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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I'm currently stuck at some exercises, but that's life.
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16 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
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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.)
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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Entombed - Clandestine (1990)
Possessed - Seven Churches (1985)
Possessed - Beyond the Gates (1986)
Possessed - Revelations of Oblivion (2019)
Totally different sound on the three Possessed albums. I think I liked the latest one the most.
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Stay tuned for the summary of *drum roll* 2020. (Late, I know.)
18 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
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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:
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?
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?
22 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
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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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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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10 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
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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!
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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Atheist - Unquestionable Presence (1991)
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Not much time devoted to living (human?) languages, I know. It's too hot these days. Winter now, please!
13 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
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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.
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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(Inspiring background music at work include Scream Bloody Gore, Leprosy and Spiritual Healing, all by the fantastic death metal band Death.)
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Another two weeks, then I'm on staycation.
12 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
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In use: French, Spanish, Latin, Classical Hebrew
Studying: Classical Chinese, Italian, German, Japanese, Ancient Greek - Language Log: https://forum.language-learners.org/vie ... php?t=8792
- x 631
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Seems like you finally got into classical languages albeit by unusual way...
2 x
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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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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
NL: More Loyal Books content.
12 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
- jeff_lindqvist
- Black Belt - 3rd Dan
- Posts: 3167
- Joined: Sun Aug 16, 2015 9:52 pm
- Languages: sv, en
de, es
ga, eo
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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!
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.)
NL: More Loyal Books content.
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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!
14 x
Leabhair/Greannáin léite as Gaeilge:
Ar an seastán oíche:Oileán an Órchiste
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord
Ar an seastán oíche:
Duolingo - finished trees: sp/ga/de/fr/pt/it
Finnish with extra pain :
Llorg Blog - Wiki - Discord