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Sooniye
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 Message 25 of 36
03 January 2015 at 8:29pm | IP Logged 
I wish you the best of luck and hope that you this time around will find out how to learn
without getting burned out. I am sure you will succeed!

Oh, may I ask which game you are playing? I am a bit fond myself of gaming.

Looking forward to reading your log!
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 Message 26 of 36
03 January 2015 at 9:30pm | IP Logged 
Sooniye wrote:
I wish you the best of luck and hope that you this time around will find
out how to learn
without getting burned out. I am sure you will succeed!

Oh, may I ask which game you are playing? I am a bit fond myself of gaming.

Looking forward to reading your log!


Thank you very much & I primarily play Fifa but I'm starting to get sucked into the world
of Counter Strike & DOTA 2
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 Message 27 of 36
05 January 2015 at 9:17pm | IP Logged 
It seems I'm still struggling with katakana. I'm confusing a few so I went on memrise
and started a new course so I could use mnemonics to help me remember them better as
well as help me see the differences. I also decided to switch up my Japanese routine
and put Genki on hold until I've learnt all the radicals. I think I've written about
this before but I think this will save me time in the future in terms of learning more
complex kanji.

I've signed up for the music challenge that was created by Serpent. It should be a
good bit of fun & get me listening to more music in both languages. I also found PDFs
in English and Portuguese for the little prince as well as Portuguese audio. Don't
know how accurate to the PDF the audio will be, but I've been wanting to do some L+R
so this seems like a good opportunity with a story I've never read which also isn't to
far from my level hopefully.

Prior to signing up for the challenge I was contemplating adding a song of the week to
my log. Don't really know what I would do with said song(S) but we'll see (probably
will evolve over time). I've already looked at this weeks song lyrics whilst listening
and in a few places I've found either wrong lyrics or my ears just can't hear the
sound. Anyway, I've added one into anki using subs2srs and basically kept replaying
the section until I could hear what was said clearly. Apart from one line I can hear
everything clearly or maybe I've just memorized it.

Song(s) of the week:

Portuguese:
  1. Você quer brincar na neve sung by Alice Cardoso for Frozen
  2. Livre
    Estou sung by Taryn Szpilman for Frozen
  3. & Te vivo by Luan Santana

Japanese:
  1. You -Visionen im Spiegel- (Dear You) which is a remix from ひぐらしのなくころ
if you want links/can't find them tell me

Goals for the week: 05/01/15 - 11/01/15
Portuguese:
  • complete 1 unit of DLI
  • Watch at least one Peppa Pig episode a day
    (they're only 5 mins max on YouTube I think
  • Strengthen all Duolingo skills
    that are not gold and get up to and complete V. Fut Phr (whatever that stands for)
  • Complete Michel Thomas foundation by friday
  • Listen to 2 new songs
    for 'The Music Challenge' every weekday
  • L+R to the little prince everyday
    (hopefully complete it a few times as the audio is only about 35 mins long)

Japanese:

  • complete the memrise katakana course and have it fully watered
  • Memorise 30 radicals with kanjidamage/anki and the use of mnenomics
  • Listen
    to one new song a day and read the hiragana lyrics


P.S. added duolingo, the little prince & lyricstraining to resource list. Gave
duolingo a goal.

Edited by TimmyTurner93 on 05 January 2015 at 9:22pm

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 Message 28 of 36
06 January 2015 at 4:01am | IP Logged 
I like seeing your goals laid out regularly. I should take a page out of your book.

I watch Doraemon, Chi's Sweet Home, Crayon Shin-chan, and Shirokuma Cafe shamelessly.
It's good enough to anchor the basics, but at the same time it's still real content, and
very enjoyable. And I loved the Jackie Chan Adventures! I remember going through the
whole series a couple of days, but that was a few years ago. Do they have them in
different languages?

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 Message 29 of 36
06 January 2015 at 9:33am | IP Logged 
Woodsei wrote:
And I loved the Jackie Chan Adventures! I remember going through the
whole series a couple of days, but that was a few years ago. Do they have them in
different languages?


I think so. Most shows I'm finding are ones I watched as a child that I searched for on
Wikipedia. I then see if it has a translated article which usually indicates it was
dubbed.
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 Message 30 of 36
14 January 2015 at 2:23pm | IP Logged 
Whoops I forgot to update on Sunday x_x.

This isn't going to be a long/detailed post as last week fairly routine plus I'm in
the library with limited time left.

Summary of the week: 05/01/15 - 11/01/15

Portuguese

  • DLI - Went back to the beginning & completed the 1st & 2nd units
    comfortably.
  • Peppa Pig - Managed to watch 2/3 a day. Some of the voices sort
    of annoy me so I might find something else to watch
  • Michel Thomas (foundation)
    - Completed it. I started to get lost at a few points in the last 2/3 CDs. Don't know
    whether it's down to this being Portuguese spoken in Portugal or something else.
    Decided to return to the problem areas once I've completed Duolingo as Duolingo does
    have specific skills related to where I had difficulties.
  • L+R to the Little
    Prince - Didn't get much of a chance to do this except on the weekends as I was so
    focused on getting Michel Thomas out of the way.

Japanese
  • Katankana course (Memrise) - Completed and I plan to keep it watered.

  • Radicals - I memorised 20 radicals through anki/kanjidamage.

Goals for this week which I've already started and the songs of the week will be in
the next post later on today when I eventually get home.
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 Message 31 of 36
13 February 2015 at 4:03pm | IP Logged 
Very quick update. Been very busy over the past month and a half(will explain later) so
apologies to anyone who actually reads as well as to my team-mates in both TAC teams.
Despite my schedule I have been keeping up with studies and will go into greater detail
either later on today or over the weekend.
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 Message 32 of 36
13 February 2015 at 4:32pm | IP Logged 
No need to apologize, it's perfectly understandable! Thanks for showing up despite being busy :)
When you have time for gaming again you can try Criminal Case :) It's very different from FIFA, let alone counter strike/dota.


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