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

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IronMike
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Languages: Studying: Esperanto
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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 languages, so little time. IronMike's 2018 language log

Postby IronMike » Wed May 02, 2018 9:19 pm

Signed up for the Super Challenge for a full Esperanto. Unfortunately, I have no books with me as we're still living out of suitcases. Gonna find something I want to read online used so we'll see. And with the May Esperanto Sumoo starting soon, I need something!
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Re: So many languages, so little time. IronMike's 2018 language log

Postby rdearman » Thu May 03, 2018 10:34 am

IronMike wrote:Signed up for the Super Challenge for a full Esperanto. Unfortunately, I have no books with me as we're still living out of suitcases. Gonna find something I want to read online used so we'll see. And with the May Esperanto Sumoo starting soon, I need something!

Lots of classics!

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/eo
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IronMike
Black Belt - 2nd Dan
Posts: 2554
Joined: Thu May 12, 2016 6:13 am
Location: Northern Virginia
Languages: Studying: Esperanto
Maintaining: nada
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 languages, so little time. IronMike's 2018 language log

Postby IronMike » Thu May 03, 2018 10:36 pm

rdearman wrote:
IronMike wrote:Signed up for the Super Challenge for a full Esperanto. Unfortunately, I have no books with me as we're still living out of suitcases. Gonna find something I want to read online used so we'll see. And with the May Esperanto Sumoo starting soon, I need something!

Lots of classics!

http://www.gutenberg.org/browse/languages/eo

SO tired of those "classics." ;) Thanks though! I decided to order 100 Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Loved his Love in the Time of Cholera. Hoping this one is as good.
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IronMike
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Languages: Studying: Esperanto
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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 languages, so little time. IronMike's 2018 language log

Postby IronMike » Wed May 09, 2018 12:55 am

When oh when will my Esperanto books ever show up?!?!
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Re: So many languages, so little time. IronMike's 2018 language log

Postby Ani » Wed May 09, 2018 5:00 am

IronMike wrote:When oh when will my Esperanto books ever show up?!?!


As soon as the universe gets you deeply involved in reading something else..
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IronMike
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Posts: 2554
Joined: Thu May 12, 2016 6:13 am
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Languages: Studying: Esperanto
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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 languages, so little time. IronMike's 2018 language log

Postby IronMike » Wed May 09, 2018 12:46 pm

Ani wrote:
IronMike wrote:When oh when will my Esperanto books ever show up?!?!


As soon as the universe gets you deeply involved in reading something else..

So true. Just opened one of my E-o ebooks I had downloaded and unread. I am sure 100 jaroj da soleco will arrive today now. ;)
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IronMike
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Posts: 2554
Joined: Thu May 12, 2016 6:13 am
Location: Northern Virginia
Languages: Studying: Esperanto
Maintaining: nada
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 languages, so little time. IronMike's 2018 language log

Postby IronMike » Thu May 10, 2018 11:03 pm

Updates!

Middle Egyptian: DD and I signed up for the GlyphStudy which'll begin at the end of the month. If you haven't seen the threads: they're a group of students and moderator who go through a book learning Middle Egyptian. Takes about two years, so let's see if I keep up with it. I worked through Allen's book years ago, but really needed someone else to talk about the lessons, so this'll be nice having a moderator who already reads the language. I love that era of history, and have studied, in general, the history of Ancient Egypt and the history of the language (hoping for a section on Hieratic and Demotic in the future), so really looking forward to this class.

Esperanto: My Gabriel Garcia Marquez book hasn't arrived yet, but I got two issues of Beletra Almanako today, so will start reading these. Already read 3 or 4 pages of a linguistics article in Esperanto, so will add those to my first 50 for the SC.

Spanish: My favorite word, so far, in Duolingo: un rato. No, it doesn't mean a rat. It means for a while. Yo leo un rato. When I first saw this sentence, I thought I am reading a rat? WTF?
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IronMike
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Posts: 2554
Joined: Thu May 12, 2016 6:13 am
Location: Northern Virginia
Languages: Studying: Esperanto
Maintaining: nada
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 languages, so little time. IronMike's 2018 language log

Postby IronMike » Sat May 12, 2018 10:32 pm

Oh well. Last day of the USPS mail delivery week, and still no Esperanto book delivered. I'll start the 52-a Esperanto Sumoo tomorrow with a copy of Beletra Almanako. Sigh...
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Re: So many languages, so little time. IronMike's 2018 language log

Postby luke » Sat May 12, 2018 11:16 pm

IronMike wrote:Oh well. Last day of the USPS mail delivery week, and still no Esperanto book delivered. I'll start the 52-a Esperanto Sumoo tomorrow with a copy of Beletra Almanako. Sigh...


Darn the snail mail!

Have you selected your number of pages for the 52-a Esperanto Sumoo? I'm doing 5 in La faraono. I read the antaŭparolo this morning as a warm-up for chapter 1 tomorrow. It looks good. I hope you find something satisfying! Thanks for turning me on to the Sumoo!
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IronMike
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Posts: 2554
Joined: Thu May 12, 2016 6:13 am
Location: Northern Virginia
Languages: Studying: Esperanto
Maintaining: nada
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)
Language Log: viewtopic.php?f=15&t=5189
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Re: So many languages, so little time. IronMike's 2018 language log

Postby IronMike » Thu May 17, 2018 9:41 pm

La libroj alvenis finfine! Sed mi jam komencis legi "Maigret hezitas" kaj al mi tre placxas la rakonto.
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