IronMike's 2023 log: Fewer means better, right? (EO & RUS)

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IronMike
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Russian, 3/3 (DLPT5, 2022) 2+ (OPI, 2022)
German, 2L/1+R (DLPT5, 2021)
Italian, 1L/2R (DLPT IV, 2019)
Esperanto, C1 (KER skriba ekzameno, 2017)
Slovene, 2+L/3R (DLPT II in, yes, 1999)
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Re: So many eels, only one hovercraft. IronMike's 2019 log (EO, IT, RU)

Postby IronMike » Sun Jan 20, 2019 5:06 pm

zenmonkey wrote:
People have their own learning path, it doesn't have to be optimal.

Love this. This may become my new sig block quote... ;)
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Tested:
BCS, 1+L/1+R (DLPT5, 2022)
Russian, 3/3 (DLPT5, 2022) 2+ (OPI, 2022)
German, 2L/1+R (DLPT5, 2021)
Italian, 1L/2R (DLPT IV, 2019)
Esperanto, C1 (KER skriba ekzameno, 2017)
Slovene, 2+L/3R (DLPT II in, yes, 1999)
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Re: So many eels, only one hovercraft. IronMike's 2019 log (EO, IT, RU)

Postby IronMike » Tue Jan 22, 2019 1:33 am

365-day challenge: Week three report

15.01: 6 minutes listening to Pola Retradio #817. Read 5 pages and finished the short story La Hejmo de la Metiisto. Read 3 more pages starting the next story.
16.01: Finished the story La Forgesita Pipo and started Arturo (3 pages); 20 minutes of LR in Шанс для неудачников
17.01: 8 pages in Fundamenta Krestomatio.
18.01: 11 page in FK.
19.01: 62 minutes of PR #819, 820 and an old episode from the summer.
20.01: 47 minutes of old (2018 UK-old) episodes of PR. 5 pages from the Feb issue of Esperanto magazine
21.01: Read for almost an hour from La Ondo and the Festlibro por la 75-jarigxo de Ulrich Lins.
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IronMike
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Tested:
BCS, 1+L/1+R (DLPT5, 2022)
Russian, 3/3 (DLPT5, 2022) 2+ (OPI, 2022)
German, 2L/1+R (DLPT5, 2021)
Italian, 1L/2R (DLPT IV, 2019)
Esperanto, C1 (KER skriba ekzameno, 2017)
Slovene, 2+L/3R (DLPT II in, yes, 1999)
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Re: So many eels, only one hovercraft. IronMike's 2019 log (EO, IT, RU)

Postby IronMike » Wed Jan 23, 2019 1:39 am

OMG, OMG, OMG: My favorite show had my favorite category tonight: Language Families. I knew all but one of the clues tonight.

Not sure if you can find it, but if you can find Jeopardy for 22 Jan, go straight to double jeopardy to see the clues!
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Re: So many eels, only one hovercraft. IronMike's 2019 log (EO, IT, RU)

Postby Deinonysus » Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:40 am

IronMike wrote:OMG, OMG, OMG: My favorite show had my favorite category tonight: Language Families. I knew all but one of the clues tonight.

Not sure if you can find it, but if you can find Jeopardy for 22 Jan, go straight to double jeopardy to see the clues!

Noooo I missed it today! Do you remember what the questions were?
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Russian, 3/3 (DLPT5, 2022) 2+ (OPI, 2022)
German, 2L/1+R (DLPT5, 2021)
Italian, 1L/2R (DLPT IV, 2019)
Esperanto, C1 (KER skriba ekzameno, 2017)
Slovene, 2+L/3R (DLPT II in, yes, 1999)
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Re: So many eels, only one hovercraft. IronMike's 2019 log (EO, IT, RU)

Postby IronMike » Wed Jan 23, 2019 2:45 am

Deinonysus wrote:
IronMike wrote:OMG, OMG, OMG: My favorite show had my favorite category tonight: Language Families. I knew all but one of the clues tonight.

Not sure if you can find it, but if you can find Jeopardy for 22 Jan, go straight to double jeopardy to see the clues!

Noooo I missed it today! Do you remember what the questions were?

No. Something about Dravidian, Athabaskan, Indo-European, and a couple of others. Dang. Thought I could find them online!
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Re: So many eels, only one hovercraft. IronMike's 2019 log (EO, IT, RU)

Postby NIKOLIĆ » Wed Jan 23, 2019 6:15 am

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Re: So many eels, only one hovercraft. IronMike's 2019 log (EO, IT, RU)

Postby Teango » Wed Jan 23, 2019 7:37 am

Jeopardy (Jan 22, 2019): "Language Families" - starts around 10.22! :)
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German, 2L/1+R (DLPT5, 2021)
Italian, 1L/2R (DLPT IV, 2019)
Esperanto, C1 (KER skriba ekzameno, 2017)
Slovene, 2+L/3R (DLPT II in, yes, 1999)
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Re: So many eels, only one hovercraft. IronMike's 2019 log (EO, IT, RU)

Postby IronMike » Thu Jan 24, 2019 12:48 am

Thanks gents!
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Posts: 2554
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Tested:
BCS, 1+L/1+R (DLPT5, 2022)
Russian, 3/3 (DLPT5, 2022) 2+ (OPI, 2022)
German, 2L/1+R (DLPT5, 2021)
Italian, 1L/2R (DLPT IV, 2019)
Esperanto, C1 (KER skriba ekzameno, 2017)
Slovene, 2+L/3R (DLPT II in, yes, 1999)
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Re: So many eels, only one hovercraft. IronMike's 2019 log (EO, IT, RU)

Postby IronMike » Fri Jan 25, 2019 4:15 pm

The Italian instructor just contacted me. Some concerns with timing, so our class may be reduced to as little as an hour. Has to do with the Beginner I-half class that doesn't want to meet 7:30 to 9:00pm, they want to meet as early as 6:30, which is a half hour into our 90 min class. So the instructor is asking all of us beginner-beginners if we can start as early as 5:15 and go till 6:45. Hopefully everyone can, because that'll give us the 90 minutes and set me up for an easy train ride home.

Mo' better...the instructor will be sending us the first night's work today!!! Yeah! Hurray! Can't wait to start on Monday.
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Re: So many eels, only one hovercraft. IronMike's 2019 log (EO, IT, RU)

Postby Ani » Fri Jan 25, 2019 8:46 pm

Have you considered taking both classes concurrently? If they only covered two chapters of a text book in a semester, I can't imagine you'll have any trouble...
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