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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4669 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes  Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 9 of 33 09 February 2015 at 9:35pm | IP Logged | ||
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Spanish My daily goals for Spanish: - About 15 pages of La ciudad de las bestias 7/7 (Total: ~142 pages) - 20 minutes of listening to native media 5/7 - 50 Duolingo XP 7/7 (Total: 400) It's probably also worth mentioning that I posted an entry on Lang-8 last week (week 5), which I forgot to post about here. One one hand I expected more errors, but on the other hand, I'm disappointed by the high number of stupid errors that I made (mostly gender disagremenet, or whatever it's called). Since I have to read a book for German classes, there won't be any proper weekly goals in Spanish next week except: - 350 Duolingo XP Japanese My daily goals for Japanese: - 10 new Anki cards 7/7 (Total: 100) - 20 minutes of listening to native media 5/7 - 3 NHK Easy articles or two "normal" news articles 4/7 For week 7, the only proper weekly goal is: - 100 New cards German Nothing except the usual stuff. I am going to read Milchgeld by Völker Klüpfer and Michael Kobr in week 6, and I possibly next week too. It's a shame that the Kindle version has some poor formatting though. My goal for week 7 is then: - Read 210 (7×30) pages of Milchgeld. I'm going to get started on my final year project and continue on the group project at my uni in week 7, which means that I won't have time for my languages. Edited by stifa on 09 February 2015 at 9:41pm 2 persons have voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4669 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 10 of 33 15 February 2015 at 4:31pm | IP Logged | ||
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I've decided that, starting next week, I will switch between focusing on Spanish and Japanese. Having many minor, daily goals cause more stress, something I don't really need this semester. I will be focusing on Spanish next week. However, I will be doing my Anki reviews (JP) and some Duolingo reviews (ES) every day. Spanish: I didn't read anything in Spanish this week, as explained in the previous entry. The only measurable activity this week was Duolingo (408 XP). Next week I will start with the third Harry Potter book. Japanese: I figured out that, on my android devices, I can have multiple users, which allows me to have each device connected to both my British and Japanese Kindle accounts. The former is a good source of Spanish and German eBooks, whereas the latter is the ONLY good source for Japanese eBooks. To warm up my reading skills, I decided to reread the first Harry Potter book. Bear in mind that I bought it before I found out the trick described in the previous paragraph. I haven't really done any Japanese reading since the beginning of July last year, so I'm definitely out of practice. German: I finished Milchgeld, which was a really interesting book, although it started kind of slow. That could be said about many Krimis though: it's usually the last 1/3 or so that keeps me from putting the book down. After reading through it, I realised how cleverly chosen the title was. Goals for next week: - (ES) Read 105 (7×15) pages of Harry Potter y el prisionero de Azkaban - (ES) Listen to 280 (7×40, or ~2 youtube videos per day) minutes of Spanish - (ES) 350 (7×50) Duolingo XP - (JP) 100 new Anki Cards 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4669 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 11 of 33 23 February 2015 at 10:33am | IP Logged | ||
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This week's goals: - (ES) Read 105 pages 176 pages (166%) - (ES) Listen to 280 minutes of Spanish 387 minutes* (138%) - (ES) 350 Duolingo XP 446 xp (127%) - (JP) 100 new Anki Cards 100 cards (100%) *Minutes are calculated very roughly, e.g. 23:30 => 24 min, and 31:29 => 31 min This kind of switching between target languages was something that I considered two years ago as well, but back then the motivation to study Japanese and German was split 10/90 in favour of German. This year, however, I'm more or less equally motivated to study Japanese and Spanish, making this switching easier. Spanish: I've noticed that the Harry Potter books are starting to become quite easy reads, although that might be bacause I've read them before. Ciudad de las bestias was much more difficult, in my opinion. Japanse: Although I'm going through a premade deck, my "retention rate" isn't really that bad. Luckily, I recognise about half of the "new" words that comes up, and at 100 new cards a week, I'm not really overwhelmed by Anki either. Goals for next week: - (JP) Read 105 (7×15) pages - (JP) Listen to 4:40 (7×0:40**) hours - (ES) 350 (7×50) Duolingo XP - (JP) 100 new Anki Cards **About two episodes of a TV show, or 2 Youtube videos of average length. EDIT: Since the entry for week 9 disappeared - I'll say that I did make the weekly goals, but I also deleted the Anki deck because I didn't really see any benefit in going through a premade deck, where I knew half of the words to begin with. I'll stick to extensive reading and listening for now. Also, Kindle for PC now supports Japanese! This means that you can easily copy words and sentences for dictionary lookups, or even anki cards if you're doing that. EDIT 2: For week 9: - (JP) Read 105 (7×15) pages 145 pages (138%) - (JP) Listen to 4:40 hours 8:04 (173%) Edited by stifa on 08 March 2015 at 11:13pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4669 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 12 of 33 08 March 2015 at 11:45pm | IP Logged | ||
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This week's goals: - (ES) Read 105 pages 171 pages (163%) - (ES) Listen to 280 minutes of Spanish 7:43 (165%) - (ES) 350 Duolingo XP 551 XP (157%) De aquí en adelante, pretenderé escribir los sumarios en la lengua de destino de lo que se tratan. Es una lástima que se ha desvanecido el previo mensaje, pero nuestro amable administrator puede hacer todo que debe de hacer para mejorar ese forum. Español: Considerando que esta semana comenzó tras una fecha límite importante, no estoy sorprendido de que he tenido tanto tiempo para la "estudia" de español. Las fechas límites no parece amenazante cuando estén dos meses en la futura (8 de mayo para mi disertación). Hoy he terminado de leer el tercero libro de Harry Potter. En mi opinión, es el más buen libro de este serie. Dudo que vaya a leer el cuarto libro del serie, porque es demasiado largo y el torneo del tres brujos (o lo que se llame) es a mi juicio el menos interessante evento del serie. ¡Agradecería cualquier correcciones! (...phew. That took me at least 20 minutes to write... todavía es difícil escribir en español) The aims for next week: - JP Reading: 105 pages - JP Listening: 4:40' - ES Duolingo: 350 XP Edited by stifa on 09 March 2015 at 1:04am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4669 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 13 of 33 17 March 2015 at 12:19pm | IP Logged | ||
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This week's goals: - JP Reading: 105 pages 157 pages (150%) - JP Listening: 4:40' 6:20' (136%) - ES Duolingo: 350 XP 525 XP (150%) 先週僕は言ったように、 あの週勉強した目標言語でサマリーを書く。 日本語： ハリーポッタと 賢者の石の 二つ目の三分の一を読んだ。 一年半前読んだことが あるでも、 先回の 分からないことが 今回よく分かったので、 無駄骨じゃなかった。 映画と 本の 違いが 思い出したより 沢山あるんだ。ＨＰの二つ目の映画の無料ス トリームを 探していったが、 日本語字幕型だけ 見つかった。 （カルマってことか？） その他、 アニメと 実況プレイ動画を 見た。前者より 後者が 分かりやすいので、 アニメは あまり見なかった。 一番重要な 理由は「実況プレーヤー」はスクリプトを続 かなくて、 自然に話している。 その上、声を覆う効果音が余りない。 (Can't believe that I'm so out of practice that I actually find it easier to write in Spanish than in Japanese. Spaces are added in there to avoid unwanted spaces splitting words and those diamonds.) The aims for next week: - ES Reading: 105 pages - ES Listening: 4:40' - ES Duolingo: 350 XP Edited by stifa on 17 March 2015 at 12:21pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| Stelle Bilingual Triglot Senior Member Canada tobefluent.com Joined 3940 days ago 949 posts - 1686 votes Speaks: French*, English*, Spanish Studies: Tagalog | Message 14 of 33 17 March 2015 at 3:46pm | IP Logged | ||
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How are you finding alternating weeks so far? It looks like you're doing well!
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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4669 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 15 of 33 19 March 2015 at 5:31pm | IP Logged | ||
Comparing it to trying to study both simultaneously, it is definitely the lesser evil. Back when my TLs were German and Japanese, it would be impossible to keep up with, since I was much more motivated to learn German than Japanese. Now the "motivation ratio" is about 60:40-ish in favour of Spanish, which makes it tolerable. It's not great, but I couldn't really think of any better way of doing it. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4669 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 16 of 33 23 March 2015 at 11:26am | IP Logged | ||
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This week's goals: - ES Reading: 105 pages 157 pages (179%) - ES Listening: 4:40' 8:20' (179%) - ES Duolingo: 350 XP 817 XP (233%) Como podéis ver, he practicado mucho con Duolingo esta semana, porque había muchos skills que dejaban de ser dorados, y el perfeccionista que soy no podía dejarlos ser "desdorados". Además, quiero terminar con Duolingo y me no faltan muchas lectiones. Creo que puedo terminarlo dentro de dos o tres semanas, mientras que seguiré así (2-4 lectiones por día). He leído Ojos de agua esta semana, y me gusta realmente este libro. Hasta esta semana no había leído novelas policíacas en español; sólo he leídolos en alemán. Miraba la segundo película de Harry Potter con doblaje latinoamericana el sábado, y no era díficil entender lo que decían. Quizá era fácil porque había miradolo una vez en alemán hace un año (y una vez en inglés hace al menos diez años). El jueves de la próxima semana volveré a casa para casi dos semanas, y después de eso, me faltan sólo quinto semanas de mi último semestre a la universidad de Bath. --- The aims for next week: - JP Reading: 105 pages - JP Listening: 4:40' - ES Duolingo: 350 XP Edited by stifa on 23 March 2015 at 7:59pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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