Re: Multilang Goals - Summer 2018
Posted: Thu Jan 11, 2018 12:53 am
Thank you Elenia!
I know I’m writing here a little too much, but I’m just excited to be studying again.
In the second half of the day, I ended up trying the Pimsleur Russian course on my way to work. It takes about 30 minutes to get there, and the lessons are about 30 minutes too. In fact, I ended up listening just to the dialogues at the start of the first 5 lessons and skipping them because I understood everything too well. So I actually followed the 6th lesson, although I understood all of the dialogue here also, but I thought it was right on the line where I’d maybe encounter some new material. So that was fun!
I made the effort to speak to my Czech & Slovak colleagues (and later, my Czech & Slovak housemates) mostly in Slovak (and a little Czech), and repeat my new Russian words to my Russian colleague, because I’m so shy about my accent that I really need to just force myself to shout out random words to practice lol. At one point I was speaking in Russian and then someone interrupted me in Slovak, and my answer was this Slavic mess, “Ja ne tvoja mama” jaaaaajjj. Tbh I made lots of mistakes in my Slovak today, but I actually don’t feel bad about it because it gives me some concrete moments to measure my improvement against. It’ll be great to look back in a month and see that I’ve made signifiant progress.
So anyway, just little steps, but I’m very happy to be engaging with learning again. Can’t wait to do more tomorrow !
edit: and right now it’s 1am, i’m in bed and we’re watching the kids film Cars 3 in Slovak with English subtitles, so I guess that counts as studying too And if I can’t sleep, I’ll go over some Circassian vocab because ((I love it, but also)) such unfamiliar words do require more attention than others.
I know I’m writing here a little too much, but I’m just excited to be studying again.
In the second half of the day, I ended up trying the Pimsleur Russian course on my way to work. It takes about 30 minutes to get there, and the lessons are about 30 minutes too. In fact, I ended up listening just to the dialogues at the start of the first 5 lessons and skipping them because I understood everything too well. So I actually followed the 6th lesson, although I understood all of the dialogue here also, but I thought it was right on the line where I’d maybe encounter some new material. So that was fun!
I made the effort to speak to my Czech & Slovak colleagues (and later, my Czech & Slovak housemates) mostly in Slovak (and a little Czech), and repeat my new Russian words to my Russian colleague, because I’m so shy about my accent that I really need to just force myself to shout out random words to practice lol. At one point I was speaking in Russian and then someone interrupted me in Slovak, and my answer was this Slavic mess, “Ja ne tvoja mama” jaaaaajjj. Tbh I made lots of mistakes in my Slovak today, but I actually don’t feel bad about it because it gives me some concrete moments to measure my improvement against. It’ll be great to look back in a month and see that I’ve made signifiant progress.
So anyway, just little steps, but I’m very happy to be engaging with learning again. Can’t wait to do more tomorrow !
edit: and right now it’s 1am, i’m in bed and we’re watching the kids film Cars 3 in Slovak with English subtitles, so I guess that counts as studying too And if I can’t sleep, I’ll go over some Circassian vocab because ((I love it, but also)) such unfamiliar words do require more attention than others.