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| worker Newbie United States Joined 3623 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 1 of 2 28 December 2014 at 6:10am | IP Logged |
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It is a pleasure to rejoin the forum; I had left off years ago due to having to refocus on rebuilding my life and had lost the email/log in attached.
It feels appropriate to restart with a Total Annihilation Challenge--something that I had always wanted to try but my timing has always been off. I have always suffered from language wanderlust but I hope that the challenge will give me an accountability framework to push me to success--and keep me from driving my partner crazy from the updates. Here are the goals: German--start and finish FSI, Deutsch Warum Nicht, and Assimil German with Ease. I have no idea what level I would get to by completing this. Maybe B1? Where I am at--I have just finished Pimsleur German 1-3. I am on Lesson 203 of the DW series. I am on Lesson 11 of FSI Programmed German. I will likely be BFF with Frau Kunze by the time I am done. :) Spanish--complete FSI and Assimil Spanish with Ease. Where I am at--a lifetime ago, I completed a couple of years of formal Spanish, Spanish Pimsleur 1-3, Destinos, and FSI Programmed Spanish 1. Although I speak like a drunken child, I can often get my point across. By the time that I am done, I hope to understand those racy novelas my coworkers tell me about. French--Complete French Pimsleur 1-3 and FSI Programmed French. Where I am at--a lifetime ago, I got somewhere in Pimsleur 2 and got lost in French in Action. In waiting for my profile to be approved, I cranked through lesson 1-15 of Pimsleur French 1. I remember quite a bit, surprisingly. :) When I am done, I hope to be prepped up to move into FSI French and sound less American and more Pepe le Peu. As I work full time plus with a commute, my study plan concept is to work Pimsleur or Assimil passive waves while driving and to then have at least 30-45 minutes of book work in German and Spanish in the evening. My arch nemesis is wanderlust but I am hoping that working with three languages will be enough. Maybe as I finish one Pimsleur series, I can add in another...? 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| worker Newbie United States Joined 3623 days ago 2 posts - 2 votes Speaks: English* Studies: German, Spanish | Message 2 of 2 03 January 2015 at 9:34pm | IP Logged |
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Well, it has been a week and some progress has been made though not nearly as much as I would like.
Those FSI courses are so boring but I know that they will garner the best results. German: Finished FSI lesson 11. Working through the Assimil German in the method laid out in the forum and into lesson 15. It is wonderful to see words that I have spoken written out. I do feel like Pimsleur has given me a leg up in the course. Total time for week: 3 hours. :( Spanish: Again, no bueno on the FSI. No progress there. I started playing with the Assimil Spanish and though I love getting more advanced tenses, the Castillian accent is troublesome as I had hoped for a more practical Latin American accent. The lessons seem very scattered; it seems like random lines mixed rather than entertaining vignettes in the German course. I hope that it gets better soon. Total time for week: 2 hours. :( French: The bright spot for the week. I made really good progress with Pimsleur and have completed through lesson 25. I know that Pimsleur gets bagged on in the forums but it has proved to be the easiest method for me to get up and running in a language. While my vocabulary will be limited, I think that I can squeeze in more with the limited amount of time I have. Total time for week: 8 hours. Hopefully, the next time I post, I will have completed Level 1 of Pimsleur and made more headway into FSI. I am still struggling with wanderlust--the DLI courses in so many exotic languages look so neat! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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