So...another pair of pages completed.
Using this source material as a base and dropping in it some additional information from my own knowledge, random web search results and hand-outs given to use by our stylistical analysis lecturer, I compiled two pages covering the Syntactical Stylistic Devices. (found under the cut)
Additionally I would like to note that in the same source I used as base, there can be found some more information on e.g. lexical and phonetic stylistical devices. However I didn't use them for 2 reasons: 1) the stuff compressed in the two pages is what I will need for my this semesters exam 2) I already have several pages printed out with short descriptions of information found there and additional other stuff.

Now. Me hungry.

The delay was bigger than planned thanks to some internal blogspot issues due to which I was unable to access my blogger account.
Anyway, I managed to somehow cut down and compile the previously mentioned information together and down to 4 A4 pages. The document is available under the cut.
The first 3 pages contain the information on parts of speech and you can find my source here. Last, 4th page, is about parts of sentence and you can take a look at its source here.
Well, that's about it on grammar. For now.
I`m planning to compile another few pages for stylistic analysis; hopefully I will manage to post those as well by the end of the day.

Before I`m forced to cut it down just to be able to submit it, I would like to share my 10-page (4300+ symbols) report of Anne Rice's book The Vampire Lestat .

Going over to susan's house

First I think it's important to note, that our course has been given an assignment to keep a journal of our activities. Purely to practice our use of English language even at home. Personally I don't think that I have it necessary since, being a non-lifer, I most of my time is consumed by the internet and I`m mainly communicating only in English there. But nonetheless an assignment is an assignment and from now on I will try to spam my blog a bit more often.


Now to the important stuff.

Reading through "Modern German Grammar" on my free time I have come to conclusion that I have forgotten the damn language way more than I could have imagined, but at least it's coming back to me fast. I only wish I had more willpower to keep reading that stuff.

The new study semester doesn't seem to have started very optimistically. The main issue are our two grammar courses, both of which, as it seems, have the same program but different lecturers just slightly different names. Frigging ridiculous, but have no other choice than to bear with it and do the usual - the best that I am able to.
Related: download Longman Advanced Learner's Grammar here and Cambridge Advanced Grammar in Use here...

Also, just finished up a home assignment for lexicology (no idea why I uploaded it) and grammar, currently taking a break but still have some stuff to do planned since aside from doing my home-work I need to refresh my memory on some stuff (like passive and infinity in grammar), study a bit ahead (gerunds in grammar) and maybe find some additional literature for phonetics. Doubtfully Hopefully I will manage to do all that by today too.

Update: the Advanced Grammar in Use torrent seems to be semi-dead but while searching for other sources I found this torrent . Quite useful too, just have to yet go through the whole damn list.

Prāta Vētra - Gara Gara Diena

Ok, so today marks the start of my examination period. Let's hope I`m not fcked.
The first exam is in Latvian. Document created for the purpose of preparations attached under the cut.

sidenote: haven't slept for 2 nights, lol.

Ok, finally got a response from the skrivanek competition for young translators. Obviously I didn't manage to get to the next stage, that's no surprise, but unfortunately they didn't publish any model translation and neither did they send personal response as to how I performed, so I have no idea how many and what kind of mistakes I made. I only know that my English grammar professor, who was actually the one verifying my work, told me that I made several substantial mistakes, no further comments.
Anyway, since the results have been published, I guess I`m free to publish my own work as well.
The task was to translate The Economist article and I attached my translation of it under the cut.

I lol'd .
Just put together everything I had relating to tomorrow's quiz, mashed it together, cut a bit down, resized the fonts, added some magic and managed to size everything down to 1 page...to add this extra portability to it.
Unfortunately google docs can't even handle it it, so it's downloadable by clicking here.
Haven't tried it printing though, I don't really use these "portable" references when I`m taking quizzes.

Anyhow, finally finished another 2 pages of vocabulary stuff for Stylistic Text Analysis lectures. Nothing too scientific or useful for others, just wrote down stuff for myself so that I would be able to explain what each term means.
See under the cut.

Quiz tomorrow. GL to me. Fuck !

Ok, printed out another page, this time about articles (under the cut - the formatting just doesn't want to stick once I upload it to google docs). I feel like I should leave the looking for new materials and properly learn what I have gathered up so far first. After that it's away to more advanced levels. It would be also nice to wrap it up till the start of next semester, as I`m planning on sharpening up my other languages - Russian and German. No idea how I`m going to do it yet, but oh well...
Also I`m trying to train my own pronounciation and transcriptions. For my basic levels this page seems to really help.

Still can't find a new jumper, most of what I`m ready to wear is way too expensive for me.

Oh, yeah, bought a new dictionary of foreign words in Latvian. Had to, since it was sold only for 2 lats.

Goddamnit

Filled my sleeping hours with reading stuff like this and preparing another 2 documents (under the cut) for printing.
Considering that I`m studying for a translator and will never actually use it, I have no idea why am I actually trying to learn all that bullcra... but oh well, guess it won't hurt. As I have no job or social life besides communicating with my gf, I have lots of time to spare currently anyway.

I would only like to publish two documents I summarised for my personal use: