Today: 57 min
Total: 18 hours 18 min
Saturday, April 7, 2012
Thursday, April 5, 2012
April 5
Today: 1 hour 7 min
Total: 16 hours 31 min
I finished 2 short chapters today. I've gone back to the parallel text as I think it's still helping me.
Total: 16 hours 31 min
I finished 2 short chapters today. I've gone back to the parallel text as I think it's still helping me.
Wednesday, April 4, 2012
April 4
Today: 1 hour 9 min
Total: 15 hours 24 min
I was able to get to stage 3 today! I read the English, listened to the Spanish, and was able to follow it for 3 pages or so.
Total: 15 hours 24 min
I was able to get to stage 3 today! I read the English, listened to the Spanish, and was able to follow it for 3 pages or so.
Tuesday, April 3, 2012
April 3
Today: 3 hrs 15 min
Total: 14 hrs 15 min
Found a new source for audiobooks that are recorded by actual people.
Total: 14 hrs 15 min
Found a new source for audiobooks that are recorded by actual people.
Monday, April 2, 2012
April 2
Today: 1 hour
Total: 11 hours
First off, it's working. Yay! I tried listening to the beginning of another audio book, and I was able to understand a surprising amount, maybe 20%. Today I just let the audio go, and didn't stop it once.
Total: 11 hours
First off, it's working. Yay! I tried listening to the beginning of another audio book, and I was able to understand a surprising amount, maybe 20%. Today I just let the audio go, and didn't stop it once.
Sunday, April 1, 2012
April 1
Today: 3 hours
Total: 10 hours
Got through Chapter 1 today, and started aligning chapter 2. The parallel text is so much better than the monolingual text. My listening is improving, and I can definitely pick out more words from the audio now than when I started. What I do now is skim the English quickly to get the gist of the story, then follow along with the Spanish, occasionally checking the English meanings of words but not stopping the audio.
Total: 10 hours
Got through Chapter 1 today, and started aligning chapter 2. The parallel text is so much better than the monolingual text. My listening is improving, and I can definitely pick out more words from the audio now than when I started. What I do now is skim the English quickly to get the gist of the story, then follow along with the Spanish, occasionally checking the English meanings of words but not stopping the audio.
Saturday, March 31, 2012
Mar 31
Today: 4 hours
Total : 7 hours
Switched to El Hobbit today. The audio for Juego de tronos was horrible. My listening sucks, so I am sticking with steps 1 and 2 for now. I am reading and listening to smaller chunks than yesterday, about 2-3 pages, over and over, 5 or 6 times. I made a parallel text in Word today, but the alignment takes a lot of time, so I only finished Chapter 1.
Total : 7 hours
Switched to El Hobbit today. The audio for Juego de tronos was horrible. My listening sucks, so I am sticking with steps 1 and 2 for now. I am reading and listening to smaller chunks than yesterday, about 2-3 pages, over and over, 5 or 6 times. I made a parallel text in Word today, but the alignment takes a lot of time, so I only finished Chapter 1.
Friday, March 30, 2012
Mar 30
Today: 3 hours
Started on Juego de tronos today. Prologue starts 7 minutes into the 1st mp3. My vocabulary is so poor that I can't follow the audio by itself at all. I can make out the names of the characters, and that's about it. I fare a little better when I read along with the audio. It takes a lot of concentration to follow just a single paragraph.
Started on Juego de tronos today. Prologue starts 7 minutes into the 1st mp3. My vocabulary is so poor that I can't follow the audio by itself at all. I can make out the names of the characters, and that's about it. I fare a little better when I read along with the audio. It takes a lot of concentration to follow just a single paragraph.
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