This last week has been interesting - I'm tired and sore and need a nap.
Friday and yesterday I helped my oldest to move her apartment in Strasbourg. We rented a truck, went and got a few things from my old apartment in Germany and then headed down to Strasbourg for the actual move. How is this language related? Well, the whole move was in 6 languages.
The first three you can guess. At a highway stop, we watched a group of people ordering food and joking with the counter person in a language we couldn't identify and just had to ask. Albanian! We had a very short impromptu lesson. And finally, in Strasbourg not only did we get a bit of Grenzsprache (not quite Alsacien) but I got insulted in Arabic when I had to manoeuvre the truck into a parking spot.
GermanFinished reading Die Araber von Morgen and I've ordered the other two. My ex and daughters have read this in French and recommended it. It's an engaging read, I want to see what comes next. My FB page is also in German and I'm spending time doing the Anki pronunciation cards. Had an exchange for 30 minutes in German with Brun Ugle. And watched a few hours of tv in German with English subtitles. My GF has decided to take the A1 test end of this month (for paperwork) and the B2 test in September. So I'm looking forward to seeing how that changes our Haussprache.
Next three weeks - I hope to continue with a bit of review, audio input and, now ride on the coattails of the gf's studying.
HebrewCompleted 4/5 lessons in Assimil, Anki and started a bit of FSI since that was a topic here in one of the threads. I'm good with that. I didn't have a lesson this week because my teacher is on vacation. Also dipped a toe into utalk (thanks Brun Ugle!!).
Next three weeks - I plan to continue with Assimil - might or might not reach the 20 lessons initially planned but it should be close. I also want to get back with my italki lessons. I may or may not add FSI or memrise material I have for review.
SetswanaI've been doing the Memrise course every day and am very much enjoying this and consider it excellent. It doesn't have sound, which is a miss, but it is structured in such a way that I am actually learning a lot. And I've been able to produce phrases spontaneously (to the chagrin of the people around me). I'm sticking to this material! It is a huge contrast with the Tibetan Memrise material... a little Anki too, but inconsistently. Oh, and I forgot - the utalk material is pretty good!
Next three weeks - We have a bi-weekly call with the Setswana Study Group, I'm looking forward to that, and will just continue with the current Memrise material. Maybe throw in some of the UNISA material I recorded off the web to create Anki cards. Need to build those.
Tibetan - Had my lesson this week and it was good to get back into it, but I was terrible. Ugh. I recorded the session and it is full of ugly pauses, crusty errors that I know I shouldn't make. But I'm back in the course and I look forward to our weekly sessions. Plus with the recorded material, I've cut out with audacity a lot of example sentences. Now I need to build Anki cards with that. Been brute forcing myself through an Memrise that is focused on pronunciation - it is awful, In the worst sections, I'm only getting retention rates at times of about 40% (that's just 15% above randomly choosing an answer!) but I'm willing to give it a go for a while to see where it leads. A few of these cards i'm just marking as 'off' and moving on. I may do that more frequently this next week so I can move on to real vocabulary.
Next three weeks - Continue with my classes, see where Memrise goes and really review my material and prior lessons. I'd like to get my notes, Anki recordings, material better organised.
Prep work I'm behind - both for Tibetan and Setswana I have recordings ready to be made into cards. Some of that is for today. I'm keeping a very simple spreadsheet for tracking and it works so far. I've also been developing an app for tracking my learning, more on that sometime in August.