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Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5251 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 81 of 415 29 January 2014 at 9:44pm | IP Logged |
Wow Chung! My birthday isn't close yet! And this isn't even about Estonian or any of the
languages in our team. Be sure I'm going to make good use of it. Thanks a lot. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5251 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 82 of 415 29 January 2014 at 10:59pm | IP Logged |
The day started a bit uncomfortable. Due to the heat I got a headache and couldn't eat
proper. I have an issue with esophagitis sometimes and I think eating an apple with an empty stomach wasn't the best idea. I just learned at yday's Travel in Chinese lessons that apples are 'warm' while grapes, for instance, are 'cold'. So, I kept with the headache, which by itself is rare for me, while at the gym, and realized I wouldn't be able to do any running on the treadmill as I wouldn't breath properly. It was symptomatic that I went home and couldn't even take a 'brunch' before going to work, while I'm usually dead hungry when I come back from the gym. So, how did I deal with this? I still had to walk to work, 20 minutes uphill under the sun. I decided I would go slowly, started watching the English series while browsing other stuff, preparing to study. Then I opened the Basic Georgian book and I got the coolest lesson ever. It was about moods, states of spirit. I was happy that I was going to refine some vocabulary I wasn't unfamiliar with. I was also happy to realize that the version exercises are becoming easier and easier. I really like the way Basic Georgian presents at least the future and the aorist (imperfect when aorist is missing) alongside with each verb, and it follows a path based on effective usage and need, not on grammatical categories. So, I "learned" (rather reviewed and reinforced) vocabulary according to its necessity. I didn't have to learn everything from the I conjugation before moving on to important verbs such as 'like, love, to be hungry, to fear' from the III and IV conjugations. This is insightful. It's a brand new book from a publishing house (Lincom) that supposedly aims for the linguists, and yet they managed to publish a self-teaching manual that follows a natural order and puts grammar at service of communication needs in an efficient way. Thanks to today's lesson, I assessed the importance distinction between სუფრასთან (at the table) and სუფრაზე (on the table). I realized that listening is indeed tiresome. More so when done in the background, but whichever way, in general, there seems to be a daily threshold I can't surpass without bringing me some temporary headache, especially at hot summer afternoons. Yesterday I was busy and could only finish my ultimate tasks (watching films in French, Chinese cartoon and Chinese fables reader, Duolingo, Memrise) around 8 pm. That was 4 hours later and at a time at which I am supposed to be on a different mood, staying on bed doing short readings, enjoying the silence. My body/mind responded right after. Well, at least last night I dreamed in Chinese. I was with a friend who already lived in China and seemed to be Brazilian too. That friend was telling me everything I had to know about life in China, but somehow refused to allow me to practice my Chinese. I tried to ask something like 你在大学经常说汉语吗?,I rephrased it two or three times, but that person was somehow impatient given that we had our native language in common, and wouldn't encourage me to continue. Cut. We were on a room with other foreigners who lived in China, and we were discussing how some latino-americans from Spanish-speaking countries were using illicit money for buying out commerce in China and giving a tough agenda to low-income customers and small businesses. It's rather the other way round in the other side of the world. Go figure a dream. The good thing is that dreaming in a language has historically been a good A2+ towards B1 level marker for the languages I've studied. That might mean Chinese people's collective unconscious is finally accepting me as a genuine tentative speaker of their language, to paraphrase a friend from another community. Today and partially the day before I've started a new routine of taking notes of important issues and impressions as I experience them along my 5-6 hour learning routine. This is good to keep track, but I'm afraid it will result in even longer posts. Anyway, I noticed I've missed a few Tuttle Flashcards. I usually do them after Anki, but the fact I started Memrise might have confused my brain as to think i've replaced the hanzi practice from Tuttle's with Memrise. It's not always easy to keep track of 20 language learning activities on a day. I noticed that maybe reading notes on the go might work better with Le nouvel allemand. There are still pauses at the clips and I use them for the notes. I think the overall time diminished a bit. The fatigue did, and that's also important by now. I was glad that the explanation on short adjectives at TY Russian was short, straight to the point. I'm getting to that stage in Russian that I went through a few months ago in Georgian: I'm rereading important grammar explanations and finally internalizing them. The way I read them before, there was too much info and it was badly hierarchized, so I'm glad this sort of second or maybe 3rd, 4th grammar wave is working out. French reading is supposed to be easier, but it is boring. Norwegian reading+audio is exciting. I feel attached to the story about junior high school boys who play football/soccer, and detached to Middle Age nobility and its values. If I am ever to do any challenges in French, I need a better selection on stories that deal with contemporary life. No wonder films are much better, and they are also more effective, as my French listening keeps improving. As for my Norwegian listening, it's not improving as much as the reading, though. I think I still have to reach a higher, maybe B2 level in reading before I can have a B1 in listening. Himmelblå is almost over, but then there's Hjem with Swedish subtitles which I won't translate and will use just as an occasional crutch. There is Svarte Penger, Hvite Løgner which I just happened to find subtitles for! Ok, life can go on now. As I was busy and there was much forum activity, I watched XiYangYang in the background. I promise I'll do my best not to let this happen again. It's cruelty enough to do this with the Georgian series from which I could already be benefiting much more at this stage, as more and more understandable sentences seem to get detached from the blur. I've discovered the series 后厨. Looks interesting. Subtitled, as usual. No, I don't need to add yet another resource. Well, then, maybe alternating it with XiYangYang. I do recommend it to fellow Magpie members. I slowed down watching Le dîner de cons, as my wife wants to watch it, too, and I found subtitles in BrPT. What we won't do for love. Now I feel I could watch more of a series to make up for that, but I'm a bit too discouraged to start from scratch a series I don't know whether I'll be able to watch often enough. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 5251 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Microsoft OLE DB Provider for SQL Server error '80004005'Timeout expired /forum/forum_posts.asp, line 1298 |