but not as bothered by this as I was before. Anki, by the way, is now also marshalled for cramming for those theology courses which entail a lot of cramming, such a Synoptics and Patristics, an interesting development at any rate. (A bit of an aside, I know) About 40 minutes of TV5 today, a lot of it rather washed over me. You can`t win them all the time. I really need to find a solution for my grammar problem. I will whack the French Noun Gender Endings in Anki as well, which at least will give me the illusion of meeting the problem head on! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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