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

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German, 2L/1+R (DLPT5, 2021)
Italian, 1L/2R (DLPT IV, 2019)
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby IronMike » Wed Apr 20, 2022 11:17 pm

How's it been this long already? I finished that Esperanto book a while ago. And a few other books (in English) since. Jeez.

In great news, I did get the DLI class for BCS. w00t! It starts 2 May and is twice a week, two hours each time, for 12 weeks. Minus federal holidays. Should be about 40 hours of one-on-one. I'm trying to get this former-2+ proficiency out of my brain and into the DLPT. We'll see. Fun going through my BCS books now.

Middle Egyptian still on-going. I'm doing well in the exercises. A few more weeks and we'll be on week 6. About 2/3 done already!
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby IronMike » Fri Apr 22, 2022 8:14 pm

For BCS, 'till the class starts, I'm doing a lesson in Hippocrene and then a lesson in BCS (Alexander & Elias-Bursac). So far so good. I'm also listening to BCS news in the background, get my brain back into the groove. I've missed this language so much!
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby iguanamon » Sat Apr 23, 2022 12:24 am

Good to see you excited about BCS. I don't know if you've mentioned it or not, but is the DLI class online, in-person, some combination of the two? Same question with the testing.
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby IronMike » Sat Apr 23, 2022 10:44 pm

iguanamon wrote:Good to see you excited about BCS. I don't know if you've mentioned it or not, but is the DLI class online, in-person, some combination of the two? Same question with the testing.

Yeah, the DLI class is online, the same as I've been doing the last 3 years right before my Russian test. DLPT and OPI are not virtual. I have to test on base and the OPI is done over an (analog) phone. :cry:
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby IronMike » Fri Apr 29, 2022 12:01 am

I'm sure Wednesday next week when I struggling to finish my homework I'll be wondering why I signed up for this, but I'm crazy-excited about Monday when my BCS class begins. In a perfect world, I'd finish on 27 July, take August off (catch up on reading Esperanto), then do another 3 months September up to Thanksgiving, then do the DLPT and OPI. All in the hopes that I get a high enough score to get even more paid-for language training. I think I'm a few of these classes away from the 2+/2+ (DLPT) 2 (OPI) minimum to get paid, but that is the final goal. Then in January start the same class but in Russian, in prep for my February DLPT/OPI.

I pulled my Dan Browns out, so would love to be able to report in the Super Challenge that I'm reading one of those, or even a Harry Potter or Hunger Games. That is, if I can figure out how to register for "Slavic family." (If Rick & Co can't set up language family codes, I'll just register for a half challenge each in BCS and Russian.)
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS, who knows what else)

Postby IronMike » Mon May 02, 2022 11:41 pm

Wow, first day. I was worried when the instructor sent out 10 articles for today. Oy. An example of one of the "simpler" articles:

Русија ће осигурати безбедност нуклеарних објеката у Украјини
МОСКВА – Русија ће наставити да чини све што је у њеној моћи да осигура безбедност нуклеарних објеката у Украјини на одговарајућем нивоу, изјавила је данас портпаролка руског Министарства спољних послова Марија Захарова, јавља Танјуг.
„Русија ће наставити да чини све што је у њеној моћи да обезбеди да безбедност нуклеарних објеката у Украјини буде обезбеђена на одговарајућем нивоу”, рекла је Захарова, пренела је РИА Новости.

I managed some of it; the language is in my brain somewhere. Just gotta get it out.

Interestingly, my instructor was one of my instructor's during Turbo-Serbo in 1997! We remembered each other. It was awesome. He caught me up on some of my old instructors.

Another class on Wednesday. Sometime between then and a week or so later I will attempt HP or Hunger Games. I think I got it in me.
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS,BCS)

Postby IronMike » Wed May 04, 2022 11:27 pm

Second class day today and still fire-hose method. That's fine, I'm finding the words. They're in there somewhere. The articles I'm reading I'm working out; instructor said it was at level 2 and I hope that's correct. A couple of the articles were harder, but still worked them out. Here's one I had to work on longer than others:

Otac druge žrtve, Liu Guoyi, kaže kako se njegov sin igrao pored zaleđenog potoka gdje je spazio cijev koju je pokušao uzeti, nadajući se da je može prodati kao staro željezo. Hemikalije iz granate nanijele su mu teške opekotine po ruci. Zasad vodi bezuspješnu pravnu bitku za dobijanje naknade od japanske vlade.

On je kazao: "Kako da ne budem bijesan. Japanske snage su na našoj zemlji ostavile hemijsko naoružanje. Ne samo što su nam ubijali pretke, nego nam sada ubijaju i djecu i buduće generacije."

Japan je priznao da je njihova vojska tokom povlačenja ostavila hemijsko oružje, uključujući i bojne otrove.

U tajnoj vojnoj bazi u Jilinu se pod japanskim nadzorom uništavaju hemijska oružja.

Ipak, kineska vlada tvrdi da sve to ide presporo.

"Prema nekim procjenama, u eksplozijama japanskog hemijskog oružja povrijeđeno je najmanje 2.000 Kineza. Većina preživjelih ima teške opekotine i druge povrede. Zvanični Tokio tvrdi da je pronašao i uništio najmanje 4.000 komada hemijskog oružja. No, to je tek mali procent onoga šta je japanska vojska ostavila iza sebe", javlja Brown.

Japan je obećao uništiti što veći broj ovog naoružanja do 2012. Danas, gotovo 70 godina nakon završetka Drugog svjetskog rata, Tokio traži još vremena


In other news, one more homework due this Sunday for chapter 5 of my Middle Egyptian class (Collier & Manley). This time it'll be the bottom of stella BM EA 571. The GlyphStudy folks are planning a "translation" section later this year, and they're specifically looking to find something to translate which those of us in the C&M course could manage, too! That will be fun.
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS,BCS)

Postby IronMike » Sun May 08, 2022 11:20 pm

Lots of good language work this weekend. Finished chapter 5 in Collier & Manley for the Middle Egyptian course. Started reading ch6. Future and present tense!

Lots of BCS work this weekend too. And I read-listened to chapter 1 of HP1 (HP i kamen mudraca).

Class #3 tomorrow evening (16-18.00) so looking forward to getting my ears beat up by the instructor again. Words are coming back though...slowly but surely. Hvala Bogu that the class goes through July. I'll need all that time. Instructor today sent "a few articles" for this week: 8! :lol:
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German, 2L/1+R (DLPT5, 2021)
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS,BCS)

Postby IronMike » Thu May 12, 2022 12:00 am

Class #4 complete. Words are coming back. Grammar is easy-peasy. I'm struck by differences.

Like most Slavic languages, certain things can die while others perish. On je umro. He (a human) died. Pas je uginuo. The dog died. But, in Croatian: bees die like humans: pčela je umrla. The bee died. The instructor had no idea why, but bees are the only animals that die like humans. :o

We're in chapter 6 of Middle Egyptian (Collier and Manley). "Further aspects of description." negation; making someone do something; dependent pronouns; present tense. Nice!
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Re: My Scanner Life. IronMike's 2022 log (EO,RUS,BCS)

Postby Nogon » Thu May 12, 2022 7:26 am

IronMike wrote:But, in Croatian: bees die like humans: pčela je umrla.

That's fascinating!
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