snoopy's 2022 log (French, Modern Greek)

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snoopy's 2022 log (French, Modern Greek)

Postby snoopy » Sat Oct 01, 2022 3:06 pm

I've been learning French on and off for years and been meddling with Greek for the last two years.

My current goal for French is to start working with a B2 textbook to increase my vocabulary and refresh my grammar a bit. For Greek, I want to finish the A1 textbook and start the A2. All that along with some Youtube for both languages and maybe podcasts for French.
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Re: snoopy's 2022 log (French, Greek)

Postby MorkTheFiddle » Sat Oct 01, 2022 5:54 pm

Welcome to the Forum, Snoopy. Have fun with your language learning.
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Re: snoopy's 2022 log (French, Greek)

Postby snoopy » Sat Oct 01, 2022 8:28 pm

MorkTheFiddle wrote:Welcome to the Forum, Snoopy. Have fun with your language learning.


Thanks! I like the idea of logging in a public space, wish there were similar forums for programming and other skills :)

The latest log:

Greek. +1.5h (1.5). The homework for the next class. Trying to learn irregular verbs is the most challenging thing at the moment. Making a Memrise course to learn the verbs from the textbook would make the most sense, but the last time I checked adding audio to the cards was a pain.
Here are a couple of examples of verbs changing between present simple, past simple, and future simple. At the moment, I'm happy if I can remember the present form even though I should already be learning past and future ones.
  • to see: βλέπω - είδα - θα δω
  • to say: λέω - είπα - θα πω
  • to eat: τρώω - έφαγα - θα φάω
French. + 1h (1). A lesson with a new tutor. He convinced me to start the B2 textbook which feels a bit intimidating, but I've been a bit bored with things like Inner French, so it probably makes sense.
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Re: snoopy's 2022 log (French, Greek)

Postby snoopy » Mon Oct 03, 2022 5:45 pm

Greek. An hour with a tutor, we talked about my vacations in Greece and practised giving directions along with the future tense. +1 (2.5)
It's interesting that the word for 'a brother' in Greek is ένας αδελφός, and for 'a colleague' - ένας συνάδελφος, which basically means "with a brother". I wonder what it says about the typical Greek work culture :)

French. 30 minutes of reading about the rejuvenation of an industrial town in Belgium. +0.5 (1.5)
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Re: snoopy's 2022 log (French, Greek)

Postby jeffers » Tue Oct 04, 2022 11:46 am

snoopy wrote:Thanks! I like the idea of logging in a public space, wish there were similar forums for programming and other skills :)


Feel free to include anything else you want in your logs. You would not be the first person here to write about their progress learning programming languages!
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Re: snoopy's 2022 log (French, Greek)

Postby snoopy » Thu Oct 06, 2022 9:19 pm

Greek. A bit of the Language transfer +0.5 (3)

French. A bit of grammar exercises +0.5 (2)
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Re: snoopy's 2022 log (French, Greek)

Postby Cavesa » Fri Oct 07, 2022 12:37 pm

Welcome to the forum! A good log! Which textbooks are you using?
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Re: snoopy's 2022 log (French, Greek)

Postby snoopy » Fri Oct 07, 2022 5:26 pm

Cavesa wrote:Welcome to the forum! A good log! Which textbooks are you using?


Thanks! Défi 4 for French and Ελληνικά για σας Α1 for Greek, do know any of them?
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Re: snoopy's 2022 log (French, Greek)

Postby snoopy » Fri Oct 07, 2022 6:56 pm

Greek. Homework. The listening exercises this time were tricky, I had to slow down one of the tracks to get everything +0.5 (3.5)

French. An hour with a tutor. It's interesting how the textbook talks about a city that has been improved in multiple ways including building a big shopping mall - I wonder how it's going after the online shopping boom and Covid. If you've been to Charleroi, is Rive Gauche there still busy? +1 (3)
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Re: snoopy's 2022 log (French, Greek)

Postby snoopy » Tue Oct 11, 2022 5:32 pm

Greek. A lesson with a tutor. We practised the future tense and talked about an imaginary flight (as flying was a topic of the textbook chapter). + 1 (4.5)

Finally got the paper version of my French textbook, the topics look interesting, but so far I've had too much going on to check it further.
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