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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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| vermillon Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4472 days ago 602 posts - 1042 votes  Speaks: French*, EnglishC2, Mandarin Studies: Japanese, German | Message 9 of 415 02 January 2014 at 7:20pm | IP Logged | ||
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Well, I hope you are good at juggling between different tasks: this is an amazingly long lists of stuff you plan to do this year :)
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| prz_ Tetraglot Senior Member Poland last.fm/user/prz_rul Joined 4653 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 10 of 415 03 January 2014 at 12:40am | IP Logged | ||
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| Luso Hexaglot Senior Member Portugal Joined 5855 days ago 819 posts - 1812 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, French, EnglishC2, GermanB1, Italian, Spanish Studies: Sanskrit, Arabic (classical) | Message 11 of 415 03 January 2014 at 1:52am | IP Logged | ||
I like the way you put it: apart from the many languages you're studying, you also have a big list on hold, but "no rush really. Maybe 2015 or 2016.". I'll be looking forward to seeing your progress with Georgian as Rare Team mate, as well as with all the other languages you're tackling, TAC or not (pun not intended). On a different level, I hope we can help our godchildren improve their Portuguese in Team Exploradores. Bom trabalho e boa sorte! Edited by Luso on 03 January 2014 at 1:53am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| fabriciocarraro Hexaglot Winner TAC 2012 Senior Member Brazil russoparabrasileirosRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4509 days ago 989 posts - 1454 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, EnglishB2, Italian, Spanish, Russian, French Studies: Dutch, German, Japanese | Message 12 of 415 03 January 2014 at 2:26am | IP Logged | ||
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Excelente cara! Vou acompanhar seu log bastante pelo jeito! hehe
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| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4960 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 13 of 415 03 January 2014 at 6:34pm | IP Logged | ||
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@Silbermond : we have a long journey with Chinese, but I'm sure the team will work out
pretty well! @prz: be prepared! Georgian is a fascinating adventure. As for the Russian group, it is called Grupo de Estudos de Russo - PdD (which stands for 'Poliglotas da Depressão) @vermillon: I'm rather used to this hectic schedule, even though sometimes it's tiring. Since I do things in a rather loose way, it doesn't actually mean as much learning as it sounds =D I don't overlearn textbooks and I watch videos mostly extensively and sometimes on the background. Thanks Luso and fabriciocarraro, hope we can help each other and others! ========= Today actually started yesterday with a terrible incident. I lost my iBooks library to my first generation iPad while trying to back it up in order to copy the books into the newest iPad I just bought. I deleted all books from my previous library because they referred to an iTunes version installed at another computer and so the path was lost. Then I forgot to disable autosync before transfering purchases, and the minute I plugged in the old iPad everything got deleted on it =( I've learned that the worst thing with data losses is that you lose information like books or bookmarks that you downloaded once on the suggestion of someone or saw somewhere, and you may never remember they ever existed! It's not like losing some Assimil books but getting them back, it's like losing important specific books which I downloaded and saved directly at the tablet and thus didn't keep a backup anywhere. I still have the list of files (even if the paths are dead because my former HDD is now E: and F: units instead of C: and D:) back to april 2013. As for stuff after that, I could remember a few by looking through history at the browsers I used. I know a few others are missing, but they don't seem to be rarities and I may come across suggestions for reading them again if I keep studying at the same field, which I probably will. Well, now at least I can start adding stuff I'm going to read soon or am already studying from. If nothing, this should help for focusing. Lesson learned: keep a list of books "to read" offline. Now for today's news! I recovered from this and moved on. I finished important resources yday and today and the big picture starts to show up. Chinese I finished volume 1 of Tuttle's Flashcards. Good because all I had to do was transfer volume 2 to the iPad. Didn't pay much attention at 喜羊羊 because I was busy digging up my browser's history for titles of books. As for Travel in Chinese, before hitting 'play' I copied/pasted the dialogue and worked on it intensively by checking both translation and pinyin. It was great, but it made it harder for me to concentrate on the actual video for the aforementioned reason and due to the feeling of lack of novelty. As for Everyday Chinese Fables and Anedoctes, I noticed the translation is rather loose and therefore I have to work more on dettaching words and translating them. Georgian I'm reading faster in Georgian, even if I still understand so little. That means I'm doing the lessons quicker, which came in handy today as I risked being late on my schedule. I can't praise the book Teach Yourself Georgian for English Speakers enough for the accuracy, completeness and appropriateness of its texts and dialogues. Final lesson is coming, then come the reading excerpts, which are long but few, and they got a vocabulary section. They will be my real test, because so far I've had translation for all other resources. For the first time I'll be reading Georgian relying only on Google Translator and the accompanying vocabulary for the texts. As for ჩემი ცოლის დაქალები, I couldn't focus on it again but I start to notice considerable progress. Getting some scenes almost fully from conext and from the vocabulary I already have. French I really need to get good contemporary fiction on French. I also need more suggestions on comedy films. I really like watching them, no matter how hard. I already watched the following: Camping 1 Bienvenue chez les ch'tis Rien à déclarer Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire OSS 117 Caire: nid d'espions Tanguy Russian I see the light at end of the tunnel! Russian starts to make sense and I feel I can make it. Thanks to the great LL. I'm much more confident now and I'm starting to enjoy it, not feeling that much overwhelmed. The cultural info is also invaluable, today I read about Russian museums and now I'm ggrowing interest of visiting Russia. Norwegian I'm doing less on Norwegian because I'm not using textbooks anymore and this step;slot got replaced by German. I rewatched the first 20 minutes of a Himmelblå episode I accidentally watched out of order and sometimes I deviated my sight from the video, and thus I couldn't follow the story. That means I still need the subtitles badly. After Himmelblå I'll probably start Hjem with hard-coded Swedish subs, hope not to get confused though. I finished the book 'Kurt blir grusom' and am going to start Beatles, by beatles lars saabye christensen, this time with audio but no translation. I'm quite excited about that. Other languages Just kept doing lessons at German Without Toil. It is noticeable how much more I can perceive of the language now that I'm doing these lessons with audio. Anyway, I want to finish those elementary Assimils asap. I do need to move on with German. As for Papiamento, I only listened to the news video, I didn't read the novel at home as I was busy with iPads and lost backups. There's one thing that is fragile about my schedule now: it has too few activities that can be done at short breaks with dead time. I don't have that much type of dead time, anyway (stuck in the traffic, waiting in line for something etc.) I walk to work and I decided not to do any listening due to security reasons. Therefore my dead time activities consist only of Anki and extensive reading. All the rest needs a computer with audio. In the case of textbook studying I also need the tablet so I can have a copy of the same textbook open with the translation or the answer to the exercises or the transcript or vocabulary, whatever helps preventing me from losing focus for the sake of looking up words. I need to resume duolingo for German and start memrise for HSK, but I can only do these at home, which leaves me the rest of the day when I'm already too tired or busy and when I am supposed to work on writing dialogues, anyway. My schedule takes 4 to 5 hours a day but it is still heavily dependent on sitting at a desktop with earphones plugged while using the tablet as well. At some point I'll have to prioritize some activities over others if I want to keep enlarging my vocabulary while gaining some active skills. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4960 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 14 of 415 04 January 2014 at 5:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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I don't usually study on weekends. I only do activities that are accessible off-hand,
like Anki, Tuttle's Flashcards or extensive reading. I just wanna say that I recovered the list of all my books. Up to April 2013 they were stored at my former library, and the ones I got after them were sent to the recycle bin at my new computer when I sync'ed the old iPad. So, no real losing track of any 'to- read' books. Now it's the boring task to fix the path to all old books and then try to transfer them to the newest iPad. Speaking of which, I could finally download Pleco which wouldn't work at my first iPad. I also got more languages for iBooks. Meaning: whenever I read in French, I can double- tap a word and get is French definition right at iBooks, instead of looking up an English translation at the computer! Now I really hope to speed up my French reading and do some on weekends. In the future I may be able to do the same with Chinese. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Cristianoo Triglot Senior Member Brazil https://projetopoligRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 3915 days ago 175 posts - 289 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, FrenchB2, English Studies: Russian | Message 15 of 415 04 January 2014 at 6:01pm | IP Logged | ||
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Excelente Expugnator, também irei acompanhar seu log, especialmente sobre Russo.
O que é LL? Bonne chance! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Expugnator Hexaglot Senior Member Brazil Joined 4960 days ago 3335 posts - 4349 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, Norwegian, French, English, Italian, Papiamento Studies: Mandarin, Georgian, Russian | Message 16 of 415 04 January 2014 at 6:09pm | IP Logged | ||
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LL é a coleção Living Language, muito boa por sinal!
Feel free to ask me anything about Russian and French learning, I've already seen your log and I believe we may have a lot to share. I've been to Paris two years ago and I've started Russian in November 2012 but still struggling. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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