another year and a half later…….

Obviously I am not a blog writer and obviously I am not very good at learning languages. But one thing this blog shows is that at least I am persistent 🙂

So what languages am I working on now?

First I have the Duo languages I am currently trying to do each day: Hebrew, Russian, Hungarian, Korean and Turkish. Korean and Hungarian I recently re-started as my daughter is about to go to Hungary and we might have some more Korean connections, so I am still very much in the beginning.

I really like Lord of the Rings by Tolkien, so have been using that for audio input. I now am quite comfortable following the Turkish version. I have also been working with the Mongolian version but find that still very difficult. But as I listen over and over again, I am able to follow the story line somewhat and identify individual words. Still a long time from understanding Mongolian, but I will keep plugging away at it.

I recently downloaded the Russian and Hungarian audio for LOTR as well, and the text files, so will work with those as time permits. And the text file in Hebrew, though I have no audio files for that.

Having text files for these languages of material I enjoy has been very helpful. I take a chapter and put it in Learning with Texts. I really like that program.

I also follow Russian with Max and Piece of Hebrew, two vlogs for language learners. Both seem to speak regular speed and talk about regular topics. There are subtitles so I find them quite helpful. And Turkish podcasts.

For Hebrew I also listen a lot to Hebrew songs and try to learn them. A very fun way to learn 🙂 And I work with a book of stories as well as trying to become more fluent with the cursive handwriting.

I often have trouble focussing or thinking clearly these days, esp. after I came down with some weird bug about a month ago. I am hoping my brain fog improves and I can do more in depth study. But till then I am on maintenance, trying to do some Duo lingo each day and doing lots of passive listening. And just keep on pressing on.

These are the main languages I am working on, but from time to time I listen to or read Uyghur or work some with Chinese. I also started Duo lingo Yiddish but ran out of time and I still want to learn todo and Mongol bichig. Eventually, after these other ones are under my belt, Latin and ancient Greek. But we’ll see.