Re: Lingua's 2020 Italian, German, Portuguese Log (+ dabbling in Latin, Sicilian & dialects)
Posted: Fri Feb 14, 2020 5:34 am
German:
Clozemaster: New: 0 & Reviewed: 365 (multiple choice)
Duolingo: 52 --> 53 crowns; subject: comparisons
Decks: Review verb conjugations & vocabulary
MHz Choice: Tatort: München S1E1 (89 mins)
I tried another Tatort on MHz Choice. It was München. I liked it better than Köln but still like Borowski the best. I'm still just doing enough to keep my reviews in check. The one problem I'm having with German is that the gender is not sticking. The nouns themselves are relatively easy to remember. I think in this case I'm going to have to return to writing by hand to get them to stick because I realize it's an important component of the language.
Portuguese:
Decks: Review verb conjugations & vocabulary
Clozemaster: New: 468 (multiple choice) & Reviewed: 558 (text input)
Duolingo: 55 ---> 58 crowns; subjects: household, infinitive, future tense
Portuguese Lab: Lesson 7 & 1/2 of Lesson 8
PMP: Basic Portuguese: Chapter 5
I did 1.5 lessons in Portuguese Lab. Lesson 7 covered identifying and describing objects (articles + noun + adjective) and Lesson 8 covers identifying objects and people in space (demonstratives). Lesson 8 was longer than the prior lessons so I wasn't able to complete it in one evening. Portuguese Lab has a short course on pronunciation which I also started. I'm going to intermix that with my lessons so I can hopefully continue to improve. I still struggle with the pronunciation but I am starting to improve with some of the sounds. I tend to pronounce like Italian if I don't remember the sound but often that's not even close. I'm going to end up with a weird I accent.
I did chapter 5 in Basic Portuguese which covered the regular second conjugation -er verbs in the present tense and the vocabulary of meals and menus. Nothing difficult here as it's still review.
Latin:
Clozemaster: New: 0 & Reviewed: 220 (multiple choice)
Duolingo: 65 --> 69 crowns; subjects: feast, intro, greetings, comparisons
I've completed the full level 3 on DuoLingo and started Level 4. It is starting to be a lot harder for me. I tried to review Clozemaster in text input mode but I was pretty bad at it. So I'll hold off a little while longer. Might have to take a look at one of my grammar books again.
Italian:
Clozemaster: New: 0 & Reviewed: 252 sentences (text input)
Speechling: recording, diction
Reading: Pitagora e il numero maledetto by Luca Novelli <-- 72%
Reading: Zuppe di pesce e piatti unici by AA.VV. <-- 56%
Wrote: 225 words
I'm back to reading more in Italian. Outside of that I did a very small amount of Clozemaster, Speechling and wrote a whole 225 words. Way behind on the writing goal. It's not because I don't want to but more because I keep forgetting to.
Clozemaster: New: 0 & Reviewed: 365 (multiple choice)
Duolingo: 52 --> 53 crowns; subject: comparisons
Decks: Review verb conjugations & vocabulary
MHz Choice: Tatort: München S1E1 (89 mins)
I tried another Tatort on MHz Choice. It was München. I liked it better than Köln but still like Borowski the best. I'm still just doing enough to keep my reviews in check. The one problem I'm having with German is that the gender is not sticking. The nouns themselves are relatively easy to remember. I think in this case I'm going to have to return to writing by hand to get them to stick because I realize it's an important component of the language.
Portuguese:
Decks: Review verb conjugations & vocabulary
Clozemaster: New: 468 (multiple choice) & Reviewed: 558 (text input)
Duolingo: 55 ---> 58 crowns; subjects: household, infinitive, future tense
Portuguese Lab: Lesson 7 & 1/2 of Lesson 8
PMP: Basic Portuguese: Chapter 5
I did 1.5 lessons in Portuguese Lab. Lesson 7 covered identifying and describing objects (articles + noun + adjective) and Lesson 8 covers identifying objects and people in space (demonstratives). Lesson 8 was longer than the prior lessons so I wasn't able to complete it in one evening. Portuguese Lab has a short course on pronunciation which I also started. I'm going to intermix that with my lessons so I can hopefully continue to improve. I still struggle with the pronunciation but I am starting to improve with some of the sounds. I tend to pronounce like Italian if I don't remember the sound but often that's not even close. I'm going to end up with a weird I accent.
I did chapter 5 in Basic Portuguese which covered the regular second conjugation -er verbs in the present tense and the vocabulary of meals and menus. Nothing difficult here as it's still review.
Latin:
Clozemaster: New: 0 & Reviewed: 220 (multiple choice)
Duolingo: 65 --> 69 crowns; subjects: feast, intro, greetings, comparisons
I've completed the full level 3 on DuoLingo and started Level 4. It is starting to be a lot harder for me. I tried to review Clozemaster in text input mode but I was pretty bad at it. So I'll hold off a little while longer. Might have to take a look at one of my grammar books again.
Italian:
Clozemaster: New: 0 & Reviewed: 252 sentences (text input)
Speechling: recording, diction
Reading: Pitagora e il numero maledetto by Luca Novelli <-- 72%
Reading: Zuppe di pesce e piatti unici by AA.VV. <-- 56%
Wrote: 225 words
I'm back to reading more in Italian. Outside of that I did a very small amount of Clozemaster, Speechling and wrote a whole 225 words. Way behind on the writing goal. It's not because I don't want to but more because I keep forgetting to.