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| Andy E Triglot Senior Member United Kingdom Joined 7103 days ago 1651 posts - 1939 votes  Speaks: English*, Spanish, French | Message 65 of 70 06 May 2010 at 3:51pm | IP Logged | ||
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David,
Are you still using iFinger with your German studies? My Babylon 6 licence "expired" some months back leaving me without a PC-based dictionary tool unless I choose to upgrade to the "lifetime" licence of V8 (this appears to be a non unknown scam of theirs), so I've been looking for alternatives. I remembered this discussion but couldn't remember the name of the s/ware you were using. Andy. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6943 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 66 of 70 06 May 2010 at 5:17pm | IP Logged | ||
I still have it, but I don't use it. The same goes for Babylon. My main dictionary has been the monolingual "Langenscheidt Großwörterbuch Deutsch als Fremdsprache", supplemented by "Duden-Oxford - Großwörterbuch Englisch", both running under the same Langenscheidt interface, the former in both the pop-up and reference modes, the latter in reference mode only. If I were buying a bilingual electronic English-German dictionary today, I would consider the downloadable "Langenscheidt Collins Großwörterbuch Englisch": http://www.langenscheidt.de/katalog/titel_langenscheidt_coll ins_grosswoerterbuch_englisch_3470_41.html Edited by frenkeld on 11 May 2010 at 9:51am 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6943 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 67 of 70 11 May 2010 at 1:33am | IP Logged | ||
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Since I got back to German in March:
I resumed and finished a novel that was put on hold a year ago. After a period of several weeks devoted exclusively to listening, I started on another novel, which I am still reading. Both have been read in the extensive mode, but the last novel has so far been gripping enough that I may be able to reread it a couple of times intensively. I listened to an audiobook on a couple of day-long drives; watched three movies without subtitles, one of them twice; watched another movie, once with English subtitles and once without any. I also watched 4 episodes of "Die Biene Maja" and 5 episodes of "Briefe von Felix" cartoons two or three times, as well as several video podcast episodes of "Sendung mit der Maus". The most time was spent with just one movie that I looped multiple times. First I alternated between a pass with German subtitles, and one without subtitles. Later I watched it multiple times mostly without subtitles, but occasionally taking a pass with the subtitles on. I am not sure what the total number of viewings had been, but it could've been as high as 20. I also ripped the audio track, edited out the longer speech-free segments, as well as the songs sung in English, and listened to it in the car a few times. Together these various activities have broken the ice on audio comprehension for me, but only in a preliminary way. There is still a long, long way to go. I know from my past experience with English that audio comprehension doesn't come easily to me, so I'll just have to keep at it. Expanding vocabulary through more reading may also help with listening. As far as the immediate plans, due to limited study time, I will be alternating between periods of reading and periods of listening. reineke convinced me of the value of cartoons, so I bought a complete set of 52 episodes of "Heidi" and plan to focus on them during my next listening bout, after I finish the current novel. Edited by frenkeld on 11 May 2010 at 11:03pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6943 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 68 of 70 09 July 2010 at 12:56am | IP Logged | ||
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The number of German novels read in their entirety has reached 30. The average page count per novel is 286 pages.
Haven't gathered enough motivation to watch "Heidi" yet, but I listened to a couple of short audiobooks and some Schlager songs. 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6943 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 69 of 70 10 August 2010 at 6:23am | IP Logged | ||
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Finished novel 35. The average page count per novel is 297 pages.
Haven't done any listening, but focusing on one activity also has its advantages, so I am not feeling too guilty about it. Edited by frenkeld on 10 August 2010 at 6:44pm 1 person has voted this message useful | |||
| frenkeld Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 6943 days ago 2042 posts - 2719 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German | Message 70 of 70 30 August 2010 at 10:41pm | IP Logged | ||
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Finished novel 37. The average page count is 297 pages per novel.
Now that the summer is over, my daughters are back in school, and there are some non-linguistic subjects that need attention, it is time to change from purely extensive reading to a more efficient approach to building vocabulary. The goal for now remains vocabulary accumulation through reading - I only plan to switch emphasis to building up listening comprehension when I know more words. I will first try to read using a monolingual dictionary. In hard copy, I only have one of these, and it is a bit bulky. If the lookups with it proves too cumbersome, I will start using a bilingual dictionary, since I have a light and handy one in paperback format. Edited by frenkeld on 12 September 2010 at 8:08pm 1 person has voted this message useful |
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