Military historian's corner - EN, HE, ZH, AR, sometimes RU, FR and DE
Posted: Sun Jul 08, 2018 3:47 pm
Hello everyone! My name is Jarek, and I teach military history at the university in Toruń, Poland
Once I read a proverb "One who fails to plan, plans to fail" and it seems to be true. Unfortunately, it is challenging for me to do any plans. Besides work, I also have a quite a big family - 5 children (with two pairs of twins among them ). This was my excuse for not making any plans in language learning. I will try to change it now.
Writing this log will also have another advantage - I can improve my English Please feel free to correct me in any language! I will appreciate it. Writing skills in English are the most important here - I hope to be able to publish academic texts in that language once.
Hebrew is the most important language for me. I made a Polish course from Shorr Foundation, but this was only basic level. I decided to do the FSI Hebrew Basic Course. I listened to all the lessons for at least several times, but I realised that this doesn't help me. So I changed tactics - I put all the drills into Anki. It takes a lot of time and goes slowly, but seems to improve my speaking skills. I decided to use also "Hebrew Military Reader" to improve reading skills.
Arabic is a secondary language most of the time. At first, I wanted to learn only Hebrew, but I decided that I have to know languages of both sides of this conflict to be able to analyse the events. I am focusing on DLI MSA Basic Course, but I also use Madeenah Arabic and Polish ESKK "Arabski dla początkujących" (Arabic for beginners). In DLI and ESKK I also put each exercise and drill into Anki. So my progress is slower, but I feel that I mastered the finished lessons. For Madeenah I mostly watch videos from the Institute of the Language of the Qu'ran in Toronto
So my plans for next week are:
English - write a report from my activities
Hebrew - finish adding to Anki FSI lesson 22 (maybe even Today) and prepare soundtracks for Lesson 23. Translate and learn first text in Hebrew Military Reader
Arabic - Finish DLI MSA Sound and Script Lesson 7 and gather recordings for the Lesson 8 (the package of DLI which I have unfortunately lacked audio for both lessons, so I ask on HiNative people to read out the words for me). Watch at least one video from LQ Toronto
Reviewing all Flashcards in those languages is, of course, mandatory and does not apply under plans - it is mandatory
Once I read a proverb "One who fails to plan, plans to fail" and it seems to be true. Unfortunately, it is challenging for me to do any plans. Besides work, I also have a quite a big family - 5 children (with two pairs of twins among them ). This was my excuse for not making any plans in language learning. I will try to change it now.
Writing this log will also have another advantage - I can improve my English Please feel free to correct me in any language! I will appreciate it. Writing skills in English are the most important here - I hope to be able to publish academic texts in that language once.
Hebrew is the most important language for me. I made a Polish course from Shorr Foundation, but this was only basic level. I decided to do the FSI Hebrew Basic Course. I listened to all the lessons for at least several times, but I realised that this doesn't help me. So I changed tactics - I put all the drills into Anki. It takes a lot of time and goes slowly, but seems to improve my speaking skills. I decided to use also "Hebrew Military Reader" to improve reading skills.
Arabic is a secondary language most of the time. At first, I wanted to learn only Hebrew, but I decided that I have to know languages of both sides of this conflict to be able to analyse the events. I am focusing on DLI MSA Basic Course, but I also use Madeenah Arabic and Polish ESKK "Arabski dla początkujących" (Arabic for beginners). In DLI and ESKK I also put each exercise and drill into Anki. So my progress is slower, but I feel that I mastered the finished lessons. For Madeenah I mostly watch videos from the Institute of the Language of the Qu'ran in Toronto
So my plans for next week are:
English - write a report from my activities
Hebrew - finish adding to Anki FSI lesson 22 (maybe even Today) and prepare soundtracks for Lesson 23. Translate and learn first text in Hebrew Military Reader
Arabic - Finish DLI MSA Sound and Script Lesson 7 and gather recordings for the Lesson 8 (the package of DLI which I have unfortunately lacked audio for both lessons, so I ask on HiNative people to read out the words for me). Watch at least one video from LQ Toronto
Reviewing all Flashcards in those languages is, of course, mandatory and does not apply under plans - it is mandatory