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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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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4953 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes  Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 17 of 415 06 January 2014 at 9:11pm | IP Logged | ||
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One more day is over! It took longer and the schedule went through the afternoon,
thanks to a change at work shift. It's my last day at work after a couple of weeks of holidays, so, it's all right. The good news from the weekend is that I managed to install duolingo and memrise apps for the iPad. It's a way to bypass audio/video blocking when applied and to have more stuff for shorter dead times on weekends. Besides, both are interactive, colorful, nice fonts. Duolingo does help with active skills for German, and as for Memrise, I finally started HSK level 1! I'm going to use Memrise more and more and leave Anki behind, as the Anki app is paid and I don't really enjoy doing my own decks anyway. I'm happy about that and this alone was worth the new tablet's purchase. Now for today: Chinese I feel more confident now that these memrise courses will set up a consistent goal for my Mandarin. No matter how long it may take, once I'm done with HSK 3 lists I will be confident enough to do tests, even if just a placement test for my former teacher's school. I've just started HSK1 course at Memrise and, even though I'm mostly reviewing, I do have some gaps to follow, as there are several characters which aren't exactly frequent but are taught at this level due to radicals composition. As for the other resources, not much new. These Everyday Chinese fables start to seem short enough for me to do them quickly, while I missed transcript at Travel in Chinese because I has to use a different computer which lacked fonts (as I write now I realize I could've just opened the same link at YT at the tablet as well, but copy/pasting sucks at these, so, I'd stick to reading the characters extensively, anyway). Georgian Finished 'Lord of the Flies'! Tomorrow I'm going to start a much easier, user-friendly book which is already set up in mirrored bilingual pages. Then I'm going to keep reading shorter and lighter stuff till I feel comfortable enough. I do want to start a Georgian novel by the end of the year, and I became optimist again after today's TYGFES first excerpt. I could follow the story as I looked up words at the glossary and sometimes at GT. There wasn't a translation and yet I managed to do two pages, which means I may finish this book next week. I only regret still being unable to pay full attention to ჩემი ცოლის დაქალები, because I'm under the impression that I will soon start to pick up more than I used to. Norwegian The calm days with reading a children's book is over. Now I'm reading Beatles as I listen to the audiobook. I look up some 10 words each page, sometimes less, sometimes a few more. Not many and almost granting me to trying extensive reading, but since I'm also listening I have to pause the playback and resume it later, so it is taking longer than usual. I only hope it won't ruin my schedule. I still kept the 10 pages ratio, which means this book will be around for several months, as it has almost seven-hundred pages. French It was the first time I tried looking up French words at the dictionary from iBooks. It worked well, only a few words were missing, probably due to bad formatting, and I resisted getting up and looking them up at the desktop =D. I'm reading LLe chant des sorcières: tome I and I start to feel attached to the story, even though I keep having the feeling that I should be reading something contemporary to improve my vocabulary. Speaking of films: I got supplied with a few comedies: Le dîner des cons, Les beaux gosses, Les 11 Commandements (I might be missing another one I forgot). Papiamento Still doing the minimal of watching a short news clip, though I can still notice I've improved a bit in the past days, while listening totally in the background. Will see if I can work on the novel starting tomorrow. Russian I wish there was already a duolingo course for Russian. I'd benefit enormously from it. I'm still seeing the light at the end of the tunnel and aiming at it. I may even finish the year reading better in Russian than in Georgian! Though I dream of being able to read both. German Duolingo rocks, and Assimil is still too easy. For a second I thought about starting Fokus Deutsch, but I already have too much noise on my head. Let's see how much time I will gain (or not) when I replace my current Georgian textbooks with more straightforward ones, though I'm still reluctant to bite more. All in all, I know where the weak points reside: I need a native resource for Russian, either reading or video; active conversation for Mandarin; more focus at watching Georgian; a native resource for German; active writing for Norwegian and French and I need to start Estonian to bring in some new air, but I'm still consolidating my working plan and don't want to add more tasks. Edited by Expugnator on 06 January 2014 at 9:12pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3908 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian | Message 18 of 415 06 January 2014 at 9:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wish there was already a duolingo course for Russian
me too :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Emme Triglot Senior Member Italy Joined 5134 days ago 980 posts - 1594 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, German Studies: Russian, Swedish, French | Message 19 of 415 06 January 2014 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | ||
That’s good news! You had me worried there for a while. When my laptop died I was devastated even though everything but a week or two’s worth of files was backed up in an external hard drive, so I know how it feels. I’m happy the loss didn’t turn out as catastrophic as appeared at first. Edited by Emme on 06 January 2014 at 10:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4953 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 20 of 415 07 January 2014 at 7:26pm | IP Logged | ||
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Another busy day, despite being my first day on vacation.
I'm just maintaining my Chinese, that is, I'm not seeing noticeable progress. About to finish a level at the podcast, doing Anki sentences, doing Memrise too, watching Travel in Chinese and 喜羊羊. I couldn't do my presentation challenge for Chinese yday because I was at a computer w/o fonts, don't know when I'll get down to it, though. Maybe I still can't write a consistent dialogue. Georgian was quite tiresome today, because both textbooks are coming to an end and consist now of long excerpts. OTOH, the native resource I'm using is actually a bilingual novel, პალომა, and it's much easier than the literary stuff at the textbooks. In a few days I'll be done with both books. I've tried watching ჩემი ცოლის დაქალები with a bit more focus. I'm still far from actually understanding, but I hope I eventually will. Maybe I should focus on the sounds, like Elcomadreja says at his Cebuano log. I got startled a bit with Norwegian when I noticed episode 5, season 2 of Himmelblå lacked embedded subtitles. I had tried to search for subtitles on my own and gave up. Luckily today I managed to find subtitles for the whole season, which gives me a few more days. The short experience of watching without subtitles showed me I still have a lot to learn till I reach any sort of fluency. So did the listening and reading of the book Beatles. I'm looking up a lot of words, and it's slow indeed, but I'm feeling that those words will eventually stick and once I'm done with this book I'll be at a better level. Papiamento reading was finally continued. Just two short pages, but enough to make me realize this is indeed one of my best languages. I also found it quite easy to listen to today's video. I could have even transcribed it if I had focused. Other languages didn't bring anything remarkable. I'm just doing textbook studying with German and Russian, and enjoying native materials with French. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3908 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian | Message 21 of 415 07 January 2014 at 7:32pm | IP Logged | ||
Certo, valeu! Estou indo à Paris esse ano, em Abril. Até lá, quero praticar intensivamente o Francês e ocasionalmente o Russo. Depois inverto :) Sucesso nos estudos. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4646 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 22 of 415 07 January 2014 at 11:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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I wanted to ask you - how firm do you feel with reading in Georgian?
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4953 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 23 of 415 08 January 2014 at 5:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, not firm at all =D > I can get the gist of a text with a dictionary, but it's
better to just follow a translation along. I still know too feel verbal forms as well as abstract nouns. I still have to finish two Chinese activities (cartoon and textbook), the French video and the Papiamento novel, but I can already say that today was particularly tiresome. It's a lot to read 20 pages in French then 10 in Norwegian with audio then 30 minutes of Georgian TV with little comprehension, not to forget the Norwegian TV and the Georgian reading in the morning. Anyway, I've been keeping this schedule at current length for at least 1 year, and it is not time to take back. What I really dream of is becoming better at my ever-lasting Russian, Chinese and Georgian so I can actually start enjoying them. What a funny coincidence! I logged in to my YT account and I was suggested a Georgian film with subtitles in Russian - ok, no surprises - and...Estonian! Of course I can't make any use of it now, but I take it as a sign. Yday I almost started dabbling at Colloquial Estonian, as I had nothing to do the early evening and had already read enough on other subjects apart from language learning, but resisted. I checked both Anki and Memrise, and they are served with good decks, like book2's course, Colloquial Estonian and Basic Course in Estonian. As for the actual textbooks, I think the only one I'm really missing is Estonian Textbook, and even though it is praised as the best out there, I think that for 71US$ I can do without it. There are the courses at panglossos and oneness (hope it gets back online!) plus all of the other material commonly available. Once again I realize the importance of version (i.e. translation into the target language) exercises for boosting my active skills. I used to do them them for French and German and they worked pretty well already at the A1 level. I'll have to do them for Chinese, don't know how, because I haven't seen such textbooks since I finished Assimil. As for Norwegian, I managed to do without these version exercises by going through L/R and watching videos with subtitles being pasted and translated at GT. Russian will give me such exercises at the old TY, and Georgian, at Basic Georgian. I even plan to share my answers to the exercises from Basic Georgian at another group, as there are no answer keys. So, if you can mention a Chinese textbook other than Assimil or Méthode 90 which follows the pattern of version/translation exercises with short sentences, please tell me! I'm having audio input but no writing output at this moment, and I feel the need to warm up my writing skills. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Chung Diglot Senior Member Joined 6943 days ago 4228 posts - 8259 votes 20 sounds Speaks: English*, French Studies: Polish, Slovak, Uzbek, Turkish, Korean, Finnish | Message 24 of 415 08 January 2014 at 5:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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Colloquial Estonian. Eeeewww. Do. Not. Use. It.
I recommend most strongly TY Estonian over Colloquial E. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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