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| Josquin Heptaglot Senior Member Germany Joined 4837 days ago 2266 posts - 3992 votes  Speaks: German*, English, French, Latin, Italian, Russian, Swedish Studies: Japanese, Irish, Portuguese, Persian | Message 17 of 25 20 March 2013 at 5:50pm | IP Logged | |||||
I corrected the corrected version again. There were still some mistakes. "Können" and "wollen" are irregular verbs (so-called preterite-present verbs), which are conjugated differently from the regular present conjugation. Other verbs belonging to this group are "müssen", "wissen", "sollen", "mögen", and "werden". You should learn their conjugation paradigms well, as these are very frequent verbs. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6078 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 18 of 25 20 March 2013 at 7:58pm | IP Logged | |||||
This is really interesting. I haven't been a part of university life in a long time and I've forgotten my manners ;) I understand that if you have an academic title "Prof, Dr." it's improper to expect anything less. What to do if you don't know somebody's title? How do you address docents? Some people don't have a position, they're just lecturing there, part-time. (I guess it's like a dentist without a Doktor-Titel.) 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| BAnna Triglot Senior Member United States Joined 4615 days ago 409 posts - 616 votes Speaks: English*, German, Spanish Studies: Russian, Turkish | Message 19 of 25 20 March 2013 at 9:18pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Just here to say welcome back Isabliss! Interesting info you shared with us.
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| Isabliss_27 Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4738 days ago 68 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Russian, Latin, French | Message 20 of 25 21 July 2013 at 4:07pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Well, it's been quite a while since I posted anything for the last time. It wasn't
procrastination, really, but a lot of things happened and I got very upset. As a result, along these past months I felt very down and it reflected on my language studies (actually, not all the languages. I'll tell why). The nice stuff: I moved in to another city, and now I study Translation. :D In this semester, which is almost over, I took five subjects being three of them language related. I was taking Latin 1, along with an English subject that focused on written text comprehension and the French one that involved oral and written practice. Deutsch I picked up my German where I left and as a start I took the Deutsche Welle's Placement Test, just to see how much I could still remember. Happily, I scored 85% of the A1. After the test I know exactly the points I need to focus from now on. My short goal in German is finish the DW Deutsch Interaktiv (and use other materials as support). They claim that one can reach B1 with this course, and until now it seems very nice, with oral practice and comprehension. In the moment I have finished A1.1. Français I swear I started the semester looking forward to this class, but along the weeks the professor ruined any will I had to learn French. She came up with this "new" method of teaching the subject, and used us, poor students of Translation, as guinea pigs in her research x.x I won't extend myself here, otherwise I'll start ranting, but let's just say everybody in that class disapproved her, and her lack of organization and clarity. On top of that, I realized she held some grudge against me. Oh yeah, the class of dreams... Thinking positively, I worked out my speaking and learned the Imparfait. At least next week I'll be free from this subject. A good proof that I could absorb something is that when my boyfriend was watching an 8min video from Le Monde, I understood many things, enough to say what they were talking about without any confusion. Result: I'll need some time away from any French learning after thoses classes and that super dynamic method of teaching. Yes, I'll get back to French, just not anytime soon. Latin The addition in this year's TAC! Latin 1 was a mandatory subject, and I couldn't be happier. Although it was just on my hit list and the class was pure morphosyntax analysis, Latin helped me understand better the matters of declension and cases in general. Also, now I know the origin of some words in Portuguese, how they changed throughout the centuries and how they look like in the others romance languages. No plans of taking Latin 2 next semester, but I'll study it on and off. English The subject consisted mainly of written comprehension and grammar exercises, and it didn't add much. I reviewed grammar points and even got to speak a little bit every class, which was good since I don't practice speaking. I've changed my plans for English. No TOEFL, now I'll go for CAE. I've took some evaluation tests and the result in all of them was that I’m able to take it. There's a lot to cover, and I'm fully aware of my lack of practice and weaknesses, but nothing like dedication and hard work to take my English to higher levels. Outside classroom, I kept my usual activities, TV series and some reading. I abandoned subtitles when watching most of the series, a habit that proved itself very effective. It's amazing how I can understand 90% of what is said in Game of Thrones. When I began watching it back in 2011, I couldn't achieve that much. British English was always more complicated to me, but after I started watching Doctor Who and others from UK, the comprehension of the language boosted up. Russian I'll get back to it soon, although I've been thinking if it wouldn't be better if I waited until my German was a bit better, just not to mix everything up and get too overwhelmed, since both languages together in basic levels can give quite a headache, specially Russian. 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Isabliss_27 Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4738 days ago 68 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Russian, Latin, French | Message 21 of 25 29 July 2013 at 1:31am | IP Logged | |||||
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A very inconvenient and strong flu made me stay away from any activity these past few
days... anyway, I recently found in a second hand bookstore some goodies for a reasonably good price: Assimil "O alemão sem esforço", the Portuguese edition of the German without toil from the 60s; The New Penguin Russian Course; Dicionário Prático Russo-Português, an AWESOME old dictionary bringing 100 pages of morphological tables of grammar and explanations. Soon, I'll also buy Nina Potapova's Breve manual de língua russa to use along the other materials. In an earlier post I mentioned having doubts whether I'd continue with Russian, and I've decided to do it at least for 2 weekly hours, given that I want to make Russian a language I'll work with. This way I think I won't mix German and Russian too much. ============ Deutsch I've posted another entry in Lang-8, using as theme the final exercise of Lektion 6 Teil 3 of Deutsch Interaktiv.
I wanted to write "Sprachen" instead, but due to the typo I learned what "Interpreter" means, which also fits the situation. Edited by Isabliss_27 on 29 July 2013 at 1:33am 1 person has voted this message useful | ||||||
| Isabliss_27 Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4738 days ago 68 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Russian, Latin, French | Message 22 of 25 31 October 2013 at 3:13pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Alright, here goes an overview of my linguistic adventure in these past three months:
In the beginning of August's 6WC I went to a language school to take a placement test for German, and to my surprise, the teacher - a native German guy - complimented my German, he said that I had a good command for someone who has never practiced conversation in a German course. I was put at A2, however, some students gave up and they discontinued the A2 class, so I kept studying alone. :( In the moment, I'm starting Unit 16 of Colloquial German. After I have finished it, I'm thinking about go through TY just to acquire new vocab and listen to dialogues. Now my grasp of German endings is way better, it's very rewarding to see the progress I've made through this year's TAC, and know that I'll reach my initial goal by the end of the year: get to at least A2 in German. Level up! ;D My Russian didn't level up, unfortunately. At least not so quickly as German, but I'm trying to keep a consistent 2-3h per week study time. I'll soon make a post about the Russian materials I'm using. 2 persons have voted this message useful | ||||||
| Sunja Diglot Senior Member Germany Joined 6078 days ago 2020 posts - 2295 votes 1 sounds Speaks: English*, German Studies: French, Mandarin | Message 23 of 25 02 November 2013 at 12:44am | IP Logged | |||||
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It looks like you've made some good progress!
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| Isabliss_27 Diglot Groupie Brazil Joined 4738 days ago 68 posts - 74 votes Speaks: Portuguese*, English Studies: German, Russian, Latin, French | Message 24 of 25 14 November 2013 at 3:20pm | IP Logged | |||||
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Recently I've been glancing through FSI German Programmed Introduction, and did the
first Unit to try it out. Up to the moment it seems to be a good complementary material, along with DLI German Headstart2. I didn't want to stick only with Colloquial, and the Headstart course is great, since it's actually teaching me different manners of expressing myself in a way nor Colloquial or materials I've used before have done. I also want to try Deutsch.info Deutsch.info out. It's still a beta version, but from what I've tried so far I'll keep it as a suplementary resource. It provides us with courses up to B1, each one with tematic sections. The media library and forum are not available yet. Just yesterday I started watching Extr@ on YT to get used to a more realistic German talk. Despite my still poor vocabulary, I managed to understand a lot and really enjoy the show. ,,Total cool!'' ;D -------x-------- 
Too little Russian, but I have made almost 100hrs of German this year. Yay! 1 person has voted this message useful |
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