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| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3884 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes  Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 73 of 180 13 April 2014 at 12:28pm | IP Logged | ||
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I miscounted the word list pages, actually it's 29 pages :( Today I was able to do 4 more pages of the wordlist (total 6 pages done), not as many words to look up as yesterday, but still it took me a bit over two hours. Revised half of Hugo chapter 10 (till the reading portion at the end). Brain is saturated now. I have some questions based on the words I covered today, but I am too tired to post about them today. My weekends are being consumed by German, leaving me no brain space to learn other things which I want to for my work. People say 10-15 minutes a day works for learning a language, I dont see how that could work for me. I am spending like 8-9 hrs a week, and still my progress is slow. I have to cut down on the weekend study and somehow move some of the study time to weekdays when I am too tired to do real work. I need the weekend energy to do work study. Agenda for this week: grammar review (placement test the next week). Adjective endings, past forms of modal verbs, reflexive verbs, and if possible Hugo chapter 11. I also need to do some writing in German (I got killing in writing in my previous test). Have to shelve the word list study till after the test. Edited by Gemuse on 13 April 2014 at 12:37pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Avid Learner Diglot Senior Member Canada Joined 4464 days ago 100 posts - 156 votes Speaks: French*, English Studies: German | Message 74 of 180 13 April 2014 at 9:36pm | IP Logged | ||
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Thanks for the A2 vocabulary list. I won't be using it to learn new words, but it's still nice to take a look at it and figure out where I fit exactly (I think I am B1 understanding, but still just A2 for active skills).
I wished Dialang worked for me, but it doesn't. You are definitely working hard! 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3884 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 75 of 180 19 April 2014 at 2:50pm | IP Logged | ||
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Recently got Schritte International 4, A2.2 level (yes, I know I have a problem) + the
XXL glossary (got the books only because of the glossary - it has the standard glossary + explanations in English + translation exercises, both ways, + solutions). As an added bonus, each chapter in the glossary also has about two semi-detailed writeups on culture and history of the German block. I got both books used for a total of about 8.5 euro shipped. Did exercises from the first two chapters of the glossar. I quite liked the translation exercises, nice sentences. The exercises were for Konjuntiv II + comparatives+adjective endings. The translations from English to German have been particularly useful. Unfortunately Hueber in its infinite wisdom has not released the glossary in English for books 5 and 6 (but glossarys exist in other languages). A pity as otherwise I would have bought the 5 and 6 books. Here is an example of a translation exercise (translate to German) from the second chapter:
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| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3884 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 76 of 180 20 April 2014 at 7:42pm | IP Logged | ||
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Schritte International 4 XXL glossar: chapter 10 exercises. Edited by Gemuse on 20 April 2014 at 7:42pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3709 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 77 of 180 23 April 2014 at 3:57am | IP Logged | ||
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I like what you're doing, Gemuse! How is the Schritte International 4 XXL glossar? I checked it out on Amazon but I can't see what it covers.
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| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3884 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 78 of 180 23 April 2014 at 6:30am | IP Logged | ||
You cant? Have you tried the preview functionality? http://www.amazon.de/Schritte-interna tional-Fremdsprache- Deutsch-Englisch-German-English/dp/3194518542 I am liking it. It would be worth getting only in conjunction with Schritte International 4. And then too if its used. As I mentioned, I got the two because I could get both books for about 8.5 euro shipped (combined). I like the example exercise sentences they use, the explanations they have. And the English to German translation exercises they have. The resulting German sentences are not trivial, but at the same time, not out of reach. And the things that it asks you to translate, it is useful dialogue, not artificial stuff. The book isnt perfect though - for instance it did not explain the difference between "doch" and "mal" words when used in Konjuntiv II sentences. If you can get it at a library, definitely worth checking out. Edited by Gemuse on 23 April 2014 at 6:31am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| soclydeza85 Senior Member United States Joined 3709 days ago 357 posts - 502 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, French | Message 79 of 180 23 April 2014 at 4:59pm | IP Logged | ||
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Oh I was looking at the amazon for the US. It looks pretty useful, I will definitely look into buying it once I finish up some of the other books I'm using.
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| Gemuse Senior Member Germany Joined 3884 days ago 818 posts - 1189 votes Speaks: English Studies: German | Message 80 of 180 27 April 2014 at 4:02am | IP Logged | ||
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Did a revision this week in preparation for the A2.2 course.
We will be following Menschen A2.2. What I really hate is that the glossary of this will be released only next year. So I have to create the glossary by hand using a dictionary, and that is a massive waste of time. I noted down the meanings of words I did not know for the 1st chapter today. Took me 3hr 15 min. Assuming 45 min of useful time, thats a 2.5 hr waste per lesson. 12 lessons, so a 30hr waste in the next three months. Ugh. I wish the course was following Schritte international with its English glossary. I will also do the Schritte international book in parallel, as that has a glossary. Why the hell is Hueber taking so long to print the glossary? The book was released last year, so thats like a 2 year delay. Glossaries in other languages (arabic, french, polish) etc have been released, but not English. Doesnt make sense. Edited by Gemuse on 27 April 2014 at 4:37am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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