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| komorebi Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 3986 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Japanese, Latin | Message 1 of 6 01 January 2014 at 3:08pm | IP Logged | ||
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Welcome to my log for the TAC 2014!
This is my first time participating and I'm very excited to start learning languages again. I haven't really done that for about three years, just on and off. But if I want to get any better at my languages or even learn a new one, I'll have to sit down and simply study it. The TAC is kind of my incentive to do exactly that ^^ My main language in 2014 will be Japanese. I'll also take up French again and Latin will be my new language. JAPANESE I'm currently at N3/N4 level, I think. I have never taken the test and don't plan on doing so in the foreseeable future. So I can only guess by looking at grammar and vocabulary lists. I've been studying Japanese on and off for years without making any considerable progress. That's something I want to change in 2014. My overall goal is to reach a solid N2 level, especially in terms of grammar and vocabulary. As for Kanji, I'm going to take a different route. I'll (re)study all 1006 elementary school kanji with special regard to vocabulary building. In the past I've already studied those 教育漢字 (kyouiku kanji) up to grade 5 and I actually remember a great part of them. But my vocabulary is too limited. That means, quite often I can't read and understand a word, even if it contains only kanji I know. Since vocabulary is my weak point, I set myself the goal of increasing it by 5000 Japanese words. FRENCH I used to study French in school for years. I've always had very good grades. And according to my certificates I reached a B1 level. Well, that seems like a very long time ago, even though it's really just a couple of years since my last proper French lesson. The truth is, I've forgotten a lot. I look at my old notes and see strange words all over the place. I must have known them once, I'm sure about that, but not anymore. The same goes for grammar, especially tenses. So, my goal for this year is to reactivate my French and maybe even reach the stage, where I can think in French without too many problems. I've never achieved that. French always stayed a foreign language, which is probably one of the reasons why I forgot so much of it. As mentioned above, vocabulary is my weak point, so I'll set myself a word goal just like in Japanese: 4000 words. LATIN My new language this year. I've never learned it, although I did have the opportunity in school once. Too bad I wasn't interested in it back then :( But I bought a textbook a couple of years ago, when I first thought it a great idea to learn Latin. It's been sitting on my shelf ever since, waiting for me to finally open it and get started. I don't have any specific goal for Latin yet, apart from working through the textbook. We'll see, how far that takes me. Wanderlust I guess, wanderlust will find me some time or another. I wanted to do one new language this year and finally decided on Latin. But there are a couple of others that I have quite some interest in, namely Mandarin, Korean, Russian, Italian and even Icelandic. Oh well, let's see what happens :) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| komorebi Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 3986 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Japanese, Latin | Message 2 of 6 17 January 2014 at 11:07am | IP Logged | ||
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This is my little corner where I'll post the language material and resources that I find useful and/or interesting.
JAPANESE - http://forum.koohii.com/ - The forum to the website Reviewing the Kanji, very useful even if you don't use Heisig's Remembering the Kanji (eng) - nihongodaybyday.blogspot.de - A blog written by a Japanese teacher for Japanese language learners (jp) - http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/easy - NHK news in easy Japanese with audio and furigana (jp) - http://newsmanga.net/ - News in manga format (jp) - http://www.gavo.t.u-tokyo.ac.jp/ojad - Online Japanese Accent Dictionary (jp, eng) - http://accent.u-biq.org/ - Japanese Accent Study Website (jp, eng) - http://wadoku.de/ - Japanisch-Deutsches Wörterbuch (de) - http://happylilac.net/syogaku.html - Lots of free learning material for Japanese elementary school students (jp) - http://www.geocities.jp/mutasanjp/ - Lots and lots of practice sheets for kokugo and maths aimed at Japanese elementary school students (jp) FRENCH - http://frvocabulary.blogspot.de/ - French Vocabulary Illustrated - http://bufyvs.free.fr/series/btvs/transcript.php - Transcripts for the TV series Buffy in French Edited by komorebi on 02 February 2014 at 8:27pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| komorebi Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 3986 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Japanese, Latin | Message 3 of 6 17 January 2014 at 11:08am | IP Logged | ||
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Due to my getting sick right at the beginning of the new year I didn't achieve as much
as I wanted to. But I still got a couple of things done. JAPANESE I reviewed all kanji from first and second grade, altogether 240 characters, and did some tests. As expected, the problem lies not so much with the kanji per se but with knowing the words they can form together. For example, I may know 遠 and 足, but looking at 遠足 I can only guess its reading and meaning. So far I've only added 86 cards to Anki. I expect that number to rise the more kanji I review and the more I read. I haven't done much reading yet. I read one blog entry at "nihongo day by day" and one entry at NHK News Easy. As for grammar, I've begun to review the grammar points for N4. There are a couple of them that I can't use properly even though I understand them. I hope to finish them until the end of January. FRENCH Not much done, I'm afraid. I read the first chapter of "Le jeu de l'ange" by Carlos Ruiz Zafón. It's fairly difficult to understand, because there are many words I don't know. But I do know the book, so I can follow the story. I've also noticed that I had entered about a hundred French words into Anki some time before. I reviewed them now, but I won't count them for my word goal this year. LATIN The book I'm using is Hueber's Latein ganz leicht, a German book. I've done the first two chapters, out of twenty. It's quite grammatical with lots of grammar tables, so I'll have to go and create my own example sentences as this is how I remember grammar best. There seem to be a couple of mistakes in the book, though. They are small so far, but that means I'll have to pay a lot more attention. Wanderlust hasn't begun yet. But I've started an English deck for Anki. During the last days I've seen a lot of English words that I don't really know. And since I'm starting to get used to doing Anki every day, I might as well learn some English vocabulary, too. I plan to do weekly updates to this log, unless something gets in the way (again) ^^ 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| dampingwire Bilingual Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 4664 days ago 1185 posts - 1513 votes  Speaks: English*, Italian*, French Studies: Japanese | Message 4 of 6 17 January 2014 at 4:35pm | IP Logged | ||
Glad to hear that you're better now.
A few kanji only have one reading, which helps. However, for the majority of them I've found that my unit of learning is the word rather than the readings. In your case 遠 can be EN or ON and 足 can be SOKU or ASHI (plus a few others). Not being a native speaker I've no idea whether おんそく or おなし (they both do, though the latter is a place name). So I just learn 遠足 along with えんそく and have done with it. I'd love there to be a simpler way :-) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| komorebi Diglot Newbie Germany Joined 3986 days ago 10 posts - 12 votes Speaks: German*, English Studies: French, Japanese, Latin | Message 5 of 6 02 February 2014 at 6:20pm | IP Logged | ||
All those possibilities are driving me nuts, sometimes ^^ One of my "favourites" is 一日: いちにち and ついたち are the most common readings and I know their difference by now. But apparently it can also be read いちじつ、 ひとひ or いっぴ. Yeah, Japanese is fun :D Summary for January JAPANESE - Anki - First and second grade kanji repetition - Second grade kanji practice - Grammar repetition JLPT N4 - read a couple of articles from NHK Newsweb Easy - read two entries from nihongodaybyday.blogspot.de FRENCH - Anki - read one chapter of Le jeu de l'ange - watched altogether about 20 episodes from Buffy contre les vampires and Stargate SG-1 LATIN - Anki - studied two chapters of Hueber's Latein ganz leicht So, am I satisfied with my first TAC month? Well, yes and no. Yes, because I actually did something nearly every day, especially Anki, which I haven't been able to do before. Also yes, because I watched several episodes completely in French and managed to understand enough to follow the story. But no, because I didn't achieve as much as I had hoped; some things due to sickness, but others, like the amount of vocabulary, because I didn't read enough to find enough new words. Also, I didn't finish my repetition of Japanese N4 grammar. Goals for February JAPANESE - re-study 100 kanji from third grade - finish grammar repetition for N4 level - read more - take the online test at www.j-cat.org in order to get a better idea what level I'm at - well, if they let me take it, I had some troubles with registering :( FRENCH - read 6 chapters of Le jeu de l'ange - watch some more episodes of Buffy and study their vocabulary in order to understand the episodes even better As for Latin, that's the language I'm studying for the 6-Week-Challenge. So the goals are not just for February. They are modest, though. - Study 6 chapters of Hueber's Latein ganz leicht - basically one every week - log a minimum of 30 hours 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Monox D. I-Fly Senior Member Indonesia monoxdifly.iopc.us Joined 5134 days ago 762 posts - 664 votes Speaks: Indonesian* | Message 6 of 6 21 September 2016 at 7:05pm | IP Logged | ||
足 can also be read as "ta", right? What if 遠足 reads "enta" or "toota"? Is it possible? 1 person has voted this message useful |
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