Logging your hours of listening

There are lots of people that like to log their hours of listening and others that don't, I like to keep my statistics on LingQ updated, but seen as I do most of my listening away from the computer I always forget to do so. I have just got and ipod touch and therefore have been downloading a lot of language apps which allow me to listen and one of the things that I am now doing is listening and then just as I stop I check how long I have listened for and then write that number down on a post stick note that I have on my desk, when the numbers add up to 60 minutes I go on LingQ and add one hour onto my listening time.

Oman

Well I will be visiting my father for the next week and therefore won't be able to write anything on my blog, but fear not as I will be back in a week!!!

Books or Internet?

I want to hear some opinions about this haha, what do you think is best????
I personally love both, I often use books to gain a good foundation: basic vocab, grammar etc and then I use the Internet for practise finding podcasts and boosting my vocab.

Let me know your opinion?

I spoke Swedish!!!!!!!

Hello,
Today I had my first conversation in Swedish and it was actually quite fun. I have only really studied Swedish for about 15 hours and so I was quite happy with how it went. The conversation lasted 15 minutes and we spoke a little bit about which languages we speak, what is hard in the languages we speak and things like that. After that we translated a text from English to Swedish and that was also really helpful. I really enjoyed speaking Swedish and plan on having a few conversations a month from now on.

Speak to you soon,
Harry

Min Svenska

Kan du har konversationer på svenska????

Jag har just börjat ha konversationer på svenska och det är inte så lätt, eftersom jag inte kan förstå infödda. Jag kan tala svenska och jag kan uttrycka mine idéer på svenska om språkinlärning och andra grundllägande ämnen, men jag kan inte förstå infödda, eftersom den svenska accenten är mycket svår. I framtiden behöver jag lyssna mer för att förbättre min hörförståelse.

Un poco sobre mi español

Hola a todos, hoy decidí que hablaría en español. Nunca he escrito en este Blog en otro idioma, y por tanto hoy decidí que tenía que intentar. Empecé a estudiar español el año pasado en julio y en los ultimos seis meses he logrado a un nivel intermedio uno. Puedo hablar sobre casí cada de los temas basicos y también puedo expresarme bastante bueno cuando estoy hablando sobre temas más avanzados, como la sistema politica aquí en Inglaterra o sobre los medios.
También mis tutores me han dicho que mi acento es bastante bueno y que hablo muy rapidó para un estudiante. Me gusta mucho este idioma y este año estoy intentando lograr a un nivel intermedio dos o quiza avanzado uno. Creo que voy a ser capaz de hablar sobre casí cada tema en diez meses. Ya veremos.
Eso es todo, escribiré más en otro idioma mañana, quizas alemán o chino o sueca. ¡Ya veremos!

¡Hasta la proximá!

My new mandarin schedule

I now plan on studying spoken mandarin and not learning any characters. I am going to learn the characters in the summer and that way I will know both, but I figured that I can reach a decent level in conversational mandarin after a few months of daily study. I will also be working with a tutor from China once a week and we will be translating some texts together and working on learning as much pinyin as possible.
Current text that I am trying to translate:
Hello, my name is Harry Ness and my hobbies are language learning and ping pong. I study languages for at least one hour per day. My current goal is to learn to speak Mandarin. I am learning a lot of pinyin and I am finding it challenging. I find it hard, because Mandarin is not like normal European languages.
I know, it looks quite advanced for a few days worth of studying, but I am sure that I will be able to write it on my blog in pinyin in no time at all.

:) :) :) :) :)