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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4227 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes  Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 681 of 812 16 April 2015 at 4:58am | IP Logged |
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Right now German is but a cage which doesn't let me speak out everything I have on my mind.
Es macht mich voellig krank! 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4227 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 682 of 812 19 April 2015 at 3:53pm | IP Logged |
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I am still trying to immerse myself in German by chatting, listening to music and thinking, but the frustration from not being able to do much out of it stands still.
Well, I think I can come up with a plan when I'll be less busy, but right now even Duolingo seems like a nightmare. Also we all know I am not good at dealing with plans... But at least I get to be a bit more sure about my English through making a presentation (bilingual, but orginially in English in my case) and watching F1 on SkySports F1. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4227 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 683 of 812 21 April 2015 at 2:25am | IP Logged |
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An interesting thing has happened yesterday. While I was skyping I was asked to talk in English in case German isn't enough. The feeling of being limited by my own weak knowledge hasn't gone anywhere and I was glad to be offered to try
to fix the situation somehow. But I couldn't say anything proper in English. All my thoughts were in German, I just couldn't keep up saying stuff in English. Well, there might be some personal issues involved, but I had no idea things could get so serious. I have a lot of small mistakes in German (always mix up verb forms, for example), when I don't know a word I either gesture or say in it English, but overall, no matter how tiring this is, I blab in German. Why?.. Need. More. German. (yes, even more) 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4227 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 684 of 812 22 April 2015 at 5:46am | IP Logged |
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Today I am going to blab about a Russian genius, the inventor of octane gasoline (as inscripted on his gravestone) Vladimir Ipatieff in English.
Quite ironic, considering that he couldn't speak English until he was 64. Anyway, this presentation is written in relatively simple English, I shouldn't really have any troubles speaking except for my nerves, which spoil my pronunciation - and it's not good enough even without that. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4227 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 685 of 812 24 April 2015 at 6:42pm | IP Logged |
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Trilingual Madness. Real one, rhymed...
the bed was cold, the night was dark dein Duft war überall, so sehr stark und rein но приоткрыла я окно осторожно the smell was gone without a trace, a mark das Fenster lud den Wind des Nordens ein не знала я, что такое вообще возможно and then I have remembered yet again du warst doch nie hier, natürlich, ja! и стало страшно очень так I wanted to go and catch a train um zu dir zu kommen. tja, такое сделать трудно, не попав впросак and one thing more was on my mind es ist doch nicht genug. Ach, mein Feind стоит недалеко. Ведь он есть я! I look again, there's no way out der Feuer isst mein ganzer Haut и нет теперь ни врага, ни меня die Luft war kalt aber voller Gas a spark became a fire very fast и все было кончено для нас oh ja! ich war da nicht allein for all my dreams were only mine и все умерли с мной, канув в реку тайн and du один immer know меня я war a light твоих nights in Dunkelheit die Leidenschaft were сильна, but я была schwach in mir ich bin your light, твоя мечта, aber du был never here 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4227 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 686 of 812 28 April 2015 at 4:55pm | IP Logged |
When electricity is shut down and it's not that dark yet... it's Trilingual Madness time!
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| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4227 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 687 of 812 01 May 2015 at 11:39am | IP Logged |
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THis is against the rules, but I am rolling in 6WC with German again. I have absolutely no motivation for any other language, and the one for German is getting weak again.
An experimental May challenge for Rätsel is all about consistency and whether I can read a chapter of a book in German and make something with Duolingo every day. I blatantly use 6WC as additional motivation. I have written an entry on lang-8 yesterday, and all the stupid mistakes are still there. I like (= hate) one type of them the most - when I write some "smartass" sentence and the corrector doesn't even understand what it's about. Eh. 1 person has voted this message useful | |
| Via Diva Diglot Senior Member Russian Federation last.fm/user/viadivaRegistered users can see my Skype Name Joined 4227 days ago 1109 posts - 1427 votes Speaks: Russian*, English Studies: German, Italian, French, Swedish, Esperanto, Czech, Greek | Message 688 of 812 02 May 2015 at 6:13am | IP Logged |
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A book I've picked is Stephen King's The Stand. I'm not a fan of him, but I haven't given him a proper
chance either. I found this book quite accidentally, liked the summary and got a German translation. I also have the original, in case I won't be able to continue. I've read the prologue yesterday, the first chapter today, and so far it's been better than I've expected. I even want to read more, but I better pick the other book for that. I don't look up the words I don't know at all, I lose much, but still can follow the plot. Or at least I think I can. I can't say that I don't look up the words deliberately. The app I use as a dictionary allows me to have only two language packs, and they're filled with Russian and English. I also have a wonderful German- English dictionary, but its free version doesn't allow me to find a word without typing it in the search bar, and I don't want to do that for all the words I don't know. There are just too much of them Anyway, in case The Stand gets too hard I'll try to also read it in English before or after German. In case this doesn't work out either or the book is just bloody boring I'll pick another one. Edited by Via Diva on 02 May 2015 at 6:13am 1 person has voted this message useful |
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