The Bee's Knees: Lianne starts the 20s with French and Italian
Posted: Fri Jan 03, 2020 12:10 am
The French continues! The Italian begins! There may also be some dabbling in ASL, if I'm being honest!
My previous log, which includes links to all older logs and other various background information, is here: Lianne's 365 Days of French
French
I'm starting 2020 at sort of a vaguely intermediate level in French. Here are some things I wanna get done this year:
- Finish the last little bit of Pimsleur French V (pretty soon)
- Finish the Duolingo French tree (it's huge so this will take a while)
- Finish Kwiziq (my premium month is about to run out so this will be very slow on the free version)
- Spend more time on Memrise Decks boosting my vocabulary
- Read 2500 pages in 2020 (up from 1785 pages in 2019)
- Keep watching lots of TV
- Do some writing and get it corrected (I hate this but I know I must)
- Actually speak?? In French?? To people???
Italian
I am a complete beginner! I am using a combination of French and English resources to study Italian. I've gathered a bunch of stuff to start with, and will keep/abandon them based on how much I like them in the next couple of weeks. Here are some resources I've gathered:
- Duolingo French -> Italian tree
- Pimsleur Italian I, lessons 1-16 (that's all the library has)
- Assimil le nouvel italien sans peine
- Learn in Your Car Italian (9 hours of audio)
- Méthode 90: Italien Débutant Pratique de Base
- Adesso! An Introduction to Italian (the textbook from when I took Introduction to Italian in university; I dropped the course but I may as well make use of the textbook if I can!)
- Italian at a Glance (a phrasebook from when I took a trip to Italy in high school)
- Memrise course Italien 1 (French-based official Italian course. There are 7 levels so if I like it there's more where this came from!)
In 2019 I participated in the 365 Day Challenge and studied French for a minimum of 30 minutes per day. This year I have signed up for the 366 Day Challenge in French and also in generic (Italian, French), which means that I must study French for at least 30 minutes, and then have another 30 minutes of either Italian or more French.
My previous log, which includes links to all older logs and other various background information, is here: Lianne's 365 Days of French
French
I'm starting 2020 at sort of a vaguely intermediate level in French. Here are some things I wanna get done this year:
- Finish the last little bit of Pimsleur French V (pretty soon)
- Finish the Duolingo French tree (it's huge so this will take a while)
- Finish Kwiziq (my premium month is about to run out so this will be very slow on the free version)
- Spend more time on Memrise Decks boosting my vocabulary
- Read 2500 pages in 2020 (up from 1785 pages in 2019)
- Keep watching lots of TV
- Do some writing and get it corrected (I hate this but I know I must)
- Actually speak?? In French?? To people???
Italian
I am a complete beginner! I am using a combination of French and English resources to study Italian. I've gathered a bunch of stuff to start with, and will keep/abandon them based on how much I like them in the next couple of weeks. Here are some resources I've gathered:
- Duolingo French -> Italian tree
- Pimsleur Italian I, lessons 1-16 (that's all the library has)
- Assimil le nouvel italien sans peine
- Learn in Your Car Italian (9 hours of audio)
- Méthode 90: Italien Débutant Pratique de Base
- Adesso! An Introduction to Italian (the textbook from when I took Introduction to Italian in university; I dropped the course but I may as well make use of the textbook if I can!)
- Italian at a Glance (a phrasebook from when I took a trip to Italy in high school)
- Memrise course Italien 1 (French-based official Italian course. There are 7 levels so if I like it there's more where this came from!)
In 2019 I participated in the 365 Day Challenge and studied French for a minimum of 30 minutes per day. This year I have signed up for the 366 Day Challenge in French and also in generic (Italian, French), which means that I must study French for at least 30 minutes, and then have another 30 minutes of either Italian or more French.