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Radioclare’s TAC log 2014 (*jäŋe/*ledús) | ||
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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 33 of 522 16 January 2014 at 10:27am | IP Logged | ||
Oooo, nisam znao tu riječ, hvala ;) (I "kolebanje" samo od bugarskoga) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4377 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 34 of 522 16 January 2014 at 11:39pm | IP Logged | ||
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On my commute this morning I reread the grammar summary at the end of 'Teach Yourself
Croatian'. It was a useful reminder of the noun and adjective endings in different cases. On the way home I made more progress with Memrise. I have now planted all of the vocab from lesson six of the BCS textbook. I passed the 2000 items mark on Memrise today which made me happy :) Having now refreshed my memory of 'Teach Yourself Croatian', I have now started working through the exercises again. This evening I completed the exercises in chapters 1 and 2. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4377 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 35 of 522 17 January 2014 at 11:23pm | IP Logged | ||
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Today has been a busy workday, so I have mostly just done Memrise. I had a couple of
hundred words to water this morning, and during my journey home I planted all the vocab from lesson seven of the BCS texbook. This evening I have worked through the exercises in chapter 3 and chapter 4 of 'Teach Yourself Croatian'. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4377 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 36 of 522 18 January 2014 at 11:02pm | IP Logged | ||
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I went for a walk this afternoon and listened to some of the audio which accompanies
the Hippocrene book: - Chapter 5, where Marijana rents out a flat. - Chapter 6, where she goes to the supermarket with Darko. I was walking on fairly quiet roads, so was able to repeat the dialogues aloud and focus on practising the correct intonation. When I got home, I spent half an hour or so reading chapters 10 and 11 of the BCS textbook. The exercises in these chapters look really useful, but I deliberately didn't start writing them out. I'm going to be working away from home for the next 7 weeks, and I don't have room in my suitcase for such a bulky textbook. Sob! So for the time being, my plan is to repeat all the exercises in 'Teach Yourself Croatian' (which I have on my Kindle) and the Hippocrene book, which is small enough to pack. With that in mind, this evening I have completed the exercises in chapter 5 and chapter 6 of 'Teach Yourself Croatian'. The only thing I struggled with was an exercise in chapter 6 which involved looking at a map and giving directions; nothing to do with Croatian, more a general inability to give directions in any language ;) 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4377 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 37 of 522 19 January 2014 at 9:53pm | IP Logged | ||
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I should have listened to some more of the Hippocrene dialogues this morning when I walked to church, but I was feeling a bit down about
my impending workload so I listened to some Hladno Pivo instead to cheer myself up. I'm starting to wish I was learning Polish, because there are so many Polish people in my church at the moment that I would be able to get weekly practice :) I'm not likely to be going to Poland again in the near future, however, so it wouldn't make a lot of sense. I am still partway through planting the vocab from Lesson 8 of the BCS textbook. Today I have completed the exercises in chapter 7 and chapter 8 of 'Teach Yourself Croatian'. My other half and I prematurely celebrated our seven-year anniversary today (it's technically on Tuesday, but I won't be here). As presents he bought me a copy of 'The Balkans' by Mark Mazower and 'A Traveller's History of Croatia' by Benjamin Curtis, both of which I will really look forward to reading :) 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4377 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 38 of 522 21 January 2014 at 12:05am | IP Logged | ||
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I had to get up at 4am this morning for a flight to Scotland (where I am working this
week). I was definitely not awake enough on the plane to learn much Croatian, but I did start reading my new book about the Balkans. I will leave it until I have read more of it (and had more sleep) to review it, but so far I am really enjoying it and have already learned a lot. The entire day until 10pm has been taken up by work and work-related activities, which hasn't left much time for Croatian. Being in Scotland, I have obviously missed my weekly Croatian class too. This evening I have, however, finished planting the vocabulary for lesson 8 of the BCS textbook at Memrise and watered 148 items from the Croaticum course. I have just finished writing out the exercises from chapters 9 and 10 of 'Teach Yourself Croatian'. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4377 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 39 of 522 22 January 2014 at 12:20am | IP Logged | ||
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Today has been a bit of write-off as far as work is concerned; I didn't get back to my
hotel room until 10pm. Luckily I anticipated this in advance and set my alarm a bit earlier this morning to get some studying in. I wrote out the exercises from chapter 11 of 'Teach Yourself Croatian' before breakfast :) At lunch time I also risked being anti-social to spend some time on Memrise rather than making small-talk with my colleagues. I watered around 200 plants and have made a small start on planting the vocab from lesson 9 of the BCS textbook. 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| Radioclare Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom timeofftakeoff.com Joined 4377 days ago 689 posts - 1119 votes Speaks: English*, German, Esperanto Studies: Croatian, Serbian, Macedonian | Message 40 of 522 23 January 2014 at 12:58am | IP Logged | ||
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I got up early again this morning and had 48 plants waiting for me to water on Memrise. I have stupidly
put two different words for 'ceiling' into the course, and whenever Memrise brings up this word I invariably choose the wrong one! Before breakfast I wrote out the answers to lesson 12 of 'Teach Yourself Croatian'. Some of these were actually quite challenging as they involved changing statements to reported speech/indirect questions and making sure you got the word order correct. I went into Edinburgh with colleagues for dinner this evening, not getting back to the hotel until nearly midnight, so didn't have time to do any more proper studying. We had nearly two hours on the train though, which I was able to spend on my Memrise app. The result is that I have now planted all the vocabulary from not just lesson 9 of the BCS textbook, but lesson 10 as well :) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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