I Like Languages [German, French, Urdu]

[jennybenny25]

well done on the learning so far- soz that you had to put swedish on hold.

I too am on lang-8 joined the other day im jennybenny if want to add not sure what supposed to write on it tho random things???

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[EmmaC02]

It felt nice to get back on track today. Let's get right into it, shall we?

French

So I managed to complete all I wanted to today for French. The article I read was about 15 pages of an electronic journal, so I reckon just under 10,000 words taking font size and spacing into account. Boy is political science ever dense and theoretical. I enjoyed the challenge however. I printed it off, so tomorrow I'm going to read it once more, highlight all of the argumentative connecting words and make sure I understand their function in the sentence. I did wrote a response to the article, but since it's pretty boring and long (for lang-8), I think I'll just ask my mum to correct it.

French Goals for Tomorrow
- Re-read article, highlight argumentative connecting words and ensure I understand their usage
- Complete French Grammar whatever material it has on 'en', 'y', etc.
- 1 hour of podcast

German

Didn't quite reach all my goals. I didn't write a lang-8 post, and I only got through one chapter of Tintenherz, however everything else went well.

Don't judge me, but I've been watching Germany's Next Top Model, and I have to say I'm enjoying it. The language is simple enough that I can understand at least half of it without subtitles, and it's nice to be exposed to how girls my own age speak. I feel I'm very slowly starting to understand the all important, but impossible words like 'mal', 'egal', ''noch', etc. I'm also quite comfortable understanding sentences with the infinitive verb at the end.

Don't judge me again, but I've been speaking to my dogs in German. "Ohhh Max, du bist total süß! Komm her mein kleiner Schatz!"

German Goals for Tomorrow
- Tintenherz next 2 chapters
- Memrise German A2 half level
- Michel Thomas lessons 21 + 22
- Assimil lesson 6
- ~100 word lang-8 post
- Anki review

[EmmaC02]

well done on the learning so far- soz that you had to put swedish on hold.

I too am on lang-8 joined the other day im jennybenny if want to add not sure what supposed to write on it tho random things???

X

Thank you very much! Yeah, it's a bit sad to leave it behind for now, but it must be done. We'll be reunited in no time .

I'll look for you on lang-8 tomorrow! Yup, you just write in your target language and natives will correct what you write. You can also correct other people's posts in your native language. It's good to do that because the more you correct other people's posts, the more likely yours gets corrected because it places you higher up on the listing of new posts. I look forward to seeing you write!

[jennybenny25]

Well done with the article- good idea:) its great you can watch a tv epi and understand it- hope to get like that one day (with bsl I can though)

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[EmmaC02]

I'm a bit annoyed with what I accomplished today. I didn't complete many of my goals because I got too caught up watching Champions League (horribly boring today) and hockey (overtime winner by my team's beautiful Swedish team captain ). Ah well, at least I did something.

French

I feel horrible for saying this, but I can't wait until my exam is over with. I'm not having any fun with French, and it's definitely showing in the effort I put into it. I did manage to go through the article I read yesterday and examine the usage of argumentative connecting words, so I'm pleased with that. Tomorrow I'm going to do one of the sample questions provided by the TA and send it off to her for feedback. The questions give you a graph, and asks you to describe it and suggest reasons for the results it shows. As I'm writing it, I'll take note of any words I need to look up, so I can make sure I learn them before the actual exam day comes, since all of the potential questions will use similar vocabulary.

French Goals for Tomorrow
- Write answer to sample exam question and send it to TA to get feedback - note any important vocabulary I need to look up
-1 hour of podcast

German

I pretty much did the bare minimum today. I completed all of the goals that don't require too much effort . I suppose even when you aren't in the mood to do anything, just making sure you don't have a 0 day is important. On to the next one!

For the next few days I'm going to take a break from Assimil, and focus some more on reading. It's boring me to tears and I really want to get caught up on Tintenherz.

German Goals for Tomorrow
- The usual Memrise goal - gotta keep my streaks going (at 55 right now)
- Michel Thomas lesson 30 - 35
- Anki review
- Tintenherz as much as I can do!

[EmmaC02]

Wow, I just spent a good 45 minutes writing everything in French and German instead of English, only to somehow exit out of the window. I did everything I wanted to today and more. Maybe I'll write about it again tomorrow when I'm not so fuming.

[Elenia]

Oh, that's so annoying! I know exactly how you feel. But at least you got done everything you wanted to

[WalkingAlone13]

Dieses ist vielleicht eine seltsamer Frage, aber ist dein Profilbild Tübingen? Es sieht genau wie mein Lieblingsort in Tübingen aus, bestimmt in der Nähe von das kleines Cafe. Wenn das Bild ist wie ich habe gedacht, hast du da besuchst und wie lange bleibst du da hin? Also, gut gemacht für alle deine üben!

Entschuldige mich für meine Fehler.

[EmmaC02]

French

Malheureusement, hier quand j'étais en train d'écrire un texte, j'ai quitté l'Internet par mégarde, donc j'ai le perdu. Je veux que j'écris en français et allemand ici, alors je vais le refaire. Alors, hier j'ai accompli tous mes buts. J'ai écrit un texte et j'ai l'envoyée à mon prof. Elle va le corrigée, et aussi elle va me donner des conseils pourque je peux améliorer mon écriture en préparation pour l'examen sur le 9 avril. Honnetement, je pense que c'est trop tard de l'améliorer suffisamment, mais de toute façon, je vais essayer. Je ne sais pas à quel niveau j'ai besoin d'etre parce que l'examen n'utilise pas le CEFR. Il seulement teste si mon français est assez bien pour que je ne dois pas prendre des cours de français. Il est determiné par l'université. C'est important car j'ai besoin plus de crédits qui n'a pas besoins de compter vers mon diplome, parce que quand je suis en Allemagne, ça va etre difficile de trouver homologues pour mes cours obligatoires.

Aujourd'hui, je veux seulement lire et peut etre ecouter des podcasts. C'est difficile de me motiver, et je sais que c'est inutile de me pousser à faire quelque chose que je ne veux pas faire. J'ai trouvé plusieurs livres sur Amazon, et je vais les lire.

German

Gestern habe ich erfolgreich Deutsch gelernt. Meine Lehrerin hat meine Zwischenprüfung mir zurückgegeben. Ich freue mich ganz über es. Natürlich habe ich einige Fehler gemacht, aber ich finde 96% toll . Ich habe auch einen Text aus online gestellt, und meine Fehler sind doch grammatisch (Monate vs. Monaten) oder idiomatisch. Es ist gut dass mein Satzbau fast perfekt war. Jetzt ist der Satzbau das Wichtigste, weil es sehr anders als Englisch ist. Ich habe mir zwei Folgen der Germany's Next Top Model angeschaut. Ja, ich weiß dass es ein bisschen dumm ist, aber ich denke dass, ich wie die Mädchen meines Alters zu sprechen lernen muss. Ich habe das Wort 'Geil' gelernt. Es bedeutet öffentlich ''horny'' aber umgangssprachlich bedeutet es ''awesome''. Ich habe meinen Hörverstandnis viel verbessen, also kann ich jetzt fast 60% verstehen. Ich denke daran, dass wenn ich mir die TV show zu anschauen fange an, könnte ich nur 30% verstehen. Ich finde die Verbesserung anspornend.

Ich möchte gerne diesen Fortschritt zu fortsetzen also werde ich heute einige Ziele machen. Ich habe schon zwei Stunden in meinem Deutschkurse gemacht also werde ich heute nur ein bisschen machen.

Goals
-Usual Memrise goal
- Anki Review
- Michel Thomas lesson 40 - 45
-Assimil lesson 9 (I think)

I know that my writing is absolutely filled to the brim with errors, so please feel free to correct any that you see. In fact, I would really appreciate it. Merci beaucoup and danke schön! Also, I couldn't find the accent circonflexe on my keyboard, so I know that I left those out.

[EmmaC02]

Dieses ist vielleicht eine seltsamer Frage, aber ist dein Profilbild Tübingen? Es sieht genau wie mein Lieblingsort in Tübingen aus, bestimmt in der Nähe von das kleines Cafe. Wenn das Bild ist wie ich habe gedacht, hast du da besuchst und wie lange bleibst du da hin? Also, gut gemacht für alle deine üben!

Entschuldige mich für meine Fehler.

Ja, genau! Es ist Tübingen. Ich habe da noch nicht besuchen, aber ich werde nächstes Jahr von Kanada nach Tübingen ziehen und noch an der Universität studieren. Ich finde das Bild total schön also mache ich es mein Profilbild! Ich freue mich darauf, diesen Blick zu sehen! Es sieht doch wie eine schöne kleine Stadt aus.

(Sorry if my placement of 'noch' and 'doch' seems random... it pretty much is )