Jammon Log (Bangla, Spanish, Ancient Greek . . . who knows?)

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Yunus39
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Re: Jammon Log (Bangla, Spanish, Ancient Greek . . . who knows?)

Postby Yunus39 » Sun Nov 27, 2022 11:47 am

Let's make sure we have process goals for each of these:

Bangla Goals
Finish Phase 5 (100 hours of native-to-native discourse) 3-5 Hours per week with language helper
Take ACTFL Oral Proficiency Finish phase 5, then schedule
Hit 10,000-page reading goal. Read one chapter in Bangla every day before any other recreational reading, preferably with audio.
Learn to type quickly without the preview window/fix spelling Not ready to work on this one right now.
Retake Dictation 2 exam when convenient. Do one short 5 min or less dictation exercise everyday.

Greek Goals
Read Greek NT with audio/interlinear. Two chapters per day.
Read Tyndale House Reader's Edition (2 pages per day to finish in a year) Two pages per day once the audio/interlinear is finished.
Reread Dobson, add exercises to Anki. Not ready to work on this one right now.
Finish Graded Reader in Anki. 2 New verses per day.
Finish Mounce chapters in ParseGreek app. Work on every day while sitting on the toilet.
Hit 10,000-page reading goal. Long term goal. Right now, track all reading.
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Bangla Pages: 8382
Ancient Greek Pages: 2194
Scots Pages: 449

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Yunus39
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Re: Jammon Log (Bangla, Spanish, Ancient Greek . . . who knows?)

Postby Yunus39 » Fri Dec 02, 2022 3:15 am

The most helpful 3rd declension mnemonic I've found so far:

Neuter
ς-s/- Sit
ος-os Outside
ι-i In the
ς-s/- Sun
α-a. And
ων-wv Wave
σιν-sin Sin
α-a Away

M/f
ς-s Sit
ος-os Outside
ι-i In
α-a An armchair
ες-es Especially
ων-wv Waving
σιν-sin Sin
ας-as Aside
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Ancient Greek Pages: 2194
Scots Pages: 449

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Yunus39
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Re: Jammon Log (Bangla, Spanish, Ancient Greek . . . who knows?)

Postby Yunus39 » Thu Mar 02, 2023 4:36 am

Yunus39 wrote:Alright, looking at my goals and plans again and revising for the New Year.

Bangla Goals
Finish Phase 5 (100 hours of native-to-native discourse)
Take ACTFL Oral Proficiency
Hit 10,000-page reading goal.
Learn to type quickly without the preview window/fix spelling
Retake Dictation 2 exam when convenient.

Greek Goals
Read Greek NT with audio/interlinear.
Read Tyndale House Reader's Edition (2 pages per day to finish in a year)
Reread Dobson, add exercises to Anki.
Finish Graded Reader in Anki.
Finish Mounce chapters in ParseGreek app.
Hit 10,000-page reading goal.


How's it going? Glad you asked.
Closing in on the end of some of these. Tweaking the Bangla goals a bit, so I can get more speaking exercises in there. Production/output/speaking is really where I need to progress not comprehension.

As for Greek, making good progress. Looking forward to going through Harris's grammar and then moving into Intermediate Grammar texts and course work.
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Bangla Pages: 8382
Ancient Greek Pages: 2194
Scots Pages: 449

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Re: Jammon Log (Bangla, Spanish, Ancient Greek . . . who knows?)

Postby Yunus39 » Fri Mar 03, 2023 2:57 am

Current reads:

Bangla: Paradoxical Sajid, Professor Shonku Somogro
Greek: Byzantine Greek NT (finishing up Romans), Greek NT reader, Dobson's Learn Greek (reread)
Scots: The Scots Learner's Grammar

Current Anki and Memrise decks:

Anki:
All Greek NT Vocab
Mounce Grammar
Greek NT Reader

Kitab Frequency scrape
Phase 5 language session vocab
Prothom Alo newspaper frequency scrape

Memrise:
Koine Greek Vocab
Bangla Adventure Stories Vocab
Bangla news reports Vocab
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Bangla Pages: 8382
Ancient Greek Pages: 2194
Scots Pages: 449

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Re: Jammon Log (Bangla, Spanish, Ancient Greek . . . who knows?)

Postby Yunus39 » Mon Mar 13, 2023 5:40 am

Well, finished this one a week or more ago. Some good scientific and philosophical vocab:
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I am finding Shonku Somogro dull these days, but I will press on here and there.

Picked up this one, and enjoying it very much:
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I am wrapping up this one, which is very naughty of me because I shouldn't be learning three languages at once:
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Bangla Pages: 8382
Ancient Greek Pages: 2194
Scots Pages: 449

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Re: Jammon Log (Bangla, Spanish, Ancient Greek . . . who knows?)

Postby Yunus39 » Thu Mar 16, 2023 12:42 pm

Along with my daily Greek and Bangla, here's something fun I listened to today.

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Re: Jammon Log (Bangla, Spanish, Ancient Greek . . . who knows?)

Postby tastyonions » Thu Mar 16, 2023 12:45 pm

Any plans to take on modern Greek? Just curious. ;)
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Re: Jammon Log (Bangla, Spanish, Ancient Greek . . . who knows?)

Postby Yunus39 » Fri Mar 17, 2023 1:12 am

Nope. I do plan to become comfortable with modern pronunciation of Ancient Greek though, and maybe one day . . .
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Re: Jammon Log (Bangla, Spanish, Ancient Greek . . . who knows?)

Postby Yunus39 » Tue Mar 21, 2023 4:58 am

Today I finished GPA Phase 5, 500 hours of massaging 100 hours native-to-native discourse with a language partner (in Bangla). This was a huge task, and 1/3 of the total time for the GPA phases/curriculum/program. So excited to be done!

What's next! A little break, followed by scheduling the ACTFL assessment and doing a lot of speaking exercises keyed to the ACTFL oral proficiency guidelines. I would definitely recommend GPA, but it majors on comprehension and for people like me it is not the fastest way to learn to speak. My comprehension and passive vocab is far beyond my production, so looking for speaking exercises and many hours of conversation to get my production to catch up. Public speaking in Bangla is still a scary proposition though I have a rule that I will say yes to every opportunity to do so.

The new Bangla daily routine will look something like this:

Speaking exercise actfl guidelines (30 min)
Shadowing audio (5 min)
1 Phase 5 Vocab recording (5 min)
1 action picture per day, send to language partner for correction/revision (5 min)
1 min dictation and spellcheck (5 min)
Anki/Memrise

I will mix in reading, intentional conversation, movies/tv as well.
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Bangla Pages: 8382
Ancient Greek Pages: 2194
Scots Pages: 449

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Re: Jammon Log (Bangla, Spanish, Ancient Greek . . . who knows?)

Postby rowanexer » Thu Mar 23, 2023 12:42 am

Just wanted to say I'm really interested in how you're learning Bengali. There's not a lot of resources for it, particularly at higher levels, so I'm very interested in how you create your own language materials, especially the native-to-native discourse massaging. I'm definitely guilty of sticking pretty closely to textbooks and other ready-made materials. This gives me ideas for using language exchanges a bit more fruitfully.
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