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Expug’s All at On(c)e Log - TAC14 | ||
Tags: Papiamento | Estonian | Georgian | Native Materials | Norwegian | Total Annihilation Challenge (TAC) | Mandarin | Russian | German | French | ||
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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4655 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes  Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 97 of 415 04 February 2014 at 10:04am | IP Logged | ||
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with a focus on "clear mind"
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4962 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 98 of 415 04 February 2014 at 7:52pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thank you guys! What kind and encouraging words. My routine doesn't mean much, since I
study in a rather loose way. Therefore I need several hours to reach the same levels other people usually reach much faster. I haven't reached B1 for any of my languages after years, maybe only for Norwegian. I hope to at least inspire some more skillful people with my discipline so they can achieve better results =D On a side note to Cristina, Georgia is a fascinating country, too. Maybe a New Year's plan of learning the basics and going there to practice wouldn't hurt. You just wouldn't be as much welcome when trying Russian as it would be the case in Uzbek, but still, you could try it on after becoming friends with people there :D Today I finished my activities rather early, two hours before 下班. I could do half a Memrise chapter in the morning, will have to finish later. Today I resume an off-work, off-languages course I started attending last year, so I'll get home later. Yet I think it will be enough to just lay down and work on those small activities. I'm glad I finished the Norwegian audio sentences deck, that is, all cards got mature. More time for Memrise in the morning! Now I've set my old Georgian deck, with words from Einführung in die Georgische Sprachen (just found it that way) to 80 reviews, so that I can finish it soon, too. It's at 83% mature. Less Anki means more time for Memrise for when I start other languages. Duolingo still has over a month to go, but I want to keep one chapter each day, even if they aren't even. Yday I could finish one with 9 parts, today's one had just 5. It worked here. I just didn't dare using the microphone so I skipped those pages. I've sped up considerably with reading the exercise sentences at TY Russian! I'm really happy about that. It has to do with the sentences making more sense, but still it's some progress. That might mean there is a lot of dormant vocabulary from my previous studies (3 Assimils, Nina Potapova's, Living Language, one podcast) waiting to be activated. Take off, Russian! Someone at a community elsewhere posted a link to a couple of video lessons on Yoruba at YT. That almost gave me Wanderlust - I will come to Yoruba only after Estonian Italian, Indonesian, Turkish, Arabic, Swahili, Esperanto, Hindi and Yoruba, so 2020 is a rough estimate for starting Yoruba. Yet it is nice to know there are such resources. That guy seems to be keen on explaining stuff and I hope he makes more lessons. Cunrrently there are over 20 lessons, some 5 minutes long, others above 10. That could already do the job of a similar podcast for when I take Yoruba. I've found out 'Mon meilleur ami' had subtitles in Norwegian! So I started using them. They're helpful as a crutch, since the native volume to the film is so low that even at maximum volume and with earphones I can't hear fully if there is noisy talk going on here - which is almost the rule at the time I do this final activity. After checking lorinth's log, I thought about making use of my new device for reading Chinese epubs. I'm seeking for advice from team mates and other Chinese learners: which books would be better to work on, how does it actually work. Also, maybe there's a Firefox or Chrome extension that does the same job as the integrated dictionary. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4962 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 99 of 415 04 February 2014 at 8:05pm | IP Logged | ||
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I forgot to mention I chatted in Norwegian last Sunday. I usually chat with two German
guys who can speak Norwegian fluently. One of them actually only writes nynorsk. So, he was writing nynorsk and I was replying in bokmål. I noticed a considerable improvement from last time, which was over 3 months ago, I believe. I'd look up words I was unsure about just to realize I was right at my assumptions. It also took much less time to read and reply as I didn't have much to translate from what they said. Well, the series seems to be working. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Ninibo Diglot Groupie Germany Joined 3812 days ago 88 posts - 116 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: Mandarin | Message 100 of 415 04 February 2014 at 8:25pm | IP Logged | ||
Do you mean which books are easy, or how to make epubs? I'm sorry, i don't know which one you mean. ^^# As for the dictionary: have you used Pera Pera? It's a plugin for Firefox (I think there's an early version for Chrome) and it's awesome! It's a pop-up dictionary and you can even save words to a list and export them, if you are using an SRS. Unless you mean a dictionary for kindle, then i don't know, i'm still looking for a usable Chinese kindle dictionary myself, those i found re mostly useless. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4962 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 101 of 415 04 February 2014 at 8:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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I really meant to ask which books are easy and contemporary.
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4962 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 102 of 415 04 February 2014 at 8:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Ok, Pera Pera works fine at both Chrome and FF. It took me a while to realize it was
conflicting with Bliu Bliu's dictionary. I don't think Bliu Bliu will suit me for Chinese though, it's a bit confusing. I can stick with reading just small paragraphs in Chinese from whatever source. Maybe news, but I do prefer short stories. I may take this as an extra activity for when I really have loads of time. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| lorinth Tetraglot Senior Member Belgium Joined 4070 days ago 443 posts - 581 votes Speaks: French*, English, Spanish, Latin Studies: Mandarin, Finnish | Message 103 of 415 04 February 2014 at 10:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Hi again Expugnator, for easy books, I can only recommend the Chinese Breeze series (on
paper) or the Mandarin Companion series (e-books, including iBooks). They may be a bit too easy for your B1 level, though (?). See also my post about which Chinese readers I have found interesting and helpful: Link 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4655 days ago 890 posts - 1190 votes Speaks: Polish*, English, Bulgarian, Croatian Studies: Slovenian, Macedonian, Persian, Russian, Turkish, Ukrainian, Dutch, Swedish, German, Italian, Armenian, Kurdish | Message 104 of 415 05 February 2014 at 1:39am | IP Logged | ||
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True, Perapera is quite nice.
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