I am always working with a language, always listening to something in the language. Recently I "finished" listening to the NRK - radioteatret broadcast and it was awesome. I learned a lot by listening to about 27 hours of great literature dramas and radio enactments!!
There was a lot from Henrik Ibsen, how could it not be so. It seems that he contributed quite a lot to the Norwegian literature and I liked his pieces as well. Of course, I am yet to read these plays in Norsk but for the time being it was a good experience. Tarjei Vesaas story "Isslottet" is something quite special for me, I mean, isn't it wonderful that so much can be conveyed in such a short story)
For the last couple of days I have been taking it a bit easy, I think it works best to take a few breaks here and there and then to come back refreshed and step up the intensity again. Learning a language is no race, not for me.
Now, for the progress log.
I am, obviously, still doing Chinese and Finnish on Memrise but in the meantime I finally sat down to understand the Persian alphabets better and with the help of Google keyboards I can pretty much type in most of what I hear. The Farsi alphabets have different forms/shapes depending upon the position in a word so this shape-shifting is easier to understand with the modern technology. Needless to say that it is a great boost to able to see these transformations taking place via keyboard so that eventually these patterns become ingrained in our visual memory. Language is not really science, you know, at least when grammar is not in question but language is more like a "feel" for a select patterns, a select conventions and traditions.
And as far as Hebrew is concerned, I have made good progress going through the alphabets and to understand the various verb forms and the general structure, as in when to use ( L'.. / V'..) etc but needs a lot of work to be done. I haven't read any book in Hebrew so far. Actually, I found a link to a bunch of free PDFs full of illustrated stories for children so I am definitely gonna use them to acuire vocabulary and to get myself comfortable.
I do know that it all seems so chaotic but I also know for a fact that I am gonna look back at this year as my miracle year, this is my last year of College life and I am gonna use it to the fullest. I really need to push myself this time.
I am making progress, slowly but surely. There is always room for improvement, it's the biggest room in the house;P
There was a lot from Henrik Ibsen, how could it not be so. It seems that he contributed quite a lot to the Norwegian literature and I liked his pieces as well. Of course, I am yet to read these plays in Norsk but for the time being it was a good experience. Tarjei Vesaas story "Isslottet" is something quite special for me, I mean, isn't it wonderful that so much can be conveyed in such a short story)
For the last couple of days I have been taking it a bit easy, I think it works best to take a few breaks here and there and then to come back refreshed and step up the intensity again. Learning a language is no race, not for me.
Now, for the progress log.
I am, obviously, still doing Chinese and Finnish on Memrise but in the meantime I finally sat down to understand the Persian alphabets better and with the help of Google keyboards I can pretty much type in most of what I hear. The Farsi alphabets have different forms/shapes depending upon the position in a word so this shape-shifting is easier to understand with the modern technology. Needless to say that it is a great boost to able to see these transformations taking place via keyboard so that eventually these patterns become ingrained in our visual memory. Language is not really science, you know, at least when grammar is not in question but language is more like a "feel" for a select patterns, a select conventions and traditions.
And as far as Hebrew is concerned, I have made good progress going through the alphabets and to understand the various verb forms and the general structure, as in when to use ( L'.. / V'..) etc but needs a lot of work to be done. I haven't read any book in Hebrew so far. Actually, I found a link to a bunch of free PDFs full of illustrated stories for children so I am definitely gonna use them to acuire vocabulary and to get myself comfortable.
I do know that it all seems so chaotic but I also know for a fact that I am gonna look back at this year as my miracle year, this is my last year of College life and I am gonna use it to the fullest. I really need to push myself this time.
I am making progress, slowly but surely. There is always room for improvement, it's the biggest room in the house;P
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