Monthly Archives: May 2010

German I added about 30 new sentence item cards to my German Anki deck; I’m still working on “repairing” my vocabulary. The fact that German was my first foreign language certainly shows; I’ve got holes in it all over the … Continue reading →

Dutch In Assimil’s Dutch with Ease, I reviewed lesson 8, and went ahead and did lessons 9 and 10. I’m going to have to be careful as I go forward with Dutch, due to the great similarities to German. A … Continue reading →

German I read a few more pages in King’s Schwarz, and got up to speed on my German sentence deck in Anki (about 100 cards reviewed). Arabic I did a first pass over the letters ‘alif, hamza, waaw, daal and … Continue reading →

Russian I reviewed lesson 41 of Russian without Toil, then went ahead and did a first pass over lessons 42 and 43. 43 introduces, among other things, the days of the week: понедельник – Monday вторник – Tuesday среда – … Continue reading →

I was not very happy with today at all: I listened to Assimil Russian without Toil, lessons 37 – 51. I actually listened quite a bit ahead of where I’m at in the book. As for the book, I reviewed … Continue reading →

I didn’t get as much in today as I had hoped, but: This morning, I spent around half an hour going through one page of the German translation of Stephen King’s The Gunslinger. King has quite a rich vocabulary, and … Continue reading →

The whole morning was spent at the hospital with mom, as she was having a procedure done. I took along Assimil Spanish and Dutch, but mostly worked on the Dutch. I listened to 1-6 again, then read through all of … Continue reading →