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newyorkeric
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 Message 17 of 21
02 January 2014 at 7:04am | IP Logged 
Jeff, I had a good laugh reading your logs. Can't say that I have done much better for certain languages.

So what languages have you worked on in the past couple of years???
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Solfrid Cristin
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 Message 18 of 21
02 January 2014 at 9:19am | IP Logged 
Yes, this log brought a smile to my face as well. Russian really is a tricky one :-)
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jeff_lindqvist
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 Message 19 of 21
02 January 2014 at 8:05pm | IP Logged 
Haha, thanks for the encouragement!

@newyorkeric:
In 2010/2011 I studied Portuguese for two semesters (but seem to have forgotten to included it in my profile).

@Solfrid:
Yeah, Russian is one of those wild languages. Together with Mandarin, I'd say those two are the ones that will never feel comfortable, despite the number of hours I've put in (many years ago!).

Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 16 January 2015 at 4:03pm

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 Message 20 of 21
17 January 2015 at 12:33am | IP Logged 
Summary of 2014

The only thing I did with Russian last year was reading extensively. 15 minutes here, 30 minutes there. Some impressive 7 hours in total.

(Cross-post from the Wild guessing thread)

Background - two semesters (part-time) of beginner Russian at the university, further studies on my own, easy readers, LingQ, podcasts and much more.
My chosen book - "Angels and demons". Did that work? Not at all. Names, places, and the core vocabulary, sure, but other than that, no. For long stretches I had no idea what was going on, or even where I was in the story. Occasionally I understood a complete sentence.

OK, I honestly didn't think I had enough Russian, but still thought it could be a nice experiment. If it had worked, the books at the library would keep me busy for years.

My conclusion: if I want extensive reading to work, my language must be strong enough so I can guess the meaning, know where it's OK to skim a paragraph, or even ignore it.
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After finishing "Angels and demons" a couple of days ago, I picked up "Russian as we speak it" (referred to on the previous page). What I'm doing now is reading sentences aloud, a bit like Glossika's mass sentence method (but I don't record myself). It's not "literature" but I'm using the book for reading practice so that's where the minutes go in my spreadsheet.

Edited by jeff_lindqvist on 17 January 2015 at 12:35am

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 Message 21 of 21
17 January 2015 at 2:19am | IP Logged 
I really enjoyed reading this, especially since it only contains 3 pages!

Short, sharp and to the point. thumbs up from me :)


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