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| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4968 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 9 of 21 04 January 2014 at 1:21am | IP Logged |
So on my side we have
and on the opposing side we have 
So why do I feel so scared? *** My men are reporting a very strange phenomenon. It seems that there must be some strange property in the air within the Castle of Anki, for my men insist that many of the Spanish opponents who appeared quite dead yesterday have come back to life and rejoined the battle. However, with the help of my aerial division I have managed to knock out several hundred more of the enemy today. *** On another note, I listened to several more chapters of En llamas and I watched an episode of La Rosa de Guadalupe. This adds up to around 2 hours of listening comprehension. Edited by Amerykanka on 04 January 2014 at 1:28am 3 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4968 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 10 of 21 07 January 2014 at 2:42am | IP Logged |
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First Polish study of the year! Yippee! Details below.
Spanish I eliminated 600 more Spanish flashcards (not counting ones that I reviewed, but that will be showing up again tomorrow). A long fight lies ahead of me yet; over 2,500 Spanish troops still defend the Castle of Anki. But I am feeling much more encouraged. I listened to another chapter or so of En llamas. I really like this translation of Catching Fire. I'm no native speaker, but the language used doesn't sound as forced or Anglicized as the language in the Spanish versions of Harry Potter does. I also wrote a few emails in Spanish - the good thing about writing to your Spanish professors (or perhaps the bad thing, depending on your viewpoint) is that you need to write in Spanish or they will think you don't know how to. Polish After an hour of diligent flashcard review, 600 cards are out of the way for a while. Of course, there are a few hundred other cards that I reviewed but will be seeing again tomorrow due to my deplorable memory loss. (And speaking of forgetting things - why on earth could I come up with the words pucołowaty and mysikrólik but not something simple like podnóżek?) I feel like I have put a dent in my piles of a Polish reviews, however, so I am feeling happy. I also listened to 25 minutes of the Real Polish podcast. This was my first time trying it out and I must say I think it is a good resource, especially since you can control the speed. The actual speed is a bit too slow for me, but when I put it on 1.5x it is more challenging. I downloaded around 50 episodes and I hope to blow through them pretty quickly; they are a bit below my level, but I think they will still prove useful. It was nice to hear some Polish again after a few months without it! *** Well, I will conclude by warning everyone not to get behind on their flashcard reviews. Trying to catch up is not fun! (Okay, it is kind of fun. And it is also fun to complain about having 8,000+ reviews due. But you didn't hear that from me!) Edited by Amerykanka on 07 January 2014 at 2:45am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4968 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 11 of 21 13 January 2014 at 1:59am | IP Logged |
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Today is a historic day . . . the Spanish troops have all been sent home, and we have signed a peace treaty that allows them to enter the Castle of Anki in limited numbers for daylong visits.
Many of the Polish troops have also proved quite amicable, with the result that roughly 5,000 of the original 8,000 enemy troops are now eliminated. *** I am SO excited that the flashcard problem is mostly resolved. As mentioned above, I have dealt with the Spanish cards after many hours of dedicated reviewing. What a relief!!! I have to finish up with my Polish sentence deck (about 400 cards there) and possibly with my other Polish deck (1000+ cards, uggh). But the most important Polish vocab deck is back under control! I am still scared to look at the Latin decks - that will be this week's task. And of course I have about 250 Italian cards. I will take care of them whenever I start Italian (ideally within the next few weeks). There are also the Greek paper flashcards which I must also get going with this week, but a few repetitions should do the trick. When it comes to Greek, I am more worried about my rather shaky knowledge of the declensions and conjugations. It feels odd to be memorizing paradigms again; it has been so long since I did any serious memorization of that type, for the Polish and Latin systems are pretty well engrained in my head. Edited by Amerykanka on 13 January 2014 at 2:00am 2 persons have voted this message useful | |
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4968 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 12 of 21 15 January 2014 at 12:24am | IP Logged |
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Well, I've taken the plunge. I am proud to introduce my newest language . . . Haitian Creole.
I'm feeling a bit worried about this new acquisition, since I also need to get going with Italian again, but I can't think of any other solution. I am now 99% sure that I will be going to Haiti for a mission trip in August, and all my missionary buddies from the Nicaragua trips are counting on me to learn the language and be one of the interpreters. To be honest, I would have learned some of the language anyway, even if the group leader hadn't made a point of requesting it. But the point of this rambling is that I now have to deal with 6 languages this spring. Spanish, Latin, and Greek are school subjects and hence non-negotiable. I need Haitian Creole for August, and Italian for next spring . . . and since I will finally have a chance to visit Poland sometime next year, I can't slack on Polish either. Throw in the fact that it would also be nice to know a bit of French (more than "oui" and "merci" and other such tidbits, that is) for my trips to Haiti and Europe, and I'm beginning to feel desperate. However . . . I started with Haitian Creole today, and I love it! I downloaded a bunch of free resources (most of them with audio); my plan is to see how far these get me and then buy something else if necessary this summer. Today I studied the first chapter of Ann Pale Kreyol, and, like I said, I loved it! So there is a silver lining to my cloud of anxiety. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 5902 days ago 707 posts - 1219 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 13 of 21 15 January 2014 at 9:45am | IP Logged |
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Does this mean that the Anki monster is about to get bigger?!
....klaxon sounding.... You're surrounded on all sides. I don't know how you cope, but I admire your determination! Powodzenia. Edited by Mooby on 15 January 2014 at 9:46am 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4968 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 14 of 21 21 January 2014 at 1:23am | IP Logged |
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The Anki monster is under control - when it comes to Spanish and Haitian Creole. I think I'm going to have to
surrender to the Polish forces, at least for the time being. I simply don't have enough time to keep up with my Polish reviews at the moment. Over the last week I have continued listening to the radio and to Catching Fire in Spanish. I am pleased to see that my lost listening comprehension skills are making a comeback. I have completed the first two lessons of Ann Pale Kreyol and started the third lesson. As for Greek, I have reviewed all the verb conjugations that I know and all the pronouns, and I have been reviewing my flashcards. I organized my Italian resources, so hopefully Italian will be appearing soon. School starts again on Wednesday, so the frequency of my posts is likely to decrease. I will try to continue posting, but I am surrounded on all sides! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Amerykanka Hexaglot Senior Member United States Joined 4968 days ago 657 posts - 890 votes Speaks: English*, Spanish, Polish, Latin, Ancient Greek, Russian | Message 15 of 21 10 June 2014 at 11:07pm | IP Logged |
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Well. Wow. I thought that I would at least be able to post a few times during the spring semester, but
apparently not. This is why I thought it best not to join a team - I don't want to be letting anyone down by my prolonged absences. My inactivity on HTLAL does not mean that I haven't been studying languages. I have made quite a bit of progress in Greek, Latin, and Spanish, and Haitian Creole is now coming along nicely. Polish has made a few guest appearances. This summer I will be focusing on Haitian Creole and brushing up on Latin and Greek. I don't have any specific plans for my other languages, but I am going to be tutoring Spanish - that should be enough contact to maintain my current level until after my Haiti trip in 7 weeks. I am still busy (with my job, my language studies, and the rest of my life), so I doubt that I will be posting much this summer. But I am still going strong and I wish everyone else good luck! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Mooby Senior Member Scotland Joined 5902 days ago 707 posts - 1219 votes Speaks: English* Studies: Polish | Message 16 of 21 10 June 2014 at 11:28pm | IP Logged |
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Witam serdecznie!
Great to hear from an original Żubr teammate, and that your language studies are going well. Are you postponing Italian? Edited by Mooby on 10 June 2014 at 11:29pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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