The Bee's Knees: Lianne starts the 20s with French and Italian

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Re: The Bee's Knees: Lianne starts the 20s with French and Italian

Postby Lianne » Tue Jun 01, 2021 2:37 am

IronMike wrote:Good to see you back. I've been "Liking" your posts. Hopefully that counts as interacting. ;)

It's enough to give my brain that sweet sweet notification dopamine. :lol:
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Re: The Bee's Knees: Lianne starts the 20s with French and Italian

Postby Lianne » Tue Jun 01, 2021 2:45 am

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Re: The Bee's Knees: Lianne starts the 20s with French and Italian

Postby rdearman » Tue Jun 01, 2021 8:26 am

Just FYI from someone who also uses paperback books to read. If you have Google translate on your phone you can use the camera option and point it at the page and it will translate the words.
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Re: The Bee's Knees: Lianne starts the 20s with French and Italian

Postby Lianne » Tue Jun 01, 2021 4:45 pm

rdearman wrote:Just FYI from someone who also uses paperback books to read. If you have Google translate on your phone you can use the camera option and point it at the page and it will translate the words.

Interesting! I'll have to give that a try and see how I like that process.
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Re: The Bee's Knees: Lianne starts the 20s with French and Italian

Postby Lianne » Wed Apr 27, 2022 2:43 pm

OK, I knew I'd been on a longer-than-usual hiatus, but am a little surprised to see it's been nearly a year!! Anyway, the promise of a new Super Challenge starting is a powerful lure. :D Especially now that the bot is back!! I found it really hard to get invested last time without it. Turns out that even low-stakes competition (always trying to move up one spot on the list) is SUPER effective at motivating me.

So. I have done French in the last year, but a dismal amount, and no Italian. I'm hoping the SC will be the push I need. I'm signing up again for the full Super Challenge in French, and a half in Italian (but with very low pressure for the Italian). I've got lots of content lined up, since I STILL haven't finished Buffy and Angel in French, and I've added a lot of French Netflix content to my list in the last couple of years. And I've got a library book checked out and ready to go next week!

Glad to be back! Did I miss anything exciting? :lol:
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Re: The Bee's Knees: Lianne starts the 20s with French and Italian

Postby Lianne » Sun May 15, 2022 4:24 am

Two weeks into the Super Challenge, I'm decently on track for my full French challenge! Haven't started on Italian yet as I want to focus on getting back in the flow with French. As usual, my reading seems to have held up but listening, never good, gets way worse when I step away for a while.

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I watched all 7 episodes of the Netflix show Les 7 vies de Léa, which I really enjoyed! I watched it in French with the French subs. Definitely could not have followed without the subs as everyone in this show speaks very quickly and seemingly drops like half the syllables. But with the subs I feel like I was able to understand for the most part.

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I'm doing L-R with the first Bridgerton book. I've never read them or seen the show but the library happened to have both French ebooks and French audiobooks for the first few books in the series and it's always nice to have a series for L-R. I've done the first three chapters so far with listening and reading both in French.
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Re: The Bee's Knees: Lianne starts the 20s with French and Italian

Postby Lianne » Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:25 pm

Nothing much to update with at the moment, but I'm posting because it'll be embarrassing if I post "I'm back! Again!" and then don't post again. :lol: So hopefully that's some motivation to remember to check back in.

Anyway, I've been doing tiny amounts of French. Waaay behind on the Super Challenge, but not willing to give up when there's still so much time left in the current one. I just checked out a new audiobook and ebook combo to do some L-R. I picked Moi, Simon, 16 ans, Homo Sapiens (the translation of Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda) because I love that book, so I shouldn't have trouble staying interested. I've actually read the French translation before, in 2019, but I don't think I did L-R with it that time.

I've got some plans for getting into some proper study rather than just dabbling. Hopefully I can overcome my recent total lack of focus and attention span to do some of that. It would be nice to have something to really sink my teeth into over the winter.

A Duolingo update: I've been just occasionally using Duolingo of late. I just got the update to the new skill tree. It's funny to think about how I finished the full tree a couple of updates ago. After the last big update I ended up with lots left to do. Now I'm on unit 48 of 199! :lol:
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Re: The Bee's Knees: Lianne starts the 20s with French and Italian

Postby Cavesa » Tue Nov 22, 2022 8:46 pm

You were missed.

I am well behind the SC plans too, but we have time!
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Re: The Bee's Knees: Lianne starts the 20s with French and Italian

Postby Le Baron » Tue Nov 22, 2022 11:35 pm

Lianne wrote:A Duolingo update: I've been just occasionally using Duolingo of late.

I've also been on it a bit. It's not bad with the various changes. There's still one glaring irritation though: that they closed all the discussions and supposedly left them there for consultation. However when you click on some of them for clarification and to see what was discussed, the tab just opens and closes in a millisecond. These are the discussions which were critical of things like bad grammar in the questions or poor word choices. They seem to have just left the questions and eliminated the discussion!
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Re: The Bee's Knees: Lianne starts the 20s with French and Italian

Postby Lianne » Wed Nov 23, 2022 4:22 am

Cavesa wrote:You were missed.

I am well behind the SC plans too, but we have time!

Logging on again a few hours after leaving that update and seeing all my notifications and this response felt so nice and made me want to do better with my French just so I'd be a regular here again. So thank you!!

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Lianne wrote:A Duolingo update: I've been just occasionally using Duolingo of late.

I've also been on it a bit. It's not bad with the various changes. There's still one glaring irritation though: that they closed all the discussions and supposedly left them there for consultation. However when you click on some of them for clarification and to see what was discussed, the tab just opens and closes in a millisecond. These are the discussions which were critical of things like bad grammar in the questions or poor word choices. They seem to have just left the questions and eliminated the discussion!


I haven't noticed that! I guess I haven't looked at discussions much lately. That is very unfortunate. I've learned from a lot of those discussions over the years.
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