Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

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MorkTheFiddle
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Languages: English (N). Read (only) French and Spanish. Studying Ancient Greek. Studying a bit of Latin. Once studied Old Norse. Dabbled in Catalan, Provençal and Italian.
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sat Jan 02, 2021 7:35 pm

Since last post:

Ancient Greek
Book 2 of Republic, where Plato introduces his concept of guardians of the city. I am about 3/4 through.

French
Finished Engrenages season one. I liked it. I watched the first episode of season 2, but did not like it.
Women at War (in French)
Le Bazar de la Charité episodes 1-3. I planned to binge this, but it's too dark for me, so I'll take it slow.
Les Mayas from Arte2
Axolot's blog about Hunters of Worlds (=new planets)
Home Language
    30 minutes pour apprendre le français
    part of Exercice de compréhension orale...Un peu d'histoire Le château de Versailles
INCA Documentaire Complet en Français, 15 min

A handful of other things, including less than 30 minutes of reading and listening to La bête humaine.

SPANISH
a few minutes each to get a taste of the following podcasts. A couple have subs, but I did not use them.
    Dispara Margot Dispara
    Audiria
    El Explicador
    Quince turismo cultural // Podcasts
    Blog of Jorge Ramos
    Platzi Live
    LightSpeed Spanish
    Mextalki

Español en Episodios
- Cap 01-04
This is a series for learning Spanish. Each episode is roughly 28 minutes long. I like it.

Less than 30 minutes reading and listening to La Regenta. I bought a second hand hard copy of the novel, so now I can read and listen to it untied to the desktop

For French and Spanish I began a 30-day plan to listen to each language at least 30 minutes a day without using subtitles or transcripts or etc. Today is day 3. I finished Spanish listening for today and am in the middle of the French.
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby Cavesa » Sat Jan 02, 2021 10:00 pm

MorkTheFiddle wrote:French
Finished Engrenages season one. I liked it. I watched the first episode of season 2, but did not like it.


What a coincidence! I'm now rewatching Engrenages, or rather rewatching the first two series and watching the rest for the first time.
I didn't like the first episode of season 2 either, but it got much better! The third one started weaker too but seems to be improving fast.
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Languages: English (N). Read (only) French and Spanish. Studying Ancient Greek. Studying a bit of Latin. Once studied Old Norse. Dabbled in Catalan, Provençal and Italian.
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sun Jan 03, 2021 7:18 pm

Cavesa wrote:
MorkTheFiddle wrote:What a coincidence! I'm now rewatching Engrenages, or rather rewatching the first two series and watching the rest for the first time.
I didn't like the first episode of season 2 either, but it got much better! The third one started weaker too but seems to be improving fast.

Hi, Cavesa. Thanks for stopping by. Your positive impressions of season 2 convinces me to keep watching. I'm looking forward to it.
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sat Jan 09, 2021 5:54 pm

Week's Progress

Spanish 30 minutes listening per day
(Note: some of these are longer than 30 min and so counted for more than one day; same for French below)
Cordura Artificial "Fans del Anime (=_=)" (vlog: too difficult for me)
Español con María
Mexivlogs SandyCoben
Requiem por un campesino español
Robert Arlt "Una tarde de domingo"
Vecinos Season 1 Episodes 1 and 2
Cuénteme cómo pasó Season 1 3 episodes plus part of a 4th
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French 30 minutes listening per day
Finished Iminea: San Martin une île plongée dans le chaos
Anna Gavalda "Pendent des années" and "Cet homme et cet femme"
ARTE Documentaire Français Complet: L'Expansion de l'Universe est elle infinie
ARTE: Chine sur les nouvelles routes de la soie
ARTE Le Liberon Solaire d'Albert Camus
Histoire Interdit L'enfer du Pacifique - Ils ont filmé la guerre en couleur
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Other French and Spanish
Finished Iminea: San Martin une île plongée dans le chaos
Engrenages Season 2 Episodes 2 and 3 (resumed after encouragement from Cavesa)
Le regime de Vichy by Henry Rousso, chapters I and II (thanks to Carmody)
Alta Mar Season 1 episode 4

Ancient Greek
Finished Plato Republic Book 2
Resumed Appian Civil Wars (Rome) Now read through chapter 24, though not all this week

Notes
I didn't understand much of Vecinos, so I switched to Cuénteme cómo pasó. I understood more of it (even, occasionally, two sentences in a row!). This show is something I might want to watch even outside the boundaries of fodder for language learning.
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby Carmody » Sat Jan 09, 2021 9:31 pm

Many thanks for joining me in my journey in trying to understand Vichy. It is not as simple as I thought and I will await with interest you reactions.

You are an amazingly productive person!
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Mon Jan 11, 2021 5:23 pm

Carmody wrote:Many thanks for joining me in my journey in trying to understand Vichy. It is not as simple as I thought and I will await with interest you reactions.

You are an amazingly productive person!
Thanks for the compliment, but it's only two or three hours a day.
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby Carmody » Mon Jan 11, 2021 6:51 pm

If you do all the language learning that you do in "only two or three hours a day." you are one smart Dude!
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Tue Jan 12, 2021 5:51 pm

Carmody wrote:If you do all the language learning that you do in "only two or three hours a day." you are one smart Dude!

Not really. It's just 2 or 3 hours for a LOT of days. :)
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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby PfifltriggPi » Tue Jan 12, 2021 10:46 pm

MorkTheFiddle wrote:
Carmody wrote:If you do all the language learning that you do in "only two or three hours a day." you are one smart Dude!

Not really. It's just 2 or 3 hours for a LOT of days. :)


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Re: Mork the Fiddle's 2019 Log

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Wed Jan 13, 2021 6:04 pm

Very appropriate and very pretty. Thank you.
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