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| Zireael Triglot Senior Member Poland Joined 4459 days ago 518 posts - 636 votes  Speaks: Polish*, EnglishB2, Spanish Studies: German, Sign Language, Tok Pisin, Arabic (Yemeni), Old English | Message 185 of 225 12 March 2013 at 11:32am | IP Logged | |||||
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Can I resurrect my German skills using your resources? German would probably be a side addition to my Arabic log...
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| stifa Triglot Senior Member Norway lang-8.com/448715 Joined 4681 days ago 629 posts - 813 votes Speaks: Norwegian*, EnglishC2, German Studies: Japanese, Spanish | Message 186 of 225 12 March 2013 at 12:02pm | IP Logged | |||||
Translating German must be hell... so many long sentences. :p I never translate, so I don't know... Also, I simply don't care about frequency...if the word shows up, I study it. :) 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| suzukaze Triglot Senior Member Italy bit.ly/1bGm459 Joined 4410 days ago 186 posts - 254 votes Speaks: Italian*, English, Spanish Studies: German, French, Swedish, Japanese | Message 187 of 225 12 March 2013 at 3:32pm | IP Logged | |||||
I like translating, I'm actually training to become a linguistic translator XD but yes, translating in general is hard. Many people think that as long as you know two languages translation comes easy, but the reality is quite different. My difficulty in translating from German comes from my limited vocabulary, but as far as sentence length goes...well we tend to use pretty long sentences in Italian, probably even longer than German :/ I usually use frequency as an indication: one of my aim with German is to expand my vocabulary so I tend to give priority to those words/expressions I'm likely to come across or use more often. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4430 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 188 of 225 18 March 2013 at 1:54am | IP Logged | |||||
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Question about corrections:
When you receive corrections on a text you have written or in your speaking, what do you do with them? Do you just note them (mentally or in a notebook), do review exercises, enter into Anki, or ??? Many of us are fortunate to have native speakers (such as our Godfather, for one example) share their knowledge with us via this forum, skype, lang-8, etc., but what is really the best way to incorporate those corrections into our own usage? I'd love to hear what people have found that works (or even what to avoid because it doesn't work). Thanks in advance. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5893 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 189 of 225 18 March 2013 at 11:46am | IP Logged | |||||
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I do various things:
What DOESN'T work: the "notes" button at lang-8. I've stowed away a bunch of good tips but I've never gone back to look at them. Putting stuff in a word doc on my desktop also doesn't work. I never look at it. Anki also doesn't always work. What DOES work (for me): 1. Retype corrections and grammar tips nice and concise and put them in my log. I'm always in here so that's why this works the best for me ;) 2. Write a correction/grammar point (always in sentence form) on a post-it or a scrap piece of paper and put in in the kitchen, car, etc, where I'm sure to see it. They get thrown away, of course, but I usually pass by them a lot. 3. Keep a chronological notebook. I don't do this for corrections. I have a running list of phrases and idioms that I carry around with me. Edited by Sunja on 18 March 2013 at 2:11pm 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| AlOlaf Diglot Senior Member United States Joined 4956 days ago 491 posts - 617 votes Speaks: English*, GermanC2 Studies: Danish | Message 190 of 225 18 March 2013 at 4:09pm | IP Logged | |||||
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I've found this to be true not only in language learning, but in everything I try to do: The more embarrassing a mistake I make, the more likely I am to remember it and not repeat it. Making mistakes in German here on the forum, where I know they're going to be seen by who knows how many native speakers, makes my ears turn red, but the embarrassment factor definitely helps me remember the corrections.
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| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 5893 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 191 of 225 24 March 2013 at 9:48am | IP Logged | |||||
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Hi everybody, I'm just link-dropping here,
Betreff: German gender patterns (quoting from g-bod's log)
edit: I updated canoo.net to include the menu title. Very helpful stuff! Edited by Sunja on 24 March 2013 at 10:05am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| WingSuet Triglot Senior Member Sweden Joined 5159 days ago 169 posts - 211 votes Speaks: Swedish*, English, German Studies: Cantonese | Message 192 of 225 10 April 2013 at 11:30pm | IP Logged | |||||
What works for me is simply to correct my own text based on the corrections I received instead of just reading them. It makes me remember better when I delete my mistakes and write the correct form instead. I did this when we had to write many short essays in school and send in corrected versions. I would notice what mistakes I frequently make and try to think about the next time. Maybe it would also help to keep both versions of the text for later, so that you can go through them again and see what mistakes you used to make and see if you've learned from them yet. It would also be a good way to see real proof of your progress ;) 1 person has voted this message useful |
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