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| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5778 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes  Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 89 of 91 15 June 2015 at 11:31pm | IP Logged |
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I guess one of the reasons why self evaluation is so tough when it comes to productive skills is that speaking ability is so damn variable. So I can chat pretty fluently in German for a good ten minutes or so, coming out with vocabulary I did't even know I knew and making only minor errors, and then, all of a sudden, I forget how to conjugate sein in the present...
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| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5778 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 90 of 91 26 June 2015 at 12:14am | IP Logged |
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Here are my excuses:
From reading the logs, it looks like a lot of HTLALers have been suffering toothache. Myself included. It's not serious, and hopefully will be fixed soon, but it's quite a distraction. Work is crazy busy. It's the kind of busy that I thrive on, so I'm quite happy, but when I get home lately I'm mentally quite tired. I have family visiting this weekend. So I need to make my house presentable, make plans to entertain them, and then entertain them. I've got myself addicted to reading the Game of Thrones series. In English. I have a holiday to plan (wait, that's an excuse? Surely that's a reason to study more. I'm in Berlin in just a few weeks!) Anyway, I've got a few good reasons for not doing too much study at the moment. That's not a problem in itself. So why, oh why, am I spending all the time that I do have on textbooks and Anki, rather than TV and books? I know I'm doing it wrong. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| g-bod Diglot Senior Member United KingdomRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 5778 days ago 1485 posts - 2002 votes Speaks: English*, Japanese Studies: French, German | Message 91 of 91 12 July 2015 at 8:49pm | IP Logged |
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Sometimes it's important to just take a break. It's a lesson I've supposedly learned time and time again, but like those certain vocabulary words that simply won't stick, it's popped up once again in my SRS deck of life as a timely reminder.
For the last couple of weeks I've been taking it pretty easy with German. I've had a couple of iTalki sessions, which have been quite good fun. I discovered that one way of not letting life's problems get in the way of your language learning is to use a session with your tutor to complain about said problems, in the target language! I've bought myself a subscription to Die Zeit, so I get to enjoy a bundle of German delivered through my front door on a weekly basis. With pictures. It's great because I just leave it on the coffee table and leaf through it whenever I'm at a loose end in the house. I've also been listening to unhealthy amounts of Einstürzende Neubauten. I tell myself that it doesn't count as study because half of the songs are in English anyway. All of this really amounts to keeping in touch with the language, while giving me some much needed free time to just relax and not think or worry about anything in particular, to get outside and enjoy the fresh air and the British summer while it lasts, and to just generally take care of myself a little. 1 person has voted this message useful |
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