July 2010
1 post
I'm back!
It’s been a while, I know. I’ve been busy with other things such as school, a new job, and other annoyances. I’m currently going through Teach Yourself Maori (no, not from the “Teach Yourself” series, but that doesn’t mean it’s not one of the best language manuals I’ve read so far!) I’m totally loving Maori so far. I also had a quick look back...
March 2010
2 posts
Inuktitut and Swahili
These two languages interest me a lot lately. I think I’ll attack them as soon as I get more comfortable with my Icelandic.
Studying Icelandic
It’s March, and I’m 100% Icelandic-focused at the moment. I’m improving!
February 2010
14 posts
Wikilang
I installed an SMF forum for testing themes, and worked on the new wikilang forums skin. It’s better than I ever imagined! I’m still tweaking things here and there with colors and images, but most of it is ready. I’ll release the completed package sometime this week or the next :)
Marshallese
Woah! Marshallese is confusing! There’s not a word I can guess from other languages, and it has a funny structure. It’ll be very challenging to reach beginner level after all..I guess I was getting used to easy Creoles :)
New languages
I’ll be putting Pitkern and Norfuk on hold, due to the limited resources and the lack of help from fluent speakers. I’m attacking Marshallese full strength (I have quite a lot of good resources, surprisingly), and then again, if resources are ubiquitous enough, I’ll study Rapa Nui. On top of that, they have great flags!
Ooh! Norfolk!
Just seconds ago I stumbled upon an incredibly appetizing language: Norfolk (or Norfuk).
-it’s endangered!
-it’s easy to learn
-it has a super flag!
I’m very very tempted at the moment..
Can’t wait to learn more about it!
Gotta go!
Beginner in Tok Pisin !!!
Woohoo! I now reached a “basic” level of proficiency in Tok Pisin!
I can say basic things, read simple sentences, and get by with a dictionary.
I can identify the language in both its written and spoken forms :)
Things are going really good! I’m proud of my achievement so far, it’s worth a star, but I know I can go much further, still. I plan being at least...
Week 1
I’ll be posting less often from now on. I have to study more ;)
Here’s my progress so far:
Tok Pisin: Serious advancements, currently studying
Dutch: very basic grammar
Afrikaans: very basic grammar
Latvian: Minor advancements
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Toki Pona: Huge steps!
German: A little vocabulary
I’m currently in a Tok Pisin flow, so I’ll stay with it.
Day 7
I’m not too proud of myself today either, as I haven’t studied any language at all. I guess ithat being a Sunday, it’s understandable. But; well, surprisingly I met two Danish families at work today!
After listening to their conversations I asked, at the cash, what language they spoke. (it definetely was a Germanic language, very probably Nordic, absolutely not German, surely...
Day 6
Oops! Forgot to study yesterday :D
Day 5
Very good day :) I worked on Dutch, read and wrote some forum posts in Toki Pona, Contributed quite a lot on Wikilang, learned little things about Afrikaans, read about Tok Pisin history and grammar, analyzed an article in German, spent some time on Lernu.
=Esperanto: 0:30 (forums) ~Toki Pona: 1:00 (forums) - Dutch: 1:00 (Wikilang and Grammar) - Afrikaans: 0:15 (Wililang article) - Tok Pisin:...
Day 4
Not much today. Some Toki Pona here and there, and a lot of contributing on Wikilang. (new flag for Veroese, Esperanto page, Faroese numbers, etc.)
~Toki Pona: 1:00 (forums)
Motivation: 4/5
Effectiveness: 2/5
Total: 60% -I should really begin Dutch..
Day 3
Today was awesome. a.we.some. really. I finished the “Toki Pona in 76 Lessons” booklet and something really clicked in my mind. I feel I’m understanding the language to a new level! I finished reading the whole thing in the bus, then contributed on Wikilang with Faroese content mostly. Tomorrow I must have a look on Dutch and practice Toki Pona. If there’s time, I might...
Day 2
Today was sort of a failiure. The only language-oriented productive task I’ve done is creating an account on Wikilang and contributing a tiny bit after having a look around the already impressive wiki by its cleanness and quality. Oh well. I’ll do better tomorrow.
Motivation: 4/5
Effectiveness: 1/5
Total: 50% -lame, but still not a wasted day.
Day 1
Well, this is it. It’s passed the first day already. Today, I worked on:
=English: 20m of podcasts (idioms) ~German: 1h of podcasts (travel voc.) -Tok Pisin: 20m of grammar (structure)
Motivation: 4/5
Effectiveness: 3/5
Total: 70% -pretty good for an on-the-go studying day.
(“=” identifies mastered languages, “~” identifies familiar languages, “-” identifies unknown languages (to me))
Day 1 - And the War Goes On
What we’ve got here is trial to communicate. S..Some languages you just can’t reach.. So you study what you planned to last week, which is the way he wants it! Well, he gets it! N’ I don’t like ignorance any more than you men.
- Civil War by Guns N’ Roses (sort of)
The intro sets the pace pretty well, doesn’t it? Exactly as planned, my battle against unknown...
January 2010
1 post
1 tag
Project "Zeme vs Words" announced
Good morning/evening world citizens!
After several hours of planning, itch scratching, thinking and rethinking, I’ve come up with a plan. A language plan to be precise. To be exact, it’s a plan divided into three categories (unknown, familiar, and mastered), with different goals in each of them..All this, starting Monday, February 1st of 2010.
oh! and of course I’ll be posting...