Category Archives: Daily Language Log

Over the past few days, I’ve been focusing some more on Dutch. I’m up to lesson 31 of Dutch with Ease. I realize I’ve said it many times before, but: I love how Dutch vocabulary corresponds so clearly to English … Continue reading →

Today was largely a Dutch day. In Dutch with Ease, I reviewed lesson 24, then went ahead and did the passive wave for lessons 25 and 26. I’ve decided that, seeing as I’ve not exactly had much trouble with Dutch, … Continue reading →

I’ve been a bad student as of late, having not done a whole lot of language learning and having not posted much about it here. For German, I’ve been adding vocabulary to Anki; nothing new there. I did another copying … Continue reading →

Russian As a review (and for something to do while doing less interesting things, like dishes and laundry), I listened to lessons 8-28 of Russisch ohne Mühe. After listening to it, I’m reminded again of the fact that while I … Continue reading →

Today was another day of Russian. I started copying out the exercise sentences from lesson 52 of Russian without Toil, but was diverted by other things after four or five of them. Specifically, I copied out the condensed table of … Continue reading →

Russian This morning, I started out with the New Penguin Russian Course. I worked through some exercises in chapter 12 dealing with verb aspect, and did a short word list with the verbs presented. In the afternoon, I finished copying … Continue reading →

French I copied out / translated lesson 20 of New French with Ease, and then made some notes from lesson 21 about things I had forgotten. One such thing was the fact that if the definite article is added before … Continue reading →

German I listened to around an hour of Manfred Mai’s Deutsche Geschichte in audiobook format. I found it pretty easy to follow along; I’m not sure if he’s using a fairly simple vocabulary, or if it’s because of my background … Continue reading →

This will be a bit of a messy update, as it covers stuff I’ve been doing since my last update. I’ve written down notes and things as to what I’ve done exactly on which days, but don’t really want to … Continue reading →

Or perhaps, “I think I still remember how to study languages.” I did some Anki reps for German using the new Anki iPhone app. Admittedly, I’m not using the version in the app store, as I’m a beta tester and … Continue reading →