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jeff_lindqvist
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Mon Jun 21, 2021 3:52 pm

2021 - Summary of week 24

Similar to last week. Still reading the same books in Swedish and English. I had to add another two in Swedish because they had to be returned soon. In this middle-of-nowhere metropolis, the number of languages I can't identify is limited. Nevertheless, the other day I heard what may have been Kirundi. :? One hour later, in a middle-of-nowhere village, I heard Arabic. (THAT I could identify.)

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Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Mon Jun 28, 2021 6:36 am

2021 - Summary of week 25

Similar to last week. Still reading the same books in Swedish and English. I finished Den sista spiken (by Stefan Ahnhem). Last Monday I heard two new languages. One on my morning walk - it might have been Hindi. The prosody was similar, and I noticed the word acha which a friend of mine uses all the time (but in Urdu). Then during lunch I overheard a troika speaking some Slavic language. It sounded SO MUCH like Russian based on the phonetic inventory, but I didn't understand anything. One speaker had a very idiosyncratic manner of speaking which confused me even more. Later the same week, I played one game of Ticket to Ride with a friend of mine. (I won.) In the evening another friend and I played fiddle.

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Stay tuned for the summary of *drum roll* 2020. (Late, I know.)
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Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Mon Jul 05, 2021 10:31 pm

Summary of 2020

At last, the long awaited summary! (Stats from 2019 here.)

This took a while to compile, and while the first half of 2020 was slightly different than the second, I'll just post the whole shebang.

1-5
Irish - 325 hours: 318 listening (during my daily walks...), 5.75 analysis and some impressive 1.25 of scriptorium.
English - 107 hours: 2.5 hours listening, 104.5 hours reading
Swedish - 104.5 hours of reading
German - 57,25 hours of reading
Russian - 23,5 hours of reading

6-10
Catalan - 15.5 hours of analysis
French - 8.75 hours - 0.75 reading and a bit more than 8 hours of Michel Thomas.
Portuguese - 5.5 hours reading
Dutch - just short of 2 hours of Woord voor woord.
Danish - 1.25 hours reading

11-14
Italian - 1.25 hours analysis
Spanish - 1 hours reading
Esperanto - 1 hours reading
Chinese - 0.5 hours reading

Some comments:
Except for my Irish, I barely did anything else than reading in my languages. Catalan was an exception - I happened to have a textbook.

Things that AREN'T in my spreadsheet:
  • the Duolingo hours for Portuguese
  • the passive hours of watching Chinese TV series
  • the passive hours of watching content in any other language...

Books read?
191. Depending on how you count. 84 in Swedish (including a handful of comic book albums), 65 in English, 17 in Portuguese (children's books), 13 in German, 3 in Russian, 2 in Spanish, 2 in French (easy readers), 9 in Irish (alright, the lessons to the textbook of Cúrsa Gaeilge - twice in 2020, then 7 complete podcast series - that ought to count as something), 1 in Danish and 1 in Chinese.

Still awake?
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Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby Caromarlyse » Wed Jul 07, 2021 5:37 am

That's quite some number of books, and some reading speed!
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sat Jul 10, 2021 10:55 am

2021 - Summary of week 26

Time for a late update. I finished two books - En förlorad kärlek (by Alyson Richman; The Lost Wife is the original title in English) and then Programming and Problem Solving with Java (by Nell Dale). Then I started reading Network Security Essentials (by William Stallings). Not really a major interest, but it was next in that computer/IT pile of books. One title I've mentioned a number of times here is Of Dice and Men (by David M. Ewalt). It's one of those books (maybe the only one?) I try to read once per year. Now it's time again. I opened my Teach Yourself Hindi and skimmed the first dialogue of chapter 1.

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Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Fri Jul 16, 2021 8:11 pm

2021 - Summary of week 27

Time for another late update. I finished Fripassageraren, the young adult steampunk novel. I also started reading the sequel, Guldgrävaren. And then it was time for the second book in the series about Lindsay Boxer, En 2:a chans / 2nd chance (by James Patterson).

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Not much time devoted to living (human?) languages, I know. It's too hot these days. Winter now, please!
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Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Tue Jul 20, 2021 5:43 pm

2021 - Summary of week 28

Another week has passed. I finished the James Patterson thriller, and started a British crime novel - Ryktet / The Rumour (by Lesley Kara). I also finished Network Security Essentials.

Thanks to Luke who posted a link to the channel Spanish Around. Maybe I was dreaming, but it felt like I understood a great deal of that "Tú vs Usted" clip.

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Another two weeks, then I'm on staycation.
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Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby Ezra » Tue Jul 20, 2021 7:56 pm

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Seems like you finally got into classical languages albeit by unusual way... :)
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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Sun Jul 25, 2021 9:12 pm

2021 - Summary of week 29

What, an update in time? I finally finished the novels by Umberto Eco and Michel Bussi, and then started another medieval crime - Mosaikmorden (by Giulio Leoni). I also went on with the third James Patterson book in the series, 3:e graden / 3rd degree. And Computer Networks (by Andrew Tanenbaum).

I did more Java and Perl exercises, but I can't remember what I listened to.

At the beginning of the week, I stumbled on a 40 minute long documentary about the Irish band Clannad. Narrated in German.


The other gaelgeoir in the area sent a link to a fantastic song performance, but for some unknown reason, the video provider now wants me to verify my age.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QisR33eN6Cs

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Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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Re: Jeff's language log

Postby jeff_lindqvist » Mon Aug 02, 2021 3:46 pm

2021 - Summary of week 30

No books finished, but a whole lot started. I blame the Swedish crime writers, the publishers, and the reviewers on TV. So much to read! And everything happens to reach the library at the same time.

I also started reading Code breaker, a biography about the DNA scientist Jennifer Doudna (written by Walter Isaacson). (I remember reading about it in one of Jamie Todd Rubin's blog posts.)

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On Tuesday, I met another polyglot on my daily walk. He mentioned that he's just experienced an old-fashioned approach to learn a language. Everyone is a beginner in the language. The teacher reads them a text aloud. They are supposed to write down what they hear.

Did I mention that they don't yet know the language? They don't really understand what they hear.

The teacher's reasoning:
-By the 10th/50th/100th time you hear it, it will be correct.

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By the way, now I'm on vacation. For a long time!
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Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge: 9 / 18
Ar an seastán oíche: Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain : 100 / 100

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