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

[IronMike]

The week is over. Work week anyway.

BCS: Did two full lessons of Croatian GLOSS ("A Croatian Film Goes to a Festival" and "Linden Tree Retreat Center, part 1"). Did lessons 4 and 5 in Alexander & Bursac's Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: A Textbook. Did two chapters in Easy Croatian (13 & 14).

Esperanto: Read 45 pages of Auld's Pajleroj kaj Stoploj and watched 90 minutes of media.

German: Put aside two dictionaries (one two-language and one German) for future study. Added a basic German story to my Readlang. Probably won't get to any German seriously until our DD starts school.

Middle Egyptian: On hold. Auditing the course now until a less intensive one starts in September. The new one will use a book we've owned for a while. I just got too far behind with a couple weeks of dealing with this move.

[Daniel N.]

BCS: Did two full lessons of Croatian GLOSS ("A Croatian Film Goes to a Festival" and "Linden Tree Retreat Center, part 1"). Did lessons 4 and 5 in Alexander & Bursac's Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: A Textbook.

Do you use Easy Croatian in any way? If so, I would like to hear your impressions...

[IronMike]

BCS: Did two full lessons of Croatian GLOSS ("A Croatian Film Goes to a Festival" and "Linden Tree Retreat Center, part 1"). Did lessons 4 and 5 in Alexander & Bursac's Bosnian, Croatian, Serbian: A Textbook.

Do you use Easy Croatian in any way? If so, I would like to hear your impressions...

Yep, use it every work day! I'm using two basic "courses" to get my BCS back: The textbook I mention above and your book. I'm reviewing chapter 15: Locations right now. I love your book for where I'm at now: mostly review and reminder of words I knew 10+ years ago. Not sure how it would be if it were my first text.

And thanks for the reminder! I should have added the chapters that I did in your book to my report above. Fixed!

[Daniel N.]

Yep, use it every work day! I'm using two basic "courses" to get my BCS back: The textbook I mention above and your book. I'm reviewing chapter 15: Locations right now. I love your book for where I'm at now: mostly review and reminder of words I knew 10+ years ago. Not sure how it would be if it were my first text.

That's great! I'm glad you find it useful. If you find something unclear, please comment there so that I can improve it. Please, feel free to comment on anything.

[Daniel N.]

BTW I forgot to write that the web page has many more features (pop-ups, colors for cases in examples) than the PDF/Kindle. And it contains more information, and some errors fixed, since PDF/Kindle has not been updated for 10 months or so.

[IronMike]

OMG! Forgot I had Grubisic's Elementary Croatian 1, which I found on a give-away table in the embassy back in Moscow. So I'll start working through that along with my other two texts. I'm also following some BCS twitter accounts and reading their tweets. Soon I think I'll be able to tackle some easy readers.

I also pulled out my German for Reading Knowledge book, which I'll start this weekend. Someone in one of my FB groups, after I posted pictures of my language books, noted that I was missing Detlev Blanke's Internationale Plansprachen. He had one for trade and wanted me to buy him a book that he couldn't get down in Chile. Easy peasy. The book arrived yesterday. I now need to get my German reading knowledge (back) up to snuff!

[IronMike]

I've got family coming in to town today, so gonna write up my week's language activities now, as I don't think I'll have much opportunity for study between today and next Tuesday.

BCS: Only did one GLOSS lesson this week, "Prices." But I did load my Glossika Serbian onto my iPhone and listened to some GSR while walking the dog, about 25 minutes total. Getting my ears back. As for textbooks, I did lessons 6 and half of 7 in Alexander & Bursac. Completed chapters 15-17 in Easy Croatian. And breezed through chapters 1-3 in Elementary Croatian 1.

Esperanto: Continuing the reading and watching. Read 30 pages in the Auld and watched 66 minutes.

German: As discussed below, put aside the German for Reading book. Read through chapter 1, which was a simple review of articles and other simple things.

Middle Egyptian: Turns out I do not have the right book for the course starting next month. I have one by one of the authors of the book I should get. So that'll mean another Amazon order. Sigh... Been trying to be good and not buy new books. Maybe I can find it used somewhere. I'll have to check out Abebooks.

[devilyoudont]

What are you watching in Esperanto?

[IronMike]

The week is almost over. Unsure how much I'll get done on Friday.

BCS: Did a few lessons this week. Only did one GLOSS lesson this week, this time in Serbian: "Visiting Belgrade, pt 1." It was listening, which I need, but was easy. Way easier than I expected from a 1+ level. I also listened to some Serbian Glossika. Ears really need the tuning. I finished lesson 7 in Alexander & Bursac and did lessons 18-20 in Easy Croatian. Found the SBS sites for BCS and saved them for when my language is better.

Esperanto: Lots and lots of reading. Read 33 pages in Auld so far and watched 49 minutes of media. The next Sumoo starts on Sunday, and I got a bunch of original E-o lit in the mail a couple days ago. Should I read Sekelj again (Ĝambo Rafiki) or the arguably oldest E-o novel Sen Titolo ? I'm not sure which to choose.

Middle Egyptian and German: No change here. Will get to read more of the German for Reading book this weekend as my house guests have departed.

[IronMike]

Managed to get another GLOSS lesson in today. Again listening to Serbian, the lesson being Расположења or Moods. Also chose what Esperanto book to read for the upcoming Sumoo: Ĝambo Rafiki wins!